Bike Library NZ

08/09/2022

Elliot Gilmore used to drive to work every day. It took 45 minutes. Then his boss offered him $10 a day to bike.

20/03/2022

🔊ABBEY BIKE TOOLS FUNDRAISER AUCTION!

We are so stoked to have received this amazing care package donated from our friends to auction off with all proceeds going to Will’s Give A Little Fund.

Abbey Bike Tools are truly the gold standard for bike tools that will last a lifetime. Once you experience the quality and precision first hand you will only want more to add to your collection! Warning: It may become an addiction...

So please help us to help Will. Get behind a good cause and snag yourself some of those 'green tools' all your mates talk about!

Included are:
1 x Hanger Alignment Gauge Hag
1 x Whip-It Chain Whip
1 x Crombie lockring Tool
1 x Titanium Hammer
1000 x Feel good factor for helping us help Will
Tools valued at over $1000.00
Feel good factor = priceless!

Awesome Worralls and Abbey Bike Tools !!! I have bid.

TradeMe link

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/sports/cycling/bike-accessories/tools-repair-kits/listing/3521546272

18/01/2022

11/05/2020

Gerrard Liddell explores the real cost of road transport. The pandemic has given us a chance to reflect on the amenity of our roads. Young and old,...

23/04/2019

This tool allows agencies to see how they are tracking in comparison to other agencies and encourages them to transition to an emissions free fleet.

21/11/2018

The trend towards chauffeuring children is that these facts are seemingly becoming accepted as unavoidable outcomes of modern society. They are largely ignored in transport planning.

19/11/2018

The private car is the default transport option for many families. This reduces physical activity and increases greenhouse gas emissions, with unhealthy results for their children and the environment.

14/09/2018

Read more on E-bikes: rules of the road & why we love 'em!

26/08/2018

In its first 20 years the pressure group Stop de Kindermoord contributed to a steep decline in street casualties among children in the Netherlands. But members attributed much of the trend to a surrender of street space to cars. In 1993 the organization changed its name to Kinderen Voorrang! ("priority to children!"), thereby stressing its aspiration to improve children's safe access to to streets.

From Nederlands Dagblad, June 16, 1993:

"PRIORITY FOR CHILDREN"

"A puzzle: from 1972 to 1992, the number of cars grew from two million to six million (i.e. tripled). But the number of children who have been killed by a car has dropped from 450 (in 1972) to 93 (in 1992). …

"That is possible, says the organization Stop de Kindermoord, because the children have adjusted to traffic. And this means that children who live in a busy street where many cars drive and many cars are parked just don't play in the street anymore—whether by preference (for example because they want to play with Lego) or not. …

"Stop de Kindermoord doesn't like that. Of course they're happy that we do not kill so many children anymore. But they're not happy with the how this has happened. Children are just afraid to play on the street or to go outside unless an adult comes along.

"The street is for everyone? Children have to be able to play outside, the organization believes (and who doesn't?). And if that's not possible now, then cars have to adjust. And not the children. That's why the organization has organized something today to let people know how busy the street is and how annoying that is for children. In Amsterdam, 450 children (as many as in the puzzle) will paint streets everywhere. Not with drawings, but with letters—the letters of the new name of the organization Stop de Kindermoord: … 'Priority to Children' (Kinderen Voorrang).

"Children must have priority, at least in residential areas. Because of course on the highway other rules apply. And to give children priority, it is certainly not necessary to keep all cars out. But they must drive gently. Now cars can drive 50 km/hour in the built-up area (that is, say, within the village or within the city). The organization-with-the-new-name wants it to be 30 km/hour. Because the more gently cars drive, the better the drivers can see if there are children on the street and the sooner they can brake. …

"But more needs to be done. The organization also thinks that the streets have to be rebuilt so that cars simply cannot drive fast anymore. …. Children just need to be able to play in peace."