Hello Cycle365.Lifers, The featured photo shows me at Sorrento Beach, the waves on the ocean are the only natural falling water you’ll see around here this time of year, boy, I wish we could have a huge thunderstorm, this never- ending sunshine I find quite boring. Actually, in winter we have some impressive waterfalls just … Continue reading "Waterfalls and 2022 Cycling Roundup"

Well…sadly.. I’ve gone into journaling winter hibernation mode. My inspiration or Mojo has gone since my return from my month long cycling travels around rainy Queensland. It’s been a bit wet and cold lately with maximums around 15-20 Celsius and minimums around 5-10 Celsius which is coldish for us. Just found out my son has … Continue reading "Curves and Creases"

Last night we had our first decent rain for the year and it was nice hearing the raindrops on the tin roof and feeling the coolness in the air. The featured photo shows tonight’s sunset with a shower heading our way. I’ll be on six weeks of holidays soon and will be spending 4 weeks … Continue reading "April Rhyme Challenge"

The Featured Photo sunset taken last night on St Patrick’s Day is my contribution. I didn’t get on the bike at all that day as I was suffering the effects of my vaccine booster injection, I suppose if it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger. In the sunset there was lots of orange, some … Continue reading "The Shed Challenge"

The feature photo is a sunset photo I took a few days ago. The volcanic ash in the upper atmosphere from the Tongan volcanic eruption has moved around the globe giving us some unusual sunsets. In a Cycle 365 first I’ve taken some photos from my kayak, I’m figuring it’s human powered so should be … Continue reading "LMNOP February Challenge"

This post comes with a sunshine and no cloud guarantee. On Sunday I decided to head south along the coast to Kwinana Beach Heavy Industrial Area and check out the smokestacks for the Cycle365 Challenge for January. There was a strong, cooling sea breeze headwind (here it’s called the ‘Fremantle Doctor’) whilst I was cycling … Continue reading "A Stack of Smokestacks"

On my ride to the city from home I usually pass theses old relics sitting by themselves next to the Ascot Racecourse. I think the local government has big plans for the area’s redevelopment but nothing’s happened for years. Weather-wise it’s just been sunshine and temperatures around 30 to 42 Celsius which is pretty typical … Continue reading "Chimney Challenge"

The featured photo was taken on Wednesday on my ride home from work. Well today got to 30 Celsius, warm, but not hot enough to get the crowds down the beach. I rode to my mum’s house at Quinns Rocks after a cycle with my friends the ‘Wildhogs’. Out of the blue the weather forecast … Continue reading "Stormchaser gets hopeful"

Well I’m pretty sure after 12 years of school that to have a storm you need clouds and all we’ve had lately is continual blue skies…depressing. Today (Saturday) was feeling very summery with a maximum of 31C (88F) and I met my Wildhog pals for a ride to a cafe where we caught up with … Continue reading "Storm Chaser desperately seeks clouds"

Well just 15kms east of me there was hail, lightening ,thunder and the wettest November day on record with 40mm of rain in two hours (not a drop of rain here). I heard the distant thunder in the early morning hours but after a 111kms day of touring on a loaded bike the day before … Continue reading "Almost a famous Storm Chaser"

The featured image is of my bike at sunset on a ride home from work adorned by a ‘nang’ which was filled with Nitrous Oxide. This seems to be the latest drug of choice by the adolescent motorists who visit the local lookouts judging by the piles of them they leave behind. At the start … Continue reading "A ride in the countryside"

Cycling Happiness And now the sadness Well then I was in for a major overdose of cycling sadness. News on Facebook emerged that there had been a fatal accident of a cyclist in Bunbury (200km south of Perth) which I posted on my cycle touring clubs Facebook group site. It was upsetting but there are … Continue reading "Cycling happiness and sadness"

It was a cloudy and cool day, perfect for a ride in the hills. My mission was to find the perfect picnic spot and assemble some sort of edible food items and enjoy the great outdoors thus wrapping up this challenge. My culinary skills were tested before the ride as I made my famous ‘cheapskate … Continue reading "The picnic spot"

I’m not a natural like Greg when it comes to finding face like objects but here’s a few I’ve seen along the way. The featured image has two bright eyes with a swirly hairdo. (For some reason the caption on the featured photo never work) I knocked up a video when I went for a … Continue reading "Pareidolia everywhere"

Well colour sure beats black and white, I am old enough to remember when televisions became colour, wow, it was amazing. I used to ride my bike to my grandparents down the coast to look at their colour TV in amazement. Then later came digital photography, just after I bought a fancy SLR camera too. … Continue reading "Colour, Farbe, Color"

Well ever since Scott came up with the theme of ‘Hazards’ things have been going pear shaped around here. First the news came out that a security guard from a Quarantine Hotel had caught the virus and then moved about in the community for a couple of days which means that we’re having our first … Continue reading "Hazards everywhere."

