So how was your Ride To Work Day?

"cfsmtb" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

- Ride to work because it was an advertised BV event,

Rode to work in the rain and winds of (guess) 40kn, blowing the wrong way of
course, and because I don't live in Victoria I didn't get anyone offering me
a free breakfast :-)

Cheers
David M

"cfsmtb" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

Rode in (as per usual) and went to Fed Square - scored free brekky, coffee,
T-shirt etc (I also ran into dutchy on the last run into town). I managed
to be in the right place at the right time and scored a clear pair of Euro
cycling glasses that had a $35 price tag on them from a guy who was giving
away a dozen or so pairs(pure luck).

On the way home at about 3.00pm on ss mountainbike, I was on the yarra trail
and near the Kew golf club I was cruising along, enjoying the nice weather
and not really looking where I was going.......I see something out of my
priferals (peripherals) and there is a tiger snake, approx 1.5m long across
the middle of the path and about 2 metres in front of me (I was prob doing
approx 30 km/h). I shat and did a bunny hop in record time and managed to
clear the snake (If anyone saw that dude on the trials bike this morning in
Fed Square doing the 1m high jump......I reckon that is about how high I
went!!!!). A quick look over the shoulder and the snake was high tailing it
for the grass. I wish I had my heart rate monitor on as I reckon the
increase would have been significant.

All in all, a great day for riding.

Ride On,

Gags

I
- posted a notice last week to the intranet bulletin board
- Rode to work regardless of it being an advertised BV event,
- Popped down to Veterans Park for free munchies

it was ACT & Victoria, protonational.

Got to the breakfast just before it finished, so got to eat what was left with no constraints. Then did the other 2/3 of my ride to work.
In the afternoon I got to ride FOR work, just 10k total to/from the Borland Diamondback preview.
Got back just in time to change and ride home light ablaze.

Gags said:

On the way home at about 3.00pm on ss mountainbike, I was on the yarra trail
and near the Kew golf club I was cruising along, enjoying the nice weather
and not really looking where I was going.......I see something out of my
priferals (peripherals) and there is a tiger snake, approx 1.5m long across
the middle of the path

Oh [censored], I was down there yesterday wondering how long till the snakes
come out. It's overdue for slashing in that section under the trees on
the city side of the bridge where Yarra Trail and Koonung trail split.
Wonder who's responsible for that, anyone know? I hate snakes, and can't
bunny hop to save my life, especially not with loaded panniers. Came
across 2 snakes last year and that was 2 too many for me.

DaveB

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>> "cfsmtb" == cfsmtb <[email hidden]> writes:

cfsmtb> Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

Not much different to any other day really, except getting overtaken by
quite a few more cyclists in serious kit than normal (I'm not that fast
a rider) and one particular couple in his and her matching bikes / Lycra
who left me for dead.

Of course they didn't have panniers with change of clothing, laptop and
telephony toolkit. At least that's what I tell myself in an attempt to
feel slightly less inadequate :-)

Hats off to a colleague who commuted 45Kms each way today.
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Cheers
Euan

Gags said:

Rode in (as per usual) and went to Fed Square - scored free brekky, coffee,
T-shirt etc (I also ran into dutchy on the last run into town)...

... and there is a tiger snake, approx 1.5m long across
the middle of the path
Gags

Haha. funny sight seeing a tall lad sitting above furiously whirring legs
(get a bigger gear ya woos 😄 ).
Got the brekky ("drink that juice now, its got no preservatives!), shirt and talked to quite a few faces and met others. At a guess there was somewhere between 1500-2500 there when i got in. I stayed from about 7am till 8am and as i headed off home (my 'commute' is now officially from the bedroom to the studio 😄 . approx 20m round trip...) there was alot of people heading in. Was the first time i had spent any significant time there to stop and chat with all stands, etc so was interesting. Evil people displaying bikeporn, er Cannondales (Six13, Cyclocross/roady w/discs, SS, badboys, etc ). The guy looked a bit miffed when i asked if they were giving them away 😄

Poor snake. how's a lad supposed to get a tan so early in the season if darned bikes are gonna ride on his nice warm sunbed?
I rode straight over one down near skippingGirl several years ago.
All over before i could figure out why that stick had squelched. sorry 🙄

fred_nieman said:

It's spring, but today not a single magpie swoop (ie: that flesh and
feathers k'thwack against the right-back of your helmet) all along the
Gardiners Creek trail from Chadstone to Heyington, and the Yarra trail
from Burnley to Rushall Station. Thank you, magpies! (they must have
known it was RTWD... or something...)

