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How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TraceyG » Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:03 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Lizzy » Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:27 pm
Never come across them like that before, then twice in the space of 100m. Maybe there was some kind of basking convention on or something, or perhaps more likely all the construction around there is getting them all discombobulated

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby warthog1 » Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:07 pm


Bloody bag was soaked though and my iphone got pretty wet


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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:11 pm
warthog1 wrote:Bloody bag was soaked though and my iphone got pretty wet.
http://www.kathmandu.com.au/packs-and-b ... ellow.html
alternatively, buy a deuter air comfort bag with an inbuilt rain cover

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby warthog1 » Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:06 pm
jasonc wrote:
http://www.kathmandu.com.au/packs-and-b ... ellow.html
alternatively, buy a deuter air comfort bag with an inbuilt rain cover
Thanks Jason. That looks good and I reckon might be the go. The phone will be in a snap lock sandwich bag from now on but the rest of the bag was still quite wet. No mudguards on my Azzurri so a lot of spray, but it is a good quality back pack I have, so I was surprised how wet it got.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:28 am
warthog1 wrote: it is a good quality back pack I have, so I was surprised how wet it got.
there is good quality, then there's deuter....
but yes, the overbag cover will help.

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Rhubarb » Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:23 am
Better water resistance, high vis in the day, reflective at night. It also kept my bag clean from wheel spray etc so I could remover the cover and not be left with a muddy bag to bring into the office.

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby TailWind » Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:49 am
This morning's ride into the Melbourne CBD was surprisingly busy with traffic at 4:30am, considering it's a Monday morning and we are about a week away from the holidays.
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby warthog1 » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:06 am
Rhubarb wrote:Pre velomobile, I commuted for 3 years via road bike in all weather. I did use a Deuter back pack but never bothered with its in-built rain cover. I went with one of these: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/respro-waterpro ... ack-cover/
Better water resistance, high vis in the day, reflective at night. It also kept my bag clean from wheel spray etc so I could remover the cover and not be left with a muddy bag to bring into the office.
Thanks, I like the high vis aspect as I am a bit paranoid about incompetent drivers overtaking me. Neighbour years ago was run over and killed by a DUI driver.

Comes from wiggle too, so I can just bung it on with the tyres and cassettes.

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby goneriding » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:38 am

Incident #2 a car decided that Give Way is interpreted as an amber light (I.e. go faster) and just about took out a cyclist in front me.
Might be time to head for the hills and wait it (whatever it is) out!
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:45 am
goneriding wrote:Might be time to head for the hills and wait it (whatever it is) out!
it's called Christmas

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby J-Tim » Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:58 am
jasonc wrote:goneriding wrote:Might be time to head for the hills and wait it (whatever it is) out!
it's called Christmas
Can't wait for that either!!

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Comedian » Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:11 pm
Could be warm on the way home tonight. Tomorrow might be one to watch. Could be a chance of a storm in the afternoon
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby Hamster » Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:49 pm
No having ridden it on a commute for some time I found the Repco rather pleasant

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby sturmey archer » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:20 pm
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:49 pm
The last few days have been great - mostly because the winds morning and arvo have been mild. Far better than last week.
The detours thru South Perth are now in the past with the river wall repaired and everyone able to take the old direct route.
Overall it looks like the week is gonna pan out very well indeed. I hope to see y'all out there.

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:05 pm

http://youtu.be/lMG7PZ4LNvw
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby find_bruce » Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:13 pm
FuzzyDropbear wrote:Bad commute home for me tonight. Something, not sure what, went terribly wrong, either the chain slipped or it attempted to jump gears (has happened sporadically and haven't been able to solve it, but only rare occurrence). Either way, I ended up upside down on the road, managed to roll out of it with a few scraps and cuts (all bandaged up now), the bike ended up worse for wear with the brake levers and shifters bent and scratched pretty bad, the seat's all scratched up and scrapes all along the handlebars and frame.... Not sure where all the damage came from... Please see below and have a chuckle...lol!
I didn't laugh - happened a couple of times to me, including once recently - in my case the most recent cause was that the internal gear hub was out of adjustment - a minor issue to fix but a pain if you don't
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby jasonc » Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:31 am
find_bruce wrote:I didn't laugh
+1 - mechanicals are unpleasant.
my last commute day for the year (yay for holidays). have commuted 186 days (was aiming for 140 days). it was HUMID. It felt like I was swimming to work. legs feel good hopefully i get the all clear from the physio tonight

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby gretaboy » Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:04 am
Yesterday riding home nearly got taken out by a car...driver simply had no idea...a bloke who was walking towards me and witnessed it goes "he nearly hit you", to which I simply said "yeah I know". I think this guy was really amazed at what happened. I just thought it was another normal day/ride on the bike.
Went to a boxing style boot camp exercise thing last night, going along to "give support" to my partner in her exercise endeavours. Being a male I pushed myself and it hurt. I knew at the time that I was going to pay a second time for that effort this morning.
Luckily the weather is strange at the moment. It is cool, to the point of having me think it is like winter weather but at the same time there is an underlying warmness to it. So with hurting from the previous nights exercise I headed off on my ride. All up it was a good ride, not the fastest but not the slowest either. Decent headwind most of the way again too.
Not much left in the body tank at the moment.

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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:19 am
jasonc wrote:find_bruce wrote:I didn't laugh
+1 - mechanicals are unpleasant.
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Yeah, it's not quite hilarious, but if I don't have a laugh at myself, I'll crack the sads and take it out on the bike. haha. More upset cause my brand new wheel that I just built got a bit banged up. I think it was the result of a worn chain and possibly worn cassette, but I'll check this further out this week and hopefully have it back on the road in a week or two.
Cheers guys.
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