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Sunday, Mar 31, 2019

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A drizzly grey day after yesterday’s pouring rain, having spent the morning inside we went out for a ride in the early afternoon to take a look at the City of Monash “Skink Link” habitat works along Scotchmans Creek. I’d seen one of the piles of logs a few times while riding past but hadn’t stopped to look in detail, and in describing it had managed to confuse Jo, since she’d received email updates about the work, but it placed them on the other side of Drummond street.

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Thursday, Mar 21, 2019

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Keeping in touch with my roots, I read Tim the Yowie Man’s column from the Canberra Times on local history of the Canberra area. I’d bookmarked The downhill daredevils who conquered The Clyde – two cyclists riding from Canberra to the coast in 1943 – and read it this afternoon, prompting almost a stream-of-consciousness of memories of a similar trip. There aren’t many routes to take so it almost parallels the trip Richard & I made after the end of year 12; the road much improved from 1943 in that article, but for us two eighteen year olds quite an adventure, and given how long ago it was and that I can’t find anything I wrote about it, strong memories.

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Sunday, Mar 17, 2019

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Well the intention today had been to drive in to Stawell and ride out along the Grampians Rail Trail back towards Halls Gap, but circumstances conspired against us – a longer than anticipated hike up to The Pinnacle in the morning, a late arrival in Stawell for lunch and finding the town much larger and more spread out than expected. Instead we decided to start heading back towards Melbourne straight after lunch, but to stop in Ballarat for a lap of Lake Wendouree.

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Saturday, Mar 16, 2019

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Two family rides today, morning ride to the north, along a firetrail at the base of the ridge, off towards the golf course through the bush and back into town. Then later an excursion out to Lake Bellfield, back for lunch, and a minor detour to search for – and find – geocache GC133Q5. Interestingly, both rides came in at 12.7km. Morning – firetrails and an old rail line in the bush Walking across the sports ground in the morning I’d found that there was a dirt road, or more accurately a sand road, that skirted the base of the hills and headed north.

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Monday, Mar 11, 2019

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Going AWOL at the top of Teddy's Lookout Escape for a couple of hours in the afternoon; out of the car port and straight down into town without time to warm up. Then ten kilometres of the climb up Benwerrin, I suspect that I’ll never again surpass my quickest time up the climb. Turn left at the top and today there are no march flies, then there’s a quiet ten kilometres or so along the dirt road along the ridge.

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Monday, Feb 25, 2019

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My favourite time of year, the temperature is just right, usually not too wet, enough daylight hours and unlike spring, no swooping magpies! Although it’s heating up again later this week, on a still clear afternoon I took a few mini detours for a thoroughly enjoyable commute home. Suburban back streets to Huntingdale, then through a back alley for some local colour, industrial brick buildings and rear yards. A few decades worth of discarded industrial detritus in some places.

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Friday, Feb 22, 2019

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A few weeks ago I followed a link to a visualisation of someone’s bike ride on https://relive.cc and was impressed with the insight it gave to a ride. So I signed in, carefully read the terms and conditions and privacy policy as one always does… and linked it with my strava account. Of course since then I don’t think I’ve ridden anywhere interesting, so it has waited until yesterday afternoon’s long ride home to get a decent video of my own.

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Friday, Nov 30, 2018

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About 15 years ago I moved to Oakleigh and although I’d probably used the “Station trail” bike path – now the “Djerring trail” – before then, that was when I started it using it at least weekly, sometimes daily. The path is pretty poor, it runs between train stations but vanishes at each one. Too hard to work out a through-route for cyclists so in fairly typical Melbourne bike facilities fashion it just vanishes, leaves you to – “Cyclists dismount” – walk through connecting footpaths and pedestrian underpasses, then ride through car parks, then rejoin the next section of shared path – all additionally dangerous if you’ve got small children with you.

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 7 — rainy day commute and a coffee

Friday, Nov 23, 2018

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My seventh – and last – ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge. The challenge ends on Sunday and there are things I must do on both days of the weekend, so I’d been wondering how I’d fit in the last ride. Earlier this week I’d been intending to go for a lunch ride on Thursday or Friday, similar to the shorter rides I did last year. Well it didn’t happen yesterday, so that left today.

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Saturday, Nov 17, 2018

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My sixth time around the loop; 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018. I’d entered in 2013 but had the flu the week before the ride and that Saturday it poured with rain, so I sensibly stayed home. The official timing reports say that I completed the ride in 7hr 22min 36sec, which puts me 9th last of the 177 riders in the 160 km event, and 3hr 22min behind Eric who was first to finish!

