where did you ride this weekend?
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where did you ride this weekend?
Postby stevos » Sun May 06, 2007 11:02 am
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Postby stevos » Sun May 06, 2007 11:38 am
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Postby stevos » Sun May 06, 2007 12:13 pm
i will tighten them a bit though just because when i get out of the saddle i can feel that they are a bit loose, but i havent had problems clipping out or in so far they only time i will fall in them if a pedestrian slows me to a stop on a hill or something and i cant get out, lol i fell like that with straps so id be stuffed with spd's.
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Postby DrEvil123 » Sun May 06, 2007 12:18 pm
Doing the same again today. It is ~25k loop. The way there is all up, the way home is almost all down, much more fun!
Had a damn flat tyre on the way yesterday, it is the first in ~500k though so i'm not complaining. However my Conti Gatorskins are meant to be almost undefeatable!
I couldn't believe how much harder it is to ride with 10kg on your back. I guess I will be flying once I do rides without the pack now though
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Postby stevos » Sun May 06, 2007 12:43 pm
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Postby gdl_gdl » Sun May 06, 2007 6:11 pm
Today was a quick 20km recovery ride due to the fact that I'm a soccer dad for the next 20 weeks (and one of the Coaches! ), hence my riding will be limited!
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Postby mikesbytes » Sun May 06, 2007 6:28 pm
Sogood missed out on the action.
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Postby millynumb68 » Sun May 06, 2007 9:35 pm
Great weather & great way to spend Sunday morn, we all had huge grins on our faces.... except one...
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Postby sogood » Sun May 06, 2007 10:24 pm
Now that I've started to ride from home to our meeting point. It means that for the next RNP ride, I'll clock 110k return.mikesbytes wrote:100k including some huge hills in Sydneys Royal National Park. 30.6k average speed despite the hill climbing.
Sogood missed out on the action.
Yeah, Sun morning conference sucks. But did manage to squeeze in a 6am ride of 42k and some 5min intervals. Died after 3 repeat. It wasn't funny.
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Postby europa » Sun May 06, 2007 11:57 pm
Saturday - the lad rode down to one of his ratbag mate's and they (along with a couple of sheilas) went off to the movies. So myself and my little princess hooked her bike up behind mine, and we went to a playground via the library High light of the trip was miss 6 telling a couple of other kids (newly met at said playground) all about her bike and how it gets towed along behind Dad's
Sunday. Hmm. Sunday. Up at dawn. Into the car. Down to the lad's soccer club where the bus is waiting. Yep, it's a country trip to Pt Pirie. Two and a half hours in the ruddy bus with a bored 6 year old and a team of under 16's. They lost dammit Then we got to do the whole thing again coming back to the club. Got home nearly 12 hours after setting out to find a siamese decidedly unimpressed with the catering and a wee doggie wondering why we'd left him home all day. The bikes just sat accusingly in the dining room. Ah well, there will be other days, other rides
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Postby LuckyPierre » Mon May 07, 2007 7:22 am
I wish I could toss off a casual 100km at over 30 km/hr.
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Postby Hotdog » Mon May 07, 2007 9:44 am
The ride didn't start out all that well for me, having spent a fair bit of the previous evening lovingly preparing my bike (cleaned and oiled chain, adjusted all the cables, pumped up the tyres and unloaded all the commuting paraphenalia) I discovered as I was wheeling the bike to the door in the morning that I'd somehow managed to get a flat tyre in my sleep What followed was the fastest, sweariest tube change I've ever managed, followed by a sprint across to Sydney Uni where my mates were waiting for me to join them and in my hurry I managed to leave my sunnies behind too.
Luckily it was all good from then on, lovely weather for riding (low winds, dry and sunny without being too hot), not much traffic, and some good views. Not a super fast pace, but as I don't normally ride distances quite this far I was happy enough with my 27ish km/h average.
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Postby MichaelB » Mon May 07, 2007 11:04 am
Avg of 31.9km/hr for 106km is pretty good. Speedo accurate ?
I'm chuffed that I have now averaged over 30km/hr for my morning 38.5km rides a few times now.
Gradually working up to tackle the Mini Slam #4 (80km) in August !!!
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Postby tuco » Mon May 07, 2007 11:27 am
Saturday 48km ride around town.
Sunday 35km ride around town.
Monday (public hol up here) 82km out and back course.
163km in three days all with my 13 Y O daughter.
Where lying around the house recovering at the moment.
I had a cop speed gun me on the way back. He called out '35' as I rode pass and that's exactly what my speedo read. I gave him a nod and continued home.
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Postby Kev365428 » Mon May 07, 2007 1:09 pm
Hey Mb,mikesbytes wrote:100k including some huge hills in Sydneys Royal National Park. 30.6k average speed despite the hill climbing.
when riding in the RNP, which is the steeper hill when heading into the park- crossing the causeway at Waterfall or crossing the Audley causway?
I'm thinking of doing a ride from my place (Ingleburn) to a friends place at Maianbar. Trying to plot the least painful route.
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Postby MAD GREEK » Mon May 07, 2007 7:57 pm
The round trip was 51.1km
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Postby mikesbytes » Mon May 07, 2007 11:21 pm
The hill coming out of Audley going south into the park is the steepest.Kev365428 wrote:Hey Mb,mikesbytes wrote:100k including some huge hills in Sydneys Royal National Park. 30.6k average speed despite the hill climbing.
when riding in the RNP, which is the steeper hill when heading into the park- crossing the causeway at Waterfall or crossing the Audley causway?
I'm thinking of doing a ride from my place (Ingleburn) to a friends place at Maianbar. Trying to plot the least painful route.
For a first time I'd recommend going in at Waterfall train station and riding south to Audley and exit out there. Do the ride first thing in the morning, it gets busy with traffic during the day.
The easiest route is Waterfall in Stanwell tops out, as per Gong ride.
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