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Crap on the roads, crappy roads

Crap on the roads, crappy roads

Thursday, Apr 12, 2007

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Its amazing the amount of absolute crap you see on the roads when you slow down to cycling speeds… glass, metal, bits of builders’ rubble, bits of garden rubbish. Cycle lanes end up full of the stuff and then people on bikes riding legally “as far to the left as practicable” end up completely outside the bike lane and must endure the ire of ignorant people in cars. Unfortunately all the well-meaning bleeding hearts with “cyclists’ best interests at heart” seem to want to build more special purpose bike lanes, forgetting that what keeps all the crap out of the roadway is the traffic running over it and flicking it off to the left and right — you build a chunk of road that cars can’t drive on and that’s the bit of the road that ends up with all the crap in it!
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A short ride along the GOR….

A short ride along the GOR….

Tuesday, Apr 10, 2007

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Up nice and early — no chance of a sleep-in with two small boys in the house and an enormous flock of cockatoos in the trees outside; screeching from one lot and elephantine stomping from the others… Breakfast and pack and out and onto the bike; the simple plan was to ride to Queenscliff and catch the ferry to Sorrento, then ride up the bay to Frankston and catch the train the rest of the way — I don’t think I’m quite up to the 200km or so of riding the whole way!
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Rain turns motorists minds to mush

Rain turns motorists minds to mush

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007

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Must be international idiot on the roads day, or maybe just Melbourne Motorised Morons…. A few drops of rain on the way home and two idiots try to hit me, one successfully. Major idiot number one was the one that missed; traffic was banked up all the way back from the roundabout on Haughton road to North road in the right lane by people wanting to go around and turn right, so what does our hero do?
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Bah, cyclists!

Bah, cyclists!

Friday, Feb 23, 2007

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It almost felt like I was living in Richmond again — left work on the bike, off down Ferntree Gully road and onto the Gardiners creek trail to head into Richmond to meet Jo for a beer. As usual I’m heading against the general flow of commuters; ones or twos, threes and more, the odd group of six, all flying along with total disregard for anyone else on track, all convinced that there’s only traffic heading in their direction!
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More of Victoria's finest road users

More of Victoria's finest road users

Thursday, Feb 22, 2007

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At the moment, Thursdays seem to be crap days. Woken — yet again — at 5 am by garbage trucks then while riding to work I was hit by a truck at a set of traffic lights. At the corner of North road and Clayton road I know that there’s usually a left-turn arrow, so I’d stopped at the far right-hand side of the lane to let traffic turn with the arrow, five or six cars turned through with plenty of room, then the small tow-truck pulled up on my left, the driver yelled out the window “Fucken idiot get out of the way” and with that promptly drove left around the corner — striking me with the tray of the truck as it went around and pushing me half a metre over into the car next to me!
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2007 Audax Alpine Classic

2007 Audax Alpine Classic

Saturday, Jan 27, 2007

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stats. Today 132.0km Average speed 20.5km/hr Riding time 7hr 15' The Trek T50 at Tawonga gap, 110km to go From a start at 07:20 we had until 16:05 to clock in and be within Audax’s allowed time limit — our cards were punched at 16:01, according to Evan this meant we had overtrained by three minutes!
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Lazy day in Bright

Lazy day in Bright

Friday, Jan 26, 2007

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stats. Today 21.0km Average speed 24.0km/hr Riding time 0hr 52' Bright on the Australia Day long weekend; people everywhere, cars with bikes everywhere, people with bikes everywhere, bikes everywhere. The “Bushfire-induced dearth of visitors to Victoria’s North East” certainly doesn’t seem to apply today! A late afternoon ride from Bright out to Boynton’s winery to meet some friends, pleasantly surprised to find that the driveway at Boynton’s now has a little less gravel and seems a little more navigable by bike than always used to be the case.
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Last hill training before the Alpine Classic

Last hill training before the Alpine Classic

Sunday, Jan 21, 2007

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statistic Today 82.1km Average speed 20.5km/hr Riding time 4hr 00' odometer 22645km The last weekend before Australia day, and our last chance to go for a ride and try to get a few more hills into the legs before the Audax Alpine Classic next Saturday! Woeful preparation, at least we’re only in for the 130km option. Under grey threatening clouds and through grey threatening suburbs full of grey threatening 4WDs we made our way out to Ferntree Gully then up Dorset road to The Basin, I’m only used to riding home that way so I missed one turn and we had a lot more of a major road than we really wanted.
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Amy's Ride

