How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Postby jasonc » Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:58 pm
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Postby Summernight » Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:48 am
This morning was the ode to green light pre-empting cyclists who didn't actually know the light sequence and entered intersections while the light was still red. There is a road blitz going on this week targeting this kind of stuff, you know...
The prophesied Rainmageddon never eventuated down here. Looks like it got stuck on Sydney. Only a little bit of rain last night and nothing this morning.
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Postby Lizzy » Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:07 pm
Maybe ease up on the cabbage & onions then ::wacky trombone::jasonc wrote:that wind was unpleasant
Cloudy & warm this morning, felt OK considering I cooked both quads sailing on the weekend. Went fairly hard as I had someone on my hammer all the way to the city. Awesome dolphin-watching break in Como, they had some kind of mosh pit going on or something. Turns out this came at the cost of me getting to work dry, rained for the last 5km. Nice though.
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Postby rheicel » Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:42 am
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Postby Summernight » Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:18 am
Even with that usual silly move, last night and this morning were lovely rides, creaking and all.
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Postby FiveDaysAWeek » Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:59 am
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Postby find_bruce » Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:00 pm
Unsurprised by the driver pulling out from a side street without giving way before thinking better of it.
Ugly was the driver turning left at the lights where I had a green bike to cross. Apparently giving way is only for other, less important drivers. Fortunately he stopped before ploughing into me.
Glad for the reminder that it is a small proportion of drivers that need an attitude adjustment
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Postby Lizzy » Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:14 pm
Found the solution to the steamy glasses while stopped = perch them on the end of my nose and peer over them like a stern librarian
Waiting on the traffic island at Karrinyup Rd, a fellow pulled up next to me and did the Dance of the Near-Clipstack. He recovered his composure thankfully, as he was very tall and broad-shouldered - and teetering straight towards me - he would have flattened me and my bike! So we had a bit of a giggle about that.
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Postby TailWind » Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:33 pm
Spot on. If I come up behind a queue of cars at that spot, I'll hang back behind the car just about to enter the intersection. More often than not, they'll veer left without indicating.Summernight wrote: Because my spidey senses know that that corner (in both Collins/Macarthur directions) is notorious for vehicles doing that I don't ride alongside cars at that point.
Good rides yesterday arvo and this morning.
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Postby Summernight » Wed Aug 20, 2014 4:30 pm
Welcome to the stern librarian club! I also do that when it is too wet to see through the glasses but I don't want to take them off because the whipping wind and rain will hurt more if they're off.Lizzy wrote:Found the solution to the steamy glasses while stopped = perch them on the end of my nose and peer over them like a stern librarian
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Postby kb » Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:38 pm
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Postby oxonabike » Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:58 am
Now awaiting the apparently sincere well wishes from Tailwind!jasonc wrote:honourable reasons thread for me today - sick daughter
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Postby AndreB1972 » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:02 am
Hope she gets better soon Jason [sincere]... you'll probably catch what she has so you might as well take a week recovery just in case.oxonabike wrote:Now awaiting the apparently sincere well wishes from Tailwind!jasonc wrote:honourable reasons thread for me today - sick daughter
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Postby Summernight » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:08 am
Haha, no. No vision issues for me yet.kb wrote:I'm guessing when you talk about looking over glasses you don't mean -9 dioptre like mine (Although I do work in a library...)
I came down with a sore throat yesterday which makes riding around the city interesting as, if a bad smell hits me at the moment, I don't do so well. Bad smells include cigarette smoke (I can't stand the smell even when not sick). Other than the sore throat and general feeling of ick, the rides were fine. Had a fail to give-way as the car crossed the bike lane to turn left on Albert at the Hoddle Street intersection last night, but I was expecting it.
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Postby jasonc » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:14 am
I almost had you too Andre!AndreB1972 wrote:Hope she gets better soon Jason [sincere]... you'll probably catch what she has so you might as well take a week recovery just in case.oxonabike wrote:Now awaiting the apparently sincere well wishes from Tailwind!jasonc wrote:honourable reasons thread for me today - sick daughter
She could have gone to school today but we figure one more day was probably a good idea. So if anyone gets sick, it'll be Mrs JasonC
Andre - you should join the weekend wanderers (it's under Queensland) - next ride is the 30th
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Postby TailWind » Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:40 pm
Honestly, I'd rather see everyone healthy and happy and riding, so yeah, hope your kiddo comes right soon, Jason.jasonc wrote:AndreB1972 wrote: Now awaiting the apparently sincere well wishes from Tailwind!
As for me, well, over the last 4 years I've been in positions (in chronological order) 4,1,2,3 - P3 being this year ...clearly slipping ..must work harder
Melbourne's great for riding at the moment, looks like a false spring, undoubtedly there's a weather smackdown in the not-too-distant future.
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Postby jasonc » Thu Aug 21, 2014 2:36 pm
gretaboy doing ~100km/day last year and andre this year smashing both of us. looks like mrs jasonc is going to let me do the 2 and half weeks in melbourne for around the bay in October. So you'll sew up p2 this year
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Postby 98octane » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:38 pm
Really noticing its getting lighter and warmer in Melbourne. A perpetual puddle on the Gardiners Creek Trail has finally dried up.
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Postby jasonc » Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:25 am
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Postby Summernight » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:55 am
Same with the ride to work. Except for the work at the end part but I couldn't justify being sick enough to miss work for the day.
What a beautiful day it is looking to be. If it could be this temperature year round I'd be happy.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby CXCommuter » Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:07 pm
Got off the bike to get some money out of the ATM and pushed the bike- lo and behold front brake is jammed up against the rim- why didn't I check it whilst riding
Oh well- resistance training day
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Postby Scott_C » Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:34 pm
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Postby TailWind » Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:42 am
Drizzly, rainy, wet this morning though, don't know why I bothered cleaning the bike over the weekend...didn't even last 5 minutes this morning before it was gritty and grimy again....
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Postby jasonc » Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:59 am
I know how you feel TW. Thankfully the weather was perfect this morning after spending an hour making my bike look white again last night after Friday's rainTailWind wrote:Drizzly, rainy, wet this morning though, don't know why I bothered cleaning the bike over the weekend...didn't even last 5 minutes this morning before it was gritty and grimy again....
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