I drove yesterday and traffic was terrible due to an accident. I'm not used to sitting still in traffic at the moment! Normally riding is 25-30 and driving is 13-20 minutes depending on red or green lights, if I'd ridden yesterday I would have made it in the same time as drivingjools wrote:I must have offended the cycling gods somewhere as I keep getting smited and have only managed to ride to work 6 days this year.. holidays, bad weather and a string of mechanical failures - fix one thing, break something else the next day, it's getting very annoying and frustrating, especially sitting in the car, stuck in traffic and watching enviously as the cyclists roll past..
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Postby RyanA » Fri Feb 12, 2016 9:54 am
Did actually LOL at that one...jules21 wrote:our eyes met briefly - she, the attractive 20-something young woman waiting to cross the lights. me, the slightly overweight, balding middle aged MAMIL leaning on the light pole and waiting for the lights to go green. for a moment, I thought to myself "yep... still got it". then I realised I had a load of snot dripping down from my nose.
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Postby bychosis » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:55 am
Yet another late start for me - can't get motivated. Still managed an additional 15min detour today. I took a cycleway I hadn't used before. It is reasonably well signposted as it is a bit of a cycle route linking to other sections. Strangely though, it ends abruptly about 30m shy of the road and diverts onto what appears to be a service trail for the mowing crews, but doesn't extend past the access gate and I needed to go around the gate on gravel while the sealed section extends under the gate. Request sent to Council.
Did a bit of a naughty and turned left on a red light to cross over and park myself in the left lane to continue straight on the next green instead of waiting in a mixed straight/right lane for a full cycle as I just missed the green. Made up for it waiting for 'ages' at another red that didn't need to be. The joys of traffic signals.
Weather is great, still, calm but "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning".. wonder what this afternoon will bring?
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I love my trusty old MTB but I regularly have (non)buyer's remorse about not upgrading to a flat bar roadie as my commuter when I got the motor upgrade
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Postby jools » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:01 pm
1. I was on my bike and not in a car - so that's a massive win
2. Finally invested in a rack and panniers yesterday - what a difference, so much more comfortable than riding with a loaded backpack
3. Tailwind on the way home
4. Got home without breaking anything! I can ride again next week
5. It's Friday!
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Postby AlexHuggs » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:17 pm
Was surprised to see a roadie coming the other way on Great Eastern Hwy with no helmet. Even more surprised it was a woman. Don't have a particular problem with it as I don't agree with MHL and the highway is very quiet, but it wrecked a stereotype.
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Postby PiratePete » Sat Feb 13, 2016 8:55 am
Mental note, don't read some posts while sitting in a public place. Everyone looks at you when you burst out laughing. [emoji15]RyanA wrote:Did actually LOL at that one...jules21 wrote:our eyes met briefly - she, the attractive 20-something young woman waiting to cross the lights. me, the slightly overweight, balding middle aged MAMIL leaning on the light pole and waiting for the lights to go green. for a moment, I thought to myself "yep... still got it". then I realised I had a load of snot dripping down from my nose.
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Postby bychosis » Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:15 am
You're not the only. Despite me telling myself I'm not going to be one of 'those' cyclists some time ago, this week I've found myself Idaho stopping at a few stop signs, and I also short circuited two red lights. I'm going to tell myself it is for the convenience of other motorists, but it was better for me tooAlexHuggs wrote:This morning I realised I'm a sometimes red stop sign runner. Those things just don't make sense on a bike.
Being on the Idaho stop rules.
Yesterday's home commute was slow, couldn't be bothered fighting the arvo headwind and found myself going at 18km/h for a stretch.
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Postby Chris249 » Sun Feb 14, 2016 8:56 pm
I'm mixing it up with the bikes but Friday was the first time I'd taken the TT bike to work. OId as it may be, it's still a dream to ride; the speed allows you to pull into gaps in the car traffic to overtake other bikes in the bike lane quite easily, and it's just do much damn fun! In some ways it is even nicer dialled back a bit as it just seems to float along with no effort whatsoever.
The least pleasant day in some ways is Wednesday, when I ride the track bike to work so I can ride down to the track for racing in the afternoon. There couldn't be any harsher ride than that of an alloy track bike, and on the way home after the race feeling like a wet dishrag you can feel every pebble.
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Postby __PG__ » Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:51 am
Dry feet and no booties..what a concept.
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__PG__ wrote:My Sidi Diablo Goretex MTB boots arrived yesterday, just in time for this morning's wet commute.
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What's a boot like to ride in?__PG__ wrote:My Sidi Diablo Goretex MTB boots arrived yesterday, just in time for this morning's wet commute.
Dry feet and no booties..what a concept.
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Postby tgdavies » Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:43 pm
It looked possibly cycle related -- there were 3 or 4 bikes leaning against the fence and a person on a gurney with leg lacerations (they might or might not have been a cyclist). Hope he(?) isn't badly hurt.
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Postby Boognoss » Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:53 pm
A mate of mine passed this rider-down prior to ambulance arriving - no info at all unfortunately.tgdavies wrote:Coming East along Lilyfield Road this morning I passed an accident with a police car and an ambulance attending.
It looked possibly cycle related -- there were 3 or 4 bikes leaning against the fence and a person on a gurney with leg lacerations (they might or might not have been a cyclist). Hope he(?) isn't badly hurt.
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Postby g-boaf » Thu Feb 18, 2016 7:56 am
By the time I got to work I was ready to raid the fundraising box of toblerones. Enjoying my coffee at the moment.
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Postby jasonc » Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:13 am
I always commute before eating. otherwise i'd have to wait because it'd end up all over my bike.g-boaf wrote:Commuting without eating breakfast, bad idea...
humid this morning in brissy
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Postby bychosis » Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:35 am
Managed to pull onto the sharepath in front of a couple of roadies on the way and kept ahead of them on the fixie with some good timing passing pedestrians that they got stuck with. Also meant I kept my cadence up to stay in front, rather than the somewhat more relaxed pace I was planning on.
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