Suicide wallabies

"TimC" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Please help me caption this:

Ideas:

"A comparative study of the relative benefits of properly maintained
hotmix (this is why ANU are broke?) vs dodgily maintained local
council roads"

"How to approach a cattle grid with 3 warning signs to slow down.
Hint: you don't, but you need to retrieve your bidon when you come
back up."

"40km/h speed limit? Pffft, that's not legally binding".

Excuse the bike handling -- I had been riding the old GVBR clunker for
3 weeks.

I shall try it again helmet mounted rather than handlebar mounted,
with a more sturdy attachment. And then try again with handlebar
mounting with more vibration isolation (somehow). This could be fun.

--
TimC
I read [.doc files] with "rm". All you lose is the microsoft-specific
font selections, the macro viruses and the luser babblings.
-- Gary "Wolf" Barnes

"It's not me that's on drugs, just the camera."

You should be bunny-hopping those cattle grids. Possibly the wallaby as
well, but that might take a little practice.

TimC said:

Please help me caption this:

the related list is completely not, your tags need work?

way too distant for a suicide wallabie.

On 2007-09-02, Aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

TimC said:

Please help me caption this:

the related list is completely not, your tags need work?

Heh. I wonder howto... It's probably an AND search, and I dare say
there aren't too many downhill cycling runs from an observatory, so it
comes back with the empty list, so it shows a bunch of random videos
instead and calls them related?

Quoted message said:

way too distant for a suicide wallabie.

And the fact that he was too visible and I had the chance to see him
and slow down well before.

--
TimC
My cats are forbidden from walking on my computer keyboard on the desk
when I'm asdfjjhhkl;ljfd.;oier' puyykmm4hbdm9lo9j USING IT. --unknown

TimC said:

Heh. I wonder howto... It's probably an AND search, and I dare say
there aren't too many downhill cycling runs from an observatory, so it
comes back with the empty list, so it shows a bunch of random videos
instead and calls them related?

OR. Its's matching on AAT. So its not using the tags?

On 2007-09-02, Aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

TimC said:

Heh. I wonder howto... It's probably an AND search, and I dare say
there aren't too many downhill cycling runs from an observatory, so it
comes back with the empty list, so it shows a bunch of random videos
instead and calls them related?

OR. Its's matching on AAT. So its not using the tags?

I had AAT until the non match was pointed out. Obviously still using
them...

--
TimC
The stereotypical Islay is like chewing on a well-preserved rowing
boat, spiced up with seaweed, whereas the 20yo Laddie is more like
relishing a gourmet meal in said rowing boat. -- Ingvar in ASR

Ok so it took you a bit over 6 mins to get down. How long did the return run
take?

TimC said:

On 2007-09-02, Aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

TimC said:

Please help me caption this:

the related list is completely not, your tags need work?

Heh. I wonder howto... It's probably an AND search, and I dare say
there aren't too many downhill cycling runs from an observatory, so it
comes back with the empty list, so it shows a bunch of random videos
instead and calls them related?

How about something like extreme commute,or extreme cycle commute.
That's going to be a lot more relevant than what you currently get.

DaveB

On 2007-09-02, Resound (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Ok so it took you a bit over 6 mins to get down. How long did the return run
take?

That is professionally priveleged information 🙂

In the past, it took me 15 minutes to get from the bottom to the door
of the dome (and then I guess another 2 or 3 to the top of the
mountain, but I never had a need to go that far). Let's just say it
was about 7 minutes slower than that. 🙁

I have a cold (well, and generally unfit, dammit; I wish there was a
BR(x) up here)

--
TimC
"Nature is pretty" -- CmdrTaco

TimC said:

I have a cold (well, and generally unfit, dammit; I wish there was a
BR(x) up here)

Ride it and they will come..!

--
Bean

Remove "yourfinger" before replying

Bean Long said:

Ride it and they will come..!

I'm pre-emptively piking on that one.

--
Dave Hughes | [email hidden]
"Hey, watch the 'fro" - Danny Glaze

On 2007-09-02, Resound (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Ok so it took you a bit over 6 mins to get down. How long did the return run
take?

19 minutes today, but that's not all the way to the top again.

I wasn't aware how far over the centreline my head was -- my wheels
were to the left of the centerline almost always, apart from about the
third corner which I overshot quite often in testing. I always get
nervous with those reflector posts -- it's about knee height, so I get
the last minute heeby geebies and tend to overcook the corners rather
than risk bashing my knee.

The helmet mount has no altitude adjustment, which means a lot of
lashing up is required to point it properly. And no viewfinder, so
much experimentation between the bike, a good run along a road in your
normal riding posture, and back to your laptop or TV. And now that I
know that the camera is pointing just a little bit too far down (in
testing, it was fine. The difference between a proper ride down the
mountain in an aero position, and a tootle around outside), I'm
dreading having to change the lashup.

All in all, I'm not sure that I would recommend Oregon Scientific's
action cam 2000. Colour saturation poor, contrast too high, dynamic
range too low, video encoding not that crash hot (but then again, it's
got to be low bandwidth to be able to record onto a 2GB maximum SD
card), too heavy. Wait a few more years for the next generation. And
now that I know how important it is to keep the weight and size down
on the helmet, I'd probably reconsider my adversion to the systems
with a lense and detector, a cable, and a recording device in one's
backpack or jersey. If you could have a lipstick cam, and a cable to
the rest of the electronics of the ATK2000 in my jersey pocket, then
I'd be happier. Then you could also make the recorder bigger and more
sophisticated.

As to my use of the "extreme" tag in my list of tags (exteme commute
perhaps, for us soft roadie types), it's got nothing on this:

Now I want to get a riding partner and film behind them. That could
be spectacular.

--
TimC
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.

In aus.bicycle on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:01:52 GMT

TimC said:

I wasn't aware how far over the centreline my head was -- my wheels
were to the left of the centerline almost always, apart from about the

A common problem with motorcyclists, and cause of some crashes. The
rider tends to use the centreline as a guide, and doesn't realise how
far across they are leaning.

On a steep descent on a bicycle I can bet the lean angle is enough to
have much more than your head in the way of oncoming traffic... Add
in a largish car drifting out a bit and it could be *splot*.

I'm hyper aware of it on a motorcycle having seen others with their
heads in 4WD-attraction mode. Haven't been on a fast enough curvy
enough bicycle ride for it to be a problem yet.

Zebee