
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
My urban bicycle adventure – sprinkled with travel to other places – has been active for ten months. Over that time, I’ve pedalled over 2963 kilometres. Through this blog, I’ve been documenting my personal experiment in bike riding and story-telling. I’ve committed to riding my bicycle as much as possible in everyday life. I’m testing the boundaries of myself – my laziness, discipline, fitness and lifestyle – as well as the boundaries of my city – its… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Sustainability Tags: Active Travel, Advocacy, beginning, Bike commuters, bike-riders, Climate change, Currumbin, Cycleways, Decisions, events, Exercise, Gold Coast City Council, inspiration, lifestyle change, Making choices, self-expression, social responsibility, Spring, Statistics, success, Surfers Paradise, Transformation, Values
Familiar yet foreign. That’s how I would describe driving the car. It’s something I know how to do, yet now, it feels a little different. In fact, driving the car feels a little weird. It’s nearly nine months since this experiment began. That’s nine months of driving less. And riding my bicycle more. Much more. The experiment was never framed to eliminate the car but to test the boundaries of where the… Read More
Category: Experiment, Sustainability Tags: Active Travel, Adapting, Cycleways, lifestyle change, Making choices, Meditation, Mindfulness, Public transport, Transformation, Winter
Sometimes negativity knocks on the door and with the wink of an eye, surreptitiously says, “wanna come to my party?” And soon you find yourself mindlessly dancing to tunes from a decade ago that you thought you’d forgotten and never did like anyway. Mine came in the form of a writer’s block. The words just weren’t flowing. I kept turning up each day this week to a manuscript thirsty for words, but even though my… Read More
Category: Experiment Tags: Bilinga, Cycleways, Exercise, Happiness, Negativity, Resilience, Transformation, Winter
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons