For sale in Broadway.
Crumpler shopfront.
Suga and I dropped into the ZanziBar for a drink before heading across the road to the Bank Hotel for Thai. Both venues were haunts of mine in the early to mid 90’s but back then they were the seediest, grungiest rock’n’roll punk venues around. How things have changed! (PS: the Thai food was awesome despite being 3 times the price).
Valet bike parking!
What a sight.
Newtown RPRSNT!
Win a Surly!
Grant from MC Cyclery on the mic.
The Sydney Bicycle Film Festival started last week. Christina and I checked out the opening session on Friday night with a mate Ben who I hadn’t caught up with in 9 months (he’s a running and cycling nutter!). Grant from MC Cyclery was sponsoring the first session, and giving away a Surly bicycle to one lucky punter.
There were 3 films: Standing start was an arty (tried a bit too hard I thought) short film on Olympian and World Champion Track Sprinter Craig MacLean. Millar’s Tale was a short film on a Tour de France cyclist’s confession (and thoughts) on doping and the feature film was Road to Roubaix which was great (if a little long).
What was cooler was just being there, in Newtown and seeing how many people that live there ride bicycles as transport. BMX riders, fixies, commuters on junk bikes… ALL of them taking ownership of the road in peak hour traffic. The valet bicycle parking outside the Dendy was a nice touch too :)