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RTA Big Ride: Day 2, Jingellic to Tumbarumba

Sunday, Feb 26, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km Where? Jingellic (35° 55’ 60”S, 147° 40’ 60”E) Tumbarumba (35° 46’ 60”S, 148° 1’ 0”E) Today’s photos See the photos page.

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RTA Big Ride: Day 1, Holbrook to Jingellic

Saturday, Feb 25, 2006

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km Where? Binalong (34° 40’ 0”S, 148° 39’ 0”E) Holbrook (35° 43’ 60”S, 147° 19’ 0”E) Jingellic (35° 55’ 60”S, 147° 40’ 60”E) Today’s photos See the photos page.

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Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006

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From both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age; the latest motorised moron to be caught attacking people with a car as a weapon: A man has been charged after allegedly trying to run down a group of cyclists in a road rage incident in Sydney’s south. An argument broke out after the 50-year-old man allegedly almost hit a group of about 20 cyclists on General Holmes Drive in Brighton-Le-Sands shortly before 6 am AEDT yesterday as he drove out of a service station, police said.

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Sunday, Feb 5, 2006

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The bow of 'Ericsson' in the Volvo 70 race Laziness and beer-poisoning meant no bike riding yesterday. Enthusiasm took hold this morning, together with the knowledge that the around-the-world yachts have been in Melbourne for a few weeks now and will probably leave before I manage to get off my bum and see them! Out on the tandem and down to Blackrock, a big sweeping roundabout to turn around at, then back up the bay to head in to Docklands.

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Sunday, Jan 22, 2006

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OK, here’s a mere mortal’s view of life on Sunday.

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Sunday, Jan 15, 2006

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stats. Distance 81km Last chance training before the Audax Australia Alpine Classic! An early start — early for me, 07:30 — up and out and flying off down the hill to sea-level. Tears streaming from my eyes in the cool morning air, then around the corner and start the climb up the Deans Marsh road. Far less traffic than last time a few weeks ago, but the roadside is still a solid carpet of bottles and cans.

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Sunday, Dec 18, 2005

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stats. odo 20507km dst 77.5km max 65km/hr avg 26.92km/hr time 2hr 52’ 59"

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Wednesday, Nov 23, 2005

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I wouldn’t have believed it! Three days in a row all I have to do is the fairly simple task of getting up a little bit earlier than usual, then riding in to South Melbourne to a training course…. OK, so I was a little bit late leaving this morning, but now that I know the way, and know where the building is, that shouldn’t have been a problem, and a new tyre should mean that all the glass in the bike lanes is not a problem either — and they weren’t.

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Tuesday, Nov 22, 2005

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After yesterday’s fiasco, getting to South Melbourne today should be easy… I know where to turn into Inkerman street & I know where the building is! Somewhere down towards St Kilda the bike didn’t feel quite right, then I realised that the front tyre was going soft — all that bloody glass I swore at yesterday. I made it through St Kilda to Middle Park, then stopped at Penny Farthing cycles to buy a new inner tube — I suspect that the spare I’m carrying has a slow leak.

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Monday, Nov 21, 2005

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Just get out of bed a little early, get on the bike, ride into South Melbourne and get to a training course. Not too hard, is it? I intended to leave at 7:30, since I was fairly sure that the advertised 8:30 start was really “08:30 for 9:00.” Didn’t manage to leave the house until 07:40, off through Murrumbeena and along Dandenong road. Somewhere along Normany road in Caulfield there’s a tram turning left and I can’t quite see the roadsign through the windows — it must be Inkerman street so I turn too.

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Sunday, Nov 20, 2005

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Two options for this morning; I can stay in bed, get up at a reasonable hour and then have a leisurely bacon and eggs, or I can get up far too early, fumble my way into my bike gear and go out to join some friends for a ride up to Kinglake and back. Sure enough, I’ve picked the riding option — about time I got my lazy self out and rode up a few hills…

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Sunday, Nov 13, 2005

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Sunny day, no wind, definitely time to get out on the bike. Jo and I did our usual ride down North road to the bay, then down Beach road to Mordialloc. Interesting mix of barricades around Mentone since there was a triathlon running and the road had been closed, but only closed to motorised traffic! Apparently other cyclists are allowed to mix with the competing triathletes, which sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

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Wednesday, Oct 5, 2005

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Every year Bicycle Victoria promotes a “Ride to Work Day” in October, and exhorts everyone to ride their bicycles to work, just this once! There’s free breakfast in the city, the odd speech, promotional material, police present to engrave your drivers’ license number in your bike if you like — to aid recovery in the event of theft…. The last couple of years I’ve decided to ride in to the city to have a look around, then back out again to go to work.

