How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TigerFilly » Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:24 pm
And of course this morning was blowing a gale, horrendous head wind for the first commute in a year. Then it was raining and squally on the way home. I guess if I can get back commuting in that sort of weather anything after this will be a walk in the park!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Scott_C » Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:11 pm
Ride home tonight and upload yesterday's commute to Strava and notice that the other rider has uploaded his Monday morning ride with the following comment, Strong 30 to 40 kph headwind. thankfully able to share drafting with another larger rider.
He called me fat!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Lukeyboy » Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:20 pm
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Postby jasonc » Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:35 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:42 am
The headwind along the the lake foreshore realy sucked the life out of me towards the end and now I feel really flat. Seems the warm temps and too much good food in Fiji had a cost afterall.
Edit: in what might be a trap for new players I had a look at my GoPro footage from this morning and discovered that the camera had shut down after about 1min20 of riding in the cold temps, and then didn't come back on until I restarted it. (I had turned it off once on the Fernleigh to conserve battery life and card space and only turned it on after returning to the road)
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby FiveDaysAWeek » Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:20 am
The two previous spoke failures have been "<ping!> what was that?". This was more like dropping a handful of change on a tin roof while pulsing the rear brake and was a bit of a heart starter as I was accelerating through 30kph downhill to give a truck some room at the time.
Pulled up ok but wasn't game to ride any further with two spokes missing in action and another flopping free. Walked for thirty minutes to the LBS which is fortunately only a hundred metres from work. They say it's a warranty call but may fix the wheel one more time so I can still commute for a day or two while the paperwork gets done.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:38 am
Ahahaha. Sorry, couldn't help myself. The trouble with Strava!Scott_C wrote:Ride home tonight and upload yesterday's commute to Strava and notice that the other rider has uploaded his Monday morning ride with the following comment, Strong 30 to 40 kph headwind. thankfully able to share drafting with another larger rider.
He called me fat!
Welcome back to commuting, TigerFilly. If you can do it in that you can do it in any weather.TigerFilly wrote:Hello! I had to give up cycling to work when I changed jobs a year ago. But now I've changed jobs again and am close enough to cycle again. So today was the first day I've not had an appointment during the day that needed the car, forecast when I looked at it last night was fine...
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The ride home last night involved gusts of wind that almost blew me off the bike and near misses with suicidal pedestrians stepping out onto the road without looking. The crazy peds were all on Collins St. A couple stepped off the footpath onto the road without looking just as I was approaching. The man quickly stepped back onto the footpath after my 'Ois', and pretty much dragged the lady back. She made some weird noise as I went past, possibly from shock or affront or something.
The next one was past Swanston St on Collins going up the hill. Luckily for the lady who crossed the road and stepped out from behind a large van 2 metres in front of me without looking first, my spidey senses had gone off to tell me that may have been a ped shadow and that I couldn't see whether a ped would dart out blindly from behind the van... Which she did. She got a huge shock when she stepped out and there was a bike. I don't get why:
1) pedestrians don't stick their heads out and look before moving their whole bodies; and
2) why pedestrians insist on crossing roads and coming out behind large vehicles like vans, trucks, trams and buses. At least if you walk in front of a normal car you can see the road instead of walking blindly.
This morning I was the dumb cyclist who didn't realise my backpack was 5 cms more to the outside than it should be and hit the side mirror of a stopped car I was passing to get to the bike box. He rightly honked me and I stopped and apologised and checked to see whether there was any damage. No damage but I feel really bad and stupid because there was plenty of space on the other side so it shouldn't have happened. Dumb.
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Postby casual_cyclist » Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:42 am
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Postby Lizzy » Wed Jul 09, 2014 12:24 pm
Was pretty super-slow getting back into it after a week off and wussing out earlier in the week due to driving winds . Routine is not quite kicking back in yet as I forgot the top half of the underthings, oops - will just have to pretend I'm a hippy flower child flapping around in the breeze at Woodstock or something.
