About
BrizTreadley is a website about cycling in Brisbane.
This is NOT a training diary, or to record my events history. It’s a place to tell stories of why I ride, and why riding is good.
Jean Bobet was a pro racer in Europe in the 1950s. He rode in teams with his much more famous brother Louison Bobet, the first man to win three Tours de France in a row. Jean Bobet recently released a memoir of his racing days and his relationship with Louison, titled ‘Tomorrow We Ride’.
The title gives a hint of how cycling can be at the same time all about routine, the mundane and the banal, and yet still be fulfilling, life-affirming and just a whole lot of fun.
‘Tomorrow We Ride’ refers to the Bobet brothers going for a ride together every Sunday (when possible) for their whole adult lives. There is partnership, companionship, tradition, affection, brotherliness, mateship, friendship. And I’m not projecting or over-reading, it’s all spelled out in Bobet’s book.
I have found that even when not a word is said on a bike ride, there can be togetherness and belonging. All in the simple act of getting on a bike and pedalling along the road with another person.
– Andrew Demack