How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
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Postby jasonc » Wed Aug 09, 2017 12:14 pm
tap my access card on bike cage. no worky. there is a dodgy way in. so i get in
tap my access card on the shower block. no worky. someone left the door ajar so i get in.
back to the bike cage. thankfully someone was there to let me in.
tap my card for the lift area. no worky. so i walk up to ground then get a lift to my floor. reception are there, they let me in.
i now have a new card. gah
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Postby DavidS » Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:51 pm
A little windy? Wait until tomorrow and think of me riding North along the beach to get to work, I don't think this is going to be fun . . . or quick.fat and old wrote:Gee the weather has been good lately...a little windy but that's it.
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Postby outnabike » Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:32 am
Crikey, I have had the bike for 5 years now, its got 9 gears. Now I discoverer another one. Reverse....I had to dodge a branch so went up a small grade with some moss or wet leaves on it, and in low gear I was at best standing still.DavidS wrote:A little windy? Wait until tomorrow and think of me riding North along the beach to get to work, I don't think this is going to be fun . . . or quick.fat and old wrote:Gee the weather has been good lately...a little windy but that's it.
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But with a bit of poetic journalism I reckon it at least felt like going backwards. I like the romanticism of the wind in my hair and all that, but this morning it was more like neck snapping.
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Postby jasonc » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:03 am
I had 2 degrees this morning. But it will be mid to high 20s this afternoon. Westerly winds are very common at this time of year - cold and strong
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Postby fat and old » Thu Aug 10, 2017 2:52 pm
Going home, I'm gonna feel your pain. Wind comes straight down the fwy reserve the bike path is onDavidS wrote:A little windy? Wait until tomorrow and think of me riding North along the beach to get to work, I don't think this is going to be fun . . . or quick.fat and old wrote:Gee the weather has been good lately...a little windy but that's it.
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This morning was excellent tho
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Postby DavidS » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:10 pm
Yep, quite the opposite for me, worst average speed on the way in for years, and the overall average was still woeful, just couldn't make up the speed.fat and old wrote:Going home, I'm gonna feel your pain. Wind comes straight down the fwy reserve the bike path is onDavidS wrote:A little windy? Wait until tomorrow and think of me riding North along the beach to get to work, I don't think this is going to be fun . . . or quick.fat and old wrote:Gee the weather has been good lately...a little windy but that's it.
DS
This morning was excellent tho
That wind was ferocious, I thought a bit worse in the morning but might just be my perception.
DS
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Postby fat and old » Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:16 am
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Postby cancan64 » Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:21 am
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Postby bychosis » Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:40 am
This morning I left a little late for my extendo-mute. Don't think my mind was in the zone. Just felt slow, and noone to chase or pace me, they were all going the other way.
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Postby bychosis » Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:00 am
Going through the park and I saw a lady with a goat on a lead, then had to look twice as a few seconds later saw a man with a great big wooly sheep on a lead. They were getting a few looks too.
Then about half way home there was two young women, one taking a photo of the other with the lake backdrop. Not unusual in itself, but the subject of the photo was holding up her dog, not a little dog either, but a labradoodle or similar size, almost as big as her and a bit of a struggle to hold.
Seems the heat got to a few people.
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Postby Mugglechops » Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:11 am
Replaced the merino top with a short sleeve shirt.
Had one flat section where I was struggling to do 8kmh
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Postby DavidS » Wed Aug 16, 2017 10:23 pm
Getting a bit sick of this at the moment.
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Postby find_bruce » Tue Aug 22, 2017 4:32 pm
Bychosis you better pass on that walking malarkey, sounds dangerous
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Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
Postby bychosis » Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:49 pm
I had a pump in my locker and a spare tube in my backpack. Just happen that I was on my MTB which had been tubeless for a while, but recently reverted to tubes and the spare tube was a 700x23 size.
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Postby ironhanglider » Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:05 pm
Redundancy and reliability are the kings of commuting for me. I broke a nipple on the ride home last night. I was able to substitute a rear wheel from my #2 bike for today. A similar issue on the front would cost me my primary lights, so I need to build another dynohub front wheel it seems.bychosis wrote:Yeah, not keen on walking it too often, unless I can remember to take some decent shoes. I'm aiming to run to work at least once by the end of the year, but that will be planned, not as a result of bike malfunction.
I had a pump in my locker and a spare tube in my backpack. Just happen that I was on my MTB which had been tubeless for a while, but recently reverted to tubes and the spare tube was a 700x23 size.
All my wheels have tyres that take the same tubes. I even carry a Tufo tubular clincher as a spare, which might be going a bit far, but it means that I can confidently offer a spare tube to a damsel in distress.
Cheers,
Cameron.
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Postby cancan64 » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:46 am
I broke a spoke nipple yesterday... lucky for disc brakes it has less of an effect and this morning just grabbed the roadie... lucky for spare bikesironhanglider wrote: I broke a nipple on the ride home last night. I was able to substitute a rear wheel from my #2 bike for today.
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