Amy's Ride

Saturday, Jan 6, 2007

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statistic Today 124.2km Average speed 22.7km/hr Riding time 5hr 27' An early start, out of bed at 05:45 for breakfast and to drive down to Geelong, every second car on the freeway seemed to be carrying bikes. With no idea how crowded it would be at the ride, we parked in the first car-park we came to and rode the three or four kilometres to the Botanic gardens — an unnecessary precaution as it turned out, but a good way to check the tandem and warm up a little.
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The Great Ocean Ride

The Great Ocean Ride

Sunday, Dec 31, 2006

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Last day of the year, last chance of a bike ride for the year. I think the same thing happened last year, a ride off along the Great Ocean Road. It started out with the idea of gently stretching the muscles from yesterday’s hike with a ride out to Wye River. Along the way I chatted to another cyclist heading to Wye and he decided that it wasn’t far enough and would continue to Kennet River.
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The land that architecture forgot

The land that architecture forgot

Wednesday, Dec 27, 2006

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Home seems very quiet after four days of niece-and-nephew filled activity! Time to catchup on a few of the outstanding chores, put away some of the Christmas loot and buy some much-needed provisions, then time to get off the couch and get out on the bike — far too little bike riding has been done this year. I decided to go east in search of Lysterfield park, site of the Commonwealth Games mountain biking circuit, and ride around some of the trails out there.
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The Day of the puncture fairy

The Day of the puncture fairy

Saturday, Dec 9, 2006

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Bushfires are raging across Victoria and the forecast for the weekend is two days of high thirty temperatures and strong winds. Woke this morning to stiffling heat, thick smoke filling the air and a dull orange sun shining down. Visibility is down to a couple of kilometres and there’s no incentive to go outside and do anything at all. This is in the city, 150km from the fires, it must be terrible out there fighting them.
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Bad Friday

Bad Friday

Friday, Dec 8, 2006

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Something is getting me down today. Either I ate too much last night, or Christmas is bugging me, or I didn’t sleep well or something. I know I ate too much, the Chicken Parmagiana from Groove Train was a ridiculous size, I’ve never seen a chicken that size…. It didn’t help that when I went out for a ride this morning before work some idiot drove into me in the last kilometre before I got to work — he thought he could squeeze his Hyundai Excel between the stationary row of traffic and me, it didn’t fit.
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First summer evening

First summer evening

Friday, Dec 1, 2006

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First day of summer, last day of the week, thirteen weekdays to the end of the work year. Mayhem, madness. Its starting to be a bit of a Friday thing; leave work at around five-thirty and ride in to Richmond to meet Jo for a beer somewhere, pretend that we still live in Richmond. An odd feeling to be riding back in to the city at the end of the day when most of the commuters are heading back out to the suburbs — a chance to see again the guys I never knew the names of, but who I saw almost every day on my way to and from work!
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Bike riding around Lorne

Bike riding around Lorne

Sunday, Nov 5, 2006

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Reminder to tourists on the Great Ocean Road An early rise — most unusual for me — and out and onto the bike for some much-needed hill climbing. Shivering in the cool air I was regretting leaving my warm jersey back at home, definitely not a morning for the short sleeves! An eye watering descent down Richardson boulevard to the main coast road, over the river and commence climbing up the Dean’s Marsh road.
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Ride to work day

Ride to work day

Wednesday, Oct 4, 2006

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Woohoo, ride to work day! Um, I guess that’ll be just like any other day, except with Bicycle Victoria pumping their fists wildly in the air in the background. As they asked, and as I replied, in their questionaire: How will you celebrate Ride To Work Day?: The same way I celebrate every day, happy to be alive after the idiots in the tin boxes yabbering on their phones haven’t killed me.
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Phone ph*ckwits

Phone ph*ckwits

Thursday, Aug 17, 2006

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Aaaarrrg! Every day I ride to work. It’s only five kilometres and it only takes fifteen minutes. Every day I see a couple of idiots on the roads on their phones in the morning, and another couple in the evening. Every week once or twice I have to take some evasive action from the antics of one of these idiots. The local papers state that the police had “a massive crackdown” on motorists on the Monash freeway with “round the clock staffing” for an entire month.
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Ow, that's my leg!

Ow, that's my leg!