Finally got to wear my fancy-britches new helmet - feels very much less like a milk crate teetering on my head and I can even see better out of it. Never even realised my old one was in my peripheral vision but there ya go.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Wed Jul 09, 2014 1:23 pm
Did get a few drops just short of the CBD this morning, but nothing serious. Looks like this arvo might be a different matter though.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby casual_cyclist » Wed Jul 09, 2014 7:00 pm
Explorer socks kept my feet warm.Lizzy wrote:Wasn't it, though?! My feet hurt by the time I got to work.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby singlespeedscott » Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:57 pm
They are my preferred year round commuting sockcasual_cyclist wrote:Explorer socks kept my feet warm.Lizzy wrote:Wasn't it, though?! My feet hurt by the time I got to work.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby 98octane » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:41 am
Tonight was wet, but much less windy. So, overall, a better ride. Cobblestones on Banana Alley were even more slippery than those on the TdF.TailWind wrote:It's been a windy rides in Melbourne over the last couple of days - dry, not too cold, but windy.
Did get a few drops just short of the CBD this morning, but nothing serious. Looks like this arvo might be a different matter though.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby DavidS » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:46 am
98Octane, more slippery than the TdF? Maybe, they seem to be coming off on the asphalt.
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Postby Summernight » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:12 am
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Postby find_bruce » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:37 am
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:05 pm
Read out the plates aloud too (provided you've got an adequate microphone). Gives you double certainly that you'll get the plate details if required at a later stage.find_bruce wrote:...
Sadly it seems the gopro didn't get a good image of her number plate.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby 98octane » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:32 pm
Yes, although I was riding at half their pace. They are very uneven bluestone cobbles with large gaps/ruts followed by bricks. It desperately needs resurfacing. I'll take a photo and post it.DavidS wrote: 98Octane, more slippery than the TdF? Maybe, they seem to be coming off on the asphalt.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:35 pm
Yup, steady light to moderate rain yesterday afternoon, but the wind had definitely let up...definitely preferable to the howling conditions over the past few days.98octane wrote:Tonight was wet, but much less windy. So, overall, a better ride. Cobblestones on Banana Alley were even more slippery than those on the TdF.TailWind wrote:It's been a windy rides in Melbourne over the last couple of days - dry, not too cold, but windy.
Did get a few drops just short of the CBD this morning, but nothing serious. Looks like this arvo might be a different matter though.
Chilly this morning at 5.5C, but more or less dry, some wet patches on roads and paths.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby 98octane » Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:05 pm
Photos taken tonight when dry. My Blackberry shows the scale of the gaps and unevenness.98octane wrote:Yes, although I was riding at half their pace. They are very uneven bluestone cobbles with large gaps/ruts followed by bricks. It desperately needs resurfacing. I'll take a photo and post it.DavidS wrote: 98Octane, more slippery than the TdF? Maybe, they seem to be coming off on the asphalt.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby piledhigher » Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:13 pm
It is definitely worse than it used to be, was doing this daily 7 or 8 years ago and it was smoother back then.
And I don't have the luxury of 27 of 28mm tubulars, 23mm contis gp4000s.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby DavidS » Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:35 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Summernight » Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:53 am
The gap is eating your phone!!!98octane wrote:
is that behind Banana Alley? I remember riding down there. I'm glad I didn't look too closely at the gaps between the bluestones because they are huge...
Something which sounds like the BB is creaking and intermittently jerking the pedals around and sounding like it is going to die on the bike. Considering I've recently had the BB checked and it didn't solve the problem it is something else. It sounds like bearings going crazy and ripping at each other. Might have to look at the cassette and rear wheel.
Oh, and as a guy was about to pass me on the Albert St hill just outside the hospital (where I'm really really slow), he switched gears and his chain fell off. Whoops! He didn't pass me after that even when he caught up at the red light as we got to the flat bit beside the park and I pulled away (I'm not slow on the flat. ). How embarrassment to have it drop while you're trying to pass!
The forecast for next week means I'll probably add a neck warmer to the riding outfit. Colder than this week. But it's Friday! Yay!
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