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Sunday, Oct 2, 2005

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A warm spring day, a good night’s sleep and today its time to go for a ride — but which bike do we use? Jo wanted to get out on her new roadie, I joked about the spider webs on the tandem, yes, no, maybe… The tandem it was. Beach road was amazing. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of cyclists in groups all up and down the bay. The good weather and the approach of the Around the Bay in a Day ride has driven them all out for their training.

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Sunday, Sep 25, 2005

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Bikes, bikes and more bikes! A leisurely ride in to Richmond so Jo could sneak in a few hours at work, then I headed up Burnley street for a lap of the Boulevard. One lap turned into two, then very optimistically I turned back for the third. More hill climbs than I’ve ridden in months — almost more riding than I’ve ridden in months!

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Friday, Sep 9, 2005

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Ow ow ow! Another day, another motorised moron. Rush hour traffic in Haughton road? A fifty kilometre speed limit and traffic in both directions? A road specifically narrowed by Monash City Council to stop everyone using it as a short cut through the suburb. A road narrowed so that motorists have to actually think and pull out in order to overtake cyclists safely. Not a problem for our local inhabitants. Speed up and go head-on towards oncoming cars, then swerve back in and slam on the brakes to avoid hitting the next car up ahead.

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Saturday, Aug 27, 2005

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stats Distance 43.47km Average speed 23.8km/hr Spring weather again; albeit with a strong northerly wind. Off for a lazy ride around and around, exploring a few places I haven’t visited for a while. Up along the bike trail to Carnegie, lost through the back streets to Caulfield, head north up Glenferrie road, zigzag through Toorak, down to Richmond, nosiness sends me up the street where I lived for five years.

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Sunday, Aug 21, 2005

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With much fanfare Jo declared it is time. Time to take her new bicycle out for a ride — one week old and it hasn’t been ridden yet! The weather doesn’t look promising and we decide we’re both getting old and lazy — its far too easy to just sit at home and wait for a perfect day… Off down Warrigal road, a brief stop in a car-park to adjust the seat, then head for the bay along North road.

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Thursday, Aug 11, 2005

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Bah! One of my colleagues from work spent the night in hospital and will spend the rest of the week off work. Motorist “failed to give way” and ran into him. I’ve seen him riding — lit up like a christmas tree, lights, reflectors, shiny vest, and always on the lookout for the idiot in the tin box. It only takes one lapse in concentration and the idiot will get you…

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Wednesday, Aug 3, 2005

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Just about to leave this morning to ride to work when the rain started hammering down on the tin roof, definitely time to sit for a quarter of an hour and tidy the kitchen! Oddest motorist this morning — the lady stopped at the lights on North road. She drove up, stopped, her hands and eyes dropped into her lap and she started fiddling about. “Another idiot on the phone,” I thought.

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Tuesday, Aug 2, 2005

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This morning I’m on my way to work when I meet, SKM-###, the garbage truck driven by idiots. First they’re stopped at the corner hanging out the window and yelling sexist abuse at a female pedestrian, then they came up behind me on North road, pulled into the bike lane as they passed, then just ahead of me kept on coming left until the truck almost met the railing, pulling back out the two passengers were leaning out the window looking back at me and laughing.

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Sunday, Jul 31, 2005

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stats. Distance 68.53km Average speed 18.93km/hr Riding time 3:37:14 Odometer 19884km The weather is starting to resemble spring time, the excuses for being lazy and not going out on the bike are getting harder to come by — even with the inflammatory anti-cycling attitudes being drummed up in the media — so Jo and I took off for a ride this morning. Just the normal ride, along North road to the beach, turn left and head down to Mordialloc.

