How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby fat and old » Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:35 am
Fast in again today, gotta love a tailwind. I love when after riding in a crosswind for a while, you turn and it becomes a tailwind. Goes all quiet, like I can hear my heartbeat.
And I reached the halfway point in my "savings from commuting is the only way my wife will cop a new bike" campaign last night
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby crog » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:38 am
Was reasonably happy a little wet 10k's in 30 minutes . Takes 1hr door to door with train and then riding when used to take me 45 min drive, so extra 1/2 hour a day and I get 1 hour on the bike and exercise gains me 30 minutes and arrive at work fresh
Was hit by Magpie next to kingswood golf club, scared crap out of me I forgot about magpies with my time off the bike. time for the porcupine helmet or stickers on top.
be safe out there
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby find_bruce » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:21 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:45 pm
I joked with the road works man who had closed off Little Bourke Street as I had come up behind him and was pootling along at low speed, waiting for him to realise I was there and let me through. His companion pointed out to him that I was there behind him and he said I gave him a fright as "he was expecting a motor engine". We had a laugh about that. Vroom vroom!
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Postby jasonc » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:51 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TonyMax » Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:01 pm
Slightly quicker this morning than last week surprisingly, even with a later start/more traffic to contend with.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby westab » Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:08 pm
The good news is that I have to ride home tonight and have lots of other things that I need to do. So more riding.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby nezumi » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:50 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby CXCommuter » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:08 pm
Challenge accepted and completed- poor random guy is going to get three minutes of a twit on a giant blowing kisses, asking him to ring etc before I turned off at Greenwood if he downloads and checks his video (and no I did not wheelsuck).Summernight wrote:I noticed a Fly6 on the bicycle of the guy wearing the tri club knicks waiting at the lights in front of me at the corner of Lennox and Elizabeth Streets, Richmond, last night so I gave a smile and a wave to the camera. He probably won't see it, but it amused me to do so. Next time I notice a Fly6 in front of me I'm going to do the hand gesture for 'Call me' and blow a kiss (I don't care which gender the rider is, it'll just make me laugh at the thought that they might review the footage and see me doing that and go "What the?". )
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Postby trailgumby » Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:07 pm
This is my mate Dave, who happens to be the product manager at Cell Bikes.CXCommuter wrote:Challenge accepted and completed- poor random guy is going to get three minutes of a twit on a giant blowing kisses, asking him to ring etc before I turned off at Greenwood if he downloads and checks his video (and no I did not wheelsuck).
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Postby CXCommuter » Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:43 am
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Postby bychosis » Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:03 am
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Postby TailWind » Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:58 am
Thanks, that's sweet of you, SummerSummernight wrote:I heard the rain hammering down early morning, thought to myself "Glad today is a swimming day and not a running day and that I don't have to commute at this time of the morning" (I did think of you TailWind)
I was actually fairly fortunate to miss the worst of the weather this week, bar a couple of light showers...
Hectic week otherwise. I'll be moving to a new client in a couple of weeks time, so lots of debates with my current client and negotioations with the new one.
My commute route will be largely the same, just a little shorter. (Don't get excited Jason, only about by 400m or so, still on Collins St )
Wednesday afternoon's commute saw couple of incidents. Heidelberg Rd, Fairfield - a ute had knocked down a schoolboy at a ped crossing, must have happened during the previous traffic light cycle. Kid was fine and standing up, people had stopped to help.
Not 100m further, a pasta delivery truck wants to occupy the the same space/time as me, desperate to make the light just ahead:
That's just after the magically disappearing bike lane. Caught up with him further down and beat him to the left turn at the lights anyway.
Decent rides otherwise, apart from my knees acting up a bit after fitting new cleats. Fixed with a few doses of anti-inflammatories over 36 hrs.
Now if only this northerly would settle down a bit.....
Happy Friday!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Fri Sep 12, 2014 10:00 am
Ahahaha. Love your work.CXCommuter wrote:Challenge accepted and completed- poor random guy is going to get three minutes of a twit on a giant blowing kisses, asking him to ring etc before I turned off at Greenwood if he downloads and checks his video (and no I did not wheelsuck).Summernight wrote:I noticed a Fly6 on the bicycle of the guy wearing the tri club knicks waiting at the lights in front of me at the corner of Lennox and Elizabeth Streets, Richmond, last night so I gave a smile and a wave to the camera. He probably won't see it, but it amused me to do so. Next time I notice a Fly6 in front of me I'm going to do the hand gesture for 'Call me' and blow a kiss (I don't care which gender the rider is, it'll just make me laugh at the thought that they might review the footage and see me doing that and go "What the?". )
You are clearly in the lead at the moment as three minutes worth of blowing kisses takes skill and I wouldn't have thought to continue with such finesse like you have! Wish I could see that footage.
