How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby caneye » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:08 am
late afternoon commute hasn't been too bad. temp dropped off quite a bit, by 5pm, the past 2 days.
Friday's 2pm commute on the M2 was the worst. my Bryton was registering 42C
will be keeping an eye on this afternoon's expected storm ..
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby adam0bmx0 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:47 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:08 pm
easy tomorrow or are you doing TdF? I'm planning on Brooky for Friday (after easy tomorrow)adam0bmx0 wrote:A cruise in this am, 3 days of hard riding back to back has caught up with me!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby adam0bmx0 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:00 pm
No easy-isa river loop tomorrow with a mate, then Brooky on Friday.jasonc wrote:easy tomorrow or are you doing TdF? I'm planning on Brooky for Friday (after easy tomorrow)adam0bmx0 wrote:A cruise in this am, 3 days of hard riding back to back has caught up with me!
No idea wat TdF is. Tour de........?
Edit: mate has bailed haha
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:11 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby find_bruce » Thu Nov 24, 2016 7:22 am
Fortunately I have spares so good to go again this morning
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby adam0bmx0 » Mon Nov 28, 2016 2:16 pm
Rest of the commute was un-eventful.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby DavidS » Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:09 pm
Don't have a replacement so I'll fix it tomorrow, I have 2 bikes so swap every day anyway.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:11 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby cancan64 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:39 am
This morning I got to the shop ride a bit early so thought I would do a quick loop up Mt Eden... the entrance was closed so went around the gate... but coming down I scoot through a car park and then look up to check the road is clear and then I noticed a chain across the exit.... bike stopped thanks to said chain and I tried my flying lessons over the bars and chain..lucky no damage. Partner arrives here tomorrow from Brisbane... dont want to get banged up for her
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby g-boaf » Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:00 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:08 am
got it on video cancan? that'd be a sight and a halfcancan64 wrote:coming down I scoot through a car park and then look up to check the road is clear and then I noticed a chain across the exit.... bike stopped thanks to said chain and I tried my flying lessons over the bars and chain..lucky no damage. Partner arrives here tomorrow from Brisbane... dont want to get banged up for her
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:04 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby cancan64 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:49 pm
I thought the same thing but camera is on the commuter which is in the shop this weekjasonc wrote:got it on video cancan? that'd be a sight and a half
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby caneye » Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:26 pm
I've had it on the rear of my roadie for the past year. Logged close to 5000kms on them. Starting to square up but threads are still clearly visible.
Is this about average mileage for the tyre? I'm 65kg btw.
[I was riding up Kissing Point Road on Sunday morning when it was a little damp. The tyre slipped a couple of times up the little pinch just before Turramurra. Caught me by surprise and got me thinking that I should be looking to change it soon ..]
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Postby jasonc » Fri Dec 02, 2016 9:13 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby kb » Sun Dec 04, 2016 8:29 am
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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 biker jk » Sun Dec 04, 2016 4:30 pm
I used to use them in the past. 5,000km is about it for the rear. Perhaps even 4,500km would be the limit better to bin it as 80% of punctures occur in the last 20% of a tyre's life.caneye wrote:does anyone use Vittoria Rubino Pro on their bikes?
I've had it on the rear of my roadie for the past year. Logged close to 5000kms on them. Starting to square up but threads are still clearly visible.
Is this about average mileage for the tyre? I'm 65kg btw.
[I was riding up Kissing Point Road on Sunday morning when it was a little damp. The tyre slipped a couple of times up the little pinch just before Turramurra. Caught me by surprise and got me thinking that I should be looking to change it soon ..]
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby CXCommuter » Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:18 am
Still better than the train commute.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby g-boaf » Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:23 pm
In today's stinking humidity and heat? Respect!CXCommuter wrote:Commuted in today with A turducken backpack. Mass of work related stuff (two computers, a relay multiplexer and field books for starters) along with weeks clothes to bring in so had a 60L backpack which weighed 15kg. Over 40km/h an interesting sway would begin. Uphill was blooming hard and my shoulders are sore.
Still better than the train commute.
I went out at lunch time and the heat and humidity was oppressive. Very, very uncomfortable. I only had to hear the downpour this morning at 5am to make my mind up. Train seemed a better option.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby CXCommuter » Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:25 pm
Significant dose of pigheaded stupidity saw me through the commute . If I come back into this world again it will be as a Muleg-boaf wrote:In today's stinking humidity and heat? Respect!CXCommuter wrote:Commuted in today with A turducken backpack. Mass of work related stuff (two computers, a relay multiplexer and field books for starters) along with weeks clothes to bring in so had a 60L backpack which weighed 15kg. Over 40km/h an interesting sway would begin. Uphill was blooming hard and my shoulders are sore.
Still better than the train commute.
I went out at lunch time and the heat and humidity was oppressive. Very, very uncomfortable. I only had to hear the downpour this morning at 5am to make my mind up. Train seemed a better option.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:55 pm
and the only way to be at the pointy end of the commuter challenge is to be stubbornCXCommuter wrote:Significant dose of pigheaded stupidity saw me through the commute . If I come back into this world again it will be as a Muleg-boaf wrote:In today's stinking humidity and heat? Respect!CXCommuter wrote:Commuted in today with A turducken backpack. Mass of work related stuff (two computers, a relay multiplexer and field books for starters) along with weeks clothes to bring in so had a 60L backpack which weighed 15kg. Over 40km/h an interesting sway would begin. Uphill was blooming hard and my shoulders are sore.
Still better than the train commute.
I went out at lunch time and the heat and humidity was oppressive. Very, very uncomfortable. I only had to hear the downpour this morning at 5am to make my mind up. Train seemed a better option.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby CXCommuter » Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:59 pm
I am failing there- mainly due to working away one week every month. Kms's are down this year so had to increase the quality (from piss poor to poor quality) of my riding.jasonc wrote:and the only way to be at the pointy end of the commuter challenge is to be stubbornCXCommuter wrote:Significant dose of pigheaded stupidity saw me through the commute . If I come back into this world again it will be as a Muleg-boaf wrote:
In today's stinking humidity and heat? Respect!
I went out at lunch time and the heat and humidity was oppressive. Very, very uncomfortable. I only had to hear the downpour this morning at 5am to make my mind up. Train seemed a better option.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby kb » Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:05 pm
Of course they were. Replaced a car trip to and from L'Étape. (Thankfully I didn't get stuck in the ski tube with the power failure like some of the slower folk!)jasonc wrote:I don't know if you could call them commutes....
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