The car is off the road, out of rego and deemed un-roadworthy by the MVR. Good news for those of us who would rather ride our bicycle. (Me) So we’ve been cycling around like tourists and loving it. I don’t even mind travelling at a quarter of my usual pace just, it’s great to be free of the car for a while and get Sam out on her bike!
Before I continue just a reminder that there will still be a gathering Parliament House tomorrow to protest the mine approval. A contingent will also be attending the parliamentary halls when the government is in session at about 2 pm.
NT News story on the mine today:
McArthur mine challenge
By EMMA GUMBLETON
16oct06
http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,20587178%255E13569,00.html
Sam and I both got a bit creative over the weekend and came up with some rather satisfying results.
Mango and macadamia muffin
Firstly Sam found a great way to dispose of some of those delicious mangos we’d been given. She made some absolutely delicious mango and macadamia muffins! We’ve finished eating them now but she has promised to make some more this week.
Our tiny storage shed was starting to overflow with spare wheels, tyres and other assorted bike stuff including two extra child seats for the bikes. So I decided to put a long time plan into action and put one of the child seats to good purpose.
The plan was to create a bicycle basket that could easily be transferred from one bike to the other and wouldn’t be too difficult to remove when we wanted to put a child seat on either of the bikes.
Sam and I each have a Rosebank child seat and rack on our bikes but we only need to use one of the child seats when we are cycling together. So the idea I had was to use the simple Rosebank claim system to attach a basket. This way the basket could easily be installed or removed in seconds to suit our needs.
Bike seat and basket
So I unbolted the backrest from the seat, cut the handle off at the base and the sidewalls down with a hacksaw, finishing the base off to a reasonably smooth surface with my pocketknife. I then cut a few grooves drilled some small holes and snipped off some unwanted wire filed down the rough edges and cable-tied what remained together. Then bada..bing… bada..bang! Walah! A clip on bicycle basket that is fully interchangeable with your Rosebank bike seat.
I left the foot rests on because I found they are just the right size to fit a 1.5 litre water bottle in one side and a rolled up picnic blanket in the other side. The Velcro straps do a great job holding the picnic blanket in.
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