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bloody wind again 
Tales from today's commute....
- Thread starter martint235
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That was hard work tonight.. very blustery. Nice and sunny though a little chilly.
Mr loud clicky fee hub was drafting/trying to catch me all along the A21 tonight again....could hear is heavy, gasping breathing over his free hub this time. Think he get's a jolly good workout on his way home.
Mr loud clicky fee hub was drafting/trying to catch me all along the A21 tonight again....could hear is heavy, gasping breathing over his free hub this time. Think he get's a jolly good workout on his way home.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
My commuting routine is about to change (in a few weeks).
Since I moved to Melbourne 4.5 years ago, I've been doing early starts and finishes, typically 6:30 to 3:30, and so my "morning" (actually pre-dawn) commute is straight along Maroondah Highway because traffic between 5 and 6am is minimal. In the afternoon, to avoid the traffic, which is already building up by 3:30, I ride a few inner-city roads to Yarra Blvd, along the Blvd, then the Main Yarra and Koonung Creek Trails, then about 2km of local roads in Donvale and Ringwood North (these are both eastern suburbs of Melbourne). So my commute to work is about 27km and from work is 33.5km.
Now I'm about to transition to a new role at work, which will involve some on-the-job training and will necessitate me working more 9 to 5 hours, so I'll be using the from-work commuting route to ride to work, which means my 302.5km weekly commute will blow out to about 335km, with even more hill-climbing. I'm actually looking forward to the change
. I guess I must be addicted to cycling. The 2 commutes per day will be a bit different also because I'll be riding in more conventional commuting hours, so there will no doubt be more cyclists on the paths and roads (and more chances for testing myself against others 
) .
I think adjusting to the new work hours will be tougher than adjusting to the new commuting routine, because I've been working these early starts and finishes for about 10 years now.
Since I moved to Melbourne 4.5 years ago, I've been doing early starts and finishes, typically 6:30 to 3:30, and so my "morning" (actually pre-dawn) commute is straight along Maroondah Highway because traffic between 5 and 6am is minimal. In the afternoon, to avoid the traffic, which is already building up by 3:30, I ride a few inner-city roads to Yarra Blvd, along the Blvd, then the Main Yarra and Koonung Creek Trails, then about 2km of local roads in Donvale and Ringwood North (these are both eastern suburbs of Melbourne). So my commute to work is about 27km and from work is 33.5km.
Now I'm about to transition to a new role at work, which will involve some on-the-job training and will necessitate me working more 9 to 5 hours, so I'll be using the from-work commuting route to ride to work, which means my 302.5km weekly commute will blow out to about 335km, with even more hill-climbing. I'm actually looking forward to the change
. I guess I must be addicted to cycling. The 2 commutes per day will be a bit different also because I'll be riding in more conventional commuting hours, so there will no doubt be more cyclists on the paths and roads (and more chances for testing myself against others ) .I think adjusting to the new work hours will be tougher than adjusting to the new commuting routine, because I've been working these early starts and finishes for about 10 years now.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Just had another thought: due to cycling more conventional commuting hours, I'll most likely see more female cyclists 
. I hardly see any cyclists on my current commutes, because the hours I currently keep just aren't popular, for some reason (meh... some people just can't handle pre-dawn, I guess).
. I hardly see any cyclists on my current commutes, because the hours I currently keep just aren't popular, for some reason (meh... some people just can't handle pre-dawn, I guess).
HLaB
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Still It was a fast commute for me but just a short one totally incident free but I needed back for the club training session 
It was a fast commute for me but just a short one totally incident free but I needed back for the club training session Black Country Ste
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- West Midlands
Had a couple of appointments in the city centre this morning. My knowledge of Birmingham is poor. Think I could find Suffolk St? Wouldn't have been a problem had I gone round Holloway Circus instead of Hill Street. Had a clipless moment in front of a lot of people, managing to free myself at the last moment and hopping off the bike to land on both feet. 
Absolutely gorgeous weather though!
Absolutely gorgeous weather though!
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Had a couple of appointments in the city centre this morning. My knowledge of Birmingham is poor. Think I could find Suffolk St? Wouldn't have been a problem had I gone round Holloway Circus instead of Hill Street. Had a clipless moment in front of a lot of people, managing to free myself at the last moment and hopping off the bike to land on both feet.
Absolutely gorgeous weather though!
Video or it didn't happen
G3CWI
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- Location
- Macclesfield
Eleven glorious miles across the countryside - and two important questions:
1) A fly flew into my ear - not just into it but inside it. I have to put up with it trying to escape for several minutes. This begged the question is a fly in your ear worse than a flea in your ear?
2) I was surprised at one point when a cock pheasant ran out of the hedgerow straight across the road in front of me. I pondered my second question: can a pheasant be accused of Jay walking - and would it care?
Nothing else of note happened but what a lovely ride.
1) A fly flew into my ear - not just into it but inside it. I have to put up with it trying to escape for several minutes. This begged the question is a fly in your ear worse than a flea in your ear?
2) I was surprised at one point when a cock pheasant ran out of the hedgerow straight across the road in front of me. I pondered my second question: can a pheasant be accused of Jay walking - and would it care?
Nothing else of note happened but what a lovely ride.
I had a cock pheasant do the same to me this morning except it just stopped right in front of me and tried to play chicken with me
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Beautiful weather this morning and the wind has dropped at last and I had booked the car in for an MOT, the joys of paying VED 
In Bromley there's a 12%er on my way to work. I call it the Partridge plunge. It's a tricky little descent as it's quite narrow and has a couple of bends. So one has to be careful of cars coming up the hill. It's not long, less then a 3rd of a mile. Today was one of those days that there was no traffic, so I could tuck in and let rip. My goal is to top 40mph. Today's speed.....39.9mph...boo!
And... you never guess what... An Addison Lee taxi cab not only let me filter in, in front of him. When he overtook me he did so with acres of room. Nice one Sir.Be nice if all your companies drivers acted in the same manner.
Think the little colder weather has stopped the fairweathers coming out. Only saw one other cyclist on my commute this morning.
And... you never guess what... An Addison Lee taxi cab not only let me filter in, in front of him. When he overtook me he did so with acres of room. Nice one Sir.Be nice if all your companies drivers acted in the same manner.
Think the little colder weather has stopped the fairweathers coming out. Only saw one other cyclist on my commute this morning.
There is a hill near me with a gradient of about 15% which has traffic calming half way up, where uphill traffic has to give way to downhill traffic
