Perth weather
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Re: Perth weather
Postby Cycleops70 » Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:39 pm
Fantastic light show, and the thunder was so loud I could feel it.
Strange, I was the only one out
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Re: Perth weather
Postby Tequestra » Sun Apr 22, 2018 3:50 pm
Luckily I was not expected at my morning destination until 10am (GMT+8), and God knows that I was afraid to go out on my bicycle this morning and getting thunderstruck, for whatever that means. I even wore two pairs of long track-suit pants and wrapped plastic shopping bags around my feet in preparation. I guess it was plain to see for the omniscient ones in the world, so God stopped the rain and thunder and lightning at 09:30 (GMT+8) and I got the courage to embark on my ride quite overdressed indeed. Arrived 95% dry, but that was pure luck, from an atheist pov.
It is not rare over the decades for this much rain in April in Perth, but rain like this morning only seems to happen this early in the wet season every once in a while. I think it was God providing the opportunity at last to test out the waterproofing on the electrics on my bike, or maybe just good luck. Too bad I never got rained on after all that.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:48 pm
Came back into the city and went along the river for a bit. Heaps of families on their pushys.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby NASHIE » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:50 pm
Magic day today. I was busy in the morning, but son did heritage trail loop on the xc bike and said heaps of riders out. Just did River/Kings park on Roadie and yes still heaps of familys out Burwood to South Perth. Probably average 10kph through S/Perth but its great seeing families out and about.owly wrote:Beautiful weather out there today. Rode up into the hills and did a lap around Victoria Dam on the gravel bike.
Came back into the city and went along the river for a bit. Heaps of families on their pushys.
Will have to arrange a ride one day. If your keen or know anyone who's interested May 5th is XC super cross under lights at Claremont showgrounds. Organisers need minimum 120 riders to cover costs which they should get but the more the riders the better.
Need to pre enter and get a 3 race licence as a minimum, so all up cost will be around $100 ($50 entry $50 3 race licence). Normal XC races are $10-$20 entry
https://entryboss.cc/races/1148
https://www.wamba.org.au/index.php/cycl ... 5-05-00-00
Good bunch of guys and girls, U13 kids race which is hottly contested . Racing is not for sheep stations and chance of crashes and injury really is very minimal. Generally mass start of 10-20 riders depending on grade, and after 100-200m its single file and just rIde your race.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Sat Apr 28, 2018 6:12 pm
Rode up to Victoria Dam again to do another loop. Went down some different tracks this time. One crazy long steep rock-crawling climb. Hit a couple of nice slight downhill stretches on the east side.
2.1 knobbys on today. Really needed them on the downhill softer gravel sections.
Yeah, Nashie, if you're up for a gravel ride sometime would be good. I don't ride fast, just enjoy the scenery/exploring around. I do tend to be out 7+ hours though.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby NASHIE » Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:02 pm
Mate I would be sleeping on the couch if I disappeared for 7 hrs . Bit of racing on for the next couple of months so out on the gas most rides at the moment, but will drop you a PM later on for a more casual ride. Have you ever done the loop around Mundaring weir ?. Did this many years ago, and there are some good tracks out the back.owly wrote:My boss said the other day there was going to be rain this weekend. Hmmn. Not today.
Rode up to Victoria Dam again to do another loop. Went down some different tracks this time. One crazy long steep rock-crawling climb. Hit a couple of nice slight downhill stretches on the east side.
2.1 knobbys on today. Really needed them on the downhill softer gravel sections.
Yeah, Nashie, if you're up for a gravel ride sometime would be good. I don't ride fast, just enjoy the scenery/exploring around. I do tend to be out 7+ hours though.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Tue May 01, 2018 10:41 am
Closest I've come to that is heading up west and out of the Weir along the main road, then seeing a wide gravel road off to the left shaded by pine trees; thinking 'where does that go?'. Was pretty rutted at the time.NASHIE wrote:Mate I would be sleeping on the couch if I disappeared for 7 hrs . Bit of racing on for the next couple of months so out on the gas most rides at the moment, but will drop you a PM later on for a more casual ride. Have you ever done the loop around Mundaring weir ?. Did this many years ago, and there are some good tracks out the back.owly wrote:My boss said the other day there was going to be rain this weekend. Hmmn. Not today.
Rode up to Victoria Dam again to do another loop. Went down some different tracks this time. One crazy long steep rock-crawling climb. Hit a couple of nice slight downhill stretches on the east side.
