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MBTC tandem weekend — day 1 — Lilydale to Healesville

MBTC tandem weekend — day 1 — Lilydale to Healesville

Saturday, Dec 11, 2010

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Cat Herding, out of bed at 7:00 to be breakfasted, organised, packed with tandem and trailer and out the door for the 09:13 train. Sounds simply in theory and I guess it was in practice, even if we did end up walking across to the station with the trailer only half packed and the rest of the gear just stowed on the seat where Cam would sit. Oakleigh to Richmond, Cam delighting in the names of all the stations as they came over the PA system, then off the train and across to the next platform to wait for the Lilydale train on platform 10.
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Ride report for Nov. 2010

Ride report for Nov. 2010

Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for November: November 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 384.44 km Time 20:18:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,441 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 236 Activities Distance 3,122.35 km Time 175:07:03 h:m:s Elevation Gain 32,169 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 114,874 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
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Ride report for Oct. 2010

Ride report for Oct. 2010

Monday, Nov 1, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for October: October 2010 Count 9 Activities Distance 126.83 km Time 07:26:59 h:m:s Elevation Gain 1,522 m Avg Speed 17.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 4,467 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 214 Activities Distance 2,737.91 km Time 154:48:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 28,318 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 100,433 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
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Ride report for Sep. 2010

Ride report for Sep. 2010

Tuesday, Oct 5, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for September: September 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 300.45 km Time 17:12:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,332 m Avg Speed 17.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 10,315 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 205 Activities Distance 2,611.08 km Time 147:21:41 h:m:s Elevation Gain 26,796 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 95,966 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
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Ride report for Aug 2010

Ride report for Aug 2010

Friday, Sep 3, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for August: August 2010 Count 18 Activities Distance 254.74 km Time 15:01:50 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,840 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,646 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 184 Activities Distance 2,310.63 km Time 130:09:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 23,465 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 85,652 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
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Ride report for July 2010

Ride report for July 2010

Sunday, Aug 1, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for July: July 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 321.14 km Time 17:35:18 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,765 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,906 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 166 Activities Distance 2,055.89 km Time 115:07:49 h:m:s Elevation Gain 20,625 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 76,006 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
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Ride report for June 2010

Ride report for June 2010

Thursday, Jul 1, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for June: June 2010 Count 19 Activities Distance 212.31 km Time 13:14:24 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,085 m Avg Speed 16.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,581 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 144 Activities Distance 1,734.75 km Time 97:32:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 16,859 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 64,100 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
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Ride report for May 2010

Ride report for May 2010

Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for May: May 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 243.01 km Time 14:24:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,334 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,908 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 125 Activities Distance 1,522.44 km Time 84:18:07 h:m:s Elevation Gain 14,774 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 55,519 Ca Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
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Ride report for April 2010

Ride report for April 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for April: April 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 292.83 km Time 15:19:33 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,964 m Avg Speed 19.1 km/h Avg HR 142 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,087 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 104 Activities Distance 1279.42 km Time 69:53:15 h:m:s Elevation Gain 12,441 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 46,611 C Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
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Ride report for March 2010

Ride report for March 2010

Thursday, Apr 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March: March 2010 Count 26 Activities Distance 361.81 km Time 20:10:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,211 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 138 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 12,593 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 82 Activities Distance 986.59 km Time 54:33:42 h:m:s Elevation Gain 9,477 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 145 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 35,524 C
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Once, an accident; twice, a coincidence

Once, an accident; twice, a coincidence

Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010

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Trundling home on the mountain bike towing the trailer and toddler, today I decided to go the slightly longer way via Huntingdale station and the full length of the bottle-strewn bike path to Oakleigh. Making my way carefully through the Huntingdale station car-park in case of idiots I had to suddenly slam on the brakes and stop to avoid an idiot reversing at speed out of a parking space without looking.
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Ride report for February 2010

Ride report for February 2010

Monday, Mar 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February: February 2010 Count 36 Activities Distance 364.36 km Time 20:53:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,442 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,567 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 56 Activities Distance 624.78 km Time 34:23:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,266 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 22,931 C
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More Melbourne Motorists

More Melbourne Motorists

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

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Riding home today I think it must be the day of the d@ckhead and that I missed the announcement. Heading towards Clayton road in the Dandenong road service lane a courier car comes out of Clayton primary and goes screaming past me and the trailer the wrong way up the service lane heading for the McDonalds or to a shortcut across Dandenong road to head east. Passing the Oakleigh motel there’s a large tattooed arm hanging out the window of a parked crappy commodore and a hand holding a cigarette… or so I thought.
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O-week… They're back!