Tuesday, Aug 8, 2006

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Another bloody motorist who can’t be bloody bothered to watch where they’re bloody going and obey the bloody give-way signs. Idiot old builder in crappy old white Ford station wagon, tears up the merge lane of North road from Huntingdale and goes straight through the give-way sign, straight past the “watch for bicycles” sign and would have hit me square on if I hadn’t swerved out of the way. Glancing blow on the knee and hand, looks round in amazement at the loud bang as the bike hits the door and slows for a moment, then roars off up the road.
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Norky bike updates

Norky bike updates

Tuesday, Jul 25, 2006

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I’d finally got around to taking the mountain bike in to the shop last week to see about the leaking oil seals, thinking of course that only the seals needed replacing. Got the phone call, the anodising has been all worn off the fork legs and Rockshox don’t make or don’t stock spares for 2000-2001 SIDs anymore, or if they do they’re several hundred dollars just for the legs. I was offered a second-hand but unused pair of “seven or eight hundred dollar Springer” forks for $500 fitted, should probably have done a little more checking around first because I said yes.
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The Hell of the Northcote….

The Hell of the Northcote….

Saturday, Jul 22, 2006

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******************************************************* Sat 22 July - Melbourne-Roubaiz “Hell of the Northcote" ******************************************************* 12PM - Starting from Fed. Square. Fun for all! - course will be run over melbourne's brutal pave,railway crossings, dirt tracks and finishing with a lap at the brunswick velodrome. All finishers go into a draw for major prizes. This is NOT a race! FREE but bring $10 to purchase items along the way and a panier or backpack. organiser: Simon of Darebin BUG It should take us about an hour to get to the start, so 11 o’clock and out the door — first time on the tandem for quite a few months!
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l'Alpe d'Huez

l'Alpe d'Huez

Wednesday, Jul 19, 2006

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Last night stage 15 of le Tour de France finished up on l’Alpe d’Huez, fantastic racing and amazing scenery as always. I did think that with the camera cutting back and forth you just couldn’t get much of an idea of how steep that mountain really is. From the http://www.cyclingnews.com/ special page on l’Alpe d’Huez: Unofficially, the top twelve times are as follows: Marco Pantani (1995) 36’ 50 Marco Pantani (1997) 36’ 55 Marco Pantani (1994) 37’ 15 Lance Armstrong (2004) 37’ 36 Jan Ullrich (1997) 37’ 40 Lance Armstrong (2001) 38’ 05 Miguel Indurain (1995) 38’ 10 Alex Zülle (1995) 38’ 10 Bjarne Riis (1995) 38’ 15 Richard Virenque (1997) 38’ 20 Iban Mayo (2003) 39’ 06 Giuseppe Guerini (1999) 41’ 52 … and from Friday the 13th, July 2001, the very non-competitive time:
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Organised bike tour costs

Organised bike tour costs

Friday, Apr 28, 2006

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I became curious about the costs of the rides as I was deciding to enter the 1997 NSW Big Ride and I noticed that more and more of the items in the ride are now “optional,” eg insurance, souvenir t-shirt, transport both to the start and back from the finish. Here are the prices that I paid for the rides over the years, usually comprising entry fee, transport between the ends of the ride and the nominal city of origin, insurance and t-shirt.
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Easter Deadly Treadly; Day #4

Easter Deadly Treadly; Day #4

Monday, Apr 17, 2006

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A slow start, and a cold morning. After breakfast it took forever to get coordinated and underway — last night’s red wine taking its toll. The coffee shops of Yarra Junction beckoned, we’d only just started riding by the time we got there and settled inside to thaw out and apply coffee to aching heads. Leaving Yarra Junction the local traffic was a bit too obnoxious — as the drivers along here often seem to be.
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Easter Deadly Treadly; Day #3

Easter Deadly Treadly; Day #3

Sunday, Apr 16, 2006

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From Neerim South to Noojee the road climbs steadily up for at least ten kilometres, then climbs more steeply up for another few before swooping down through the forest in wet twisty curves. Magnificent riding, but a little unnerving with the wet leaves and the narrowness of the roads. Inflight discussions between tandem pilot and stoker resulted in the decree that the tandem would travel at a reasonable speed downwards through the forest….
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Easter Deadly Treadly; Day #2

