How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Postby fat and old » Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:51 am
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Postby caneye » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:33 am
Can't wait to re-solder the Solar Storm battery pack. Note to self - never pull the battery pack by its cable.
And then this morning, coming to a stop, I failed to unclip on time and went crashing down. Shocked to find the MTB cleat twisted and 1 (of the 2 screws) missing. No wonder I was not able to twist the shoe free from the pedal. Note to self - check and tighten screws at the start of each calendar year.
Backpack full of rain gear for wet commute tonight.
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Postby find_bruce » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:02 am
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Postby jasonc » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:31 am
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Postby RobertL » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:33 am
Yeah, light drizzle and wet roads for me, coming in from the north-east.jasonc wrote:Wet roads this morning. Started with a bit of drizzle. I didn't see another bike for around 12kms which is surprising
I didn't see as many bikes as usual, or as many cars - which I find surprising. This is exactly the sort of weather that encourages people to give up their public transport and drive, thus clogging the roads. I used to notice that a lot when I caught the train to work.
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Postby cancan64 » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:55 am
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Postby Lizzy » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:30 am
Since my near-miss in the wet a couple of months ago I'm feeling much less confident in the wet and ergo even slower than normal. Really not happy with my brake pads and think I will change them (this trouble started with this set being installed, I've ridden in the rain plenty before quite happily). I thought settling some wear into them might help but it's probably a good few hundred ks in and not really helping. Who can recommend me some new ones that are proven trustworthy in the wet? I can't remember what the old ones I liked were
Oh and I stuck my low-light glasses in my pocket because they kept getting too steamy, and lost them somewhere, boo ...
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Postby jasonc » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:36 am
Is this the excuse you need for a fat bike?cancan64 wrote:Auckland winter is here ... cold and wet but at least we dont get snow although that could be fun
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Postby g-boaf » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:56 pm
Lizzy wrote:Very soggy this morning, cold too ... I dressed for it, and about 3km in with no rain - found myself thinking: I really CBA stopping and taking off my rainjacket so I'm going to need it to start raining soon ... Almost immediately and continuously for the next 25km I got my wish.
Since my near-miss in the wet a couple of months ago I'm feeling much less confident in the wet and ergo even slower than normal. Really not happy with my brake pads and think I will change them (this trouble started with this set being installed, I've ridden in the rain plenty before quite happily). I thought settling some wear into them might help but it's probably a good few hundred ks in and not really helping. Who can recommend me some new ones that are proven trustworthy in the wet? I can't remember what the old ones I liked were
Oh and I stuck my low-light glasses in my pocket because they kept getting too steamy, and lost them somewhere, boo ...
What sort of wheels are you using? I'm guessing you aren't using disc brakes because those always work all the time, or so we are told...
On normal road bike alloy wheels (eg, Bontrager Paradigm Elite) I use the blue Swisstop pads. They work perfectly.
Afternoon commute was nice enough, not too cold so I did an extra 10km.
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Postby jasonc » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:46 am
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Postby fergy1987 » Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:37 am
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Postby Lizzy » Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:20 pm
Yep I'm on plain old nothing-special wheels-that-came-with-the-bike. Thanks for the recommendationg-boaf wrote:What sort of wheels are you using? I'm guessing you aren't using disc brakes because those always work all the time, or so we are told...
On normal road bike alloy wheels (eg, Bontrager Paradigm Elite) I use the blue Swisstop pads. They work perfectly.
Afternoon commute was nice enough, not too cold so I did an extra 10km.
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Postby cancan64 » Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:47 am
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Postby caneye » Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:23 am
just my luck, i had a pinch flat. surprisingly i was quite warmed-up by then therefore didn't feel the cold when changing the tube.
this morning was 7C. just a few degrees warmer but you can feel the stark difference.
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Postby Lizzy » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:47 pm
Was treated to a brief owl sighting at Stirling which was pretty cool - it didn't hang around long, but long enough for me to stop to try to get a closer look ... 1/3 of the way up the steep approach to the freeway overpass, in entirely the wrong gear to start up again
Was a beautiful white-faced barn owl, although it took off the second I stopped, leaving me to trudge up the rest of the hill like a dork ... thanks also to the kindly fellow commuter who checked on my welfare as a result
More wildlife further north - nice fresh looking dead rat near the drainage sump in Gwelup - hope my barn owl found it!
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Postby Cyclophiliac » Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:39 pm
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Postby DavidS » Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:01 pm
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:16 pm
caneye wrote:yeah ... coldest commute morning of the year.
just my luck, i had a pinch flat. surprisingly i was quite warmed-up by then therefore didn't feel the cold when changing the tube.
this morning was 7C. just a few degrees warmer but you can feel the stark difference.
Yes, the difference was pretty huge in temperature. I was too warm this morning after a while.
I did have to hurry a bit, left a bit late and then got stuck behind a council truck on the local cycleway. I normally do 40km/h on there, he was going 20, but rightly so. Got to work just on time.
Left later tonight, just made it home before dark.
I'm loving not using public transport now. Absolutely fantastic.
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Postby cancan64 » Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:42 am
Last Friday I was going down hill and noticed a car stopped across the wrong side of the road facing the street that I was turning down... I indicated that I was turning down the street so the car decided to enter my lane and then stopped again in front of me... I nearly managed to stop in time when I hit them at which point they took off down the street but driving on the wrong side of the road only getting on the correct side when a car came towards them.. I followed them for a while and they struggled to turn into streets and sit in there lane... I presumed they were foreigners and not used to driving on our side...or driving at all. There was 1 day that I encountered 3 drivers on the wrong side of the wrong side of the road so it is a common occurrence here.
This morning I was coming up to a red light, 2 lanes in my direction with my lane turning left when a car decided they wanted to be in my lane... but there was not enough road to pass me plus the red light so they just pulled into me ... my most common way of being hit. I had no where to go but they do stop quickly when they hear the bang of hitting me . also this morning a car (with bike carriers on there roof racks) pulled out of a driveway and just stopped before they hit the cyclists in front of me and also had a taxi try and pass me on a corner which had an island between the lanes so no room for both of us... fortunately he braked at the last moment as I couldnt get out of his way.
Also on Monday I watched a car take off through a red light at a busy cross road... how he missed the cars going through the intersection I dont know.. you see red light runners at nearly every intersection but normally just after the lights go red... you learn quickly not to take off at the lights.
Looking forward to moving back to Oz
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Postby cancan64 » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:43 am
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Postby find_bruce » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:49 am
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Postby P!N20 » Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:36 am
Was it cold?find_bruce wrote:Does rule #9 still apply if you ride to work when it is bucketing down & lightening all around but somehow you dodge every drop of rain and arrive at work dry ?
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Postby jasonc » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:38 am
You need to move back here! :Ocancan64 wrote:and following on last post, hit again yesterday, didnt save this one so now bike is in the shop with a broken brifter and wheel out of true and I am home with some bruising and missing bark..not happy and partner has had enough of me cycling with a car driving through the middle of the group ride on Friday morning, dont know how anyone wasnt hurt in that one
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