Ride to Work Day tomorrow (18th) - and I can't .....

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D-Rider · #1 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:45 pm

I'm sure many of you know that tomorrow is the national Ride To Work Day organised by the MCIA.

I was hoping to ride in tomorrow (which is not really that unusual) but I'm temporarily off the road!
Was riding to work today - bike flying very well - a number of bends taken at the fastest yet, past a car chuck it in to a right hander ..... did that feel right

fork damping felt strange. The following corners similar. Was it forks, was it front tyre? Shake the bars - feels OK - can't be the front tyre. Back off through the stretch where they've just covered the road in loose chippings and through the next village. Cars to pass on the way out. Glance at the speedo - looked like 85 but I must have misread it as I'd never exceed the national speed limit

- nah - doesn't feel right.
Limp in to work - by that time I'd worked out that it was the REAR that was flat. Dunno why but it felt like the front!

Anyway, working for an automotive supplier, you'd have thought we'd have a foot pump in the building ...... did we heck! Had to call out my son to bring my footpump up on his scooter so I could take the bike home at lunchtime. Pumped it up - set off home. Stopped half way for more pumping. Heavens opened. Arrived home soaked .... nice

Anyway, tonight I've got the wheel out and it's now in the back of the car waiting to be repaired tomorrow ........ which means I'm going to have to miss Ride to Work Day.

Viking · #2 Post by **Viking** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:29 pm

I missed it as well.

But I did ride to work yesterday. Does that count?

D-Rider · #3 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:34 pm

Viking wrote:I missed it as well.

But I did ride to work yesterday. Does that count?

Do it tomorrow and pretend you're in our timezone!

They have this Ride to Work day every year but it never seems particularly well publicised - I usually find out about it after it has happened!

Viking · #4 Post by **Viking** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:42 pm

Sounds like a plan to me!

I think the Sydney riders try to organise a ride to work day every year, but I have yet to see anything from the Melbourne mob.

Gio · #5 Post by **Gio** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:29 am

Thank god all the muppets on their scooters are still at school

I'll be cycling today (only about 10 miles tho)

D-Rider · #6 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:58 am

Gio wrote:Thank god all the muppets on their scooters are still at school

I'll be cycling today (only about 10 miles tho)

Not that they are still at school Gio! ..... the 16yr olds have taken their GCSEs and have now either left school or are on holiday ..... riding their scooters, hunting down cyclists (might have made the last bit up).

This is how my "muppet" was able to come to my rescue yesterday - for which I was very grateful.

Gio · #7 Post by **Gio** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:28 pm

D-Rider wrote:
Gio wrote:Thank god all the muppets on their scooters are still at school

I'll be cycling today (only about 10 miles tho)
Not that they are still at school Gio! ..... the 16yr olds have taken their GCSEs and have now either left school or are on holiday ..... riding their scooters, hunting down cyclists (might have made the last bit up).

This is how my "muppet" was able to come to my rescue yesterday - for which I was very grateful.

Well I'm pleased to report that most of the muppet scooterists round here are working.

I did my 10 miles and I didn't even see a motorbike

Nooj · #8 Post by **Nooj** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:46 pm

I went in the car as I had to pick THIS up after work.

anzacinexile · #9 Post by **anzacinexile** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:08 pm

I'm on a bike every day so I wont notice the difference

Viking · #10 Post by **Viking** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:40 pm

Well, I rode to work today. If I cheat and say I was using GMT, then I can claim to have taken part in the 'Ride to Work' day.

Saw a few other bikes, but not many. Looks like our cold and damp weather is keeping people in their cars.

D-Rider · #11 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:43 pm

Viking wrote:Well, I rode to work today. If I cheat and say I was using GMT, then I can claim to have taken part in the 'Ride to Work' day.

Saw a few other bikes, but not many. Looks like our cold and damp weather is keeping people in their cars.

..... cold and damp weather ....... you can certainly claim to be in our timezone (there again, for you it's winter - for us it's supposed to be summer!)

HowardQ · #12 Post by **HowardQ** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:35 pm

Gio wrote:Thank god all the muppets on their scooters are still at school

I'll be cycling today (only about 10 miles tho)

Sorry Gio, if there is one thing worse than muppets on scooters it's muppet cyclists! (The former arn't actually too bad really, it's where most of us started if we're honest, i.e. thrashin around on something with zero power and dreamin we had somethin much faster).
Really nice to come round a bend and find a dozen or so cyclists in a group spread all over the road, (perhaps the last bit is a goood idea).

Also pigged off by the fact they seem to have road races all around our area every Sunday, even on the A1, and particularly on my favourite bike roads.

Wouldn't mind so much if they actually paid anything to use the bloody roads. You try to get even a minor road in the back of nowhere closed in this country to run a car rally stage or bike race on it, never mind running some sort of an event on the A1.

Rant over, nothing personal Gio !!!!

falcomunky · #13 Post by **falcomunky** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:33 pm

Here, here! Oh, n everyday is a bike to work day fer me too!