A mum's sunset cycling group on remote Elcho Island off the coast of Arnhem Land can't get their hands on enough bikes.
The fitness group was formed earlier this month to give mums a break from the pressures of juggling family and work.
The women go for an evening ride around town, while their kids follow in the school bus and cheer them on.
Mum-of-three and Galiwin'ku post office worker Verity Burarrwanga last rode a bike in childhood.
"I was a bit nervous. Luckily, I had my daughter there and she was comforting me and saying 'you can use your balance from using your foot, and focus on the wheels with your hands'," she told ABC Radio Darwin Breakfast presenter Jo Laverty.
"It was so amazing that this happened to me because I'm a hard-working mother and I don't get much at home when I finish from work. I just go back and clean, and wash dirty clothes.
"I felt overjoyed when I rode my first bike.
'A very big smile'
Now more of the island's mums, grandmothers and great-grandmothers want to cycle in remote Galiwin'ku, (also known as Elcho Island) 515 kilometres east of Darwin.
"My kids see me as a mother riding a bike with a very big smile," Ms Burarrwanga said.
"Even the community and the people saw me riding a bike for the first time. They said: 'Wow, look at Verity. How smart and brave she is and not ashamed of who she is.'
Just one hitch...
But a shortfall of bicycles on the Arnhem Land island has hampered the group.
Shepherdson College Families as First Children educator Belinda Morton relocated to the island earlier this month to work, and brought the original nine bikes and two trailers in her shipping allowance.
"I knew they'd be a hit," she said.
"The kids in the community know that at 5:00PM the mums will be on their bikes and so they're coming and joining, too."
Any room on deck?
The group has 40 bikes and trailers at Ms Morton's home in Driver, suburban Darwin, after a shout-out for donations. They are organising shipping and fundraising.
"People in Darwin have donated the most beautiful, quality bikes, trailers, adult trikes and other things that have never been seen on the island," she said.
Ms Morton said while kids bikes are popular and available, adults riding bikes has not been common on the 2,206-resident island.
Ms Morton said local men have learnt to maintain the bikes and that a ride up the narrow 60-kilometre-long island is planned.
