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Riding rings around each other this February
Jandals and sticky tar days. Sunburn. Fresh apricots, short shorts. Cold beers and good beats. This is a kiwi summer. NIWA told us to expect a hot one, and it sure has been so far. A lot of summer still stretches before us, and Lightfoot want to ask you to do something radical. Every February the Aotearoa Bike Challenge puts out a call to cyclists across the country to put on their lycra and get on their bikes. It’s an easy thing for cyclists to do, or so they tell us. Enrol online, grab your bike and log a few rides. Reduce a bit of C02, save a few bucks, get fitter. Around 85,000 Kiwis have pedalled 81 million kms in the last few years. They’re not riding for charity. They’re not riding for reward. They’re just riding coz they want to for a whole bunch of reasons. They “ride because it’s a challenge” (Tim – Wellington). But those people don’t live in Queenstown. We live in a place that provides excuses not reasons. It’s actually just too hard to bike here. It’s a hilly town, with terrible summer weather where it rains all the time and barely any of us own bikes. There’s no trails and it is blatantly unsafe to ride bikes in most of Queenstown’s suburbs. And as for biking in Frankton or Queenstown where the speed limit for cars is a death-inciting 40km/h – absolutely friggin’ not. No covered, secure central city bike parking or the ability to transport your bike on the bus to cut your trip in half. Does that sound right? Hmmm. So, let’s start again because you probably do own a bike. This epic summer weather has never been better and Queenstown is actually a pretty safe place to bike with awesome trails and wide streets. Why not rise to the challenge by registering your workplace to participate in the ABC this February? You don’t need to wear lycra and you don’t need to do every trip by bike. How about just putting on ‘some’ pants and doing a ‘few’ trips? Around 400 Queenstowners ride in the Aotearoa Bike Challenge annually. This year we’d like to see 2022 of you rolling. Big rides or short ones. Big people and small ones. To work, or for fun. Ride for your workplace (why not challenge the business next door?) but mostly we want you to ride with us. Search for The Lightfoot Initiative in ‘My Clubs and Groups’ and start rolling. It’s as easy as doing your ABCs. It’s cold, I’m wet, it’s too steep. No it isn’t. Find your reason to ride and get on ‘ya bike. Enrol now Aotearoa.bike Amanda Robinson – Lightfoot Initiative
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Local Artist Ronnie Baker working on her mural at the corner of Stanley and Ballarat Street. She is expecting to finish in a couple of weeks, depending on the weather.