How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Postby oxonabike » Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:54 pm
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Postby queequeg » Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:45 pm
I saw one other cyclist between Dural & Nth Sydney. It was mostly drizzle at 5:30am, but due to flooding I had to detour around my usual M2 underpass route, and the poor visibility from headlights reflecting on the road meant that I took the circuitous backstreet route.rheicel wrote:Wet morning ride to work. I am fully equipped today, so there is no problem riding in wet. I only saw one cyclist though
Where are the others?
It is only hard on my first step outside. Once I have stepped onto the pedals, adrenalin kicked in and there is "no stopping me" after that. Went straight to the hot shower at work after the commute.
Here is the short video of my commute...
Should get a dry ride home as we've been given the ok to bail early before the nasty weather arrives.
If it is awful tomorrow I will work from home.
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Postby CXCommuter » Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:04 pm
Where are the others?
It is only hard on my first step outside. Once I have stepped onto the pedals, adrenalin kicked in and there is "no stopping me" after that. Went straight to the hot shower at work after the commute.
Here is the short video of my commute...
Rheicel, Thanks for the video- having lived up Mowbray Road up to the start of 2013 (and still owning property along there) was good memories, one question, has the Shell and Maccas at Lane Cove West turned into a construction Site?
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Postby queequeg » Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:23 pm
The Shell servo is now a hole in the ground, but the main building and car wash are still there. I think they are cleaning up where the fuel tanks were.CXCommuter wrote:rheicel wrote:Wet morning ride to work. I am fully equipped today, so there is no problem riding in wet. I only saw one cyclist though
Where are the others?
It is only hard on my first step outside. Once I have stepped onto the pedals, adrenalin kicked in and there is "no stopping me" after that. Went straight to the hot shower at work after the commute.
Here is the short video of my commute...
Rheicel, Thanks for the video- having lived up Mowbray Road up to the start of 2013 (and still owning property along there) was good memories, one question, has the Shell and Maccas at Lane Cove West turned into a construction Site?
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Postby rheicel » Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:37 pm
^This.queequeg wrote: The Shell servo is now a hole in the ground, but the main building and car wash are still there. I think they are cleaning up where the fuel tanks were.
They will probably start the construction sooner than later. Time is money to the builders!
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Postby rheicel » Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:39 pm
Car for the next two days as I have early medical appointments on those days.queequeg wrote:I saw one other cyclist between Dural & Nth Sydney. It was mostly drizzle at 5:30am, but due to flooding I had to detour around my usual M2 underpass route, and the poor visibility from headlights reflecting on the road meant that I took the circuitous backstreet route.
Should get a dry ride home as we've been given the ok to bail early before the nasty weather arrives.
If it is awful tomorrow I will work from home.
I will be back commuting only on Thursday!
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Postby queequeg » Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:41 pm
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Postby DavidS » Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:29 pm
I can't believe people went out on Saturday morning, I stayed home in a nice warm bed as it ain't a work day so it ain't a commute day.
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Postby Sparx » Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:02 am
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Postby TailWind » Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:43 am
Warmer at 3C this morning, some damp/wet patches from the previous night's rain/drizzle. Good thing we didn't hit freezing again, would have been a very slippery ride otherwise. Lots of fog made parts of the trail quite eerie, and the sound-insulating quality of the fog instilled an interesting sense of isolation. Incident free ride into the Melb CBD, which is always pleasant.
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Postby Summernight » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:10 am
And last night's ride home was okay too, apart from one MGIF who roared past me in the straight-ahead lane as I'm in the bike/left turn lane, then indicated to turn left in front of me, had merged halfway into my/the left turn lane and then decided he'd actually seen me (or realised the speed I was going wasn't as slow as he'd thought) so stopped his turning to presumably let me undertake on the left of him. No way was I putting myself in that position to get left-hooked even if he had seen me so he got waved to continue with his left hand turn.
Oh and the cars held me up again on one of the streets I ride... These slow cars should be registered. Not that I overly mind if I can cruise at a constant speed and they drive smoothly and don't decelerate quickly before the speed bumps.
Two uneventful commutes in a row. Lovely.
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Postby oxonabike » Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:59 am
Honourable mention to good guy motorist who performed a text book pass on a narrow bridge this morning. I was so impressed, I've uploaded it - who know's, maybe it might (should) become a training video!
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Postby Lizzy » Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:12 pm
Was having a nice easy time of it this morning then 5 minutes out from the office I got nailed right in the face by a brief but powerful downpour. The only article of riding gear that didn't get saturated was my rain jacket, still safely tucked away in my trunkbag because I didn't feel like stopping.
In my haste to get out the door I grabbed the wrong pants - my skinny low-slung ones, when sadly I'm in a non-skinny phase ATM - luckily I keep a spare set of more office-appropriate mum-pants in my foot locker at work, because I'm sure my colleagues would much rather get their muffin top fix from the cafe ... Hooray for spares!
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Postby jasonc » Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:17 pm
N+1 works for clothing as well as bikesLizzy wrote:Hooray for spares!
welcome back Lizzy
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Postby TailWind » Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:44 am
Cold this morning, 1C according to the digital temp display on Heidelberg Rd, but arrived in the CBD in good shape.
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Postby jasonc » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:27 am
now that sucks. maybe karma only works with the puncture fairy__PG__ wrote:Helped a fellow commuter with his jammed chain on the ride home tonight. My reward for this good Samaritan behaviour? My left pedal snapped in half a kilometre from home at the bottom of a 10% hill !! Where is the karma?
coot-tha commute for me. not as cold as yesterday, still definitely cold enough
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Postby gretaboy » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:58 am
Weatherman predicts foul weather for the whole week in NSW. I take the car Monday and the morning is nice and sunny, cold but sunny, and no rain at all for the day. Tuesday I am in the car again and same thing, cold, maybe a little windy but no rain. Jump on the bike this morning and as I am taking the bike out onto the road I see faint rain drops in the beam of the light. As I start riding down the street the rain drops get a little bigger. For 30 k's of the ride the rain is on and off, light then heavy. Last 15 k's of the ride and I hit headwinds that are pumping along at 40+ k/h.
Now, how good do I go to get the foul weather on my first ride of the week. I am now just hoping that the strong winds which I faced riding in, are still present when I ride home
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