O-week… They're back!

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010

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For three months of the year, from the end of November to the end of February, the roads around the university are moderately safe. For three months there’s the same number of nuff-nuffs and idiots as pretty much every other part of Melbourne. Then at the end of February the students return — people in their late teens and early twenties are not renown for paying much attention to the road laws — and a whole lot of them are from overseas as well, so they have little to no idea of what the road laws are in the first place!
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Ride report for January 2010

Ride report for January 2010

Monday, Feb 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January: January 2010 Count 20 Activities Distance 260.43 km Time 13:29:56 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,825 m Avg Speed 19.3 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,365 C
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First ride of the decade

First ride of the decade

Friday, Jan 1, 2010

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After failing to go for my ceremonial last ride of the year yesterday — something I’ve managed to do when I can on December 31 each year — I took myself out on the bike today. First bike ride of the year; an easy 38km ride from Lorne out along the Great Ocean Road to Wye river, on for a couple more headlands, stop and look at the ocean for a while, then turn around and make my way home.
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Shifter woes, part #3

Shifter woes, part #3

Sunday, Dec 6, 2009

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Continued from part #2. Back from the dead — it lives! After a long, leisurely, walk over to Carnegie this morning with the pram and Jo’s bike we picked up a newly revitalised Norky bike. Dropped her Norco Magnum off for a service and to sort out the gears and picked up the grandfather’s axe that is my Java1. A bit of a comedown in the world, the only replacement 8-speed Shimano shifters left are Altus; LX, XT and XTR are all 9- or 10-speed nowadays.
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Shifter woes part #2

Shifter woes part #2

Sunday, Nov 29, 2009

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Continued from part #1. After a little searching online I decided to have another look at the internals of my rear shifter — albeit a 1996 Shimano XT unit, so I’ve had a decent thirteen year’s use out of it! Undid the three chassis screws, disconnected it from the cable, and brought it inside where I can safely drop tiny pieces on the kitchen table and not lose them in the shed or the garden.
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Shifter woes, part #1

Shifter woes, part #1

Saturday, Nov 28, 2009

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Over the last few months my rear derailleur — 1996 eight-speed Shimano XT — has been harder and harder to change; I can change up to a bigger ring, but down is a problem, and I need to change two or three cogs and then back up. Jo has also pointed out that her changer is sticking and she was just about stuck in one gear almost all the way to and from work — not much of a problem around either of our commutes, which is why we haven’t done anything about it.
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Did not Ride to Work day

Did not Ride to Work day

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009

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BV’s annual Ride to Work day met work from home day today; together with cold and flu day and drizzly grey rainy day. With the best intentions in the world I’d signed up saying I’d ride in, thinking I could pop Cam in the trailer, trundle over to Clayton for a breakfast and a chat then head home. Reality dawned dreary and coughing and wet and so we stayed home with a large mug of tea watching the rain run down the windows.
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More idiots parking blocking the path

More idiots parking blocking the path

Thursday, Feb 19, 2009

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Around and around we go; Connex and Monash City Council, Monash City Council and Connex…. Every couple of weeks someone decides to ignore the no parking signs, to ignore the huge white markings on the ground, to ignore the fact that they’re blocking the footpath and bike path, and decides to park illegally at the end of the Oakleigh station car-park. Anyone on foot who is skinny enough can squeeze past, anyone on a bike, with a pram or shopping trolley or who is fatter than average either cannot get past at all, or has to scrape along the side of the idiot’s car.
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Assume all road users are idiots

Assume all road users are idiots

Thursday, Jan 22, 2009

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+1 : Successfully avoided all unthinking drivers on the way home -1: Assumed cyclist in front of me was going straight ahead on “preferred cycle route” -2: Assumed cyclist in front of me would indicate if about to turn right, -3: Assumed cyclist in front of me would do head check before turning right just in case there was any traffic behind him. -4: Assumed cyclist in front of me heard me call out “g’day” as I started to come up behind him.
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Empty seats

Empty seats

Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009

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Thought for the day: If you ride a tandem bicycle with only one person on it you will be subject to endless strange looks and wise-cracking comments from passers-by about the empty seat. Meanwhile, you’ll be surrounded by cars all with four or more seats, mostly empty and containing just one driver….

