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Postby gretaboy » Mon May 27, 2013 8:53 am
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Postby TigerFilly » Mon May 27, 2013 9:56 am
My new job starts tomorrow and it's in North Adelaide where the parking is dreadful and expensive, so I'm planning to ride twice a week and catch the tram the other days. The tram stop is 2km away, which is obviously an easy walk but I'd prefer to ride and take 5 mins at 7.30am rather than walk and have to leave just after 7am! So I'm thinking of buying a cheap bike that I can leave at the tram station.
I've got my eye on this one. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/151051484504 ... 97.c0.m619" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is it a fixie or can it coast? Does it look in reasonable shape from the photos? It's tricky, I want something that's not too bad to ride, but I don't want it to look too good or it will get stolen.
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Postby gretaboy » Mon May 27, 2013 9:59 am
TigerFilly wrote:Can I get a few opinions on a bike?
My new job starts tomorrow and it's in North Adelaide where the parking is dreadful and expensive, so I'm planning to ride twice a week and catch the tram the other days. The tram stop is 2km away, which is obviously an easy walk but I'd prefer to ride and take 5 mins at 7.30am rather than walk and have to leave just after 7am! So I'm thinking of buying a cheap bike that I can leave at the tram station.
I've got my eye on this one. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/151051484504 ... 97.c0.m619" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is it a fixie or can it coast? Does it look in reasonable shape from the photos? It's tricky, I want something that's not too bad to ride, but I don't want it to look too good or it will get stolen.
depending on your budget of course...but..have you thought about a folding bike...need to ask I guess if they are allowed on the trams
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Postby TigerFilly » Mon May 27, 2013 10:04 am
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Postby bychosis » Mon May 27, 2013 10:27 am
Great winter morning ride, cold but calm. The bike was doing well and although taking it a bit easy kept up with a carbon roadie for a while until I mucked up gear changes and while being kind to the mechs got dropped.
So far it rides nicely. I fitted the wheels off my old roadie, as the tyres that came with it were quite old and hard.
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Postby Bob_TAS » Mon May 27, 2013 10:44 am
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Postby BrisVegas » Mon May 27, 2013 10:54 am
Lovely weather atm.
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Postby Stoo » Mon May 27, 2013 11:12 am
kinda uneventful
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Postby Summernight » Mon May 27, 2013 11:17 am
The left knee mutinied on me on Friday night. Seems I did something to it on the Friday morning run or on the Friday morning bike commute to work. It was telling me off on the way home. Got worse and couldn't get into or out of a car or up stairs without significant pain so I dashed to the chemist and bought a bandage and strapped it tight for the rest of the weekend.
The knee seemed to be markedly better on Sunday and I could go up and down stairs with only minor pain instead of major so that was a big improvement. Probably just strained it. Phew!
Not the smartest thing to do but since I've been sick and missed out on some exercise I decided to do my morning run this morning. No problems from the knee, luckily. Also rode the bike to work and made sure to focus more on spinning than my usual mashing so as not to strain it further. The knee gave a little niggle first hopping on but the spinning got me to work and I wasn't that puffed either. Bonus! I've strapped it again so hopefully it will continue healing during the day and won't give me grief on the ride home.
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Postby snortin » Mon May 27, 2013 11:58 am
Lowlight of the commute today was the Landcruiser 4wd that drove all the way from Drummoyne to Anzac Bridge in the bus lane. They were directly behind me (as usual, the buses were holding me up!!) so I tried to explain to the driver that they were driving illegally in the bus lane. They replied that they were allowed to be there because they had 3 people in the car. My response that it was a BUS lane (ie buses, taxis, hire-cars, motorbikes and bicycles) and not a TRANSIT lane (occupant specific limit in addition to those allowed in BUS lanes) seemed not to be understood. Will be interesting to see their reaction when they get a notice in the mail as the drove straight past the bus lane cameras....
Oh well, at least they didn't run me over. Really need to get a camera for the bike as there is an increasing number of idiots who think that their time is more precious than the other commuters stuck in the traffic lanes - and so drive illegally in the bus lane.
Sidenote - motorcycle cop at the west end of Anzac bridge that I spoke to said that if only the RTA had continued the bus lane over the bridge then he could "sting" them. As it was, not much he could do.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Mon May 27, 2013 2:23 pm
TigerFilly, you seem to have strayed into a wrong thread when you posted this. (Been there, done that.) Could you ask the mods and have them move it and replies to it's own thread pls?TigerFilly wrote:Can I get a few opinions on a bike?
