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Trev
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Was Perth, now country Vic
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Did my toughest ride of the year yesterday evening. My place to Jamieson return. 129km and 5088 metres. There are some pics and stuff on strava for those that are interested to look. It's too hard to post images on this forum generally if you've been on here for a while and thus have some image history on here.
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AWD Assassin
Join Date: Dec 2004
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5k elevation over just 129klm....stout effort!
I hate hills.
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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+1.
Trev - you are a machine
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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i would have done those sorts of rides as a young bloke, i dont think i d be game to try it now. |
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Gotta learn to love the hills.
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Trev
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Was Perth, now country Vic
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bike was good, it is the more relaxed ergo/endurance model Giant, the Defy, rather than one of the more hard core bikes, so it lends itself well to big rides. Pulled up okay today. A bit sore understandably, that's pushing up a lot of hills when I am no flyweight, around 95kg, so that requires a lot of leg to push up those climbs. My good knee tweaked up a little sore, which was strange, but my bad knee didn't complain too much, go figure lol
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Desert City
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Me too, especially 5k high ones!
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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yes those hills hurt, i went for my daily bike ride, this arbo , i try an always do 15 k`s if possible at my own leisurely pace as the GP prescribed, today i followed the western ring road bike path to jacana station from reservoir about 7 or 8 k`s away which i did yesterday , i had no idea where the path continued on from jacana station ,
so today i thought i would ride around jacana a bit within a few blocks , but without going out of my comfort zone, i might add there is some not bad hills around this area, I got a couple of blocks away and saw cycle dude a couple of hundred yards ahead heading down what looked to be a long court with a very steep down hill and sharp bend he must be going to the track, ............. instantly i thought to myself ....... im more than likely going to have to come back up that bastard at some stage, anyway , he went down it , so i went down it only to find him heading back up from the end of the fenced off street with no where to go :(. start playing the benny hill music ![]() ![]() i locked the brakes on an walked the bike up with tail between legs, i got to the top and was wheezing like like a silly old bugger, (note to self .....study map next time). any way i got back on the easier track and did 21.5 k`s all together back to home. every day it seems a little easier to do a bit more distance, the hills still bugger me though. |
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
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mik,
Its a bummer when you decide to do a recky and find that nice small downhill turns into a monster uphill coming home. Its usual par for the course cycling, eh. mcnews, Good onya, don't think I'm interested enough to do the 100 + kms ride anymore, heck I've even turfed the computers off the bikes. ! What is this strava everyone talks about these days.?
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Melbourne
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No one remembers the lame rides - flat and uninteresting .You may not like hills , but in time you will , and once you embrace them as part of your journey , those rides will stay with you forever. Whether you get over a freeway crossover or Mt Hotham ,whether it's taken you 1 min or 2 hrs , your PB over any climb will always be something you will look back with a smile as you give it the bird knowing you had master it and you choose to hit it head on .
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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![]() i remember as a young whipper snapper i went camping with a couple mates around stoney creek/kinglake area for the weekend, took the bikes tents chairs the kitchen sink , got a lift there on the back of the mates dads tray truck. after a night we needed supplies , so the next day we had to bike it to the general store, if memory serves 5 k ish away .....give or take, had to climb a pretty decent hill , i cant remember the elevation (this was the 70`s )but it was pretty good, coming back down the hill we where passing cars, (bloody flying) i could not catch the pedals and the bike was vibrating so hard i thought it was going to fly to pieces , its a good thing the brakes did not fail. certainly a bit of fun, not something id do these days , i have too much respect for pain if it goes pear shaped ![]() |
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AWD Assassin
Join Date: Dec 2004
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I prefer long straights and challenging myself to maintain a high average speed or high cadence etc etc....
Hills are only good for the downhill on the other side....lol. Each to their own I guess. In saying that, I always seem to go looking for routes with some hills anyways.....go figure.. ![]()
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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indeed Bluey, small hills going up with long down hills going down are excellent
![]() actually the other day when we had those strong winds in melbourne , i went for my daily exercise and i purposely went about 8 or 10 k`s mostly slow climb and against the wind, bloody near killed me ! i was in low cog mostly the whole time , i reached the main highway at the end of the bike path , had a nasty cross wind for a k`s or 2 ......weird riding like your going around corners in a straight line ![]() ![]() |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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something i was going to mention , i weighed my mountain bike with all my crap on it , and it comes in at approximately 13 kgs , i say approximately because mu scales are probably near as old as me, nevertheless , im just wondering how it fares compared to other bikes .
