How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:06 am
ride home is very different to commute in morning..in the arvo I do go for strava koms in between taking it easy if I am feeling good, and I do have stretches where I have to go hard if I wish to survive so these at least give me sprint work lol
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby poohkies » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:07 am
yesterday road for about 4 hours, 2 hours of that was mtb'in in the pineforest
went hard this morning, a little to hard to early, and pretty sure i burnt out at the 10km mark, still managed a 31 km av but am very sore
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:16 am
EDIT: stopped and helped a guy over the green bridge whose chain had fallen off
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:28 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby familyguy » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:43 am
The day is young, don't be too hasty!TailWind wrote:20 hour work day yesterday...working from home today... no rides
Nice ride this AM. Nice chat down Spit Hill at 15km/h griping about non-school holiday traffic (must've been the six bikes holding up all those cars, right?). Decided to ride Tabby as she hasn't been out in 2013 yet. Two compliments on the bike, and one long stare. She's too clean for a commuter!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:01 am
No suspension on the commuter, on 700x25 commuting wheels, panniers....heck no, I trundle the bike down the gutterSummernight wrote:Do you ride the stairs too or hop off? I haven't seen any cyclists attempt the Abbotsford stairs which are underneath the Gipps St(?) bridge MYT crossing although I only go running through there in the morning when most cyclists are going up them to work so they might do so in the evenings.TailWind wrote:Ride back via MYT, Banyule Trail etc. Pleasant day for the longer route.
Inbound into the Melb CBD via the Darebin Trail. Enjoyable conditions again.
Edit: MTBer showing me up descending the steps on the MYT at the Chandler Highway.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:54 am
I point you to that youtube clip of the talented cyclist on the Pinarello doing amazing things and say to you "I Dare you".TailWind wrote:No suspension on the commuter, on 700x25 commuting wheels, panniers....heck no, I trundle the bike down the gutterSummernight wrote:Do you ride the stairs too or hop off? I haven't seen any cyclists attempt the Abbotsford stairs which are underneath the Gipps St(?) bridge MYT crossing although I only go running through there in the morning when most cyclists are going up them to work so they might do so in the evenings.
(With someone else's bike obviously...)
The commute to work was fine apart from one car starting to inch into the bicycle lane on Collins Street without looking, presumably so he can get into the left turning lane. There were lots more cyclists out today (and yesterday afternoon there were so many too!). The hot weather brings them all out.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jules21 » Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:25 pm
see ya, suckers
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby goneriding » Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:27 pm
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Postby jasonc » Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:39 pm
offered him a tube but he said he was getting a lift from the rescue vehicle.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby dynamictiger » Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:46 pm
I managed to explode a tube....I guess. The valve came out of the tube completely when I accidentally ran over a small bump (not a curb). Does that count?jasonc wrote:slow ride home. next to the vic park golf course there was a guy stopped. looked like he had a flat. he said his tube exploded.
offered him a tube but he said he was getting a lift from the rescue vehicle.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:54 am
noice. sorry, no photo
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby poohkies » Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:02 am
This morning was slack, got a life put the bike in the back of a ute will ride home this arvo!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:43 am
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Postby gretaboy » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:44 am
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Postby TailWind » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:01 am
Cool southerly headwind all the way in had me riding a few minutes longer then normal.
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Postby jasonc » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:31 am
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Postby Comedian » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:13 am
Nice to say hi!jasonc wrote:late commute after dropping my daughter at daycare. legs sore from my ride yesterday
I too was shattered after the afternoons MTB extravaganza at crazy hill!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:17 am
don't worry if i stopped, I may not have made it to work. went the hi-5 but got left hangingComedian wrote:Nice to say hi!jasonc wrote:late commute after dropping my daughter at daycare. legs sore from my ride yesterday
I too was shattered after the afternoons MTB extravaganza at crazy hill!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby BrisVegas » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:32 am
I can see how this behaviour grates on motorists. Just an observation, but I don't see how you can have it both ways. Take a spot and stay there or sneak along the curb, but expect cars to squeeze past you.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby dynamictiger » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:51 am
Lots of traffic around my home road, which is unusual. No traffic on the few main roads I have to interface with...one was even empty when I crossed it. Most unusual. And then a lot more bikes around, although I was running about 5 minutes later today. Especially odd as today is supposed to be hot as.
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Postby poohkies » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:27 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby goneriding » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:44 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Hamster » Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:29 pm
At one point I have to cross a freeway off-ramp at Nudgee Road, a young guy in an elderly ute stopped and allowed me to cross. My faith in human nature is somewhat restored .
Anyway 29 kms this morning but I’ll take a shorter route this evening along Bilsen and Mueller roads which is far less scenic but around 5 kms shorter.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Aushiker » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:17 pm
I also noticed a bit more traffic on some roads which normally a fairly light on ... all a bit odd.dynamictiger wrote:Lots of traffic around my home road, which is unusual. No traffic on the few main roads I have to interface with...one was even empty when I crossed it. Most unusual. And then a lot more bikes around, although I was running about 5 minutes later today. Especially odd as today is supposed to be hot as.
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