The New Zealand Journal

Zealandia Cycle, Hawke's Bay Hearld ad, 2 January 1895. Oates, Lowry and Co's Zealandia Cycle Works, 82 Manchester Street, Chris...

Jack Suckling's Speed Cycle Works located at 114 Manchester Street, Christchurch, circa 1912-14. Jack is the moustached man wearing a c...

Unidentified Cycle Store Interior, Christchurch, 1910, photo Steffano Webb. Alexander Turnbull Library During the cycling craze of the l...

Cycling Stunt on the Madras Street Overbridge in 1900

With all that cycling going on, some of it had to be a threat to law and order, surely? So if you can't beat them... A police cycle patr...

Ten mile championship of New Zealand (Jan. 1896) at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. 1st: C. H. Jones, N.Z.; 2nd: W. L. Kerr, N.S.W.; 3rd: Pete...

My mother attempts to get her turn on a tyre-less tricycle in a Christchurch backyard jungle, circa 1920. Her older brothers teased her rele...

Although this humorous, though dangerous, tale does not refer to events occurring in Christchurch, its cycle theme and expression of the New...

"Scorcher Jones" - Clement Goodwin Jones (1875?-1908) being paced by a quad team of cyclists at Lancaster Park, circa 1890. Photo:...

Fred Wood "professional champion rider of the world" and W Brown, amateur, both of England, at Lancaster Park, 1887. Christchurch...

Nurse Maude's District nurses, with their bicycles, utside South Durham St District Nursing Office, Christchurch, 29 August 1914. Refe...

A nurse leaving a sub-depot on her daily round of visits, during the 1918 influenza epidemic, Christchurch [1918]. The Weekly Press, 4 Dece...

Unidentified "Lady" Cyclist, Lancaster Park, Christchurch, circa 1896 Lantern slide, probably by A E Preece, Pioneer Amateur Sport...

The Executive Officers of the Atalanta Cycling Club for Women. The officers were Miss Blanche Lough, later Thompson (1847-1963) (Captain), p...

photo by Adam MacLay. Alexander Turnbull Library By the early 1900s, cycles and their cyclists were everywhere. A couple of Super 14 squads ...

Again, the title is a bit misleading since there is no direct Christchurch connection in this post, but in a follow-up to Jayne's post o...

Click image for enlarged view Advertising poster for J B Clarkson, Palmerston North, Feilding, Levin, & Dannevirke - all the main popul...

Boys & their (expensive) toys, Christchurch circa 1890 Christchurch City Libraries image These brave young fellows put to shame those of...

photo Steffano Webb. Alexander Turnbull Library A mixed group of men and women cyclists put in some miles on a dusty road somewhere on the o...

A peloton of cyclists of the Pioneer Amateur Sports Club, in front of the AMP building in Cathedral Square, about to head out for a Saturday...