Irrellievancy

After six months of planning, We Like Bikes finally happened on Sunday May 20. It didn’t go horribly wrong. Hooray!

My favourite bits:

Simon the unicyclist making balloon animals for a huge group of very excited children.
Turnstyle’s bike bus (pictured above) touring up and down the bikeway.
Random cyclist groups appearing to check things out, including the Griffith University Bicycle Users Group.
Nearby residents watching the bands from their balconies. I was scared they’d come down and complain about the noise, until they started taking photos and applauded after the songs!
An older lady with Miss BB Le Buff’s School of Performance whose act was 60s go-go dancing.
Vulcana Women’s Circus performing with their Group Bike - three girls dressed as ninjas on a stunt bike doing cool martial arts moves.
A little boy bopping up and down in a very serious fashion to Greshka.
Apparently a passing CityCat stopped to watch the bands.
A family stopped to watch Wayward Smith and they had a puppy and I played with the puppy. PUPPY!
A lady dressed in a polka-dotted pink dress with pink sunglasses and a customised pink retro bike. We gave her the prize for best bike of the day.
Favourite moment: The group bike performing around Greshka - an upbeat gypsy folk band - with the bike bus stopped nearby, and a large group of cyclists laughed and clapped from their bikes. It was a perfect moment, like a tiny mad circus had suddenly appeared on the bikeway

I’ve made a Flickr group that you can join and add photos to if you were there on the day - hopefully more will be added over the next few weeks.

Thanks everyone for their support. I couldn’t have done it without you!

We Like Bikes: It was pretty good!