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 6 — Early home, chores, a coffee

Friday, Nov 16, 2018

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My sixth ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; tomorrow I’m off on “an event” which rules out my Saturday ride being counted as part of the challenge, so I snuck in a coffeeneuring coffee as my late lunch, going home early to work from home, and to do some secret chores. Circumstances dictated that I had to collect kid from school, so an early ride home and then work from home was called for.

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 5 — The other river, yesterday's donut, a hipster coffee

Saturday, Nov 10, 2018

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My fifth ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; each one different so far; back in Melbourne after last weekend away and a bit of exploration – urban and riverside – then a coffee on the way home. I’d had a hankering to go west and explore the Maribyrnong for a few weeks – partly after going over it on our Around the Bay ride, and partly after hearing a relation talk of his work on an engineering project out that way – it reminded me I rarely go out there and hadn’t seen much of that side of Melbourne for years.

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 4 — The Great Ocean Road, the wind, the coffee

Saturday, Nov 3, 2018

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My fourth ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; each one different so far; equally good scenery to last week, but much better coffee. We were going away for a four day weekend due to the Melbourne festival of horse whipping, drunkenness and gambling … err, the Melbourne Cup … and taking the bikes with us. It takes up too much of the day if I try and ride the whole 200 km from Melbourne to Lorne so I’d decided to wait until somewhere around Freshwater Creek or Moriac – depending on the route we took – and ride the rest of the way from there.

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 3 — Mountain ash, tree ferns, bad coffee

Saturday, Oct 27, 2018

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My third ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; far better weather than a week ago, but much worse coffee. A six thirty start, first time back on the AWOL after it spent the week at the LBS having the bottom bracket replaced. Last Saturday’s gritty rain ride was the last straw, although it had seemed OK on Sunday when we went out exploring, on Monday morning it was dead – the occasional noise under load was now a constant grinding.

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 2 — Just like Spring rain…

Saturday, Oct 20, 2018

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My second ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; a very different ride to a week ago and a lot fewer people about. I’d woken up around 4 am to the sound of heavy rain on the roof, not a good sign, but by the time I woke a second time at around 6:30 am the rain seemed to have stopped, although everything was very wet. I left under dull grey skies, temperature of 10.

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Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018

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Today is the annual event of “Ride2Work day” that Bicycle Network organize to try and get people to try cycle commuting, even if only for the one day a year. Free breakfasts at various places, promotions, you name it. If I’d been going to work on campus I could have helped myself to either of two breakfasts depending on whether I came in the north or the south end of campus, instead it was the first day of the eResearch Australasia conference and I found myself heading towards the city.

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 1 — Saturday morning bay ride

Saturday, Oct 13, 2018

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Last year I stumbled on the semi-humorous “coffeeneuring” cycling challenge via the Chasing Mailboxes blog and had lots of fun as a result. The months have rolled around and here it is again, their eighth coffeeneuring challenge, my second time through. Seven rides to seven coffees in seven weeks… how hard can it be? A quick perusal of the rules… hmm, I think rule 9 would have tripped me up last year – one of my coffees was taken during The Slog and wouldn’t qualify this year, I’d better be more careful!

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Sunday, Oct 7, 2018

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A long day, truly magnificent weather and a fantastic day out for Cam’s longest ride ever – almost 70 km by the time we added in 9 km getting to the start and home afterwards. Despite my misgivings about logistics and timing, it all went to plan, although as usual my body clock refused to trust the alarm clock, so I woke up pretty much every half hour from 1 am to 4 am, and barely got back to sleep in between.

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Thursday, Oct 4, 2018

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After over a decade of not riding in the Around the Bay in a Day bike ride, this year Cam and I have entered for the family option on the tandem. It used to be that when you said you’d ridden “Around the Bay in a Day” it meant that you had, in fact, ridden around Port Phillip bay and that you had done so in a day. There are now so many options and distances that you can pay your money, ride 20 km from Albert park down to Elwood and back and say you have “Ridden in Around the Bay in a Day (event)”.

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enjoyable ride along the GOR

Cam and I rode from Lorne to Wye River and stopped for a coffee or hot chocolate, then met up with Jo on her way back from Skenes creek and rode together back to Lorne. Timed it perfectly to miss bus o’clock – the hour from 10-11am when all the outbound tour buses head down the Great Ocean Road, and even spotted an echidna in the grass on the way back down to St George river

Saturday, Sep 29, 2018

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Sunday, Sep 9, 2018

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Off for an hour and a half to explore the progress of the bikepath along the railway… south and east along the line from Oakleigh to Dandenong, then turn around retrace my steps. One of the benefits of the Level Crossing Removal Project. They say there’ll be a “Continuous Bike Path” from Caulfield to Dandenong, so off I went to see how far along the construction has progressed. Although they did say that for a while, then the wording changed a bit.