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Wednesday, Jul 27, 2005

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Aha! Finally found the bit of Victoria’s Road Rules that I’ve been after for months. Paragraph 2, Rule 134, Part 11: 134. Exceptions to keeping to the left of a dividing line (2) If the dividing line is a single broken or a continuous line, or a broken divided line to the left of a single continuous dividing line, the driver may drive to the right of the dividing line to overtake another driver.

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Friday, Jul 22, 2005

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Its been a while since I’ve met quite such an aggressive motorist, one who’s prepared not only to scream abuse but to try and hit me with their car — unfortunately tonight was such a night. I pulled up at the lights to turn right from Clayton road into North road, drawing alongside a dark blue/green Ford station wagon stopped in the through lane. As I got level with the driver’s window she flicked half a cigarette’s worth of glowing ash straight out, half in my face, half down my leg.

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Monday, Jul 11, 2005

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Where’s the BikeCam™ when you need it? Not once, but twice this evening on the way home I came within inches of being flattened by morons who decided not to bother giving way to traffic on the roundabouts. First one was just out of Monash on Woodside avenue, moron in a red station-wagon, Subaru I think, rego. ###-###, flying up Koonawarra street, doesn’t bother to slow, straight out in front as I’m halfway around.

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Sunday, Jul 10, 2005

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stats. Riding time 3:25:37 Maximum speed 65km/hr Odometer 19810km Distance 79.05km Too many months of being lazy and only riding to and from work. No more excuses, time to go out today and ride up a mountain — a little mountain at least! After yesterday’s miserable weather today was fine and sunny so I took the opportunity while Jo was out for the afternoon and headed off eastwards to Ferntree Gully and up and over Mount Dandenong.

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Monday, Jul 4, 2005

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I thought that it was about time I entered Bike Vic’s ATBIAD ride. Hang on — $110 for a soggy salad roll and a ferry ticket? No thanks. Jo and I may well ride down to Sorrento and back, but I don’t think Bicycle Victoria will be getting over $100 for the privilege! With over 5,000 entries, what do they do with the more than half a million dollars from the entries?

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Friday, Jul 1, 2005

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A grey morning, poor visibility, wet roads. Just what I need, first moron of the month — the lady in the blue Ford Falcon wagon (registration ###-###), she sits beside me at the lights SMSing on her phone, then when the lights go green drives off, eyes still firmly on the phone in her lap as she veers into my lane towards me. I point at her and shout out, “Put the phone down!

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Tuesday, Jun 21, 2005

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So the 69th Tour de Suisse has just finished, and on their last stage they had to ride up the Gotthardpass. Two years ago Jo and I got to ride down that side of the pass!

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

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Possibly the world’s shortest bicycle commute. Looking back at the orange tree Oakleigh to Monash University, and home again. Here are some of the hi-lights and low-lights of my daily ride to and from work. The trip only takes about twelve minutes, nowhere near as interesting as my previous trip to Monash from Richmond! A quick count and I’ve calculated that I ride along five roads getting there and an extra two coming home.

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

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’twas a beautiful sunny morning as I was heading off to work, so I decided to take some photos along the way. Not as interesting as my previous commute from Richmond, but it has its advantages — the shortness being the main one!

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

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Motorists do the darnedest things. Today’s idiot du jour was the passenger in the silver Barina, P-plates, Victorian registration ###-###. There it was stopped at the traffic lights about five cars from the front, he decided to throw the passenger door fully open in order to spit on the ground as I was riding up on the left. Somehow I managed to just stop before ramming his head into the open car door.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

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What happens when someone buys the cheapest possible bicycle on the market? Well, it comes from a large department store, it comes in a cardboard box, it comes with either poor or no instructions, and it needs to be assembled. Can we blame the owner of the Huffy I saw this morning who had built the bike with the front forks on backwards? One of the overseas students turned up riding it at the cyclist breakfast, two of us tried to fix it, but everything is rusted solid and the forks cannot be moved.

