How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:45 am
First, a couple of peds with a difference (quadrupeds with their bipedal handlers ):
and then dad's taxi homeward bound after the school run.
Had a quick chat - he rides through to Heidelberg West (I encountered him near Abbottsford on the MYT) and the electric assist on the bike works well for him for the distance.
Would be great if there were more parents opting for this mode of school run.
Quickish ride in this morning, great conditions in Melbourne today.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:34 am
Everyone behaved themselves on the morning commute today, which was nice. The showers/changerooms at the office building were busy though so I had to have my sparrow bath and change in a toilet. Oh well.
Was that near the Collingwood Children's Farm? They definitely have a gray horse and a donkey. If I knew I could ride along the MYT on my horse I'd take over (ie. steal ) a paddock at the CCF and live in paradise! Would be interesting getting him up and down the Gipps Street stairs though.TailWind wrote:Entertaining ride back along the Main Yarra Trail yesterday afternoon.
First, a couple of peds with a difference (quadrupeds with their bipedal handlers ):
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby silentbutdeadly » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:48 am
Dude in the Land Cruiser just couldn't cope with it. He just had to hit the horn because there was oncoming traffic (which he duly ignored). Poor sod - I buggered up his commute by 0.036 milliseconds...
Otherwise...not cold, no headwind...but can't wait till daylight savings is over.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:03 am
They match my unicorns.Dan wrote:You and your rainbows Summer.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:09 am
Summernight wrote:They match my unicorns.Dan wrote:You and your rainbows Summer.
new name - Dora
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:29 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:30 am
PLEASE upgrade your lightsbychosis wrote:Early start today. Very dark and the little blinky didn't help much.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:49 am
There must be a fun-run or something coming up. I still saw quite a large number of joggers along Riverside Drive - usually a sign of a forthcoming event.
It was our first storm of the year - cold, a bit windy and some chop on the river - southerly winds mostly. But at least not too strong. I think it's back to the back pack with all the necessaries for cold dark wet winter.
But where were all the cyclists? You can't let the joggers and jigglers and shuflers and other peds show us up.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:04 pm
In progress. I only ride in the dark a few times a year. Didn't have enough time to mount to helmet this morn. I only ride for a short, street lit section on road and the blinky is enough to warn pedestrians at the speed I rode.jasonc wrote:PLEASE upgrade your lightsbychosis wrote:Early start today. Very dark and the little blinky didn't help much.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:56 pm
Yep, about 50m from the Gipps St steps...Summernight wrote: Was that near the Collingwood Children's Farm? They definitely have a gray horse and a donkey. If I knew I could ride along the MYT on my horse I'd take over (ie. steal ) a paddock at the CCF and live in paradise! Would be interesting getting him up and down the Gipps Street stairs though.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:18 pm
Did they go up?TailWind wrote:Yep, about 50m from the Gipps St steps...Summernight wrote: Was that near the Collingwood Children's Farm? They definitely have a gray horse and a donkey. If I knew I could ride along the MYT on my horse I'd take over (ie. steal ) a paddock at the CCF and live in paradise! Would be interesting getting him up and down the Gipps Street stairs though.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:31 pm
With those stairs they would have had to be cross-bred with a mountain goatSummernight wrote:Did they go up?TailWind wrote:Yep, about 50m from the Gipps St steps...Summernight wrote: Was that near the Collingwood Children's Farm? They definitely have a gray horse and a donkey. If I knew I could ride along the MYT on my horse I'd take over (ie. steal ) a paddock at the CCF and live in paradise! Would be interesting getting him up and down the Gipps Street stairs though.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Pravda » Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:31 pm
Was a blast heading north on the northern PSP this morning. Very quiet from riders coming the other direction, probably only passed 10 coming south when I normally see up to 100.ColinOldnCranky wrote:Perth:
There must be a fun-run or something coming up. I still saw quite a large number of joggers along Riverside Drive - usually a sign of a forthcoming event.
It was our first storm of the year - cold, a bit windy and some chop on the river - southerly winds mostly. But at least not too strong. I think it's back to the back pack with all the necessaries for cold dark wet winter.