Well this Polygon Challenge was doing my head in, I was getting desperate and just taking a photo of a stop sign was becoming a distinct possibility. Then as I passed these new statues at South Perth I did a closer inspection and discovered that they were an amalgam of steel polygons…Eureka. Out the front … Continue reading "Polygonised Animal Statue Canopy Thingamajigs"

The featured image shows how we’re collecting hot days lately, so many it’s become a heatwave. So there will be no snow photos from me this post or any other, ever, actually. I’ve resorted to getting up really early around 5-6am to do a ride to the beach or doing some night cycles around the … Continue reading "A collection of collections"

Things were going very Minnesotan this month, a cold and wet November, my bike froze up, see featured image (fake news??). ‘ Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’ they say, so I’ll return he favour of Greg’s ‘Hastings Little Australia theme park’ and demonstrate how we’re going Minnesotan around here. I agree that Plataturkeypus-up is … Continue reading "Plataturkeypus-up and emptiness"

Well I’ve just managed to slip this post in edgeways to complete this months challenge. True, it’s the 1st of November here but this website is still in Californian time and I’ve really been busy doing lots of rides lately. A few weeks ago I joined my cycling club and rode for nine days around … Continue reading "October Challenge – Vanishing points"

Well I’m glad that there are 31 days in August and I just managed to sneak a ride up to the television towers before work. I do take my monthly challenge seriously, so I just made it…Pheww. Well we don’t have any nuclear power stations or weapons anywhere around here so I googled ‘radiation’ and … Continue reading "Hooked on Radiation"

Like the Bowerbird below I’ve roamed around this July looking for blue-ness. The Bowerbird does it to impress potential partners whilst I do it on a bike to contribute to Cycle365 and because I just love cycling around, it keeps me sane in a crazy world. Birds are a passion of mine, they’re free to … Continue reading "A Blue-tiful Challenge"

Well the cover picture is me with a friendly squirrel or road kill that some one had placed on the bridge (I’ll let you decide) in Yosemite NP in 1986. I went on a three month journey doing the west, south and east of USA and across Canada. It was an amazing experience which I … Continue reading "Squirrels and windows"

Two cruise liners quarantined in the port and one waiting off the coast. Yesterday I decided I needed a long cycle so off I headed to the coast and return. At the moment Fremantle has a few cruise liners who want to off load their passengers, some who have the virus. This happened in Sydney … Continue reading "A social distancing cycle to Fremantle"

Well I think I’ve just managed to squeeze edgeways my last monthly challenge post into Cycle 365 in the allocated time, thank you leap year and time delay into Portland time. I went for a cycle around the city to the coast with my cycling club and after a coffee and muffin (of course) I … Continue reading "Mural Challenge No 3 and copycatting."

The above mural is another by Fintan Magee in Leederville, one of my favourites. Here’s an article about this mural I’m continuing with my mural theme and copying TJ’s ‘start and finish’ as well. Today was a coolish summer day so I left home, heading to my mums house in Quinn’s Rocks (70kms) via the … Continue reading "Mural Challenge No.2 and copy-catting"

G’day Cycle-lifers, So the February challenge is to post three posts, my work load has tripled (you know, some people have to still work, sad but true). My theme will be street murals as they’re all over the place here and I’ll also copy some one else’s theme as well. Today it’s Greg’s snowman, which … Continue reading "Some grungy street art and copycat-ing"

Roses are Red Viking fans are feeling blue We went Waa-hoo Whilst they went Boo-hoo At the casino after my early ride. The game started at 9am on Christmas eve. I met a friendly father and son from Kentucky. The son a Viking fan and father a Packers fan. I learnt many things such as … Continue reading "Roses are Red"

  On a ride along the Swan River northside my initial plan was foiled by a complete lack of wind which makes taking photos of flags pretty sub-optimal. Luckily around the city a breeze kicked in and I grabbed some snaps along Riverside Drive of some City of Perth tourism flags. Also here is my holiday … Continue reading "Searching for flags"

On the cycle to the Climate Strike Day from work I sprung into line with these guys.   Lots of protesters and students at the Rally, not happy the way we’re wrecking the planet and destroying their future. So where am I?     Don’t like crowds so I cycled back to work and stopped … Continue reading "Falling into line with some Aboriginal skeleton warriors"

Well July was quite a month, which I would rather forget. Alas my father finally lost the fight against dementia and stroke but had a long life and impacted so many people in a positive way. It’s great to see people on this site living life to the fullest, getting out on their bikes and … Continue reading "Monochrome Delayed"

Here’s some of my April rides and a video of me on my bike ‘Black Duck’   Click here  for details

Well don’t expect any snow forts, icicles or snow drifts here…coz it’s hot, hot, hot and the middle of summer. It hasn’t even snowed here in winter since the last ice age. We’re too close to the equator, too close to sea level and the southern hemisphere doesn’t have the large land masses. I went … Continue reading "February Challenge – results of weather"

Well Spring has started, the wildflowers are blooming, snakes are sunbaking, the green grass is growing and football finals commencing. Due to some rainy, cold days, my son injuring himself and my dads failing health my cycling to work targets fell off the wagon. In the last three weeks 4 days, 3 days then 0 … Continue reading "The September sign challenge"

Another perfect cycling weekend here, sunny about 23 celcius, blue skies, what more could you ask for. On Saturday I cycled to Scarborough Beach via the city whilst Lovely Wife went craft shopping and Joshi played computer games, everyone was happy. Then on Sunday the Wilhogs rode to Kent St Weir, Cannington along the Canning … Continue reading "Making the most of another sunny weekend, two in a row: Scarborough Beach, Wildhogs, then West Coast Eagles"

It seems all you see in the news is heat, drought, fire and smoke these days. Thankfully here its cold and wet during the week then sunny on the weekend, so perfect for my liquid challenge. Click here for some liquidity (no cash…sorry)