Bunch ride 3

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Originally posted by flyingdutch
work/life/starting-up-own-business is killing my free time tho...

Just work is enough for that..

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If you meet us Hippy, no need to 'plot' at all

Yeah, instead there's a need to keep up! 🙂

hippy

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Originally posted by flyingdutch
67kph by my 'puter.

On the flat?! Fark..

<hippy runs away!>

hippy

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 07:45:03 GMT, hippy <[email hidden]> Wrote :

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Originally posted by flyingdutch 67kph by my 'puter.

On the flat?! Fark..

Precisely.

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<hippy runs away!>

humbug drops hippy and makes much dust

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hippy

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Originally posted by hippy
>Originally posted by flyingdutch

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67kph by my 'puter.

On the flat?! Fark..

<hippy runs away!>

hippy

dont be fooled! yes we hit those speeds but we only maintained it for 2km 😄

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Originally posted by tonykara
dont be fooled! yes we hit those speeds but we only maintained it for 2km 😄

🙂

I'm thinking about joining you lot.. but thinking and doing, for
me, are two vastly different things. I'll probably wake at 9 and
make it down that way around 11am.. try and ride some of the
circuit, get lost, yell at inanimate objects.. recognise a road, ride
home..

Do you guys ride in the rain?

hippy

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Originally posted by hippy
I'm thinking about joining you lot.. but thinking and doing, for
me, are two vastly different things. I'll probably wake at 9

Well, I got the '9am rise' bit right...

oops! Lovely day for it..

hippy

Guys, I was waiting at corner of blackburn road and doncaster road around 7.30 for a big pack to come, but gave up! I did a route of doncaster and home via reynolds road hills. i did speak to a bunch of riders later in the morning up reynolds rd who said they start from bulleen road... must have been 10 of them!

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Originally posted by kyra
Guys, I was waiting at corner of blackburn road and doncaster road around 7.30 for a big pack to come, but gave up! I did a route of doncaster and home via reynolds road hills. i did speak to a bunch of riders later in the morning up reynolds rd who said they start from bulleen road... must have been 10 of them!

sorry we missed you, we didnt leave manningham & Thompsons until 7:30 so we would have got to blackburn road at about 7:45.

come on guys lets push to get a big bunch going next week

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Originally posted by tonykara
dont be fooled! yes we hit those speeds but we only maintained it for 2km 😄

Oh, and you forgot to mention the downhill bit just prior.
and i reckon it was more like 200m duration...

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Originally posted by hippy


Well, I got the '9am rise' bit right...

oops! Lovely day for it..

hippy

Luverly indeed. Not too cold. not too hot. little wind. Juuuuust right!

New top speed down 'hill of brown pants' !

81.6kph

still feathered those brakes. must be able to go quicker next week...

Maybe by next week i can figure out my stupid bar-ornament HRM😠 😠 😠

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New top speed down 'hill of brown pants' !
81.6kph

Which hill is this one?

I think we just hit 80kph in the bunch sprint at the bottom
of the tourist road into Montrose.. Last time I rode it, I
couldn't get much above 60kph due to wind (I hope).

hippy

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Originally posted by Hippy

Which hill is this one?

I think we just hit 80kph in the bunch sprint at the bottom
of the tourist road into Montrose.. Last time I rode it, I
couldn't get much above 60kph due to wind (I hope).

hippy

Harris Road Gully Rd.
Just after start (you pass a family orchard w/shop on left. top of hill) There is a 90deg left turn with a 40kph sign and then a fairly straight descent for approx a km. bit bumpy neat top which has made me hesitate (that and what you can see in front of you!).

85kph shall be mine next Sunday!!!
A 'lead-out' would be even better😉

been lookin at the Map

Maybe add an additional part/loop

After passing the Kangaroo Ground Primary school
( near the wierd bible-translation place and 'General Store' )
Turn RIGHT up Eltham-YarraGlenRd to Watsons Creek and then left into Alma Rd and back Right and 'on-track' again into KangaGrd-YGlen Rd and down to Hurstbridge Rd again

mind you. I didnt feel any good till we were about 2/3rds of the way thru the ride so maybe that's gonna be a judgement call on the day...

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Hippy said:

Which hill is this one?

Harris Road Gully Rd. Just after start (you pass a
family orchard

w/shop

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85kph shall be mine next Sunday!!! A 'lead-out' would be
even better😉

I must have ridden this bit coz it was relatively early in
the ride. I know there was some fast bits but I don't think
I hit anywhere near 80kph. Either too chicken or wasn't
trying.. I'll have to ride it again!

What can you "see in front of you"?

I might be able to give you a leadout.. or sneak up
wheelsucker-style :-)

hippy

So how many made it for BR3, just 2 or have there been any
additions? I'm up for this Sunday, although I suspect you
guys will leave me for dead on the Warrandyte Rd (anyone
wanting to follow the Nancy Route please turn up Sunday
morning otherwise I am going to be in pain on Monday).

DaveB

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Originally posted by Daveb
So how many made it for BR3, just 2 or have there been any
additions? I'm up for this Sunday, although I suspect you
guys will leave me for dead on the Warrandyte Rd (anyone
wanting to follow the Nancy Route please turn up Sunday
morning otherwise I am going to be in pain on Monday).

DaveB

Just me/Tony but we missed Kyra and Hippy. Bluenose mentioned he was up for it but he either wisely stayed in bed or we missed him too.

All this posting and the group has never been bigger than 3.........we need to instigate a huge recruiting drive to lift the numbers. maybe the start point can be adjusted to a more central position to suit all those interested.

If we can get the numbers to grow and stay consistant then we could possibly look at giving it an official name. eg: Riders against flat boaring roads 😄

What does everyone think?

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Originally posted by tonykara
If we can get the numbers to grow and stay consistant then we >could possibly look at giving it an official name. eg: Riders >against flat boaring roads 😄

Beasts from the East...

I'll try and make the group again this Sunday, probably leaving
a little later and picking you up at the start of Old Warrandyte Rd.

How long do you reckon it takes you lot to ride from the start
point (which I must've ridden past twice!!) to where Old Warrandyte veers off Donkeycaster Rd.?

hippy

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Originally posted by tonykara
All this posting and the group has never been bigger than 3.........we need to instigate a huge recruiting drive to lift the numbers. maybe the start point can be adjusted to a more central position to suit all those interested.

If we can get the numbers to grow and stay consistant then we could possibly look at giving it an official name. eg: Riders against flat boaring roads 😄

What does everyone think?

"RAFBR" doesnt quite grab the imagination...

We have sighted a few other small groups thru Doncaster way.
Must be plenty of riders out there. All those cruisers who put the bike in the car and drive down to StKilda should be ashamed of themselves. "Flatheads" they shall now be referred to as...

Hey, we woulda doubled the numbers if us 2 didnt stand around talking at the start and picked up Kyra at Blackburn rd and Hippy to if my instructions had been better

Maybe change the start to the Shoppingtown corner of Doncaster/Williamsons Rd and we leave no later than 7:20 from there. That way we can throw in the ending at Doncaster Shoppingtown (and maybe even the Elgar Rd hill too if we are feeling masochistic!)