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Where is the small allen key?

After the Gravel Grind ride last Sunday, or the corrugated parts in particular, one of my bidon cages has worked loose and the bottle has wobbled to and fro on my rides to work. Hunting around for the correct sized allen key this morning I found out just how many of them I have lying around the house… and shed. Unfortunately I think I’ve only got one or two of the 2mm size that these bolts are I was beginning to suspect that I’d carefully put them somewhere safe – so safe that I couldn’t find them.

Wednesday, Sep 5, 2018

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post-ride aches

I really should give up on this idea of entering moderately hard bike rides and not doing any training. Relying on generaly fitness and my minimal commutes just doesn’t cut it! Today I’m a bundle of aches and pains, moving around the house like an old man and having trouble bending down to pick things up. The back of my neck and trapezius aches, probably from carrying the little backpack for the whole day.

Sunday, Sep 2, 2018

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Wednesday, Aug 29, 2018

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Riding home on the coldest day so far this year, on the third last day of what is officially winter. There was a frost this morning and it was cold and still all day, thankfully with a clear blue sky so any time you could get out in the sun you felt warmer. Around 8 °C as I left the building, the sun still above the horizon for another half hour or so.

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Yellow-tailed black cockatoos[1] on the commute

Crossing over Dandenong road on the ride home and over the traffic noise in the damp and gloom there’s the unmistakable creaking call of a black cockatoo – no idea where it was, but they always bring a smile to my face [1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018

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Wednesday, Jul 18, 2018

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Winter commute

Another cold and misty day, 3.5°C on the ride to work and a low fog bank off to the east filling Dandenong creek valley. A hazy mist in the air all day and a magnificent full moon rising through it on the way home

Wednesday, Jun 27, 2018

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morning commute

Chilly ride to school and work, then got here and made the lift break down – I pushed the button, the indicator said it was at 3, 2, 1, G…. Then all the lights on the board went out and I heard it shut down. Waited a few minutes, pressed a few buttons, then gave up, hoiked bike up onto my shoulder and walked up the stairs to the third floor

Monday, Jun 4, 2018

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Friday, Jun 1, 2018

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Yesterday for the first time in ages I took a look at a video from the Cycliq Fly12 – I wanted to see what the grid-locked traffic looked like. As usual, I did it through the USB connection since I’ve found the Android app to be barely usable for connecting to the device, let along trying to view any video. Watching the video I realised it was still set to GMT+11 so the timestamps were an hour out.

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birds on the commute

Damp and grey, the first rainy morning I can remember for months. Riding in the last few streets to work there were currawongs[1] calling, somewhere, evoking winter. Then a butcherbird[2] loudly telling the world it was raining [1] Pied currawong [2] Grey butcherbird

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018

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Skyrail progress

Thursday afternoon long ride home, around to Grange road to check out the full length of the Skyrail section. Caulfield end waiting for ramps, the south viaduct is one segment short of Poath road

Thursday, Mar 15, 2018

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Thursday, Mar 1, 2018

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This afternoon I decided to detour on the ride home, to head south down to Clayton to check out the progress on the Skyrail viaduct, then ride home along the the bike path to get a better look at the newly opened – or is it nearly opened – bike path through Huntingdale now that the redevelopment there is nearly complete. Almost at Huntingdale station the path runs between the car park and the feeder loop from North road around into Huntindale road.

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LXRA progres

Lovely and sunny, with scattered cherry pickers…lots of scattered cherry pickers. Bike path is open to Huntingdale, but if anyone in SE Melbourne is looking for a cherry picker, I know where they’ve all been stashed. At Huntingdale a bit more of the bike path is open, lovely straight path, goes between the car park and station platform all the way to the bus interchange then vanishes with a “Cyclists dismount” sign.

Tuesday, Feb 27, 2018

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Last bike ride of 2017 — Jamieson, Curtis & Sharps tracks

Sunday, Dec 31, 2017

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The New Year break found us staying at Lorne again, and me trying to get out every day to keep up with my other challenge – ride all 365 days of the year. I managed to make it to 363, two days in September were written off as I lay in bed shaking with the flu. For the past five or ten years I’ve made a conscious effort to have some form of interesting “last ride of the year”, rather than to just realise early in the next year that something boring was the last one.

