Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
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Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby djw47 » Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:18 pm
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby dalai47 » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:33 pm
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby Cyclophiliac » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:49 am
You don't necessarily have to go to the Dandenongs (or any other mountain) to meet the challenge. My weekly commute alone has over 3000m climbing (I live in Melbourne's hilly eastern suburbs), and I'm not alone in that.dmwill wrote:Part of a Stava challenge to climb 4600m in 3 weeks.
https://www.strava.com/challenges/rapharising
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby fat and old » Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:30 am
Prolly due to their fancy clubhouse opening a little while back in the CBDdalai47 wrote:Piss poor painting advertising on the roads!
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby cyclotaur » Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:46 am
Not the wisest approach to promotions. I hope (but doubt) that they (Rapha) sought some advice from relevant road managers before proceeding.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby Cyclophiliac » Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:17 am
Only here. In Europe (e.g. France, Italy, etc.) well-known mountain roads are covered in graffiti, and nobody seems to make a big deal out of it.cyclotaur wrote:Probably breaking a law somewhere... significant road markings. like roadside signs, are tightly bound by many rules and regulations.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby cyclotaur » Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:01 pm
Apples and oranges - I've seen similar scrawls on roads here used by HSTour etc, that's why I said 'significant' ie. a directional arrow as in this case. Also advertising - which this is, really, as pointed out by someone else. You can't just go around slapping up signs and posters, just as you can't use civil infrastructure as your free advertising medium.Cyclophiliac wrote:Only here. In Europe (e.g. France, Italy, etc.) well-known mountain roads are covered in graffiti, and nobody seems to make a big deal out of it.cyclotaur wrote:Probably breaking a law somewhere... significant road markings. like roadside signs, are tightly bound by many rules and regulations.
There are rules and regs** for road marking/delineation for road safety and traffic management, and I'm pretty sure this would be frowned upon by the responsible road authorities. That's all I'm saying.
**I have some experience in this sort of thing.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby __PG__ » Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:19 pm
I was just thinking that in the future, these rules will have to be tightened for autonomous cars.cyclotaur wrote:
There are rules and regs** for road marking/delineation for road safety and traffic management, and I'm pretty sure this would be frowned upon by the responsible road authorities. That's all I'm saying.
**I have some experience in this sort of thing.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby cyclotaur » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:48 am
Yes, I've seen them all over the place...__PG__ wrote:They are also on Mt Pleasant Road in Eltham and the Banyule Flats road in Templestowe.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby djw47 » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:08 pm
They're painted in yellow and are already starting to look a bit worn out so I don't think it's a big problem.cyclotaur wrote:Probably breaking a law somewhere... significant road markings. like roadside signs, are tightly bound by many rules and regulations.
Not the wisest approach to promotions. I hope (but doubt) that they (Rapha) sought some advice from relevant road managers before proceeding.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby djw47 » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:09 pm
Beach Road has a hill?lone rider wrote:They put one on Beach Rd as well at hayden's hill. That one would need a lot of repeats.
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby djw47 » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:10 pm
I don't think anybody was suggesting that you had to go to the Dandenongs to meet the target.Cyclophiliac wrote:You don't necessarily have to go to the Dandenongs (or any other mountain) to meet the challenge. My weekly commute alone has over 3000m climbing (I live in Melbourne's hilly eastern suburbs), and I'm not alone in that.dmwill wrote:Part of a Stava challenge to climb 4600m in 3 weeks.
https://www.strava.com/challenges/rapharising
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
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Re: Rapha road markings in the Dandenongs
Postby Cyclophiliac » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:40 pm
I wasn't either. I was just providing a point of view, sorry if that offended you.djw47 wrote:I don't think anybody was suggesting that you had to go to the Dandenongs to meet the target.Cyclophiliac wrote:You don't necessarily have to go to the Dandenongs (or any other mountain) to meet the challenge. My weekly commute alone has over 3000m climbing (I live in Melbourne's hilly eastern suburbs), and I'm not alone in that.dmwill wrote:Part of a Stava challenge to climb 4600m in 3 weeks.
https://www.strava.com/challenges/rapharising
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