How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...

[snowmaan]

Damn......left to late. Trailer parks already active Love this time of year on the peninsula for the weather, hate it for the traffic. Gonna have to start per 6am methinks.

G'day golf pro from another fat bludger Stay positive, it will take longer (reading between the lines re client dinners....I know all about that), but it will happen.

Thanks brother



Reckon my handicap will take a hit for a while while I get pumped again about cycling

[jasonc]

I gave up golf to buy my flat bar. So my handicap took a real hit
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[snowmaan]

I gave up golf to buy my flat bar. So my handicap took a real hit
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That's a sin, don't give up either, do both.
Golf + cycling = good

[jasonc]

golf + cycling = expensive
cycling is now expensive enough

[singlespeedscott]

Golf + cycling = divorce

Even more expensive.

[jasonc]

^ what he said.

looking at replacement commuter bikes is bad enough

[snowmaan]

^ what he said.

looking at replacement commuter bikes is bad enough

Once set up with both, easy and no more cost.

Only other cost for golf is annual membership fees or comp fees.

Once you have your bike, it's just tyres and the odd service.

It's the "oh I really need that, even though I've got something similar" that's the issue

Ie I love eBay and Gumtree, but can give up anytime I want!

[jasonc]

When I stopped playing golf, membership was up to $1350 per year. Comp was $12 per week. Then you go and have chips and a drink afterwards. Plus equipment. Not cheap!
My cycling costs a lot but I enjoy it and I'm home most weekends even after doing 300km+ a week. I do spend an hour or two on the weekend servicing my bikes but I'm still home when that happens. Golf was every Saturday and not home till 12.
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[17sjs]

...I love eBay and Gumtree, but can give up anytime I want!

Spoken like a true addict!

[singlespeedscott]

^ what he said.

looking at replacement commuter bikes is bad enough

Once set up with both, easy and no more cost.

Only other cost for golf is annual membership fees or comp fees.

Once you have your bike, it's just tyres and the odd service.

It's the "oh I really need that, even though I've got something similar" that's the issue

Ie I love eBay and Gumtree, but can give up anytime I want!

You seem to forget the time involved with both activities.

250-300km a week equals 10hrs.

2-3 rds of golf a week equals another 15hrs.

20 odd hours away from home, doing your own s##t, on top of 40+ hrs of work equals to a cranky wife at home stuck with the ankle bitters. Not my idea of a good time at home.

[snowmaan]

^ what he said.

looking at replacement commuter bikes is bad enough

Once set up with both, easy and no more cost.

Only other cost for golf is annual membership fees or comp fees.

Once you have your bike, it's just tyres and the odd service.

It's the "oh I really need that, even though I've got something similar" that's the issue

Ie I love eBay and Gumtree, but can give up anytime I want!

You seem to forget the time involved with both activities.

250-300km a week equals 10hrs.

2-3 rds of golf a week equals another 15hrs.

20 odd hours away from home, doing your own s##t, on top of 40+ hrs of work equals to a cranky wife at home stuck with the ankle bitters. Not my idea of a good time at home.

Fair enough

I commute into work so no different to taking the train, ie I don't take any time away from the family

That's all the cycling in currently doing. I'm not the weekend large group kind of rider, at least not yet

As for golf, I only play comp every second weekend, plus the odd corporate match but I play 9 holes 2 days a week before work usually, which will take a backward step probably now as I try to get cycling fit

So ultimately I'm not away from the family as both sports I manage to do before work which is lucky for me

[TailWind]

Speaking of which....hey TW....do you ride a flatbar with panniers, wear a yellow helmet?

Nope, not me...this is my ride:

I wear a blue and silver helmet, bright blue cycling top.

[find_bruce]

I wear a blue and silver helmet, bright blue cycling top.

& here is a pic of TW in commuting set up

[jasonc]

here's his legs:


I was surprised they both fit in the 1 photo

[jasonc]

new shoes and socks for the commuter today.
from pro-lite como with over 24500kms
front tyre was a marathon plus with over 20000kms
rear tyre was the third marathon plus

to pro-lite garda
front is now a marathon green-guard (or plain marathon)
rear is a marathon plus

[Summernight]

Rain, but warm. Nice (for a rain day, that is).

