Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Warnesy » Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:43 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Ross » Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:07 pm
The more he did the faster hewas getting! The last 2 were faster than my PB.nickdos wrote:Someone I follow on Strava did 8 X Black Mountain in under 2 hours yesterday... I'm in awe
http://app.strava.com/rides/20417229
Greg B was doing 8 or 10 Blackies in a session as training for Haute Routemrgolf wrote: Hmmm... Impressive. Looks like the sort of thing I may get up to leading up to Fitz extreme
Trevor from Lonsdale St Cyclery rode out to Vets race at Orroral Valley (out past Fitz's) on Saturday, won A grade and then rode home again!
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Re: Todays rides
Postby nickdos » Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:28 pm
That ride has been deleted. Turns out he lent his phone to his riding buddy to record the ride and he (Dave) has since uploaded his own ride from his Garmin - which was 2 minutes faster:nickdos wrote:Someone I follow on Strava did 8 X Black Mountain in under 2 hours yesterday... I'm in awe
http://app.strava.com/rides/20417229
http://app.strava.com/rides/20648898
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mrgolf » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:49 pm
Did a solo Sutton/ Gungahlin route today. Very nice weather. Encountered some head breeze, but very pleasant and nice pace...
http://app.strava.com/rides/20794461
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:34 pm
Are the roadworks at Mulligans flat finished yet? Haven't been out there for ages as i was avoiding it after reading comments on here about the !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! section near the border.mrgolf wrote:Pfft. Just get lighter wheels...
Did a solo Sutton/ Gungahlin route today. Very nice weather. Encountered some head breeze, but very pleasant and nice pace...
http://app.strava.com/rides/20794461
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jcjordan » Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:18 am
It was the most common reason for a crash in any bunch. Some 'muppet' makes a sudden move, overlaps a wheel, down comes the first rider and here comes a dominoes display.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby skull » Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:18 am
Is that the one that leaves from the bike shop in Phillip at 6?
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Re: Todays rides
Postby twizzle » Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:21 am
Mr D? I though he had sworn off bunch rides after his accy.Ross wrote:Big crash on southside "Grandpa" bunch today. About 5 or 6 riders went down on Nothbourne Ave. Not sure what happened, a touch of wheels maybe. I was 3 or 4 bikes back and could hear and then see the carnage unfolding before me and managed to stop and avoid it. I don't think there were any serious injuries, usual road rash I expect. One guy had only recently started riding again after breaking his hip in another bunch ride a few months ago.
PS - YES!!!! Rest day! Talk about timing.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:25 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby cp123 » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:21 pm
Rider down and not moving and a couple of other drivers and motorists pulling up and flapping round saying its okay mate don’t move blah blah while another (the second fast guy who had passed me) was lifting a bike off the road. A lady in a 4wd with bull bar was standing there and “didn’t see him”. (the guy on the ground was the fast one who had past me less than 2 mins before ). Someone rang the ambulance and they came soon and they tested all his limbs/back etc in case anything was broken. Lady didn’t do or say anything. The other chap took some photos of the damaged bike and Mr Hit finally got up and walked around albeit very sorely and slowly. He was pretty shakey but seriously lucky considering what could’ve been. He thought he was okay to ride home but his bike was stuffed.
It wasn’t dark when it happened and while i had lights on, i do that anyway to stop having to pull up half way. Police came, interviewed everyone. I said don't bother with me as I didn't see the impact. the guys left arm was cut as were 2 or 3 fingers on his left hand and his lid was smashed but he didn’t think he needed to go to hospital in the ambulance. Lady said she wasn’t going fast. Again she might not’ve seen him but you wonder if she looked too. The other 2 cyclists who got there in front of me confirmed that when they picked his bike up the front light was going.
the injured rider thanked all of us for stopping to make sure he was okay. In the end the lady who hit him got a bit emotional. I’m sure it wasn’t deliberate but hopefully she'll learn from it too. In the end she was going to drive him home i think. He wasn't looking forward to seeing his wife's reaction.
Really, it can just happen so easily. Ride safe all. I hope you're feeling better today Michael. Good cudos and karma should also go to Andrew and Linley for what they did too.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby twizzle » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:51 pm
Vets stopped using the Symonston car park for crits, too many bad accidents. Head into curb = brain damage.HAKS wrote:60km or thereabouts. 2km warm up, 25km CCC Symonston crit, 33km home from crit. Really liked the Symonston course for the crit today although those that went down on the bottom corner won't agree me with. Def a nice change from Stromlo with some downhill and uphill. Managed a tie for 4th in D grade
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jcjordan » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:10 pm
twizzle wrote:Vets stopped using the Symonston car park for crits, too many bad accidents. Head into curb = brain damage.HAKS wrote:60km or thereabouts. 2km warm up, 25km CCC Symonston crit, 33km home from crit. Really liked the Symonston course for the crit today although those that went down on the bottom corner won't agree me with. Def a nice change from Stromlo with some downhill and uphill. Managed a tie for 4th in D grade
That was only one of three accidents we had on that course. To many off camber tight cnr's
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:28 pm
Talking about the same course? I know the Geoscience Australia carpark used to get used which is also in Symonston. This was over near Cbr Avetwizzle wrote: Vets stopped using the Symonston car park for crits, too many bad accidents. Head into curb = brain damage.
Yeah heard about the other crashes. Not good but still I enjoyed the course & the race.jcjordan wrote: That was only one of three accidents we had on that course. To many off camber tight cnr's
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Howzat » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:32 pm
"I didn't see him" is basically an admission the driver wasn't looking hard enough. Plenty of car-on-car crashes are explained the same way.
I like to ride lit up like a Las Vegas Christmas but sometimes you wonder just what it takes when there are 4WDs with bull bars on the same roads.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Ross » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:21 pm
Not always. The forward windscreen "A" pillars in a lot of vehicles can hide a car pretty well, a cyclist even more so. I nearly took out a cyclist myself one day out the front of SFP because I didn't see him due to the A pillar.Howzat wrote:
"I didn't see him" is basically an admission the driver wasn't looking hard enough. Plenty of car-on-car crashes are explained the same way.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Ross » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:27 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby twizzle » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:35 pm
HAKS wrote:Talking about the same course? I know the Geoscience Australia carpark used to get used which is also in Symonston. This was over near Cbr Avetwizzle wrote: Vets stopped using the Symonston car park for crits, too many bad accidents. Head into curb = brain damage.
Correct - I was talking the Geoscience carpark, I wasn't aware there was another approved location in Symonston. Where is it exactly?
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Re: Todays rides
Postby nescius » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:52 pm
It's a fun crit course, but the fast off camber downhill left hander does tend to cause a bit of grief. No crashes in C grade, everybody was reasonably well behaved.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby DW260 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:09 am
It's nice to see more people on their bikes now the weather is warming up, and its even better not having to ride in clothing that looks like it is better suited to the ski fields. Yay for warmer weather!
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