The Courier Mail - Adventure - Doing the city cycle

Sounds as though you need a Brompton or a Bike Friday to take on your
travels, then you can ride to and from the airports as well. . . :-)
Although any bike in a box travels for the same price these days, they are a
lot quicker to get on the road.

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Doing the city cycle

By Martin Buzacott
April 22, 2006

HANDING over $36 for the short trip by taxi from suburban Balmoral to
Brisbane Airport, I realised something had to be done.

Ahead of me lay two months of constant travel to all of Australia's
state capitals, interviewing veterans of the ABC for a book that I'm
writing on the national broadcaster.

With moths flying out of my wallet before even leaving Brisbane, I
reviewed my first day's schedule of meetings, which consisted of six
appointments in five different Melbourne suburbs, some 15km apart.

By my frantic mental arithmetic, that amounted to an additional $150
in cab fares that day alone, and it wasn't much less if I hired a car
and paid for petrol and parking.

Within the day's tight time-frame, buses, trains and trams weren't an
option, either.

At home in Brisbane I regularly cycle for fitness and pleasure, so
doing business by bike made sense both financially and in terms of
lifestyle.

By hiring hybrids (a cross between mountain and road bikes) I could go
just about anywhere on the bikeways that Australia's local authorities
have been building in recent years.

In the end I cycled more than 1500km through all five of Australia's
interstate capitals.

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ghostgum

On 2006-05-05, ghostgum (aka Bruce)

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Gah, Melbourne's bike hire sounds pretty embarrasing.

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ghostgum said:

http://escape.news.com.au/story/0,9142,18910060-5002900,00.html

Doing the city cycle

By Martin Buzacott
April 22, 2006

HANDING over $36 for the short trip by taxi from suburban Balmoral to
Brisbane Airport, I realised something had to be done.

Ahead of me lay two months of constant travel to all of Australia's
state capitals, interviewing veterans of the ABC for a book that I'm
writing on the national broadcaster.

With moths flying out of my wallet before even leaving Brisbane, I
reviewed my first day's schedule of meetings, which consisted of six
appointments in five different Melbourne suburbs, some 15km apart.

By my frantic mental arithmetic, that amounted to an additional $150
in cab fares that day alone, and it wasn't much less if I hired a car
and paid for petrol and parking.

Within the day's tight time-frame, buses, trains and trams weren't an
option, either.

At home in Brisbane I regularly cycle for fitness and pleasure, so
doing business by bike made sense both financially and in terms of
lifestyle.

*cough* *choke* *splutter*

Are you sure this is from the Courier Mail ? ;o)

If my life incorpoated travel like that it'd be a Bike Friday / Brompton
time for sure.
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Cheers | ~~ __@
Euan | ~~ _-\<,
Melbourne, Australia | ~ (*)/ (*)

ghostgum said:

http://escape.news.com.au/story/0,9142,18910060-5002900,00.html

Doing the city cycle

By Martin Buzacott
April 22, 2006

HANDING over $36 for the short trip by taxi from suburban Balmoral to
Brisbane Airport, I realised something had to be done.

<snip>
Hey cool, now I know how much it'd cost to get from my place to the
airport by taxi, without actually having to do it...

Tam