Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby jules21 » Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:02 pm

Gunlock wrote:Will be on the Boulevard tonight. Hopefully won't be walking home.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby Patches » Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:30 pm

Some kind people have put spare tubes and I think pumps on the back of a lot of the signs if you do get a puncture. Pay it forward!

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby Summernight » Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:07 am

Patches wrote:Some kind people have put spare tubes and I think pumps on the back of a lot of the signs if you do get a puncture. Pay it forward!
Yes, I've noticed one particular sign at Walmer Street that is supposed to have a tube in there that hasn't been replenished for a couple of weeks. If you end up using a tube from these stashes please replace at a later point with another tube. (I don't ride there - I'm just jogging through)

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby jules21 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:16 pm

Summernight wrote:Yes, I've noticed one particular sign at Walmer Street that is supposed to have a tube in there that hasn't been replenished for a couple of weeks. If you end up using a tube from these stashes please replace at a later point with another tube. (I don't ride there - I'm just jogging through)
also, ride with a couple of spare tubes so you can hand one out to a stranded rider.

i patch my tubes for that reason, so it doesn't cost me anything (including to replace my own tubes). have a guess where i get the tubes from in the first place :)

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby Bentnose » Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:00 pm

Anybody got a puncture from tacks lately or has it all died down?
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby m@ » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:42 pm

At the risk of upsetting the puncture fairy, the Boullie is one of the few spots I haven't flatted :lol:

I kinda doubt anything has changed; the person/s involved have shown a seriously cray-cray level commitment to their cause, and we'd've heard about it if they'd been caught. I saw a few people fixing flats or walking last time I joined the weekly group there a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby jules21 » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:48 pm

m@ wrote:I kinda doubt anything has changed; the person/s involved have shown a seriously cray-cray level commitment to their cause, and we'd've heard about it if they'd been caught. I saw a few people fixing flats or walking last time I joined the weekly group there a couple of weeks ago.
it's mostly likely a local who drives it regularly, has stocked up on upholstery tacks and throws them out the window regularly. there is clearly some type of disorder upstairs to allow them to assess this sort of behaviour as worthwhile and justified, but then they're unlikely to be investing a whole heap of effort in it.

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby Uncle Just » Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:59 pm

Rode it this morning after 10 when it was still wet, a likely time to pick up a tack. Made sure I was mostly outside the white line and got through unscathed. I was on sturdier 26 x 1.5" tyres which help.

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby dalai47 » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:13 pm

Tacks are back - https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/forum ... ad#p661396" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby nezumi » Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:40 pm

I got one on Tuesday morning, somewhere between the crit circuit and the bottom of Yarra St.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby Gunlock » Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:50 pm

I did two laps on Wednesday without incident.

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby nezumi » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:44 am

Rode the Boulie again this morning and got a slow-leak flat. I am going to check the tyre over for anything which may have contributed, but it looks like it was something road-surface related. After last weeks one I managed 60kms in the afternoon and another 100kms over two days before flying up to Brisbane (leaving the bike alone for 4 days). So I don't think it was simply the result of a poor tube replacement.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby defy1 » Sat Nov 29, 2014 8:52 pm

Got tacked pretty bad today on the Boulie. A fellow cyclist was kind enough to give me a tube, after I killed my two spares. If you are on these forums, pls PM me

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby SuperSix » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:02 pm

Check out cyclingkarma
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby __PG__ » Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:30 pm

Mate of mine got tacked for the first time this year on his morning Boulevard commute.

Another mate saw a few punctures near the boathouse.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby m@ » Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:18 pm

Saw plenty of people fixing punctures last Tuesday... some idiot has also been making caltrops by cutting up chicken wire and leaving them on the shared path around Rushall Station.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby marlton3068 » Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:45 pm

The Tack thrower is hard at work. The hill overlooking the abbotsford convent had 100s yesterday. A mate and 5 others hit them and got front and back punctures. Some walkers stopped to help cleanup handfuls of black painted tacks off the road.

I know many cyclists who avoid the route now so the idiots are winning.

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby jules21 » Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:54 pm

i was there this morning and saw a lot of riders still using the 'tack zone' - how long will they keep it up? :wink:

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby nezumi » Sun Dec 28, 2014 2:21 pm

I think we need to have one of those roadworks signs set up with
"Cyclists.
Road Hazard in Shoulder
Use main lane"

Or similar.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby defy1 » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:56 pm

8 laps today no tacks

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby kb » Mon Dec 29, 2014 1:39 pm

They were there though. Only managed 5 laps myself but saw 5 people fixing flats during that time. Also saw a patrol car cruising and lurking and what may have been an unmarked car too.
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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby grw » Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:55 am

Seems like the Boulevard is not the only place to be careful. This from the Age...

"A small number of tacks were discovered on a bike path near the Rushall Crescent Community Garden, just off the Capital City Trail running down to Merri Parade, in December."

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/paren ... 2hodo.html

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby jules21 » Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:57 am

More than 600 wire tacks have been found strewn across Edinburgh Gardens.

my bet is this is the same person who is laying them on the Boullie. someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble here - that would have taken many hours to prepare those. demented.

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby defy1 » Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:54 am

is those are handmade, there is a real twisted sicko out there

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Re: Yarra Boulevard - tacks - 6.3.14

Postby zill » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:59 am

jules21 wrote:
my bet is this is the same person who is laying them on the Boullie. someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble here - that would have taken many hours to prepare those. demented.

Haven't seen these type of tacks on the Boulie so you'd think different parties are at work.

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