How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:15 pm
While drizzly the conditions were quire good. In fact, I had to leave the mitts and beanie off. I had to fix a puncture last night and I'm glad I did.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:41 am
My only regret is that I didn't get up a little earlier and ride the whole distance. If it looks like this later maybe I'll do it on the way home instead.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gdl_gdl » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:21 pm
I was on the roads / paths this morning!
What a great morning, aided by a light tail wind to blow me to the City! (Sorry Andrew!)
Cheers,
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Aushiker » Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:22 pm
I was off the bike this morning. Had to go to the Mount for "tests" (should that read bankruptcy?) and got dressed to ride the bike and then remembered that I hadn't fixed the rear flat. No time to fix it, so took the car instead.gdl_gdl wrote:What a great morning, aided by a light tail wind to blow me to the City! (Sorry Andrew!)
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Mulger bill » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:49 am
Then a bloody spoke twanged on me front wheel. Say What Damn 5mm wobble.
Had to walk back to Footscray and train the rest of the way
Gives me an excuse to suss the new LBS in the morning before snooze I s'pose.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gdl_gdl » Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:29 am
I got a lashing from Clarkson to Ocean Reef and then intermittent rain at Warwick to Stirling. No real problems other than being cold for the rest of the ride when the rain did clear up.
The bike now looks like it's been through a sand dune!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Fletcher » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:52 am
Man, I should have done this years ago.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gavinr » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:15 pm
Today on the other hand was great - a few degrees warmer than it has been, which always helps.
One day last week was so windy I had to admit defeat going up Gladesville Bridge and get off and walk. It wasn't that the wind was in my face and slowing me down, it was a side wind which (particularly as buses whooshed past) was driving me into the fence a little too aggressively for comfort.
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Postby Aushiker » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:21 pm
Not my commute, but velopilot (Twitter) has posted a bit of a vid showing some of his commute here in Perth. Might bore you or interest you; who knows
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gdl_gdl » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:19 pm
Normal average speed for the commute home is between 27 - 29 km/h, tonight it was 24.5km/h and I was trying hard!
Cheers,
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby MitchMitchellson » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:21 am
Been lurking for a while, thought I might finally post.
I'm not sure how many of you have ridden along the bike path Beaconsfield Parade, near St Kilda Melbourne. But I'm getting pretty sick of cyclists ignore the red lights on the bike path. I know these cyclists see the lights, but they flat out ignore them, even when people are preparing to cross.
Anyone experience this with other cyclists being ignorant bastards?
Anyway, Ride today was fun with the obvious note above aside. Riding my roadie is so much more fun than my Wet Weather MTB. The roadie glides along the road. I just need the Melbourne weather to be a little less wet so I can ride my roadie more often.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby rkelsen » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:02 pm
This morning was a great morning for it (coming in from north west), though a tad nippy.MitchMitchellson wrote:I just need the Melbourne weather to be a little less wet so I can ride my roadie more often.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby leximack » Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:05 pm
tackling single track, boulders, rocks, logs and whatever else the bush through at me.
Was a different and fun commute
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Tale » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:01 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby 2WheelsGood » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:15 pm
Hope your Fuji is OK! On the positive side if you crash a lot, you could get sponsorship with Rabobank like Denis Menchov!Tale wrote:Crashed this morning, lost some bark and bruised my finger. Tried to keep momentum up an incredibly steep, narrow, curved incline that joins a road to a cycleway, failed to get down gears fast enough and before I knew it I was falling, clipped in Got back on the bike right away, Tour de France style, rode to work fast and checked out my injuries! Not too bad, glad nobody saw
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Boognoss » Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:39 am
to 2WheelsGood.2WheelsGood wrote:Hope your Fuji is OK! On the positive side if you crash a lot, you could get sponsorship with Rabobank like Denis Menchov!Tale wrote:Crashed this morning, lost some bark and bruised my finger. Tried to keep momentum up an incredibly steep, narrow, curved incline that joins a road to a cycleway, failed to get down gears fast enough and before I knew it I was falling, clipped in Got back on the bike right away, Tour de France style, rode to work fast and checked out my injuries! Not too bad, glad nobody saw
Hope you're OK Tale. Good effort being hard enough to ride off and check injuries later .
Where did you crash?
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gdl_gdl » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:09 am
I reckon I was about 15 minutes ahead of the front when I set off and it was creeping up on me. After 90 mins of hard riding, I just about got to the CBD when the first drops arrived. Success for a change!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby rkelsen » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:11 pm
Errr... wasn't that Buddy Holly & the Crickets??gdl_gdl wrote:To parody the Clash song "I Fought The Law" ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gdl_gdl » Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:04 pm
Apparently it was Sonny Curtis & The Crickets (post Buddy!). I had to google it! I only know the 70's Clash punk version.
Cheers,
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby eucryphia » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:44 pm
My legs were fine with the walk in with a heavy pack, shoulders were sore for a couple of days, the legs were fine all week, but the walk out steep downhill with a slightly lighter but still heavy pack resulted in a lot of late-onset muscle soreness in the legs over the weekend.
Got me in the Rectus femoris (quads?), the Vastus medialis (just above the knee) and the top part of the Gastrocnemius (calfs)
(got the names from here)
But a coupe of days of commuting fixed all that. I was even looking forward to it.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby whitestivo » Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:55 pm
today was the first day in brisbane i commuted into town without my warmers (legs and arms) and a second jersey on.
lets hope it stays around
for commuters, a top tip is to wear clear glasses in the winter. i always wore sunglasses, since swapping to safety glasses with clear lenses, my trip home is so much easier
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Fletcher » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:17 am
This morning's ride was great, sun was shining and traffic wasn't too heavy. I pushed it on the way home last night and there wasn't much left in the tank this morning(happens when you're unfit).
However, I gots me first puncture on the new bike. Rear wheel. Bugger. Now I just gotta work out how to release the brakes so I can get the wheel off & replace the tube.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:14 pm
Roadies have a small "lever" thingy at the cable pinch bolt, flip it up.
MTBs or hybrids with V Brakes, squeeze the arms together and you should be able to unhook the curved metal cable tube from the link that ties it to the brake arm.
Hope this helps.
Shaun
PS Most important thing is to remember to do it back up afterwards, times otherwise.
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