M7 Safety Alert Thread
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:02 pm
Didn't appear to have set up any traps - but just keep your eyes open through there.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby wombatK » Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:12 pm
+1. There's a school just to the north-west of the Jedda Rd offramp, and traps have been strung across the cyclewayg-boaf wrote:There were some kiddies hanging around near Jedda Road/Ash Road descent from off the bridge going North (just as you come down the bridge and before the right-left). They had a camera with them too.
Didn't appear to have set up any traps - but just keep your eyes open through there.
in that area before. IIRC, someone mentioned it to the school principal, and it seemed to stop it at the time. Could be
worth you giving them a call g-boaf.
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Postby zozza » Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:29 pm
Maybe some warning posters?g-boaf wrote:There were some kiddies hanging around
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:19 pm
Anyhow - there is flooding near the area of Ash Road. I crawled through it at about 5km/h to avoid spraying it up everywhere (especially near the Di2 battery which is hanging quite low underneath my bike.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:19 pm
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby westab » Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:00 pm
This may also be true of other areas as well.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby biker jk » Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:16 pm
Yes I saw a family out this morning with two youngsters so we slowed down and watched them carefully. Good to see kids riding bikes.westab wrote:The last two or three days between Sunnyholt road and Quakers hill Parkway there has been a large increase of kids, peds, and other bike riders - both in the morning and around 6pm. Take a little more care please especially around the kids as a few of them have the "wobbles".
This may also be true of other areas as well.
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Postby g-boaf » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:24 am
This is no different to the area around Hoxton Park and further down towards Prestons. I don't see this as a safety thing, just the normal everyday proceedings of the cycleway and common sense to slow down, which the majority of us do in those places.westab wrote:The last two or three days between Sunnyholt road and Quakers hill Parkway there has been a large increase of kids, peds, and other bike riders - both in the morning and around 6pm. Take a little more care please especially around the kids as a few of them have the "wobbles".
This may also be true of other areas as well.
Those of us who only venture down the southern section of the M7 see it all the time.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby westab » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:15 am
g-boaf agree with you as seeing regularly around the Blacktown sections as well and also as a common evryday thing - ready just a reminder as I saw two near things in the last week with a couple of "TDF" riders not doing the common sence thing.g-boaf wrote:This is no different to the area around Hoxton Park and further down towards Prestons. I don't see this as a safety thing, just the normal everyday proceedings of the cycleway and common sense to slow down, which the majority of us do in those places.westab wrote:The last two or three days between Sunnyholt road and Quakers hill Parkway there has been a large increase of kids, peds, and other bike riders - both in the morning and around 6pm. Take a little more care please especially around the kids as a few of them have the "wobbles".
This may also be true of other areas as well.
Those of us who only venture down the southern section of the M7 see it all the time.
Probably just the dad thing in me knowing that three of those pesty children who don't always do as they should are mine.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:27 am
I suspected you had a reason behind posting that. I'm ultra cautious around kids and slower riders. I don't want to crash. And I'm not fast enough (yet) to get in the top 20s of any meaningful segments on the M7 anyhow. But I'm working on that.westab wrote:g-boaf agree with you as seeing regularly around the Blacktown sections as well and also as a common evryday thing - ready just a reminder as I saw two near things in the last week with a couple of "TDF" riders not doing the common sence thing.
Probably just the dad thing in me knowing that three of those pesty children who don't always do as they should are mine.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby westab » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:46 am
Not fast enough yet - but still too fast for me (probably) - you should try the M7 at about 10pm it will be mostly yours and you can go bombing away. I sometimes loose the panniers and nothing but a phone one spare tube and a pump (lights as a given) and have some fun - thats the time for the segments. Enjoy getting faster mate, hope to see you out there some time.g-boaf wrote:I suspected you had a reason behind posting that. I'm ultra cautious around kids and slower riders. I don't want to crash. And I'm not fast enough (yet) to get in the top 20s of any meaningful segments on the M7 anyhow. But I'm working on that.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:15 pm
I get out there on a Saturday morning and usually get a really clear run from Horsley Drive down to Camden Valley Way. The families don't like being out at 9:00am on Saturday mornings. I love the Equestrian slog.
If anyone is going out there tonight, have fun. It's all yours. Try not to melt! It's not very nice even in the CBD here. I dread to think western Sydney.
You can spot easily enough, I'm a tiny rider on a black and green Giant in a Strava jersey (which is just for laughs, as much as it is a really top quality jersey).
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:59 pm
Hope the rider recovers okay.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:41 pm
I've only been on one group ride where the ambulance was needed.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby superbarok » Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:07 pm
PAIN - this TOO will pass
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby Cossie Phil » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:53 pm
The problem with blocked arteries is often there isn't any warning. A few years ago, before a hernia operation, my dad passed a stress test, then a week later had a major heart attack due to 3 blocked arteries, which thankfully were able to be fixed by stents.
Apparently there are warning signs but if you havent had a heart attack, they arent always recognised as warnings, more like a bit of discomfort that us blokes tend to ignore.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby g-boaf » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:59 pm
That's exactly right. A friend of mine not so long ago had another heart-attack. Liverpool Hospital also did the emergency surgery in that case.Cossie Phil wrote:Great to hear he is recovering.
The problem with blocked arteries is often there isn't any warning. A few years ago, before a hernia operation, my dad passed a stress test, then a week later had a major heart attack due to 3 blocked arteries, which thankfully were able to be fixed by stents.
Apparently there are warning signs but if you havent had a heart attack, they arent always recognised as warnings, more like a bit of discomfort that us blokes tend to ignore.
He had a heart-attack many years earlier, so he knew the signs and called 000 himself. They rushed him in. Now he doesn't smoke, doesn't eat junk food - is becoming more active.
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Re: M7 Safety Alert Thread
Postby Chuck » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:11 pm
So the first heart attack didn't inspire these kind of changes ?g-boaf wrote:Now he doesn't smoke, doesn't eat junk food - is becoming more active.
Happy to hear the fellow this morning is going to be ok
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Postby sylloxtric » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:27 pm
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