How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:55 am
This mornings commute was a great one. BOM was indicating rain clouds and I really thought I was going to get wet. Not a drop the whole ride. Some roads were wet so obviously it had rained at some point. The wind had turned around during the night also so was now a headwind ...got to love those headwinds. Despite the headwind the ride was great. The body felt good, the riding was fluid and overall it felt like magic. Picked up another Strava KOM also so I must have been feeling good.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:57 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:02 am
This morning I encountered another unexpected path closure (which was not advertised, rode the same route yesterday morning), this time the footbridge over the Darebin Creek at Greenhills Rd. As there is no "Other Footpath", I had to backtrack back up to Plenty Rd and travel along there pretty much all the way though to Kingsbury.
So my commute routes now detour around 4 significant closures:
- MYT between Hoddle and Burnley Harbour (no remedial acitvity observed since the closure weeks ago)
- A bridge that was burnt down over the Darebin near La Trobe Uni at Kingsbury (no remedial acitvity observed since the closure at the beginning if the year)
- The Darebin Creek Trail underpass under the M80 Ring Road - closed since the beginning of this year for the M80 expansion works
- The shared path/bridge closure over the Darebin Creek at Greenhills Rd
Plus assorted other closures at various times and locations...never quite know what I'm going to encounter...
Other than having to backtrack, all was good...
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Postby bychosis » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:13 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Tornado » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:24 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:17 am
I believe they have changed the surface on the pontoons - it looks different from Alexandra Avenue and there were photos up on the Bicycle Victoria website of workers doing work there. Whether they were real photos and not staged photos is another question.TailWind wrote:...
So my commute routes now detour around 4 significant closures:
- MYT between Hoddle and Burnley Harbour (no remedial acitvity observed since the closure weeks ago)
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I (and the bike) got very gritty and dirty on the way home last night, no rain but the rain from 30 minutes before had brought out all the grit. And I'd just cleaned my chain that lunch. Typical.
Bit cold this morning but had an uneventful and quite nice ride in, even with claiming the lane the cars behaved behind me. It is so unusual an occurrence when a car will just sit behind me and proceed at my speed (I'm doing about 35 in a 50 zone) that I get a bit nervous wondering whether they are about to do something silly, but when they don't and I can move across into the dedicated bike lane I try to tell them that I appreciate their good behaviour.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:22 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby DavidS » Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:23 am
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Postby jasonc » Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:08 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby alkhoo » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:27 am
Rode in this morning from Southern Cross - roads were pretty wet with some huge puddles. Thankfully, traffic was pretty light and I was able to ride around the puddles.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby oxonabike » Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:17 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby CXCommuter » Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:32 am
BTW it is a Soul Prodigy hub but all of my wheelsets have had this loosening problem at some point or other.
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Postby TailWind » Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:38 am
I looked down at my rear wheel because somehow the bike felt odd and saw a wildly out of true rim, and suddenly I knew what that twanging sound earlier had been. The LBS at Clifton Hill couldn't help as they were booked out, so I called Mrs TW, who was in the vicinity, to pick me up.
On the flat-bar for today's commute, lots of rain straight out of the gate this morning and moderate showers all the way into the Melbournce CBD. Not the worst soaking I've had and not too bad a ride.
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Postby Summernight » Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:17 pm
Please always have a clear line of sight before turning, Mr Motorist!!! The taxi had to brake to stop from colliding with you too.
But way before that little moment, I was sitting in traffic on Collins Street waiting for the light to change in the pouring rain and the car waiting on my left rolled down her driver's window and said "Isn't it too rainy to ride?" To which I responded "It's never too rainy to ride." (Oh, I'm good... Tehehe)
Then she said she'd ridden today but that her passenger (another woman) hadn't because of the rain. It made me smile. Why can't people be nice all the time? Oh, and it made me feel hardcore.
The bike had to get a wipe down after that ride because it got filthy. Ah well.