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Saturday, May 7, 2005

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Out the door a bit after eight thirty, a quick ride into the city, arrived in plenty of time to join the rally. I guessed somewhere between 100-200 cyclists turned up to support the Wheels of Justice rally in Adelaide, complaining about the total inadequacy of a $3,100 sentence for a driver who killed a cyclist in a hit and run collision.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

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Two court results of the week: WA: man vandalises a speed camera — $109000 fine SA: man kills cyclist in hit and run — $3100 fine Sheesh! Talk about priorities. At least the South Australian government has just announced a Royal Commission will be enquiring into the handling of the hit and run. There’s a rally being held to protest against a recent decision in an Adelaide court, which saw lawyer Eugene McGee handed down a $3100 fine and 12 months loss of licence for hitting and killing cyclist Ian Humphreys whilst drink driving in his four wheel drive.

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Easter Deadly Treadly Tour, day 4: Bacchus Marsh to Melbourne

Monday, Mar 28, 2005

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stats. Today 76.0 km Trip 293km The ride from Bacchus Marsh to Melbourne is always a bit of a slog — first there’s the seemingly endless plains of red dirt and rocks, broken only by the great swooping descent into the gorge over the Werribee river, then there’s the interminably mindless eight kilometres along the Western Highway with the mind-numbing roar of the traffic and the ever present danger of the idiot’s towing their caravans and not realising how much wider than the car the ‘van is.

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Easter Deadly Treadly Tour, day 3: Buninyong to Bacchus Marsh

Sunday, Mar 27, 2005

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stats. Today 91.2km Trip 217km There are some magnificent swooping descents in the last few kilometres to Bacchus Marsh, ending in a hill into town with a 60km/hr speed limit, a hill where a bicycle can quite easily reach that speed limit! Unfortunately there seems to be some local law in effect in Bacchus Marsh that insists that the local motorists must be abusive, ignorant and stupid, I don’t think I’ve ever ridden into town without someone being yelled at, swerved at, or had something thrown at them — today was no different, halfway down the hill at 62km/hr on the tandem, some ignorant petrol-head pulled out of a side-street straight in front of us and nearly got 150kg of tandem and riders right up his boot.

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Easter Deadly Treadly Tour, day 2: Beaufort to Buninyong

Saturday, Mar 26, 2005

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stats. Today 80.3km Trip 125km It was cold and frosty overnight, for the first time in many years my old sleeping bag seemed to not be enough and I woke up cold. Stepping out of the tent showed frost on the grass and the tents, and fog rising over the lake. A beautiful sight. Out of Beaufort and south to Snake Valley, lunch at the Snake Valley pub. I had no idea there were places with names like that in Victoria — it sounds like something out of a bad western!

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Easter Deadly Treadly Tour, day 1: Melbourne to Avoca to Beaufort

Friday, Mar 25, 2005

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stats. Today 45km Trip 45km Another Good Friday morning, another Deadly Treadly Tour commences! A little too far from Oakleigh to the city to do the car and bike shuffle, so Jo and I hopped on the first train of the day, loaded down with bags and helmets and the tandem. Arrived at Flinders Street station to discover that we had to carry the beast up the stairs, no easy task while wearing a large backpack!

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Monday, Mar 14, 2005

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Riding to work on a quiet Monday morning, it’s a public holiday, there’s hardly anyone on the roads. Riding to work should be easy today… Then as I approached one of the mini-roundabouts in Haughton road there were not one, but two motorists driving around it towards me! One driving in the conventional manner, on the left hand side of the road, clockwise when seen from above, at about 40-50km/hr.

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Thursday, Mar 10, 2005

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It went WHOOSH! But thankfully, there was no THWACK to follow. Idiot in a red VW Golf, (NSW registration ##-##-##), driving along with the phone pressed hard against the ear, half in one lane, half in the other, missed my elbow by inches as he decided at the last minute to not exit from North road.

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Wednesday, Mar 2, 2005

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Yow! After some contradictory reports of the Bicycle Victoria ride in Tasmania I finally got to chat with two cow-orkers who had been on the ride. Both had a good time, despite hills and rainy weather — both things that they had been expecting. What they hadn’t expected was the motorist who lost his temper, blasted on the horn and drove through a pack of riders while towing a caravan! Knocked eight people off their bikes and one had to be taken by helicopter to hospital.

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