Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:30 am
102km all up or thereabouts.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:06 pm
By this time it was really too hot to ride, so I had lunch and sat in front of the box for an hour........ then I decided to just ride anyway... and of course by now it was several degrees warmer lols
LONG STORY SHORT: Smashed my Lake BG PB on my first real ride on the new steed, despite not being used to drop bars, and having a truly AWFUL seat. So... woot
* Di2 stuff + pump frame + screws not fitting into recesses on my new cages = perfect storm of screw-too-shortness
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:39 pm
Pic or it doesn't exist as well
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Postby Ross » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:44 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:13 pm
Downer->Coppins Crossing Rd->Uriarra Rd to the river->back along Uriarra Rd->Cotter Rd->around the lake from Lady Denman, Kingston, wetlands, city->then Downer
Being used to the Fed, I find these country roads:
1) Bumpy...
2) Scary - no shoulder
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:46 pm
First time I've ridden out that way and I was loving the descents! ...got a bit of a nasty surprise after I turned around to go back along Uriarra.
I'm still fiddling with the bars and seat on my new bike. I was a bit stretched out today, which is not ideal for hills... but really good to find out before BCBR next weekend. Adjusted my bars half way home, will put seat forward just a touch, and I'll be set.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:47 am
I think the roads will be fine... it's technically closed, but I could have ridden across no dramas... and hey, if the bridge is flooded, we just wade across carrying our bikes right?
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:47 am
Anyway I don't really care cause I will be sitting in the grandstand watching the F1 in Melb come this weekend
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:24 pm
Did Shingle Hill today... went out slow. intending to just relax and recover a bit. Ended up going quite hard for most of the ride
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Postby Ross » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:16 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:27 pm
Good to hear the roads are open (officially). Will have to do a BCBR test ride one day this week. *checks forecast* WOW! Awesome forecast for the week! (bar isolated showers - which is code for "a little rain in Tuggeranong")
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:42 pm
Hauling my 90kg ass up all those hills geebers. I think it'd be fine if I wasn't feeling kinda !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! before starting... and maybe if I consumed something more than water too. Probably didn't help that all I ate all day was an egg, bacon and cheese roll at 11:30
Also... the shoulder of Parkes Way is RIDICULOUSLY BUMPY. Awful... like riding on friggin corrugated tin!
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Ross » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:43 am
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jcjordan » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:44 pm
So how come you cant get out on the bike?Ross wrote:At least you are on the bike, last time I rode was last Sunday. I've gained about 3kg since being off the bike.
Hopefully you will be out at lookout hill on sunday, good course for you.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Ross » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:21 am
Uuuummmm....http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... 17&t=50493jcjordan wrote:So how come you cant get out on the bike?Ross wrote:At least you are on the bike, last time I rode was last Sunday. I've gained about 3kg since being off the bike.
Hopefully you will be out at lookout hill on sunday, good course for you.
Crashing a bike at 60km/h tends to slow you down a bit.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jcjordan » Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:33 pm
Fair enough, the way you mentioned it in the other thread did not make it sound that bad.Ross wrote:Uuuummmm....http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... 17&t=50493jcjordan wrote:So how come you cant get out on the bike?Ross wrote:At least you are on the bike, last time I rode was last Sunday. I've gained about 3kg since being off the bike.
Hopefully you will be out at lookout hill on sunday, good course for you.
Crashing a bike at 60km/h tends to slow you down a bit.
Just remember pain does not last, bones heal and chicks dig scars
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