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Firsts….

Firsts….

Monday, Jan 5, 2009

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First post of the year… First work day of the year… First bicycle commute of the year… First puncture of the year. Bugger.
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In the dark, in the cold, on the bike…

In the dark, in the cold, on the bike…

Friday, Jul 4, 2008

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Ah, Friday night in the ‘burbs, dinner with the parents in law and a 9:30 ride home from Mt Waverley to Oakleigh. A simple task it seems! It was cold, damn cold. Less than 10 °C as I left the comfy warm house, then 58km/hr down Forster road is an eye-wateringly shocking wake up. Onto the bike track from Mt Waverley to Oakleigh, No moon, no lane markings, overhanging bushes and no lights on the path.
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I am not alone

I am not alone

Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008

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Amazing! The combination of a very short commute and the cold winter weather means that on any given day I generally see no other cyclists, or around one or two a week. Maybe the rising petrol prices, a glitch in the statistics or a fluke of my timing, but in the last 24 hours I’ve met ten other bicycle commuters while riding to and from work! Maybe I should keep a log of how many other riders are about through the colder and then warmer months….
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Jaywalker vs bicycle

Jaywalker vs bicycle

Monday, Mar 17, 2008

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Aftermath of bicycle vs jaywalker There I was, riding up Beddoe avenue to Monash uni. on my way to work, slowing for the roundabout, looking left, right and straight ahead for motorists, checking for ijuts riding on the footpath who shoot across in front of you, watching for some of our less knowledgeable overseas students who drive, ride or walk unpredictably or on the wrong side of the road, I was indicating right an’ all — employing all the usual safeguards at this tiny little roundabout… then out of the blue whump.
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Bike counting

Bike counting

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008

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Ugh, why did I volunteer for this? I admit it, I was hoping that BV’s offer would put me on North road so I could see first hand just how few people really use the useless “bicycle lane”. “Volunteer to take part in a bicycle commuter survey, tell us where you live and work and we’ll place you somewhere nearby”. I volunteered, I specified Oakleigh and Clayton — 5km apart — they put me down on the Nepean highway 10km away in Moorabbin in the opposite direction!
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Just stop it will you!

Just stop it will you!

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008

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On it goes… Drivers find cyclists a road hazard from Herald Sun; State News MORE than 60 per cent of Victorian motorists find cyclists are a road hazard, according to research carried out by insurer AAMI. … Anything to sell more newspapers, split the population into “us vs them,” pick a minority and stir, this is the way of the little paper. It contains such gems as “47 per cent of Victorian car drivers have had a close call with a cyclist,” but somehow seems to neglect to ask what percentage of motorists have had a close call with another motorist.
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A response, of sorts….

A response, of sorts….

Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008

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Pah, I shouldn’t have bothered to even open the envelope. After writing two weeks ago to Grenda’s buses to complain about being run off the road and shouted at by one of their drivers, today I received a response. Our office has received your correspondence dated 9th January 2008. You have raised an issue of immense interest. Our policy is very supportive of your sentiments that we must all do our best to share the roads and respect the road laws.
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North road, bus lanes and road-raging bus drivers

North road, bus lanes and road-raging bus drivers

Wednesday, Jan 9, 2008

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How odd… as I was riding along North road this morning I was thinking that I really should write back to VicRoads and thank them for their clarification of the use of the bus lanes. Less than a minute later I had to bite my lip to stop from laughing as a VicRoads maintenance vehicle drove out of a side-street, safety orange light busy spinning around on the roof, assorted warning signs all sitting in the back… and the driver chatting away on THE MOBILE PHONE.
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2008 Amy's ride

2008 Amy's ride

Sunday, Jan 6, 2008

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Slightly different to last year’s ride — instead of a stinking hot, dry, dusty northerly blowing, this year we copped a rather bracing cool southerly. Made the last 20km North from Breamlea to Geelong a “breeze”, but certainly was a demoralising slog for most of the second half of the ride along the southern side of the Bellarine peninsula. For a ride that seeks to promote cycle safety and good relations between motorists and cyclists, and indeed between all people on the roads, two incidents stick in my mind from the day.
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Cyclists vs Bicycle Victoria + VicRoads

