map of where you go

Some people don't know that bike riding is serious business.

It's life and death, death or glory, glory glory hallalujah out there on the bike paths.

That's why it pays to be prepared.

Know Your Way

Maps are good. Every bike reader needs a map of where you go. But don't go to Bicycle Victoria, they don't know. You could go to Moreland City Council for an 8MB map which is about as comfortable to use as a penny farthing, although happily they have formed a committee for being told to get a better bike map. They can be told here.

Know Your Philosophy

Philosophy is important for bike riders. You can't answer the death or glory? question until you've reconciled some pretty deep shit. Happily in Moreland there are an array of bike riding philosophies going around.

Commuter Cycles

We're always going places. Commuter Cycles is for people like us. People not like us should go here. Which is not to say that the content of Commuter Cycles website is not shamelessly commercial, but M.Shriek appreciates candour while commuting.

Human Powered Cycles

M.Shriek approves of websites which have a Philosophy page. That's why M.Shriek approves of the Human Powered Cycles website. The approval stops there because the philosophy is suspiciously vague: community-minded environmentalism. Happily, the memoriam suggests they have got the life/death, death/glory aspects of bike riding covered pretty well.

Ceres

God dam hippies are everywhere; it's like the 60s all over again but nobody's having any fun.

Except down at ceres. Down at ceres it's a wonderland of organic food, animalia, and good old fashioned bike fixing. The devil knows how good they fix bikes, but their philosophy is spot on: the Bike Group aims to 'encourage mutual respect by cultivating fair and equitable processes in the Shed'.

Hmm. Sounds like an artel to M.Shriek.

Long live communist hippies on bikes!

Just watch the delusional yuppies with prams.

Moreland BUG

The Moreland Bike Users Group is for serious people who think about the overall plans and policies for bike riding in Moreland. It doesn't sound like much fun and 12 seconds on the website bears this out, unless you happen to be into policy, budgets, and meetings.

On the upside, the Moreland BUG Philosophy is charmingly proto-evangelical, with volunteers who 'love cycling' and 'wish to share the enjoyment'. So long as they're quiet about it, M.Shriek wishes MBUG all the best in their mission to bring more bicycles and safer bike paths to the world.