But where were all the cyclists? You can't let the joggers and jigglers and shuflers and other peds show us up.
That said I was completely wet through by the time I got into work. Anyone got tips on getting shoes ans shoecovers dry?
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:02 pm
Pravda wrote: That said I was completely wet through by the time I got into work. Anyone got tips on getting shoes ans shoecovers dry?
get newspaper or paper toweling and shove it hard into your shoes as soon as you can - fill the shoes up with it...then repeat around lunchtime with fresh dry stuff....your shoes will be dry by the time you leave work
shoe covers...not much except ring them out as much as possible then hang them up somewhere
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:59 pm
yeah - shoe covers keep your feet dry in brissy rain for about 10 minutes.gretaboy wrote:Pravda wrote: That said I was completely wet through by the time I got into work. Anyone got tips on getting shoes ans shoecovers dry?
get newspaper or paper toweling and shove it hard into your shoes as soon as you can - fill the shoes up with it...then repeat around lunchtime with fresh dry stuff....your shoes will be dry by the time you leave work
shoe covers...not much except ring them out as much as possible then hang them up somewhere
i have thought about getting a set of the elastic bits they use for lawn mowing that will cover the top of the shoes (trying to find a picture but failing)
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Pravda » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:23 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:37 pm
Yeah - wear crocs. Totally uncool.Pravda wrote:Very quiet from riders coming the other direction, probably only passed 10 coming south when I normally see up to 100.
That said I was completely wet through by the time I got into work. Anyone got tips on getting shoes ans shoecovers dry?
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:36 pm
ColinOldnCranky wrote:Yeah - wear crocs. Totally uncool.Pravda wrote:Very quiet from riders coming the other direction, probably only passed 10 coming south when I normally see up to 100.
That said I was completely wet through by the time I got into work. Anyone got tips on getting shoes ans shoecovers dry?
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:45 pm
Managed to get to 37 on the flat with a headwind which was great to see although I blew myself out doing it. Lucky I didn't have far to go. Managed to keep the serious looking racer commuter from passing me too. Yay!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Lizzy » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:43 pm
It was nearly 3.00pm before anyone noticed
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby eldavo » Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:17 am
I'm not complaining, some of the best looking joggers I've seen, I thought it had to be a team sport training session for such a large group of fit young women to explain it away =DColinOldnCranky wrote:Perth:
There must be a fun-run or something coming up. I still saw quite a large number of joggers along Riverside Drive - usually a sign of a forthcoming event.
It was our first storm of the year - cold, a bit windy and some chop on the river - southerly winds mostly. But at least not too strong. I think it's back to the back pack with all the necessaries for cold dark wet winter.
But where were all the cyclists? You can't let the joggers and jigglers and shuflers and other peds show us up.
I processed an earlier homeward bound video of no significant event from new camera showing sunset on Riverside Drive, the back tracks from onboard stereo didn't get picked up so nice to keep the authenticity of my ride =D
PS: the link
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby clydesmcdale » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:59 am
Nice work-around. Next you'll have built yourself a George Costanza like nap station under there.Lizzy wrote:First proper wet commute in my new office situation - whereby bike has to go in a cage (*sob*) and I can no longer use her as a clothes-horse. I am also smooshed into a "workstation" built to the paperless-office-fantasy specs, ergo no storage space, or for that matter much space of any kind. Do I bleat and moan? Well, maybe a little, but then I adapt and overcome:
It was nearly 3.00pm before anyone noticed
Paperless office... Such a w@nk. Good office design encourages movement and studies have shown that getting up and moving to printers and interacting with others in your space is beneficial to all and productivity. Singularly focussing on a computer screen is just stupid.
/architect rant
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Dan » Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:32 am
Plus the fact the tactile pen onto paper moment is the actual thinking part.clydesmcdale wrote:
...Good office design encourages movement and studies have shown that getting up and moving to printers and interacting with others in your space is beneficial to all and productivity. Singularly focussing on a computer screen is just stupid.
/architect rant
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