Cyclists vs Bicycle Victoria + VicRoads

Monday, Dec 17, 2007

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They’re here to help…. I’m convinced that not only is VicRoads determined to get cyclists off the state’s roads, but that Bicycle Victoria is in league with them. Us poor cyclists are outgunned, but not outclassed. Bicycle Victoria appears to like to have concrete things that they can point at to, so that they can prove that they are living up to their motto More people cycling more often … so long as it is on nice safe little off-road bike paths or specially painted bike lanes.
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Magpie 1, Adrian NIL

Magpie 1, Adrian NIL

Monday, Nov 19, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

After all these years of spotting the swooping magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) just in time, or hearing the whoosh as the go for the back of the head, today my luck ran out. Damn! Ouch. I was cruising home slowly up the Dandenong road service lane, no point in exerting yourself when the temperature is up around 35 °C, somewhere alongside the sports oval where the old men play boules there came out of the blue a completely unexpected smack on the side of the head.
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Ride to work day, out here, who'd have known…

Ride to work day, out here, who'd have known…

Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Ride-to-Work day was amusing in some small way. In the morning could I tell it was RTW day? Not really, North road was bumper-to-bumper stationary cars, in twenty minutes I saw one other cyclist, the traffic choked to a halt as the road gets widened to accommodate more cars, with a special bicycle ghetto being built in the median strip that you a) can’t get to, then b) have to give way at every single cross road at then c) use the footpath past the primary school.
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It went /SPANG!/

It went /SPANG!/

Monday, Sep 10, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Ah, I guess that settles it then, it is now definitely time to get my ride-to-work bike to the mechanics for some much-needed TLC. All winter long I’ve been looking at the great lack of teeth that is the cluster and chain-rings and thinking that I’ll do something about them once the weather improves…. Last week I was starting to think that the weather had improved and I really needed to do something about them….
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Rosstown Rail Trail fail

Rosstown Rail Trail fail

Saturday, Sep 8, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

The Rosstown Rail Trail is all a bit of a joke really; there is no railway, there was only ever one train on it, and there is no rail trail — just a handful of signs at semi-random locations, some pointing one way, some pointing the other, and the odd place where there are signs that point in both directions. The general feel is that someone somewhere once got some funding to put a few signs in.
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Cycling illusions

Cycling illusions

Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Sadly, illusions I’ve had about cycling just keep on being broken. Today was one of those days that really starts to get you down. After all the mess and fuss about drugs in sport and drugs in cycling especially, capped off by last year’s Operation Puerto affair with naming of 200 European athletes — 30 or more of the cyclists, assorted suspensions and fines, I had thought that this year’s Tour de France would be free of it all.
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Melburn-Roobaix #2

Melburn-Roobaix #2

Saturday, Jul 7, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Waiting for the Melburn-Roobaix to start Yes or no? Will we ride into the city for the second Melburn-Roobaix or not? Last year it was heaps of fun; a day out riding around the city with all the more interesting cyclists you can find, single-speeds and fixies of all shapes and styles, together with all the other more ordinary bikes… but last year the weather was great, and this year is different….
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BMW, 4WD, SMS, IDIOT

BMW, 4WD, SMS, IDIOT

Thursday, May 17, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Quite amazingly, the TAC has finally decided that their 100% obsession with speed being the cause of all collisions is not the be-all and end-all of road safety. There’s a new campaign telling motorists to — shock horror — pay attention and put the phone down, stop fiddling with the radio, stop playing with the children and DRIVE THE BLOODY CAR WITHOUT KILLING PEOPLE. A good start, but sadly reality intrudes.
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Famousness!

Famousness!

Monday, May 14, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Seems that May is bike month in America, not only that, but in Motionbased’s blog I get a mention as one of the two runners up for logging the most number of “commute” bike rides for the year. Hardly record breaking distances with my 5km ride, but there would have been another month’s worth of entries if the Edge 305 hadn’t been off being repaired for all of January! Interesting that the second, wamble, and third, ajft (me), are both Australian, while number one, mallfellow is in the US.
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Morons with their mobiles

Morons with their mobiles

Friday, Apr 20, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Dear selfish bastards… PUT THE PHONE DOWN BEFORE YOU KILL SOMEONE! You’d think that with all the recent media focus on idiots who insist on breaking the law, that maybe, just maybe some drivers would actually STOP USING THEIR BLOODY PHONES. Obviously not, they just can’t resist their mobile phone addiction. I’m not really looking for them and in my fifteen minute ride to work I’m still seeing four or five a day, every single day.
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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.

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