My new job starts tomorrow and it's in North Adelaide where the parking is dreadful and expensive, so I'm planning to ride twice a week and catch the tram the other days. The tram stop is 2km away, which is obviously an easy walk but I'd prefer to ride and take 5 mins at 7.30am rather than walk and have to leave just after 7am! So I'm thinking of buying a cheap bike that I can leave at the tram station.
I've got my eye on this one. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/151051484504 ... 97.c0.m619" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is it a fixie or can it coast? Does it look in reasonable shape from the photos? It's tricky, I want something that's not too bad to ride, but I don't want it to look too good or it will get stolen.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Mon May 27, 2013 2:30 pm
The outside area where they smoke is also our bike rack area. The word filtered back that my rear tyre was flat. Go out and yep flat as it can be. A small but sharp sliver of rusty wire was the culprit. Luckily we have a pump at work and along side my spare tubes I had it fixed pretty quick.
First flat in a couple of thousand k's, at least 3 months or so...just grateful it didnt go flat out on the road
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Mon May 27, 2013 2:45 pm
the one on the left is what it looked like when new
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Postby queequeg » Mon May 27, 2013 3:01 pm
Has that only seen time on the rear wheel? My last SMP lasted about 15,000km (28mm), and looked a bit worse than your tyre (blue was a solid band all around). My front tyre is sitting on about 17,000km now I think, with plenty of life left in it.jasonc wrote:forgot to post a photo - this is what my rear tyre looked like after 8268kms
the one on the left is what it looked like when new
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Postby Xplora » Mon May 27, 2013 3:13 pm
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Postby jasonc » Mon May 27, 2013 3:34 pm
solely rear tyre, 25mm wide. I weigh 80-odd kgs. the main reason for the change is the handling. being square, cornering was non-existent.queequeg wrote:Has that only seen time on the rear wheel? My last SMP lasted about 15,000km (28mm), and looked a bit worse than your tyre (blue was a solid band all around). My front tyre is sitting on about 17,000km now I think, with plenty of life left in it.
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Postby Summernight » Mon May 27, 2013 5:29 pm
Lukeyboy wrote:With the aero helmet, aero bars and saddle bag I'll be this aero 8===D-
Didn't know aero could be quite so... non-PG.
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Postby rheicel » Mon May 27, 2013 6:49 pm
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Postby DavidS » Tue May 28, 2013 12:16 am
Only hassle was a 4WD taking their kid to the private school who honked me because I wouldn't go in the car park masquerading as a bike lane. A couple of hundred metres later and they're stopped at the school (maybe I should have used the so called bike lane and run into their rear end just as their offspring was unloading their bag from the tailgate - wonder if the driver would have appreciated that). Gee, I would have cost them maybe 15 seconds. About 30 seconds later I caught them at traffic lights. They just don't get it. I figure they would have been stuck in Beach Rd traffic a further 5 minutes down the road. Why stress about 30 seconds when the other cars are costing you half an hour?
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Postby VRE » Tue May 28, 2013 7:08 am
Most likely because they know that they can get away with bullying a cyclist, whereas an angry driver of a 1 tonne or more motor vehicle is considered to be more of a threat.DavidS wrote:Bit of rain this morning on the way in but not enough to be a bother.
Only hassle was a 4WD taking their kid to the private school who honked me because I wouldn't go in the car park masquerading as a bike lane. A couple of hundred metres later and they're stopped at the school (maybe I should have used the so called bike lane and run into their rear end just as their offspring was unloading their bag from the tailgate - wonder if the driver would have appreciated that). Gee, I would have cost them maybe 15 seconds. About 30 seconds later I caught them at traffic lights. They just don't get it. I figure they would have been stuck in Beach Rd traffic a further 5 minutes down the road. Why stress about 30 seconds when the other cars are costing you half an hour?
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I used to live in Parkdale and used Beach Rd as my daily commute. While the Bay views were very nice, I don't miss the motorists there, because their attitude stinks.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Tue May 28, 2013 7:41 am
Re adjust this morning and much better performance, from the bike. unusually I had to brake heavily at the two roundabouts on my route to give way to traffic spoiled the momentum a bit. it was only that I was in the wrong spot by a few seconds so the cars beat me to the roundabout and I was obliged to give way anyway. Tank goodness I very rarely have to put up with moron motorists on the very short section of road I commute on.
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