We love the idea of Good Cycles – a Melbourne-based social enterprise/not for profit mobile bike service that fixes your bike while you’re at work, university or even at home.  

Professional mechanics are teamed with trainees and together they take their cargo bikes around Melbourne and fix bikes.  While they provide a service to you, dear bike rider, they also give training and employment to long-term unemployed and disadvantaged folks. It’s a win-win situation!

A standard service (the Good Standard) is $77 while The Good as Gold is a very thorough service for $170. You can also  pick and choose what you’d like fixed which individually costs between $15 and $30. 

Good Cycles have a special introductory offer of $55 for a standard service, just book here. Register online for yourself or gather your friends or colleagues together for a discounted group service.

Currently services occur on Mondays and Tuesdays and they’ll be adding Thursdays as demand increases. 

With the weather warming up, every day is just an excuse to drink another smoothie.

Brisbane business The Smoothie Cycle brings a slightly different experience to the smoothie blender – the smoothies are pedal powered! You can opt to pedal your own smoothie or a friendly staff member will burn the calories for you.

The ingredients are 100% certified organic and the smoothies include different combinations of seasonal fruits, nuts, seeds, cacao, cinnamon, cardamon, honey, agave, juice, mesquite, chia seeds, maca, yoghurt and milk.

We spotted them in Brisbane at the Finders Keepers markets and while we couldn’t leave our stall to do our own pedaling we did try one of their classic banana smoothies. Yum!

Image via The Smoothie Cycle

The video’s a bit grainy but it shows one of the most innovative bike parking structures we’ve ever seen.

Swipe your smart card, put your bike on the hook and it hoists it up the ‘tree’. Retrieve your bike by swiping the same smart card on your return.