Thus spake the ride guide for today:
An easy cruise on flat roads should have you back in Melbourne before midday. The finish will be at Jeffries Parade where the ride started. This is the time to say farewell to frineds, arrange reunions, and start to plan for the 2 DAY BAY RIDE in May!!
Well, it might have been an easy cruise, but Jo and I had to go to work today so we had caught the train back last night.
After a 3 hour bus trip which included the bus driver getting us lost near Ballarat, we found ourselves sitting outside the pub at Moonambel, eating lunch and considering where to go. Jen, being the resident food and wine expert, had a list of which wineries we were to visit, so off we went to Taltirni (very elaborate and touristy, with arts and crafts for sale and lawns and gardens to sit in, as well as wines for sampling), then Redbank (a far more relaxed establishment).
I’d picked up my mum’s car and packed last night, although I was feeling very vague and couldn’t think of what I wanted to take so I ended up just stuffing everything I could think of into the big-black-bag (™), fully expecting to find out later that I’d left some essential item at home.
I left work at 3 pm, intending to quickly call in at the shops to pick up a few essentials — unfortunately everyone had gone mad because it was Easter — I’d never seen so many people in the supermarket.
At 17:20 on my way home, riding up Chisholm street in Ainslie a red sedan (possibly a Toyota corolla), ACT registration ###-### with three youths inside swerved in at me, the passenger in the rear wearing dark sunglasses and blue check shirt stuck his head and one arm completely out of the vehicle to try and punch me while passing, and screamed at me “Hey Fucker, get off the road!” while waving his arm around.
No cars involved, sadly, all my own work.
The bike decided to throw me off and face first onto a large rock, nill damage to bike, broken teeth and facial scars to rider (damn, and I was ugly enough already). Yes I was wearing a helmet, no it didn’t stop me knocking myself unconscious face down in the water and doing $3500 damage to my teeth.
Refs: Originally in my bike incidents page.
I was heading west along Bunda street at approx 17:30 to turn right into Petrie street, a white mercedes 220 (ACT registration, UPDATE either ###-### or ###-###) carrying 4 home-boys with their flannel shirts, baseball caps and loud rap music, drove up to the stop sign, stopped and accelerated across in front of me. I had to brake heavily to avoid running into the side of the car and yelled out “HEY!
13-Aug-94 (Saturday afternoon);
I was riding along the cycle path parallel to Marcus Clarke street heading towards the lake. The path crosses several roads and at one there is a stop sign facing the cross traffic on the road. It is not clear whether cars (once stopped) have to give way to cyclists on the bike path or not, even though the threshold for the stop sign is on the left of the path, meaning that cars must stop, give way, then proceed across bike path and road.
1982-Dec-??: Four day trip to celebrate the end of school year; Canberra, Batemans Bay, Moruya, Braidwood, Canberra 1982-May-??: Overnight trip with three friends from Canberra to Namadgi National park and back 1982-???-??: Loop around Lake George, 2 or 3 days, “school adventure activity”
My optimistic and underprepared intention had been to go from Canberra1 to Cooma then Jindabyne, across to the coast at Bega, then back up through Moruya and the Deua valley. I ended up riding Canberra to Cooma, down to Jindabyne, then back to Cooma and caught the train home.
1986-Dec-03 – Day 1: Radcliffe to Cooma 1986-Dec-04 – Day 2: Cooma to Jindabyne 1986-Dec-05 – Day 3: Jindabyne to Cooma, train home Footnotes 1 not quite Canberra, I started and finished at my parents’ house in Radcliffe, 15km off to the south-east.
