The Squeaky Wheelwas a not-for-profit producing and advocacy organisation established in 2011, with a long history of advocating for bikes in everyday life before then. Having staged hundreds of rides, campaigns and events celebrating bicycles as vehicles for change, we have decided that now is the right time to draw a line under our achievements and focus on new opportunities. We're immensely proud of our work and have archived some of our activities here for the benefit of riders, programmers, policy makers and daydream believers everywhere. We hope you find some inspiration.
We were never about the numbers, or the money or the market share. We set out to change your attitude about bikes. To show you how they are better able to connect us to each other, and to ourselves. It was for these changes that we worked, and now our work is done. Change of course, is never finished, it carries on...
After more than six years of squeaking and spreading the grease for Melbourne’s bike-riding community, we at the The Squeaky Wheel are pedalling off into the sunset. Our core team has dedicated tremendous energy to this ground-breaking organisation. We feel a profound sense of achievement and we’ve had a blast!
The Pushy Women concept was created in partnership with Catherine Deveny on a winter bike ride in 2011, and the first show staged during Melbourne Bikefest in 2012. The show's premise is simple, women telling a story about bikes or bike riding. And the greatest news of all? Pushy Women will continue into 2018 and beyond!
Despite the bittersweet occasion of our pulling up stumps, we take heart in the knowledge that some of our best programs will not be finishing up with us. Our very good friends and partners over the years will be keeping the candle burning (or the wheel squeaking to be more accurate) and taking over presentation of these crowd favourites.
Set your wheels in motion with an Art + CLIMATE = Change 2015 Bicycle Tour. Presented by Climarte, each 2.5 hour tour will start at Federation Square and take in four festival locations, with an artist or curator talk at each stop.
Perhaps you're running late for a meeting. Or maybe you're laughing at something you heard on the radio. Maybe you have fractious children in the back seat who are commanding all of your already splintered attention. You're probably on auto-pilot, performing a function so mundane that you aren't even really aware of what you're doing...
Recently I appeared on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine to talk about getting women riding bikes. Given I was appearing with Olympic Gold Medallist, Paris Roobaix champion, Tour de France yellow jersey-winning, retired professional cyclist Stuart O'Grady - I entered the studio quite gratified that the ABC had found an appropriate warm up act for my humble opinion. It was a conversation not unlike many others, in which i was compelled to explain that 'cyclists' are actually unique and autonomous human beings, not a species indivisible in action or malicious intent....