Brakes weren't kicking in as quickly either. Being as they are new they haven't really had a bit of wet grit ground into them to make them grip faster in the rain yet.

[snowmaan]

Went to ride off, back tyre was flat, dammit.

It's a new bike (Cell SS200) , 3 rides old. Hopefully bad luck rather than a dodgy wheel, tyre etc

Took the Trek Madone 4.5 out, pumped up the wheels, swapped to the clip in shoes and away I went.

Had a nice 16km ride in

Never changed a tyre in my life, so stressing out about that now!
It's the rear tyre as well, which I'm told is harder because of the gears etc

[Lizzy]

Cold wind this morning slowed me down a bit (more than usual).

Finally diagnosed and resolved a noise that has been driving me barmy since getting a new front derailleur fitted a couple of months ago. Been too embarrassed to ask for help here because I knew it was going to be something really dumb - and it was! What would happen, is the moment I went to the top chainring, this undulating high pitched whine would start up, not influenced by pedalling. Actually sounded not unlike an e-bike. Could not work it out, hearing not good enough to narrow it down to a particular spot, and could not replicate it on the repair stand at work for some reason. This morning, just as I'm starting to think its some weird doeppler air vortex thing, I randomly spotted it - when shifted up, the cable end just pokes its head in neatly between the tyre and the mudguard. Just a couple of mm out of my normal field of vision. Ah doyy! But having bent it out of the way now my bike sounds like someone loves her again

snowmaan take yourself off to YouTube Polytechnic, you'll be fine. Better luck next time

[fat and old]

Speaking of which....hey TW....do you ride a flatbar with panniers, wear a yellow helmet?

Nope, not me...this is my ride:

I wear a blue and silver helmet, bright blue cycling top.

Cool. A fella left the WRR and headed up through Mill Park same as me last week, I thought what are the odds? He crushed me as well Nice ride.....Plenty River trail?

Just back from looking at jobs in CBD.....gee it rained a lot. Now all soaked. will dry out enough to feel uncomfortable when I leave yard for home Cars well behaved, nice feeling when it's belting down.

My brakes are crapola. Ultegra......any suggestions for pads?

[cancan64]

In Brisbane town for the next 2 days before I fly off to NZ so 2 days of commuting....bike is packed up so dusted the commuter....put some air in the tyres and off I went....forgot to adjust the seat to my new height from last bike fit so a job for tonight...was comfy with the wide/low pressure commuting tyres but a good 8 minutes slower over the roadie (17km ride)...although I also took it easy as I have a couple of big rides end of the week and supposedly resting

[Lukeyboy]

Tomorrow, do I dare go for an extended commute via the Kedron Brook Bikeway with the amount of KOMs I have gotten along it recently??

[jasonc]

any suggestions for pads?

swiss stop greens

edit: luke - you have to compete the set

[Lukeyboy]

I must have all koms between Nudgee Beach and South Pine Road.

I still can't believe some of the time differences in the KOMs now. Nearly 2 minutes over a 16.5km segment.

[kb]

any suggestions for pads?

swiss stop greens

edit: luke - you have to compete the set

Swissstop BXP for me (dark blue compound)

[snowmaan]

Bad day, I got hit cycling home today by a van, basically head on, he was turning right into a street in Pyrmont and didn't see me.

I swerved last minute otherwise I probably would have gone under the van. Smashed my bike up but not too bad, as I went up the front of the van windscreen and flew off the left side of it, smashed hard into the ground. took lots of skin off and waited ages for the police to arrive, they didn't so I took a cab home and now in emergency.

Maybe broken arm, waiting for X-ray.

The bastard saw me sit up when people ran in to help me, then sped off away from the scene.

Witnesses took down his number plates and I'm pressing charges.

Closest I've come to you know what and reckon I was a foot away from not being here to type this up.

Only typing this up because I've been waiting hours in emergency, and it's a grim reminder to be safe out there, never thought this would happen to me, very surreal.