1988-Dec-03 – Day 1: Swan Hill to Lake Boga 1988-Dec-04 – Day 2: Lake Boga to Cohuna 1988-Dec-05 – Day 3: Cohuna to Echuca 1988-Dec-06 – Day 4: Rest day at Echuca 1988-Dec-07 – Day 5: Echuca to Colbinnabin 1988-Dec-08 – Day 6: Colbinnabin to Castlemaine 1988-Dec-09 – Day 7: Castlemaine to Kyneton 1988-Dec-10 – Day 8: Kyneton to Bacchus Marsh 1988-Dec-11 – Day 9: Bacchus Marsh to Melbourne
1989-Dec-02 – Day 1: Yarrawonga to Rutherglen (55km) 1989-Dec-03 – Day 2: Rutherglen to Yackandandah (59km) 1989-Dec-04 – Day 3: Yackandandah to Myrtleford (69km) 1989-Dec-05 – Day 4: Rest day in Myrtleford 1989-Dec-06 – Day 5: Myrtleford to Wangaratta (75km) 1989-Dec-07 – Day 6: Wangaratta to Shepparton (99km) 1989-Dec-08 – Day 7: Shepparton to Seymour (89km) 1989-Dec-09 – Day 8: Seymour to Gisborne (86km) 1989-Dec-10 – Day 9: Gisborne to Melbourne (75km)
1990-Feb-24 – Day 1: Devonport or Launcestone Airport to Launceston (86km/15km) 1990-Feb-25 – Day 2: Launceston to Scottsdale (66km) 1990-Feb-26 – Day 3: Scottsdale to St. Helens (99km) 1990-Feb-27 – Day 4: Rest day in St. Helens 1990-Feb-28 – Day 5: St. Helens to Bicheno (84km) 1990-Mar-01 – Day 6: Bicheno to Triabunna (102km) 1990-Mar-02 – Day 7: Triabuna to Richmond (59km) 1990-Mar-03 – Day 8: Richmond to Hobart 1990-Mar-04 – Day 9: Hobart to home
1990-Dec-01 – Day 1: Bairnsdale to Paynesville 1990-Dec-02 – Day 2: Paynesville to Maffra 1990-Dec-03 – Day 3: Maffra to Seaspray 1990-Dec-04 – Day 4: Seaspray to Yarram 1990-Dec-05 – Day 5: Rest day in Yarram 1990-Dec-06 – Day 6: Yarram to Traralgon 1990-Dec-07 – Day 7: Traralgon to Leongatha 1990-Dec-08 – Day 8: Leongatha to HMAS Cerberus 1990-Dec-09 – Day 9: HMAS Cerberus to Melbourne
Along the Great Ocean Road and into Melbourne over the Westgate bridge.
1991-Nov-30 – Day 1: Stawell to Lake Fyans 1991-Dec-01 – Day 2: Lake Fyans to Dunkeld 1991-Dec-02 – Day 3: Dunkeld to Port Fairy 1991-Dec-03 – Day 4: Port Fairy 1991-Dec-04 – Day 5: Port Fairy to Port Campbell 1991-Dec-05 – Day 6: Port Cambell to Apollo Bay 1991-Dec-06 – Day 7: Apollo Bay to Anglesea 1991-Dec-07 – Day 8: Anglesea to Bacchus Marsh 1991-Dec-08 – Day 9: Bacchus Marsh to Melbourne
Can’t remember where this went! I know we had a rest day in Mansfield, then rode through the forest around Lake Eildon, but the whole thing is a little blurry. Aha, hang on, I have found some old brochures and notes, here we go:
1992-Nov-28 – Day 1: Numurkah to Cobram 1992-Nov-29 – Day 2: Cobram to Yarrawonga 1992-Nov-30 – Day 3: Yarrawonga to Benalla 1992-Dec-01 – Day 4: Benalla to Mansfield 1992-Dec-02 – Day 5: Rest day in Mansfield 1992-Dec-03 – Day 6: Mansfield to Eildon 1992-Dec-04 – Day 7: Eildon to Yea 1992-Dec-05 – Day 8: Yea to Whittlesea 1992-Dec-06 – Day 9: Whittlesea to Melbourne
From somewhere in the Blue Mountains to Melbourne, via lots of pubs and pleasant places.
1993-Nov-27 – Day 1: Hartley to Oberon (51km) 1993-Nov-28 – Day 2: Oberon to Blayney (93km) 1993-Nov-29 – Day 3: Blayney to Cowra (92km) 1993-Nov-30 – Day 4: Cowra rest day 1993-Dec-01 – Day 5: Cowra to Boorowa (77km) 1993-Dec-02 – Day 6: Boorowa to Cootamundra (83km) 1993-Dec-03 – Day 7: Cootamundra to Junee (75km) 1993-Dec-04 – Day 8: Junee to Holbrook (129km) 1993-Dec-05 – Day 9: Holbrook to Walwa (61km) 1993-Dec-06 – Day 10: Walwa to Talgarno (76km) 1993-Dec-07 – Day 11: Talgarno to Myrtleford (94km) 1993-Dec-08 – Day 12: Myrtleford rest day 1993-Dec-09 – Day 13: Myrtleford to Benalla (83km) 1993-Dec-10 – Day 14: Benalla to Longwood (88km) 1993-Dec-11 – Day 15: Longwood to Kilmore (87km) 1993-Dec-12 – Day 16: Kilmore to Melbourne (60km) References http://www.
Launceston to Hobart, have a look at a guy called Phillip’s review of this ride.
1995-01-14 Sat – Canberra to Melbourne to Launceston 1995-01-15 Sun – Launceston to ?? (77.35km) 1995-01-16 Mon – (87.70km) 1995-01-17 Tue – (66.98km) 1995-01-18 Wed – rest day 1995-01-19 Thu – (93.50km) 1995-01-20 Fri – (61.20km)
Around and around the NSW southern highlands in the rain, over a mountain called Saddleback, back and forth through Kangaroo valley, and ending up at Milton on the South Coast in the sun.
1995-Mar-?? – Day 1: Bundanoon to Moss Vale 1995-Mar-?? – Day 2: Moss Vale to ?? 1995-Mar-?? – Day 3: ?? to Kiama 1995-Mar-?? – Day 4: Rest day in Kiama 1995-Mar-?? – Day 5: {{{datetime(1995-??-??,1995-Mar-??}}}} – Day 6: ?
