michael_w wrote:Lebowski wrote:michael_w wrote:This is my afternoon commute between Abbotsford and Bayswater -
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/ab ... -bayswaterThe first half is quite straight forward, but the second half has many more rises and some are just bloody hard work after a day in the office.
Hi Michael,
I was taking your route from St Kilda Rd > Abbotsford > Heathmont, but found it just took me too long (near on 2hrs), and as you mention the last hilly section through Mullum Mullum is a killer.
I now do this which takes 1:30 and is around 30ks.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/st ... -heathmontIt's more on road than the Freeway trail, but far more direct
Thanks Lebowski, that looks like a good alternative. I don't mind riding on the road, but I've just become used to the trails I suppose. For the first 12 months or so I was riding from Box Hill Stn to Abbotsford via Whitehorse Rd, Cotham Rd, Studley Park Rd exclusively. It's only about 12 km that way, but very direct. The traffic on Whitehorse Rd and Cotham Rd was generally OK, but the Kew Junction and Studley Park Rd could be a bit hairy at times.
I imagine Mont Albert Rd and some of the others are a bit quieter. I might just try this out next week

Hi I work near the corner of chapel and dandenong rd, my route is all road very direct and approx 25km each way
from windsor. along chapel over the river and keep going till swan st, hook right turn onto swan then all the way to burnley, turn left onto burnly and keep following it all the way along till you reach victoria, where the ikea is, right turn and keep going up the cutting it turns into barker and keep going, it starts to get a little hilly this way but its good training, follow it till it turns into a t intersection, turn left then right onto mont albert, follow this till you hit the railway xing and turn left just before mont albert station, this takes you to whitehorse, right turn and follow it till you reach your destination, i turn off just after deep creek rd mitcham.
i do the reverse in the morning, 70min door to door in the morning, slightly downhill all the way and 90 min on the return afternoon journey
i do leave early in the morning and i do have great bike lights, updated ayups, and a tioga dual eyes rear blinky with a flea usb helmet light as a back up