Easter Deadly Treadly; Day #2

Saturday, Apr 15, 2006

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Blessed are the tandem-riders, for they shall manage to ride all day and escape the rain — at least it seemed that way today! A lucky start when we woke in sunlight and with a bit of prodding managed to leap into action and pack the bags and tent before breakfast and more importantly, before the next squall and rain-front came through. Even more impressive was the one after that, not just icy rain, this one had ice in it — a few minutes of hail that caused general mayhem on the campground.
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From AAP to the Age

From AAP to the Age

Tuesday, Apr 4, 2006

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Interesting changes to the wording from the first report which appeared on the Age website credited to AAP, and the second one, printed in today’s paper. The website version: Webber urges drivers: watch for bicycles April 3, 2006 - 6:24AM Formula One star Mark Webber has urged Australian motorists to take a leaf out of the European book and pay more attention to cyclists on the road. Webber, who admits to being a huge cycling fan, said while motorists in Victoria had improved in their attitude towards cyclists in the last five years, the rest of the country was not so patient.
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Beach road on fast-forward!

Beach road on fast-forward!

Tuesday, Mar 21, 2006

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Kathy Watt, star of the women's time trial The Commonwealth Games cycling time trials are on today; first the women’s in the morning, then the men’s in the early afternoon. I half thought about taking off from work at lunchtime, racing down North road to Brighton to see what I could see. Turns out that firstly I wouldn’t have been able to see anything since one event had finished and the other not yet started, and I’d probably only have about five minutes down there before having to turn around and head back to Monash!
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C'wealth games road mayhem

C'wealth games road mayhem

Sunday, Mar 19, 2006

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It was lots of fun with no traffic on the roads. Jo and I took the tandem out for a ride in the afternoon and rode up Beach road from Elwood to Port Melbourne. We didn’t see any of the marathon, just millions and millions of bollards, railings and miles of flapping plastic tape. Such a huge road when there’s no other traffic on it though! Funniest part of it all was at one set of traffic lights.
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RTA Big Ride: Day 9, Boorowa to Binalong

RTA Big Ride: Day 9, Boorowa to Binalong

Sunday, Mar 5, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km Where? Boorowa (34° 25’ 60S, 148° 43’ 60E) Binalong (34° 40 0S, 148° 39 0E) Yass (34° 49 60S, 148° 55 0E) Holbrook (35° 43 60S, 147° 19 0E) Melbourne (37° 49 0S, 144° 58 0E)
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RTA Big Ride: Day 8, Cootamundra to Boorowa

RTA Big Ride: Day 8, Cootamundra to Boorowa

Saturday, Mar 4, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km Where? Cootamundra (34° 38’ 60S, 148° 1’ 60E) Murrumburrah (34° 2’ 60S, 148° 31’ 60E) Harden ( 34° 33′ 0″ S, 148° 22′ 0″ E) Galong (34° 36’ 0S, 148° 33’ 0E) Boorowa (34° 25’ 60S, 148° 43’ 60E) Today’s photos See the photos page.
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RTA Big Ride: Day 7, Junee to Cootamundra

RTA Big Ride: Day 7, Junee to Cootamundra

Friday, Mar 3, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km Where? Junee (34° 52’ 60S, 147° 34’ 60E) Illabo (34° 49’ 0S, 147°45’ 0E) Bethungra (34° 46’ 0S, 147° 52’ 0E) Cootamundra (34° 38’ 60S, 148° 1’ 60E) Today’s photos See the photos page.
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RTA Big Ride: Day 6, Gundagai to Junee

RTA Big Ride: Day 6, Gundagai to Junee

Thursday, Mar 2, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km Where? Gundagai (35° 4’ 0S, 148° 5’ 60E) Nangus (35° 2’ 60S, 147° 54’ 0E) Eurongilly (34°57’ 0S, 147°46’ 0E) Junee (34° 52’ 60S, 147° 34’ 60E) Today’s photos See the photos page.
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RTA Big Ride: Day 5, Tumut to Gundagai

RTA Big Ride: Day 5, Tumut to Gundagai

Wednesday, Mar 1, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km A thirty kilometre loop out of Tumut to the south-east first thing this morning — designed to give us some extra distance and to get the cyclists off the road while the trucks all drove through to the next campsite. A beautiful stretch of quiet country road, almost flat along the plains of the Tumut river, and another great autumn day. Lunch was at a tiny place called Brungle — population 60, according to the sign on the road — the primary school was hidden off somewhere in the trees and had gone to all sorts of effort over the last few weeks to get ready for the visit by the ride.
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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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…The Grue