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Rob
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Woodcroft S.A.
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thats not to say the bike can't or doesn't make a difference, just that i don't get hung up on counting kg's. |
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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My Super V's weigh in at 10kg but they're 90's MTB technology. These day they're so much lighter. Here's my old secret to road training......I did all of it on MTB's with slicks or knobby's simply because when I climbed aboard the roadie I absolutely flew. Occasional did the Aust Time trial ***. 25km TT at Calga NSW then and recorded a PB of 34mins 19sec. on the red Super V in the pics earlier posted on 23mm slicks. Here a little story on the bike back then in Aust Cyclist ![]()
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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Went for my daily exercise today, gradually been trying to increase my distance bit by bit every day , I made up my mind I'd do 15 k's as my minimum, I've been doing a little better on most days, except for the odd I'm feeling stuffed days, but , cracked it for 24.57 k's today, if I can find a route I can do 25 a day consistently, I'll be a happy little Vegemite.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
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These are the other Super V's in the fleet I almost forgot to post. below is a rare 1996 V900 carbon running a mix of MTB and road groupset in Speed Yellow. Enjoy the pics. ![]() ![]() below "Pearly" a pearl white 1998 V900 Active I've just restored. ![]() Reassembling after strip down ![]() Stripping original swingarm paint before polishing ![]() below 1992 M400 "Beast of the East" this is the original Cannondale I started with. Was a real beast off road as it is a large frame but feels even bigger due to the 13in bottom bracket ground clearance. Started out a daggy mauve drivetrain is Suntour XC pro "accushift" anyone remember those ??? ![]()
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Went out on Saturday morning after 2 weeks off the bike, had a late night before hand but was keen to go. About 45 minutes in i heard the sound of a rim hitting a solid object, kept riding for a little then felt the rear go soft, sure enough pinch flat so i rode till it was almost flat then had to walk back to my car. Go to replace tube today, **** pinch flatted that one aswell by mistake, anyway its going for a service on Wednesday. But upon closer inspection i have a reasonable dent in the rear rim still usable though.
Got an event im considering entering on Sunday called the gravity enduro still undecided at the moment. ![]()
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Cabover nut
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That's a bummer when that happens early in a ride.
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R51 Pathy, 91 Jayco Swan
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Mackay, QLD
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I have a hankering for some, mid school BMX. Too fat to ride it though!
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GT4.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 4,218
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Okay, I'll bite!
Just picked up my first Roadie to go with my MTB Hybrid. Been trying to get out as much as I can. Had it since friday and done nearly 130km so far. Been getting into biking to mix it up with running (I've been a runner for nearly 4 years now). It's a 2014 Giant TCR Advanced Ultegra Di2 TDF Edition. Comes in a limited colour (Gulf Blue and Orange) which made me happy because it exactly matches my Giant Roam XR-0 Hybrid - Which I basically chose because of how much I loved the colour (amonst other things!) Pics ![]() ![]() And alongside my Roam Hybrid MTB ![]() Wanted to get out tonight but its wet in Melb, and I'm a bit concerned that my skills will run out in the wet with a bike on which I am not familiar. Still getting used to the jitteriness, the sharpness of the handling, the touchiness and the entire feel of it. It's so different to any bike I have ever had before it, and I absolutely love it. Riding on the road will take some getting used to though. It is genuinely scary at times, I have never ever felt so in tuned with every single facet of what I am doing until I got on this thing downhill on a 80km/h main road. It really is a matter of life and death. Exhilarating though. Can't wait to get back out there and set some goals! |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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I live for 80kph down hill runs.
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Rob
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Woodcroft S.A.
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There's a couple of good ones around our area hey shav. I've edged over 90 down pennys hill rd.
At those speeds it's kind of pointless thinking about ' what if....' . I won't fly down any road I'm not familiar with, or if it has other roads entering etc. The views and the down hills make climbing worth it though. |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sunny SE Melbourne
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Ended up with a 2015 TCR Advanced pro 1 and I then upgraded it to Di2.
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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Going down Education Road is a fun one. Im always trying to beat my own PR down there.
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Great looking bike mate.
That colour is a bit painful to my partner though, as some low life in our area stole a 2008 Giant OCR recently while we were away. If anyone see's one of these in NE Victoria PM me as there wasn't to many in this colour scheme back then. I suspect it may of found it way to Albury.
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Cabover nut
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There's a couple of little hills just up the road from me.......Bucklands Gap, Taylors Gap, Towonga Gap, MT buffalo.. I won't go on.
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