How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Thu Nov 19, 2015 7:56 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:49 am
I do this every day I'm on my flat bar. It means when I'm on my roadie I already have clothes and food at work.bychosis wrote: Yesterday I left my gear at work in preparation for a 'longer if you can be bothered getting up early' commute.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TonyMax » Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:34 am
Riding without cleats was nowhere near as uncomfortable as the last time I did it.
Hopefully some genuine Shimano cleats will arrive in the mail today.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby oxonabike » Thu Nov 19, 2015 1:48 pm
Apart from being unbelievably comfortable, it turns out they are unbelievably fast. 36.6 kph average speed for the 16 km ride. At one stage before our CBD, average was at 39 kph. Incredible. Normally only manage that sort of pace in a fast bunch (grimly hanging on)
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Postby kb » Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:05 pm
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Postby simlin » Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:29 pm
Could have done without the backpack full of clothes and food though.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby RyanA » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:44 am
I decided to extend the commute in the way in by 3km's. Doing so removes more of the road sharing, so I can now ride around 80% of the way home on shared paths, with only about a 300m stretch on the entire commute where I am in the lane with the cars. It's safer now, but I feel like I'm somehow submitting to the bullying by the motorists. At the end of the day though, at least I'm more likely to stay alive.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:47 am
Legs are still shagged from saturday. so it was more a crawl than a ride for me this morning. headwind didn't help
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby silentbutdeadly » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:52 am
By crikey, a 42T front ring talking to 11-28 out back just makes so much sense on a CX bike in this area...so quiet too.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Lizzy » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:22 pm
Noticed something sticking out of my front tyre that wouldn't let go - leaf? Twig? Stone? I lean over and try to flick it out at the lights, it's chewing gum EW EW EW
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TonyMax » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:56 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby simlin » Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:47 pm
Car parked in the bicycle lane "check"
Car blocking bicycle lane to make sure the queued cars will let them in when traffic moves off again. "check"
Emergency braking due to car seeing drivers in cars leaving a gap and not thinking to actually check that third smaller, closest, lane of traffic. "check"
Car being overly cautious (or having absolutely no concept of where the left had side of their left wing mirror is) and taking a 2 to 2.5m radius around due to new 1m overtaking laws while I am in a bike lane and we are both doing about 20 km/hr away from an intersection, "check".
getting stopped at every red light "check"
stress free ride in really.
What I really missed was someone zooming past, indicating left turn, have second thoughts about the timing and turning in front of me and come to a complete stop to give way to me.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby RyanA » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:26 pm
So I managed to get punishment passed twice in the aforementioned 300m on the way home, despite sitting in the middle of the lane.RyanA wrote:I was hoping to ride a new variant of my bike in this morning, but seeing as I couldn't get an 11spd road cluster onto my MTB hub, nor change the freehubs, I have had to continue the commute on the old roadie (at least for a couple of weeks whilst I wait for some new road disc brake wheels to arrive ). Once that's done I should end up with a great, all-weather commuter!
I decided to extend the commute in the way in by 3km's. Doing so removes more of the road sharing, so I can now ride around 80% of the way home on shared paths, with only about a 300m stretch on the entire commute where I am in the lane with the cars. It's safer now, but I feel like I'm somehow submitting to the bullying by the motorists. At the end of the day though, at least I'm more likely to stay alive.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby find_bruce » Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:20 pm
At Pyrmont I saw a bloke from DHBC riding a lovely Colnago. Bike must have been good as he left me behind like I was old & fat & slow
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby DavidS » Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:45 pm
So, on the weekend I bought a second bike: an Allegro T1 steel framed touring bike. This means, assuming my frame gets replaced, I will have variety in my cycling commute - a flat bar and a drop bar tourer. I also got a steel frame as, well . . . , I seem to destroy aluminium frames in abut 21,000KMs. 2 so far! Here's hoping a steel frame will last a lot longer.
So, my commute: fabulous. So much nicer to ride to work than take public transport.
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Postby g-boaf » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:03 pm
And then the lady in the Captiva decided she would change into my lane where I already was (right in the middle of the lane). Cue loud shouting and hurried swerve into a conviently located bus bay. Apart from that, all good.
Not bad for peak hour afternoon heavy traffic.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby WhingingPom » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:27 pm
Coming home tonight having a bit of a faster ride, happily filtering inside a stopped line of traffic. Left-hooked by somebody who decided that they'd had enough of sitting in traffic and were going to turn up a side street/short cut without indicating.
Evidently my choice of jersey (very prominent work logo) was a bad one as I couldn't say what I really thought after both incidents. Then again, I do call it my "behaviour adjustment device" for a reason
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Mugglechops » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:16 pm
Until future rally driver decides to come barrelling down the road at warp factor 5 sideways in his XR8.
He didn't even slow down for the 5 of us.
Apart from that it was a great 42km commute.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby simlin » Thu Nov 26, 2015 8:56 am
Lesson learnt...check wind speed and direction before committing to a specific route.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:04 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby fat and old » Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:56 am
Yeah, but you had it made yesty arvo. I almost diedDavidS wrote:Into a stiff wind on the way in and . . . into a stiff wind on the way home.
Just not fair. you must have left early Fat and Old, the wind turned Southerly in the afternoon.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby fatherofmany » Thu Nov 26, 2015 3:10 pm
took a couple of minutes to free it then took off until maybe 60 seconds down the road I stopped to remove half a brick from the shoulder.
otherwise great, but isn't it always great on 2 wheels.
FoM
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Thu Nov 26, 2015 7:08 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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