Bike Friday in Australia 08 - Melbourne
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5/14/08

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Urban art - pop art buildings, cubist cows and a Moulton of course! Melbourne urban art. Making like a Melbournian, with a tikit to ride a tram. I got a tram tikit to ride ... Bicycle Victoria Vice President David Larson (left) and Ride-On Managing Editor Simon scrutenize the tikit - which missed out on their folding bike review, but no matter ... Onwards Christian Folders!
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Peter Moore and Simon Perry of Abbortsford Cycles, which has a big reputation for mechanical excellence among Melbourne cog-noscenti (ar ar ar). www.abbortsfordcycles.com/au The Cappucino Riders, a fast group of clearly retired or self employed weekday riders, wondering how on earth a tikit made it to their midst ... new Bike Friday tandem owner John Gould (in red) made me do it! Kooying coffee stop after Yarra bvld Multiple (3?) BF owners Alan and Sally Hutchison enthuse about one of their fave bike shops, Cycle Science Mitcham, where owner Peter Holloway enthused about the tikit: "That's a nice riding folding bike!" MBTC Dandenong ride chanced across another group including David and Yvonee, owners of a candy raspberry Bike Friday touring tandem. Getting ready to race "Oppy" up the road on my li'l commuter bike.
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Memorial to Sir Hubert Opperman, Australia's greatest cyclist. This large notice telling people not t graffiti is almost graffiti in itself! The beauty of Australia - multiculturalism peeks out from under every rock and stump. Fred Surr the double jointed one... A bike with heart shaped rims - now there's an idea... Melbourne Bicycle Touring Clubbers at Cog Bike Cafe on the Dandenong ride.
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Damien of Cog Bicycle Shop Cafe at Mt Evelyn doesn't think small wheels are daft ... he was riding a microbike in a rally last week. We thought we'd stumbled on a new innovation, but no, it's just a "to-be-inflated" tire. Great view from the rooftop "cigar and scotch" terraza of the Melbourne Supper Club. Who needs to go to Europe when you live in Melbourne? Supposedly the biggest range of folding bikes in Melbourne ... but not the Bike Friday (yet). The Cafe where carbon fiber and big skinny wheels meet - so what on earth am I doing there with the Express tikit? Sticking on their wheel of course! Beachfront Melbourne.