Benalla, Mansfield, Alexandra, Flowerdale; from warm and humid to cold wet and miserable.
1995-Nov-04 – Day 1: 1995-Nov-05 – Day 2: 1995-Nov-06 – Day 3: 1995-Nov-07 – Day 4:
1995-Nov-04: 1995 Cup Weekend Deadly Treadly Tour: Benalla – Melbourne 1995-???-??: 1995 Big NSW Bike Ride: Bundanoon to Milton 1995-Jan-14: 1995 BV Great Tasmanian Bike Ride: Launceston – Hobart
I wasn’t particularly impressed with this ride, neither the organisation nor the scenery, riding through the Coorong without being able to see anything.
1996-01-19 Fri – Canberra to Melbourne: OK, I’m cheating here. This bit was done by air, flying me and the Great White Spotty thing on Ansett flight AN169. A quick check early in the week to find out the rules and regulation regarding bikes on planes and we’re on our way.
1996-Nov-92: 1996 Cup Weekend Deadly Treadly Tour: Apollo Bay – Melbourne 1996-Oct-13: Around the Bay in a Day 1996-Apr-04: Easter 1996 Deadly Treadly Tour: Moonambel – Melbourne 1996-Jan-20: Bikesouth Great South Australian Bike Ride
The Noojee trestle bridge Wineries and cold showers, the two memorable parts of this ride.
1996-Apr-04 – Canberra to Melbourne 1996-Apr-05 – Moonambel to Avoca (20km) Via Wineries (30-40km) 1996-Apr-06 – Creswick (Long 75km) (Short 55km) 1996-Apr-07 – Creswick to - Daylesford 1996-Apr-08 – Daylesford to - Bacchus Marsh (78km) 1996-Apr-09 – Bacchus Marsh to - Melbourne (60km)
1997-04-19 Sat – Day 1: Tamworth to Werris Creek (45km) 1997-04-20 Sun – Day 2: Werris Creek to Murrundindi (82km) 1997-04-21 Mon – Day 3: Murrundindi to Muswellbrook (92km) 1997-04-22 Tue – Day 4: Muswellbrook to Singleton (100km) 1997-04-23 Wed – Day 5: Singleton to Cessnock (77km) 1997-04-24 Thu – Day 6: Cessnock rest day 1997-04-25 Fri – Day 7: Cessnock to Paterson (92km) 1997-04-26 Sat – Day 8: Paterson to Stockton (95km) 1997-04-27 Sun – Day 9: Stockton to Newcastle then home (22km)
1997-Nov-01: Deadly Treadly 1997 Cup Weekend Ride — Neerim Junction to Melbourne 1997-Oct-12: Around the Bay in a Day 1997-Apr-19: BNSW 1997 Big Ride — Tamworth to Newcastle 1997-Mar-28: Deadly Treadly 1997 Easter Ride — ?? to Melbourne
1997-03-28 Fri – Day 1: Bonnie Doon to Euroa (56.57km, 26.0km/hr) 1997-03-29 Sat – Day 2: Euroa to Nagambie 1997-03-30 Sun – Day 3: Nagambie to Heathcote 1997-03-31 Mon – Day 4: Heathcote to Gisbourne (82.0km) 1997-04-01 Tue – Day 5: Gisbourne to Melbourne (59.26km)
1997-11-01 Sat – Day 1: Neerim Junction to Drouin 1997-11-02 Sun – Day 2: ?? to ?? 1997-11-03 Mon – Day 3: ?? to Melbourne [1997-11-01 Sat] – Day 1 – Neerim Junction to Drouin stats value distance 38.77km [1997-11-02 Sun] – Day 2 My notes say:
Drizzly rain as we packed up
[1997-11-03 Mon] – Day 3 stats value distance 82.6km
1998-Oct-31: Deadly Treadly Tours — Great Ocean Road Ride 1998-Sep-21: 1998 Portugal and Spain 1998-Apr-25: 1998 RTA NSW Big Ride — Barham to Albury, NSW, Aus 1998-Apr-10: Easter Deadly Treadly Tour
1998-Oct-31 – Day 1: Apollo Bay to Wye River (32km) 1998-Nov-01 – Day 2: Wye River to Torquay (58km/78km) 1998-Nov-02 – Day 3: Torquay to Sorrento (45km/75km) 1998-Nov-03 – Day 4: Sorrento to Melbourne (90km/60km)
A two month bicycle tour that I made through the Iberian Peninsula from late September to late November 1998. In approximately seven weeks cycling I covered 3,500 km, visited four countries, drank many coffees and had a fantastic time.
During my first week in Portugal a hurricane had just finished demolishing part of central America and making it’s way across the Atlantic, when it arrived I was treated to almost constant rain for a week.
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.
