After ranting about foreigners on motorbikes with no helmets (see last week's post), here we are posing on one. Swallow the pride. The bike isn't ours - it belongs to a friend. But we do have it on loan for the next three weeks while the owner is back in Canada. It's an electric bike - so it has a big battery in the back and rather than fill it up with petrol, it gets plugged into the wall. Runs almost silently too. We have helmets and look forward to zipping around the neighbourhood a bit to try the bike out. If you can believe it, Chinese-made electric bikes just like this one retail for around $500 Australian dollars. No licence needed, and registration is a matter of a couple of dollars a year. Tempting.