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Day 648 ⛅ braeside park
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
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Day 647 🌧 damp shopping
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Day 646 🌧 gone bush
The GWARNY…
Via a Cycling Tips email, the GWARNY inaugural edition | Ride | Strava Very tempting, not sure I’m up to 260km of gravel by myself, even doing it over two days looks to be a challenge. Possibly do it as a two day ride staying at Forrest or Gellibrand…
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#birding #cycling #lifelogging combo
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Day 244 of 2020, #cycling every day Via @gyroscope-app
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While out on the daily #cycling exercise/meander/exploration/sanity-preserver, I found an old #tram hiding behind a fence
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A #laneway in clayton while on the daily #cycling #challenge
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Family #cycling through a #laneway, cobbles, concrete, mud, grass, then art gallery
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Today's #cycling. Testing #melburn #lockdown limits
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Who needs a #hug? Friday afternoon #cycling.
pulsing stabbing ITB twinges all weekend, something is all wrong with how I'm riding
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Family ride on the tandem in the cold. 200 days of #cycling so far in 2020, 166 to go. #visualisation by @gyroscope
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Another day #cycling, another #laneway. Have I been here before? Who knows...
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Mid-ride #cappucino on my daily #cycling outing. 196 days of 366, 170 to go
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#Gadabunud country. In the #Otways again, #gravelroad #cycling on all too brief weekend of near normality before home and reinstatement of lockdown
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Evening #cycling #sunset, #random #filter
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Local council has finally rebuilt the #bikepath around #Huntingdale wetlands after far too many years of arguments between council & Melbourne water. Looking good on a cold, clear, still winter day, perfect for my afternoon #cycling
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While #cycling through the backstreets, a large #oldcar rumbled into view. 1970's Ford. Stopped to talk with the owner, he says they had an unfortunate habit of catching fire
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Another day #cycling, another unexplored #alley in #Oakleigh, #Melbourne. I don't think I've ever ridden along here, even though its in my own suburb. One end closed off, it doesn't go through anywhere any more
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Every day in isolation, out for my afternoon #cycling. Day 161 of 2020, a new #Melbourne #alley, very long and straight, mixed concrete, bluestone, grass and mud. A #nanoadventure for three blocks and a few minutes
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#nofilter, amazing afternoon #light while #cycling back in to Lorne along the #GOR
new seat not as slippery as it looks, despite the rain and cobbles it seems ok on a first trial
Finally replaced the broken seat on the AWOL – with the original seat from Jo's new Giant, looks a bit slippery though
From a cycling podcast, Feb 2020.. "It's a 20yr old steel frame from the 1980s." Um, how old?
bizarrely angry ute driver at a roundabout
Guy in a ute pulled up at roundabout in front of me on my left just before I got there, he stopped, I kept going and rode through, as I passed in front of him he blasted on the horn the entire time – 2-3s or so – then started up and drove across behind meAargh, both misuses in one day. pedal vs peddle
First it was https://www.monash.edu/people/transport-parking/cycling You can take your bike on all metropolitan trains, making it possible to peddle around Melbourne… Then in an “Orbital Transmission” email from https://arstechnica.com/ we get: A celebrity pedaling bad health science has…
Cycling Lorne to Waurn Ponds
Now how does that work? Two weeks ago, on New Years Day, I rode from Lorne to Waurn Ponds to catch the train back to Melbourne. I had a tailwind, I felt good, I thought I made good time and having left at 2 pm I got to Waurn Ponds in time to get straight on the 4.38 pm train. Two days ago I repeated the exercise, legs felt like lead, I had a bruise on my thigh from a small stupidity in the main street of Lorne, didn’t really put any effort in and wasn’t that fussed at how quickly I got to Waurn Ponds because I knew I’d have to wait around for the 5.
bushfires all over the east of Victoria for weeks and not a peep out of the Alpine Classic, no updates on their website, no emails, nothing. Will they cancel?
2020 cycling every day... a challenge
Each year for the past few years I try and ride as often as I can, my reasoning is that if I can’t go far, at least I can go often! Best effort to date was 2017 when I managed to ride 363 of 365 days, succumbing to the flu and staying in bed for two days in September. Rules are minimal; on the bike and over 1km, hopefully over 1.
Saved by habit! Nearly left my keys at Lorne
Habits are a wonderful thing. Whenever I go for a bike ride, I put my house keys in my left rear jersey pocket, my phone in the right, and maybe a snack or sunglasses or coin pouch in the centre one. I hop on the bike, ride off, and reach back and pat pockets, right then left … just to be sure.
Today I was leaving Lorne to ride the 60km back to Waurn Ponds before catching the train to Melbourne to have the house to myself for two days while I had to go to work….
2019 Bike commutes
Annual bike commute summary and statistics.
I think I rode to work every day this year, at least I can’t remember catching the bus. Shortest ride was around 2-3km when I had to drive to my parents in law’s house and ride from there. Longest was probably 30-40km on a Thursday or Friday afternoon when I can take a detour on the way home and go exploring.
From the visualisation of all the GPX tracks I saved its all variations on a theme and either straight out and back each day or an approximately anti-clockwise loop.
misty rain, dead legs, sore arse. Feeling like a post audax lump of lead
Cool and grey ride, feeling flat and sore and mentally exhausted, magpies[1] warbled in the trees
[1] Australian magpieWolfgang[1] staying the night via #warmshowers, on his way from Melbourne to Sydney
[1] Wolfgang
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 4 — Hyde to Middlemarch
Last day of our four day trip along the Otago Central Rail Trail
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 3 — Wedderburn to Hyde
Our third day along the Otago Central Rail Trail
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 7 — International Railtrail Coffeeneuring
In a week of riding along the Otago Central Rail Trail for our first “overseas family bike touring holiday” we drank at least one decent coffee a day that would qualify, for clarity, here’s the one I chose to be number seven of this year’s challenge.
There was a coffee on day one, but I was too busy enjoying it to take a coffeeneuring photo. Day two of our mini bike tour was from Omakau to Wedderburn, with the morning tea stop coming early at Lauder.
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 2 — Omakau to Wedderburn
Second day of our four day ride along the Otago Central Rail Trail
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 1 — Clyde to Omakau
Stepping up our Rail Trail game, we went international
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 6 — The Solo Slog
A long one, and it would have been “an event” and disqualified according to the rules, but the event was cancelled so I rode the route anyway.
In 2012 I first rode “The Slog”, a 160km fund-raising ride around Gippsland, starting and finishing at the Chairo Christian School just out of Pakenham. I’ve entered it and ridden every year since, except for 2013 where I entered but stayed home due to illness & bad weather.
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 5 — Lorne to the lighthouse
Two rides in a row, two days apart, acceptably within the bounds of the rules.
Unlike two days ago, today I left Lorne on the Great Ocean Road to the north-east, off towards Aireys Inlet and the Split Point Lighthouse.
Out of town, a few kilometres of flat coast road then up Big Hill and into the steeper forest sections, winding and twisting. Up and over Cinema point and down to Eastern view and back to flat coastal road and eventually, to pass under the arch that marks the official start of the Great Ocean Road.
About
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…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
…The ISP
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