2.1 knobbys on today. Really needed them on the downhill softer gravel sections.
Yeah, Nashie, if you're up for a gravel ride sometime would be good. I don't ride fast, just enjoy the scenery/exploring around. I do tend to be out 7+ hours though.
Sometimes I just go along the northern end of the rail trail then head down into the weir along the main road, then head along the track west following Helena Valley, popping out in the lower suburbs, then head back home.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:15 am
Sunday was planning to check out Paruna Sanctuary but when I got there found out you had to make a booking to walk the trails (was planning on riding them; looking around). Oh well. The back roads were very quiet apart from the odd motorcycle run. Lots of undulating hills. Nice scenery.
Ended up doing a loop, ending up at Waroona. Rode the rail-trail back west. The crazy steep hill up Weir Road never gets any easier.
Weekends go too quick!
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Re: Perth weather
Postby NASHIE » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:03 pm
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Re: Perth weather
Postby billy70 » Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:16 am
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Re: Perth weather
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Re: Perth weather
Postby Lizzy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:39 pm
2.3 this morning according to my weather station. Fleecy long-johns, wool base layer and thick fleece jersey, + wool balaclava and I needed all of it for the full 30km
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:31 am
Way better time of year than summer to do this kind of riding, as the streams are running and things can get steep in some places. Quite a few roos about. Came across an unused large fire extinguisher down one rough track.
Out the back of the old quarry is nice. Quite a few long gravel runs heading west. An old homestead or two must have been in there at sometime.
Crossed Tooday Rd and rode the western boundary tracks of John Forrest. Probably more suited to mtb towards the top, but the curvy run down toward the bottom is pretty cool.
Edit: Sun felt like doing a flat route somewhere. Hadn't ridden to Whiteman Park before. Thought there had to be some gravel roads/tracks around there. Ended up doing a good size loop around the perimeter on some fairly smooth limestone roads. Came back with a nice nor-easterly. A bit cool but the sun out was nice.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Sun Jul 08, 2018 8:12 pm
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Re: Perth weather
Postby billy70 » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:04 am
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Sun Jul 15, 2018 5:52 pm
Heading back past Guildford there was a cyclocross race setup going on beside the old bridge. Maybe that was Nashie's crew?
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Re: Perth weather
Postby NASHIE » Sun Jul 15, 2018 8:01 pm
Yes, awesome days racing. State champs are being held at the Belvoir Amphitheatre in 2 weeks.....52 stair climb should be a good show, so if you feel like heckling a few tried riders head on down or sign up and race WA cyclocross facebook will have all the details.owly wrote:Just got back from another ride around Whiteman Park. Pretty cool day with a bit of light rain earlier on. Rode some more stretches of limestone road west. Roo central.
Heading back past Guildford there was a cyclocross race setup going on beside the old bridge. Maybe that was Nashie's crew?
I love Whiteman Park, great man to leave it to the state.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby Mububban » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:07 pm
So I did a whole 22km round trip and got wet socks and a wet butt for my efforts.
And I found out my new Ultegra disc rotors give quite the shriek when wet.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:03 am
But the doozy was a squall that I fortunately saw coming and had time to get the pancho on. So then I mounted and headed into it. I had to stop after fifty metres and take shelter behind a nice fat palm trunk.
"A lousy fifty metres!" you say. Yeah,but making progress at the rate I was managing that was a LONG fifty metres. You won't manage THAT (lack of) speed on a bike being buffetted by wind.
Fortunately this particular squall was brief.
It looks a lot easier out there atm.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby eldavo » Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:43 am
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Re: Perth weather
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:40 pm
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Re: Perth weather
Postby Mububban » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:32 pm
And I discovered even ski gloves couldn't keep my fingers warm so the search continues for better gloves...
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Re: Perth weather
Postby owly » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:07 am
Mububban wrote:I froze my fingers and toes on Saturday morning's ride. My new shoes are beautifully vented for summer but this was the first cold morning and man, they sure do let that air flow through!!!
And I discovered even ski gloves couldn't keep my fingers warm so the search continues for better gloves...
Full-silk glove liners do make quite a difference in my experience.
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Re: Perth weather
Postby Mububban » Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:56 pm
Anything specific you can recommend?owly wrote: Full-silk glove liners do make quite a difference in my experience.
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