Where did you ride your bike today?
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Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby Aspergers » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:02 am
Cycled Cremorne to Summer Hill to Cremorne
Went over the ANZAC Bridge twice.
Distance: 32.09km
Keep cycling for fun
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:32 am
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby Max » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:30 am
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby jules21 » Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:59 am
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby rkelsen » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:36 am
Today: commuted to work - North Essendon to Prahran. Distance 22.3km. Managed to hit 50km/h along the cement creek bed. First time I've done that on the flat. I just kept running out of rpms and had to keep shifting up. It was great fun!
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby bella26 » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:06 am
+1Max wrote:Nowhere But I'm fantasising about my next ride, does that count?
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby grw » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:05 am
However I'm fantasising about my next job, so my daytime mucking about on the bike will (hopefully) come to an end soon. Mixed feelings about thisMax wrote:Nowhere But I'm fantasising about my next ride, does that count?
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby Max » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:19 am
I'm fantasising about a job that doesn't involve an 80Km round trip commute!!grw wrote:However I'm fantasising about my next job, so my daytime mucking about on the bike will (hopefully) come to an end soon. Mixed feelings about this
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby fitz » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:47 pm
TLL I was loking at your route on google maps. What are all those strange lakes up there. They dont look natural at all. Are they irrigation dams? I used to stop around some of those areas (but a bit further north) on my way from UK down to the Alps between my cycling years. Lordy how I wish I had started riding again then! It was beautiful country.toolonglegs wrote:Villars-les-Dombes to Joyeux at 40kmph av...then blew and cruised at a good clip thru the Dombes for an hour then dropped off the plateau and rode along the Ain river for a while then climbed back up to Chalamont then cruised thru the maize fields for a while.Saw two deer and a wild pig...was getting really tired and should have taken more than one bottle for a 88km ride...even if it was only 4 degrees when I started...would have been 10 degrees after the fog cleared. Absolutely sweet ride but took it out of me more than I thought .
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby rustychisel » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:56 pm
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby Mulger bill » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:46 pm
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby spunkyryan » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:50 pm
Then I rode to work 5km away
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:04 pm
They are swamps...or Dombes in French.Hence I live in "the village in the swamps" .But they are all man made...some are at least 1000 years old.Some of the castles still have them surrounding them.Yeah there are 100's of them...they are only 1 meter or so deep and some are drained ever two or 3 years and planted in crops.They are all used for fishing...some sort of carp and something else.But it ain't sport...they drain them in the middle of winter (so the fish don't cook) and scoop them out of the small amount of water left.It rains a fair bit here,as we are on a plateau and there is no mountains or rivers feeding into them...just rain.fitz wrote:TLL I was loking at your route on google maps. What are all those strange lakes up there. They dont look natural at all. Are they irrigation dams? I used to stop around some of those areas (but a bit further north) on my way from UK down to the Alps between my cycling years. Lordy how I wish I had started riding again then! It was beautiful country.toolonglegs wrote:Villars-les-Dombes to Joyeux at 40kmph av...then blew and cruised at a good clip thru the Dombes for an hour then dropped off the plateau and rode along the Ain river for a while then climbed back up to Chalamont then cruised thru the maize fields for a while.Saw two deer and a wild pig...was getting really tired and should have taken more than one bottle for a 88km ride...even if it was only 4 degrees when I started...would have been 10 degrees after the fog cleared. Absolutely sweet ride but took it out of me more than I thought .
You get a rough idea here... http://ladombes.free.fr/La_peche_dans_l ... g_2007.htm
I need to go 20-30kms west (Beaujolais) or 30km east (Bugey) to find climbs over 5 kms long...but around home there are hundreds of routes I can take and only see one or two cars an hour.
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby lukas » Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:46 pm
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby fitz » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:03 pm
Nah not Moraine lakes Rusty.rustychisel wrote:look like moraine lakes to me, ie remnants of the last glaciation period.
Type in Shercock into Google maps. Click "satelite" on top right. Now that town is right in the middle of "moraine lakes" from the last ice age. We called it "drumlin" country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumlin
Short sharp hard hilly routes that would blow your legs away. Great training country for young lads. Race fields split very quick into those racing...and the rest.
Thanks TLL, what a fascinating place you live and ride in.
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby FiMcK » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:10 pm
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby brendancg » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:30 pm
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby Aspergers » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:22 pm
My ride was Dee Why to Wollstonecraft, Lane Cove to Dee Why
Cycled to Wollstonecraft because I was a volunteer in the Seven Bridges Walk. After I started my volunteer job they moved me to lane Cove.
Cycled on main roads or secondary roads.
Had rain from about 2km from Home
Total distance 40.83km
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby Aspergers » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:03 pm
My bike rids was Dee Why to North Head to Dee Why.
Cycled via Shelly Beach on the way to North Head
Did two laps of North Head.
Distance 31.97km
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby roller » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:05 pm
sunday: embleton to mt henry bridge, raffles, freo, cottesloe, claremont, dalkeith, milk'd cafe in maylands, back to mt henry bridge, home to embleton - 105kms
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby flashgaza » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:41 pm
Cheers
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
Postby PPFC » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:50 pm
Today I rode, home to work and Back - about 40km
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Re: Where did you ride your bike today?
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