Maybe they were exhausted from all the extra cyclists before you.

PS can you please fix your clock.

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Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

- Ride to work because it was an advertised BV event,
- Rode to work regardless of it being an advertised BV event,
- Got a bunch ride going via work/social contacts,
- Popped down to F(r)ed Square for free munchies & entertainment,
- Wanted to ride in but stuff got in the way or used the car/caught
PT.
- Something else, please tell..

rode down to fed square along riversdale / swan st..not too many cyclists
about but i dont normally take this long route to work.
got to fed sq about 7am? met up with some other guys from work, sat around
watching the trials guys drinking my green murky fruit drink..
i then had to head up to parkville and deliver some atb jerseys for fellow
workers. (and joined them for their ride to work brekky)
then rode out to work (in clayton)
so the 13km commute was really a 47km commute yesterday🙂

was a good day, nice weather🙂

cfsmtb said:

Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

- Ride to work because it was an advertised BV event,
- Rode to work regardless of it being an advertised BV event,
- Got a bunch ride going via work/social contacts,
- Popped down to F(r)ed Square for free munchies & entertainment,
- Wanted to ride in but stuff got in the way or used the car/caught PT.
- Something else, please tell….

Ours started off with a trip down to Richmond Town Hall where Yarra Council put on a Cyclists Brekkie & Brunswick Street Cycles had a stall & work stand for minor repairs.

Partook in the usual social pleasantries by chatting away to local cyclists, council staff et al and did a well received presentation of the Wonders of a AirZound2 (under the portico of the town hall, good acoustics!) Later cycled off to F(r)ed Square for a quick visit & chat and then re-commenced ride to work.

Decided to take a short cut through Queen Vic Market, hit a tricky bit of bluestone, tried to dab, but forgot one was clipped in. Duly fell over & dented right knee. Ouch. Got to office, parked bike & started work as pod dweller.

Afternoon, happily reunited with bike, riding home up Queensberry, notice big plume of smoke up ahead. Get off bike, call partner, WTF? Is that near home? Yes, start riding home real fast; get to intersection of Hoddle, [censored], that’s really CLOSE. (Damn, freewheel is stuffing up again, too tight after taking out spacer. Note, must go to LBS this weekend.) Get closer, phew, factory on corner of Mollison & Nicholson. Pedal along for a closer look, just like all the other residents milling around. Hmm, spectacular. Get home, pat the cats & cuddle dawg. So, was your day as exciting as this? 😉

Great ride in to work in the city in the morning.

[censored] ride home.

On the bike path along Yarra Blvd, crossing the rickety wooden slat bridge rather than using the concrete footpath. Get to the end of the brigde an see another cyclist coming straight at me on the wrong side of the path. He goes to his right (toward concrete path), then realises he should be passing me on the other side so goes back to his left. Me seeing him going right tries to pass to his right and we collide head on, with me doing a Superman impersonation and landing on my chin. Fun.

"cfsmtb" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

Ride To Work Day..

I caught the train.

"What?!", I can hear you thinking, "A cycle nut like you
caught the train on RTWD?!"
Yes. I was trying to get 'The Tank' ready for bike polo
last night and ran out of time to ride in. I didn't even have
time to scam free food! Horror of horrors!
I guess I did ride to and from the stations - does that count?

Bike polo was fun. I wasn't going to play because I only
had the overgeared GT SS, no mallet of my own and I was
clipped in. It turns out Dave S had a spare mallet and I only
came close to toppling over a couple of times (it was on
grass - nothing to worry about). The game was played near
Melbourne Storm's training ground on the corner of Punt
and Swan. There was 6 of us and we played a few rounds
in the space of an hour or so. I think most of the guys went
to the Corner for beer but I had someone cooking dinner
for me so I couldn't pass that up. After dinner I rode home
so I guess for me it was Ride From Work Day...

hippy
- I saw the plume of smoke from that fire.. apparently
it was Rove's studio?