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Tuesday, Dec 5, 2017

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An annual challenge, “ride every day,” and in 2017 I came the closest I’ve come to making it a reality. Some days I only made it around the block, or up to the local bakery, but every day of the year except two I got out on the bike and managed to clock up at least 1.5km. The two exceptions were two days spent in bed with the flu, at a holiday house in the Otways, while my bike languished outside on the roofrack of the car.

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Perfect timing!

Leaving the office I walked across the hall to try and fill my water bottle before riding home in 35°C heat. The light on the door card-access reader was green… until I got a metre from it when there was a loud click and it locked, requiring card access, but only to the staff who work in there. No water for me

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2017

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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 7 -- Koonung Creek trail

Sunday, Nov 19, 2017

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A final ride for the 2017 coffeeneuring challenge and I almost thought I wasn’t going to make it over the weekend and would have to bend the rules. I’d thought I’d be going out for a longer ride alone, as it was we had a shorter one with the family. So over the three weeks, the rides were short short long, short long, short short. Which in Morse code is “U-A-I”.

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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 6 -- refuelling on the corner

Friday, Nov 17, 2017

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My efforts for the 2017 coffeeneuring challenge have been split into four small rides during my lunch break from work, and three longer rides. The first two little rides in were, almost coincidentally, to the south and then the east, so I made a conscious effort to go north for the third with the intention of then heading west for the fourth1. Today in the morning I’d attended a lab walk-through for SensiLab at Monash University Caulfield campus, so although today’s coffee destination is west of my normal workplace, I was heading east when I got there.

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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 5 -- “The Slog” and a coffee

Saturday, Nov 11, 2017

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Fourteen years ago a church group – the 4Cs – decided to hold a fund-raising bike ride from where they were, in Pakenham on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne, to Sale, on the Gippsland coast. Thus the Slog to Sale was created. For fourteen years the ride has been held, I’m not sure when the name changed to The Slog and the route changed to a loop around the West Gippsland area, but that was what it was when I did my first one in 2012.

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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 4 -- nanoadventure to the north

Friday, Nov 10, 2017

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Part the fourth of my attempt at the 2017 coffeeneuring challenge, and to keep to the rules, I have to go for a ride and a coffee today. Like the first and the second, this is a lunchtime mini-ride to somewhere – anywhere – preferably somewhere I haven’t previously visited. Since the first was to the south, and the second to the west, clearly now, in the immortal words of Mark E.

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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 3 -- Lorne to Apollo Bay

Sunday, Nov 5, 2017

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With a long weekend at Lorne on the Great Ocean Road there’s a chance for a few long rides, especially if I can force myself to get up early and get out before the tourist buses come through and make the traffic a bit too much of a chore. This morning I was up at dawn and headed out towards Wye River, intending to go through as far as Cape Patton and grab a coffee on the way back, probably at Kennet River.

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Friday, Nov 3, 2017

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Right then, yesterday was a good start, down south through the medical precinct for the first coffee of the challenge. Since today is Friday it’s a new week according to the rules, so off I’ll go in a new direction. New rules for myself are that I’ll try my best to go to places that I’ve never been to before, but here in Melbourne we’re surrounded by a bazillion coffee shops, so how to choose?

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Adrian Tritschler's stuff

Skink Link cycling

Clyde Mountain cycling

A loop of the lake

Two family rides out of Halls Gap

Lorne Otways loop

Autumn bike commutes

Visualising cycling rides — relive.cc

Obstruction, my lord

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 7 — rainy day commute and a coffee

The Slog, 2018, 160km

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 6 — Early home, chores, a coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 5 — The other river, yesterday's donut, a hipster coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 4 — The Great Ocean Road, the wind, the coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 3 — Mountain ash, tree ferns, bad coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 2 — Just like Spring rain…

Every day is ride2work day

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 1 — Saturday morning bay ride

ATBIAD, 50km on the tandem

ATBIAD preliminaries

Sunday Skyrail Bikepath Exploration

Cold commute home

Grasshopper Tours Angkor Wat day ride

Cycliq Fly12 Woes

Idiotic bike path at Huntingdale

Last bike ride of 2017 — Jamieson, Curtis & Sharps tracks

Cycling 2017

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 7 -- Koonung Creek trail

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 6 -- refuelling on the corner

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 5 -- “The Slog” and a coffee

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 4 -- nanoadventure to the north

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 3 -- Lorne to Apollo Bay

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 2

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