This morning the overshoes hadn't dried yet and the gloves were a bit funky smelling, but it was quite a good ride in. A tradie may have failed to look before opening his door on Collins between Swanston and Elizabeth right as I went past. I hope he looked and saw the coast was clear (which it was because I was well into the vehicle lane).
Video (see at 14 seconds):
It just reinforced to me to stay away from those bike lanes (yes the little strip on the left and the broken lines section is apparently a bike lane) unless you're doing a speed where you can stop or not get sent flying. Which also reminds me that on Albert Street the two bikes in front of me this morning were hugging the 30 cm space between the dotted line and the parked cars instead of being in the left vehicle lane. They were just asking to be doored by any of those parked cars.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Big_Red » Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:43 pm
Riding down Wynnum Rd at Norman Park at 50kph+ and was needing to use the brakes due to the traffic slowing and I pulled into a driveway instead of stopping the traffic in the right hand lane so I could use a sidestreet to get to Mowbray park. While waiting for a gap in the traffic, some bogan yells out "get orf the road" while driving by. Laughable by the fact I wasn't on the road at the time and their driving in a car was causing the congestion. Some people don't even have to try to be a moron it seems that it comes naturally.
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Postby Lizzy » Thu Aug 08, 2013 6:05 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Mugglechops » Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:38 pm
I stood in the shower with red stinging legs for about 15mins.
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Postby jasonc » Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:43 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby DavidS » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:41 am
Geez, it was wet on Wednesday night, but today was quite pleasant. Certainly been feeling a bit like spring of late.
Day off tomorrow so no riding. Might try and fix the back wheel again, it's off centre after replacing so many spokes.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:16 am
Woke up to a grim sight on the BoM radar - two rain bands with a small gap in between. Decided to head out early and catch the tail-end of the first rain, heading along the shortest possible route, hoping to make the the most of the gap between the two bands. Well, it wasn't much of a gap. Another day, another soaking.
But hey, it's Friday!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:31 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:03 pm
Amen to that.gretaboy wrote:Too bad it had to actually end at "work"
A perfect analogy, except it isn't really their fault they are getting dirty.Lizzy wrote:They're just like dogs that way aren't they! You wash them up nice and they just go straight out and roll in the dirt ... *tsk*
I also have been cleaning my bike almost every night due to the rain.
I didn't sleep that well last night due to the constant rain. Woke up and it was still pouring.
But I got up as per usual and went for a jog in the early morning rain and got soaked as it didn't stop the whole way, but I was running, so hey, at least I was keeping the core warm (legs and arms were pretty cold though). I had a shower and was a bit later than usual to work (no motivation either due to this looming redundancy carp that still hasn't happened even though I was told they'd make the decision at the end of July ). I got all geared up in the rain gear and was ready to ride in a steady downpour but the rain had practically stopped at 8:50AM in the morning. Darn it, got sweaty under the rain jacket! Roads were still wet though.
I had an uneventful ride in, which was good. The crazies must go and hide once the rain has stopped.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:08 pm
It really isnt a nice feeling is it....the motivation do any decent work really goes when you are so uncertain about when your job will go. But being a legal eagle in this day and age, long live litigation, you should be able to get work eslewhere otherwise hang up your own shingleSummernight wrote: I had a shower and was a bit later than usual to work (no motivation either due to this looming redundancy carp that still hasn't happened even though I was told they'd make the decision at the end of July ).
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Hamster » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:32 pm
My carrier seems to be holding together which is good. I had fallen behind somewhat in my progress toward achieving 10,000 kms for the year but now I catching up with my target and should be back on track by the end of next week .
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:37 pm
I've had a big week commuting. so far just shy of 330kms.
this morning I rode with the fast boys and was feeling good. we get to a hill and all of a sudden the pace dies. I just take off. I realised why the pace died - it was a hill . i died about 100m up the road. regathered myself and beat the target time I'd set myself on the ride this morning. so 2 goals in a week - I need some new goals.
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