Random Bike Rides: Ōtāhuhu to East Tamaki

This morning, our director, Louise Tu’u, just missed the heavy rain and rode from Ōtāhuhu to a meeting in East Tamaki. Riding our normal route through Highbrook then onto Bairds Road, we travelled down a completely new route, curiously with barriers to prevent cars but enable pushbikes through Otara Creek Reserve. We then rode onto Preston Road then onto Ormiston Road, which was quiet, probably due to school holidays.

Sorry no photos as we were running late but it was glorious!

This photo above is of a 529 shield, an online bike registry database that helps reduce bike theft, promotes cycling, and makes cities more bike-friendly. Set up by an ex-law enforcement officer and a former Microsoft software designer, Project 529 Garage is a bigger vision of making biking safer, visible and relevant for cyclists and the cities they ride in. Using this won’t protect your bike from being stolen but is a really sensible and proactive measure to help it being returned to you if it is.

So our meeting took place in an awesome, socially responsive and calm community gallery called Vunilagi Vou. We were stoked to catch up with Ema Tavola, who started and runs this space, which also stocks work of local artists. Thanks to seeing Doron Semu buy one and letting us have the pink one (!), we also purchased a groovy make your own lei kit from Fa’amele Etuale, which we can’t wait to learn from and a sticker, that is close to our heart.