How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Postby gretaboy » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:05 am
Well anyways, I suddenly hear this rubbing noise...keep riding thinking it may go away, it doesnt. Finally pull up in a nice shady spot to check the tyres out. Nothing on front, cant see anything on the back so decide to tip the bike and do a thorough check. Sticking out of the rear tyre is a thin piece of wire about an inch long, decide to pull it out fearing the worst - the rush of air as it comes out. Close to another inch of wire comes out of the tyre...put a blob of spit over the hole but no bubble. Thinking you beauty. Check the tyre a bit more, its not going down. So hop back and keep riding and hopeful it wont go down. At this stage I had around 20-25 k's to go home. Tyre lasted all the way and didnt even go down over nite.
How good are marathon plus tyres.
It was a warm ride home yesterday too, local temp was 37. This morning was/is very muggy, think I dropped a litre or two of sweat.
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Postby InTheWoods » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:09 am
Pretty good 5500km on my pair so far and 0 flats. And they have been attacked - lots of visible punctures on the outside but nothing has got through.gretaboy wrote:How good are marathon plus tyres.
They do weigh a bit though...
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Postby gretaboy » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:29 am
I got just under 7500 on my last back tyre and it looked like it had gone to war...had 3-4 puncturesInTheWoods wrote: Pretty good 5500km on my pair so far and 0 flats. And they have been attacked - lots of visible punctures on the outside but nothing has got through.
They do weigh a bit though...
Yeah the weight is something, but I look it as another claytons training partner. I have simply got used to it now. I laugh when I look at strava and the times I am getting on some segments and I think about the tyres I am running compared to others on their slick tyred carbon bikes.
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Postby Summernight » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:53 am
I have Maxxis Re-fuse tyres on and I know some people think they don't work as well as the Marathon Plus, but the only puncture I've got after 3000km was from a nail right dead in the centre of the tread. Another time I pulled a 2 cm construction staple out of the tyre (thinking it would have punctured the tube too) but no puncture. The tyres have so many little holes in them now from all the crap they've gone over (including glass, rocks etc.) and no further punctures. They have done the job for me.
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Postby TigerFilly » Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:36 pm
It was a nice ride this morning though. Lots of school kids walking two abreast on the bike paths. I'm getting a bit sick of everyone at work carrying on like no-one's ever ridden a bicycle before though. It was kind of encouraging the first couple of times, but I'm a bit over it.
I nearly got wet this afternoon, I could feel it spitting a few times, but the rain held off. I don't have a rain jacket so am going to buy one at the weekend. Any recommendations?
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Postby Boognoss » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:24 pm
+1.newie wrote:Wet, very very wet.
Everyone in my office asked if I was being picked up/catching the bus/taking a taxi home.
I got home wet but intact only about 5 mins slower over 24km than usual. All good.
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Postby Daus » Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:28 am
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Postby gretaboy » Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:06 am
The joys of riding lol. Wouldnt swap it for quids as they say.
Felt really good this morning on the ride in, hope it lasts for the week.
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Postby TailWind » Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:30 am
Good ride in today, pleasant temperature (15C), dry, mild headwind.
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Postby Summernight » Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:03 pm
Too funny! What was he trying to do? Stop?jules21 wrote:
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Postby jules21 » Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:26 pm
turn left i'd say!Summernight wrote:Too funny! What was he trying to do? Stop?
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Postby TailWind » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:53 am
Welcome to the commuting fraternity..good work!TedDancin wrote:Just did my first ever commute today
Had a bit of an adrenaline surge yesterday afternoon after a narrow miss. I was riding in the on-road bike lane along Heidelberg Rd towards Ivanhoe, at the point where the bike lane starts narrowing before it merges completely with the traffic lane.
A blue Holden sedan passes me, I look over my shoulder for traffic, with the intention of merging into the traffic lane well ahead of the bike lane ending - clear, so I start easing across, doing just under 40km/h at this point. As I look back ahead, the blue Holden has stopped dead just ahead of me! No time to brake, flick the bike left and zip past. Looking at the footage later, I saw the indicator came on about a second after he passed me (and I was probably looking over my shoulder), and on the second flash of the indicator he was already almost at a full stop, presumably waiting for me before turning.
Perhaps bad timing on my part, but also silly got-to-get-past-cyclist-at-all-cost-even-tho-I'm-turning approach by driver.
The various creek trails where also teeming with peds and unleashed dogs, so a pretty busy commute all in all.
Better this morning, stuck to the Darebin Creek Trail for the most part, pretty pleasant, even in the dark...
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Postby Summernight » Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:07 pm
Then had another car come too close as they tried to pass although not as bad as the silver car. All of these things happened in the two block length between Hoddle St and the start of the Albert St green copenhagen lane. I don't like that stretch. I think I'll go back to being 10 minutes late for work with the nicer 10 minutes later peak hour car drivers as those 10 minutes seem to bring out the crazies.
So no footage to shame drivers with.
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Postby dynamictiger » Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:22 pm
Or get yourself a mannequin of Arnie to sit on your rack?Summernight wrote:Icky this morning. The GoPro froze before leaving home and I had a guy in a sports car rev his engine and zoom past like he was going to knock over any cyclists in his way (which I got out of the way for as I heard him coming), then after him I decided that I would deliberately ride on the right hand side of the left car wheel track (which I was doing already but no more Ms Nice Cyclist about it) and had a lady in a silver Mercedes/BMW drive so close to me that my elbow would have touched her car if I'd moved it. Lucky for her I didn't wobble when she zoomed past me as we would have hit if I had. She heard me shout at her as I saw her look in her rear-vision mirror (My shout was 'Don't'. I need to learn to say the correct thing in future to get the point across concisely. )
Then had another car come too close as they tried to pass although not as bad as the silver car. All of these things happened in the two block length between Hoddle St and the start of the Albert St green copenhagen lane. I don't like that stretch. I think I'll go back to being 10 minutes late for work with the nicer 10 minutes later peak hour car drivers as those 10 minutes seem to bring out the crazies.
So no footage to shame drivers with.
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