G'day Veronica,

Was your husband riding the trail along the beach foreshore on Beaconsfield Parade or the Yarra Trails? If it was the foreshore I'm not surprised, when I ride it I use my brakes for wandering children, off ablanced roller bladers, runnaway dogs, all sorts of things, it's a little crazy like that. It sound like it may have been one or the other. Real bummer about the incident and the bike. If it is at all fixable, get him to go to Bike Now in South Melbourne, their mechanics are good. How long is he in Melbourne for? I can hook him up with some roadies or even show him some off road stuff.

As for the terrorists, Australia has just passed some very contraversial laws allowing the police more powers of arrest on suspicion of terrorism basically. Lots of people think they will be arrested accidentally, but it's not the case. A group of men who the authorities had been watching for 16 months got hauled up to please explain a few things, and basically I think Melbourne is very safe right now.