- Rode to work regardless of it being an advertised BV event
- Saw more commuters than usual
- Veterans Park for free pancake and an orange quarter at 8
- sat around soaking up some bike atmosphere
- tried in vain to casually mingle while keeping an eye on my bike
- headed to work at about 8:30

My RTWD was a day off from work so I was sleeping in & taking it easy.
Best weather for riding yesterday was. Saw heaps of pushies around in my wanderings to the local bakery for a morning loaf. Even caught one dude lifting his bike out the back of his car to cycle the balance of his commute (I live 5kms from the CBD).

Like the Melb Bike ride, I caught some fair weather cycle commutes cutting through the red lights with oncoming traffic – don’t know where they get there ‘cloak of indestructability” from. Cars beeped, I winced.
Sure I got a ride in, at a more civialised hour though, the bike paths were my own, traffic on the streets are relitively low @ 11am of a Wednesday too… pass the sunscreen..

cfsmtb said:

Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

- Ride to work because it was an advertised BV event,

Ride to work day = love it. But no. Heard about it from a BV member
work buddy. 'Cept I drive my car to and from work maybe 1 or 2 days a
fortnight.

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- Rode to work regardless of it being an advertised BV event,

See above.

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- Got a bunch ride going via work/social contacts,

Lots of like-minded folks ridin' down Sydney Road and Royal Parade
Brunswick -> City, on bikes from Hillmans to Huffys. Sense of shared
interest: a smile and a "hello" back and forth, but especially to the
folks that I see on days *other* than RTWD.
Ride back home was not on my own for once! Small bunches were riding
against the "traffic" on the bike paths/lanes Oakleigh to Brunswick in
the pm. More smiles and a "hellos" back and forth. Why can't it be
like this every working day?

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- Popped down to F(r)ed Square for free munchies & entertainment,

Umm, it sounded good, but I would have had to (yawn!) get up at 6:30 am
to catch the fun before I had to catch a train to the sticks where I
currently work...

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- Wanted to ride in but stuff got in the way or used the car/caught

Managed to get out of bed, and no rain-spots on my room's window, so go
the bike to work...

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PT.
- Something else, please tell….

It's spring, but today not a single magpie swoop (ie: that flesh and
feathers k'thwack against the right-back of your helmet) all along the
Gardiners Creek trail from Chadstone to Heyington, and the Yarra trail
from Burnley to Rushall Station. Thank you, magpies! (they must have
known it was RTWD... or something...)

[censored]
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In these imminent head on situations I have learnt from experience to as
early as possible stick an arm out showing which direction I am going in
(whilst shouting same)... it helps the odds a bit as opposed to second
guessing a rider who is second guessing you at the same time.

richie

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cfsmtb said:

Yes, share your story of the 2004 edition of RTWD, did you,

- Ride to work because it was an advertised BV event,
- Rode to work regardless of it being an advertised BV event,
- Got a bunch ride going via work/social contacts,
- Popped down to F(r)ed Square for free munchies & entertainment,
- Wanted to ride in but stuff got in the way or used the car/caught
PT.
- Something else, please tell..

Ours started off with a trip down to Richmond Town Hall where Yarra
Council put on a Cyclists Brekkie & Brunswick Street Cycles had a stall
& work stand for minor repairs.

Partook in the usual social pleasantries by chatting away to local
cyclists, council staff et al and did a well received presentation of
the Wonders of a AirZound2 (under the portico of the town hall, good
acoustics!) Later cycled off to F(r)ed Square for a quick visit & chat
and then re-commenced ride to work.

Decided to take a short cut through Queen Vic Market, hit a tricky bit
of bluestone, tried to dab, but forgot one was clipped in. Duly fell
over & dented right knee. Ouch. Got to office, parked bike & started
work as pod dweller.

