Welcome to Suitable Transport

Suitable Transport is a simple project to demonstrate the benefits of electric bicycles by exaggeration. While we love conventional bicycles and all of the fantastic benefits they offer, we want to show that electric bicycles might be the way to bring these great benefits to the rest of us - the non athletes, people who get hangovers, and people that just want to get to work.

Stephen Gale, a practical guy (who last rode a bike the day before he gained his drivers licence), has riden all the way from Melbourne to Sydney over eight days while wearing a business suit. He didn't plan to break any records, in fact he wants to show just how easy it was.

To make it more fun he convinced a large number of people to join him - scientists, salesmen, machanics, a cheff - in fact just about everyone from every walk of life - there was even a hair extension facilitator! They rode their electric bikes, in their work outfits (well, mostly) , from Melbourne to Sydney!

"Stephen Gale has demonstrated that by challenging our conventional notions of transportation we can each dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Whether we are talking about an electric bike or an ethanol fueled aircraft, we need to open our minds to all possibilities.”— Dick Smith

To paraphrase John F Kennedy when he announced to the world America's plans to land a man on the moon, We don't do this because its difficult, we do this because its easy!

“By educating ourselves and others, by doing our part to minimize our use and waste of resources, by becoming more politically active and demanding change – in these ways and many others, each of us can make a difference.”— Al Gore