This morning a couple of commuters clearly needed a refresher course in hand signals. I signal my right hand hook turn on the corner of Elizabeth St and Collins St when waiting at the red traffic light so that cyclists behind me can see and move up on the right of me and not get stuck when I go slowly on the green.
Despite my clear signalling this morning, not only did the cyclist behind me and the cyclist to the right of me not understand the right hand turn hand signal but they also rode slowly and too closely to me as I'm continuing my signalling and entering the hook turn box. I think the guy behind me almost crashed into me too when I stopped in the box in the correct spot for the turn.
This morning was also a reminder about why I love riding my bike. The same intersection with the hand signal issues mentioned above had a tram completely blocking one direction of Elizabeth St traffic (it looked like it had lost power). All trams in the area were stopped and the cars were going nowhere fast. Not so the trusty bicycle that could ride around the stopped tram! Bike FTW!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby fat and old » Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:05 pm
However, lost my patience with the people building a new bridge to connect the Darebin Ck path to a side street last night. Been closed since May or something, last week for no reason as the job's finished, even the council agreed it was. Last night after the rain the prospect of going around in the mud again made me see red. Fences are down, trail is now open.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:03 pm
and i had to carry a groupset home in my backpack. you don't want that on a friday arvo
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby sunrisedigital » Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:05 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Sat Sep 13, 2014 2:41 pm
i have a traffic light that my bike won't trigger. it's 500m from home, no cars. i stop, look then gosunrisedigital wrote:What do cyclist think about Vic Roads possible idea of cyclist treating stop lights as stop signs,
what choice do i have?
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Postby bychosis » Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:14 pm
Then about 2/3 in as I cruised along I realised I was about 5min behind where I should be to meet the get home deadline and ended to put tired legs from the morning ride back to work.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby FiveDaysAWeek » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:56 am
Sounds to me like a case of "can't stop 'em so why not legalise it?", and a very bad idea. Personally I think you can stop people from running red lights by enforcing the existing laws, and I think that will start happening in a serious way once there are enough bikes around (and the current NSW $67 fine is raised) to make it financially worthwhile to the state government.sunrisedigital wrote:What do cyclist think about Vic Roads possible idea of cyclist treating stop lights as stop signs
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Postby jasonc » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:58 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:50 am
Nice work, f&o, but you missed a fewfat and old wrote:Nice ride in
However, lost my patience with the people building a new bridge to connect the Darebin Ck path to a side street last night. Been closed since May or something, last week for no reason as the job's finished, even the council agreed it was. Last night after the rain the prospect of going around in the mud again made me see red. Fences are down, trail is now open.
I also find the new section of the path a lot narrower than the original one, with the potential for ped mayhem where the bridge joins the path:
Would have preferred the council to build an underpass under Settlement Rd (where the creek flows under the road) to properly join the DCT at that point.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby oxonabike » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:51 am
Yeah, similar here. 200 km + training ride yesterday, so today was definitely a recovery commute. Strangely, not feeling too bad on the bike. Only hurts when I walk around.jasonc wrote:legs were smashed from yesterday. going to be a looooong week
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:14 am
Saturday morning, I had the setup shift for the annual October Fest at the kid's school. Hopped on the bike and rode down in order to get there early.
Nailed again by the M80 magpie.
Beautiful day, and I had a good ride back, until I got to the point on Plenty Rd where the bikelane morphs into the left turn only lane for Childs Rd. I have to merge into the left only lane, and then merge across to the straight ahead lane closer to the intersection, traffic allowing.
Fluoro-clad ute driver pulls up aggressivley behind me still in the left turn lane, then squeezes past yelling expletives at me as I prepare to merge right. Good thing he had the green turn arrow, would have been nasty had he been forced to stop at the red.
Expected rain this morning, but made it into the CBD before it hit.
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