Afternoon, happily reunited with bike, riding home up Queensberry,
notice big plume of smoke up ahead. Get off bike, call partner, WTF? Is
that near home? Yes, start riding home real fast; get to intersection of
Hoddle, [censored], that's really CLOSE. (Damn, freewheel is stuffing up
again, too tight after taking out spacer. Note, must go to LBS this
weekend.) Get closer, phew, factory on corner of Mollison & Nicholson.
Pedal along for a closer look, just like all the other residents
milling around. Hmm, spectacular. Get home, pat the cats & cuddle dawg.
So, was your day as exciting as this? 😉

Great ride in to work in the city in the morning.

[censored] ride home.

On the bike path along Yarra Blvd, crossing the rickety wooden slat
bridge rather than using the concrete footpath. Get to the end of the
brigde an see another cyclist coming straight at me on the wrong side
of the path. He goes to his right (toward concrete path), then realises
he should be passing me on the other side so goes back to his left. Me
seeing him going right tries to pass to his right and we collide head
on, with me doing a Superman impersonation and landing on my chin. Fun.

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PS can you please fix your clock.

All the clocks here in Casa_Nieman are set 5 minutes fast, so we get
to work maybe only 10 minutes late. Umm, do you mean the poot clock?

You've been asked by at least three people now to fix your computer clock.
Both the date and time are completely wrong. The date is a day ahead (today
is the 7th, not the 8th) and the time is just a random number. The problem
is this wrong information is included in your posts' headers.

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*Fred is A Man Of The Future*

Maybe he prefers it that way, ditto my parents are a full hour into the future compared to the rest of Australia. Well, until the end of the month

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DRS wrote:

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You've been asked by at least three people now to fix your computer
clock. Both the date and time are completely wrong. The date is a
day ahead (today is the 7th, not the 8th) and the time is just a
random number. The problem is this wrong information is included in
your posts' headers.

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The WinXP shell clock Is only 5 minutes fast - no problem there.

No, it isn't. Your post's header show the time as 3:50PM, which is not even
close, given you're replying to a post I made at 9:20PM.

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But if the OS timestamp on my posts is very wrong, well, I'll do my
best to fix it. Problem is, if I F2 or F5 or whatever on startup to
get
into the boot-menu-y thingumy whatsit, I won't have much of an idea
what I'll be doing... like someone with only a very little clue at
their LBS...

You don't need to get into the BIOS to fix the clock. You can do it from XP
(just double-click on the clock in the system tray). Or you can download a
utility like WorldTime (http://www.pawprint.net/wt/; get v5 because v6 is
prerelease and not so stable) which will autosynch your computer's clock
with any of the net's NTP servers.

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DRS said:

No, it isn't. Your post's header show the time as 3:50PM, which is not even
close, given you're replying to a post I made at 9:20PM.

The headers in Fred Nieman's post show:

Message-ID: <[email hidden]>
From: fred_nieman <[email hidden]>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:50:14 -0700

In DRS's post:

Message-ID: <[email hidden]>
From: "DRS" <[email hidden]>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:20:36 +1000

It looks to me like Fred's timezone setting is wrong.

22:50 in GMT-07 is 3:50PM the following day in this timezone (GMT+10),
which I assume is what DRS's newsreader is showing him.

This still puts it half an hour before the post it followed up,
though. Maybe Fred's computer thinks it has daylight saving as well.

Malcolm

aeek said:

fred_nieman said:

It's spring, but today not a single magpie swoop

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Maybe they were exhausted from all the extra cyclists before you.

Yep, it was good that way :-) . Kind of like when you're bushwalking at
the back of a group, and all the leeches are busy attaching theimselves
with the folks in front of you...

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PS can you please fix your clock.

All the clocks here in Casa_Nieman are set 5 minutes fast, so we get to
work maybe only 10 minutes late. Umm, do you mean the poot clock? I
think I reset it back 12 hours or something one time because of... umm,
some reason I can't remember now. Let's just pretend it's on Tasmanian
Daylight Saving time (cfsmtb, you out there?)...
wft [sic]? You mean it's not 1987 anymore?
(Or something)
x p