World Bicycle Relief Plans to Exceed One Million Bicycles

By Phil Latz | 6th June 2024 |
Two South African teenage schoolgirls with bicycles.

Chicago, USA On Boxing Day, 26th December 2024 a huge earthquake caused a tsunami that swept across Indonesia and neighbouring countries, killing almost a quarter of a million people and leaving millions more homeless. F.K. Day and his wife Leah watched these events unfold from their home in the USA and wanted to help. That…

Thanks to Your Support, We Made It!

By Phil Latz | 27th April 2022 |
Our sunny Opera House finish after 1,100 kilometres mainly cloudy and often wet kilometres.

Wollongong, NSW Nine months before my 60th birthday was due to arrive on 17th March 2022, I decided to do something significant to mark the occasion. That was, to try to ride from Melbourne to Sydney and hopefully raise over $20,000 for two cycling-related charities I’ve long supported. Well, my 60 or Bust! charity ride…

Please Help me Celebrate 60 or Bust!

By Phil Latz | 28th October 2021 |
60 or Bust! Charity Ride

Wollongong, NSW We’ve all heard about mid-life crises. Perhaps I was too busy to have one at the time, so I’ve deferred mine until I turn 60. Although I know and admire many of you who are part of our community who read this website, I certainly don’t know everyone and don’t expect you to…

Bicycle Industry Gets Its First Stock Index Tracker

By Phil Latz | 24th June 2021 |
Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Set to launch on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the 21st of June, the bicycle industry will get its first stock exchange index, tracking 20 of the trade’s largest listed names. This means that an investor could invest in this single index and know that they’ve just invested in a diversified portfolio of 20 major…