First Post!

So i decided to make a simple cycling blog for the year - to document all my instances of bike-riding and how i found it.

I attempted to go cycling this morning - but it took me about an hour to unfold my bike (photos will be up soon!) and figure out how to strap my ipod to the bike (so i could avoid having to invest in a GoPro with all those accessories as a poor student…) and by the time i was ready to go physically, I freaked myself out by imagining the kinds of roads i’d have to ride on in order to get to the amazingly pleasant One Tree Hill area that i discovered the other day.

I live in Mount Eden, which is not a bad place in Auckland at all - but when you consider the significance of the roads there in terms of traffic (both Mount Eden and Balmoral being main roads) it gets kinda daunting imagining the kind of traffic you’d be riding alongside. This was about ten (or eleven by the time i was ready) in the morning so there was significantly less traffic. But i was still scared, having not have ridden a bike on Auckland streets before (this is excluding the time i went cycling on a rental bike in Mission Bay with a few friends and lost my toenail because i was wearing jandals..). And i imagined the hill i had to tackle on the way back home. 

My current bike is gearless, and i didn’t like the idea of working up a sweat if i was going to uni later that day.

Excuses, excuses.

So i guess this is still an experience of a beginner biker in Auckland. This is what (potentially) anyone would go through when they’re just starting out.. And this is the kind of thing i would need to address in order to get more people into cycling in this crazy city.