With the city’s bike hire scheme up and running, there’s even less of an excuse not to get on your bike than ever before and rediscover why cycling is tops for convenience, headspace and sheer enjoyment.

While granted on road biking has an air of kamikaze about it, the happy alternatives are the kilometres of well-maintained bikeways enveloping the inner city river frontage, threading through the green belts, traversing the wetlands and hugging the waterfront of the bay and its islands.

And for those who like their cycle with a side of adventure and a whiff of eucalyptus there is a bounty of bush trails to choose from.