i did it. i rode from my home to work. heres all the data for such a stoopid thing to do
DST: 84.95 km MAX: 62.9 km/h AVG: 28.4 km/h CAL: 2214.3 TIME: 2:59:19 yeah!
i left at 5.30am and arrived at work at 9.00am almost on the dot. i must have been stationary for a total of 30min. this would include a stop to buy some sunnies. lol, banana at eastern creak mcdonalds, and random sets of lights around five dock. it is actually quiet an easy ride with very limited hills etc. once you roll down the hill to the M4 it very smooth sailing. i will do it again but next time i will not carry so much shit with me. my backpack was just ridiculously heavy for such a long ride. things we learn.
unfortunately with family commitments i didn’t get out for a ride. friday i did take tarini into the city for a ride from work to randwick AMF bowling, restuarant, then back to central, train trip then a trip home from springwood. was fun.
i am going to attempt to ride to work tomorrow. don’t know how i will go. it will be an early start - 5.30 departure. hoping to make it all the way. scottie is decked with slicks. should be fun
Macaframa SF Track Bike Promo from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo. tomorrow evening we are having a bowling night at randwick bowling alley. i will bring tarini to the city. its just easier to get from place to place on a bike. especially when you have to make it back to central, then from springwood station to home.
vimeo is the shit. the video quality is just hands down so much better than youtube
jason, nick and i did a nice ride today. oaks fire trail then on to the blaxland bake house of coffee [OJ for me - god i hate coffee]. nick then left and caught the train whilst jason and i continued along, through sun valley, along to yellow rock and back home. i think nick thoroughly enjoyed the ride. jason also had his first run on the cross+marks - we are both sold on them. they were the shit through all terrain!
in total it was a 61km ride of all types of terrain. sadly we spoke briefly to a guy on the fire trail who was laying down waiting for an ambulance to come - he had just come off and broken his collar bone. he explained the chain had locked up. then the back wheel locked up and he lost control. it was on the hardest downhill part of the fire trail as well as the fastest rough part. get well.
after 50+ km and a painful last full climb, i came over a hill exhausted only to see this… totally pissed myself laughing
here’s the route for today [add the first 10km to the station from home]
as a last note: after riding along the sun valley section both jason and i were thinking/saying exactly the same thing. fuck we live in the best part of the world.
so i took the cross+marks out today a quick run. first day of the easter break it wasn’t raining so i fanged it as hard as i could going down the windy bends from home to yellomundee MTB track. MAX speed of 58.7 down hill and the cross+marks really move on tar. turn right and into the track. it has been nearly 2 years since i was last down there. weirdest thing is i would be almost the closest living MTB rider to the track. well the track is bloody amazing. in the two years it has improved 10 fold - and i also think the amount of rain has helped. i will definately be doing some kind of racing there this year. not sure of which day etc.
the cross+marks are just amazing. they stick like shit to a blanket on the corners and the climb really well. best $80 i have spent for some time.
i did the testing for time etc. and from what i could work out i think i would have been in about 7th place in D grade??? who knows but i will find out soon enough.
the XT back derailleur worked well. i need a better bike!
