Bicycle vs. Car commuter race

Parbs

"cfsmtb" wrote in message ...
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> Pray, cross fingers...May The Force Be With Us...
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Fingers crossed, good luck

Parbs

alison_b

good luck!

May winds and traffic lights be on your side

ali

flyingdutch

Heard your 'opponent' on air this arvo already predicting a loss (for him)

Remember to mumble "Football was the winner on the day..." as part of your victory speech

ghostgum

Chris was on the radio just before 7:45am with her fellow competitor
at Northcote. Said she was riding a lightweight road bike, and gave
away her route. The car might have some trouble following her around
the back of the MCG :-)

Expect to hear her again on Jon Faine's program in a few minutes (8:30am).
This should be available as a pod cast at about 11am.
http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/podcast.htm
There doesn't seem to be a live Real stream for Melbourne.

ghostgum

Chris was just heard on ABC 774. She took 24 minutes, while the car took 35 minutes. Well done. Chris did a good job of promoting cycling.

fdutch left from North Balwyn at 8:44am, against Gabi in a bus. Unfortunately they waited until the bus was in sight. The bus commuter needs a 7 minute handicap to account for the average waiting time. fdutch says it takes 40 minutes, so expect to hear him at about 9:30am. Jon asked fdutch, "How many times have you been knocked off your bike?" fdutch said once, and
said that the hazards of cycling were exagerated (not those words though).

Time for me to commute by bike to work...

ghostgum

That was because he normally rides in. He probably knew how long it
was going to take by bike and car.

TimC

On 2005-11-16, ghostgum (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> Chris was just heard on ABC 774. She took 24 minutes, while the car
> took 35 minutes. Well done. Chris did a good job of promoting
> cycling.

She let slip that it was all downhill in the morning though, so uphill
tonight

Saved it by saying something along the lines of "but look at my
quads"!

> fdutch left from North Balwyn at 8:44am, against Gabi in a bus.
> Unfortunately they waited until the bus was in sight. The bus commuter
> needs a 7 minute handicap to account for the average waiting time.
> fdutch says it takes 40 minutes, so expect to hear him at about 9:30am.
> Jon asked fdutch, "How many times have you been knocked off your bike?"
> fdutch said once, and
> said that the hazards of cycling were exagerated (not those words
> though).

35 mins, vs Gabi's 50mins.

--
TimC
Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek. --unknown

flyingdutch

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!

We blitzed it!

We left at 8:40am
I arrived at Fed Square at 9:15
Gabby Arrived (by Bus/tram) at 8:40!!!

Had a nice chat with 'negative-norman' John Faine whilst donning
coffees waiting for her arrival

Big thanks to Lama.
Whilst he helped me cut approx 10mins off my usual cruisy-commute
He had this rather annoying habit of showing off his prowess on them uppy bits
and even then he was going easy!
I think he also needs to attach some fairings or something as he is a
crap windbreak!!!

cheers all
FlyingDutch™ The brand goes national

Wot's this i hear cfsmtb on a ROAD bike???
and there i was on the pig commuter!
(with lama on the roady towing me )

hippy

Wearing coffees???

They did the same/similar thing in Edinbugger:
http://www.citycycling.co.uk/issue4page9.html

Well done!

hippy
"bikes rule!"

essendon93

Onja Dutchy (or should that be Mr average) and cfsmtb

Bikes rule

SuzieB

Well done!

Gotta love proving to all those car drivers that it really is slower to take the car in peak hour and we all knew the bus is even slower. Maybe there will be hundreds of new cyclists taking to the streets soon. Or maybe not.

Reminds me I REALLY have to ride to work.

cfsmtb

I shoulda taken Red Symons advice and stopped in Brunswick Street & gone for a java!

Superb ride in - except for lower end of Wellington Street (yes, YarraBUG made enquiries about that last year, due to be re-sheeted in next CoY budget!)...and of course...Swan Street Bridge. That's always a clusterfcuk.

Left Northcote: 7.45am - ish

Arrive Southbank: 8.09am

The lovely Bikesoiler (my domestique/draft boy), rep from a Metropolitian Transport Forum (she rode in from Footscray) and a VicRoads VIP were relaxing up upstairs in the ABC lounge when Jeremy finally rocked up, at approx twenty past eight.

In all, the Commuter Race was a brilliant 'populist' exercise, and on the day, football WAS the winner. I declare it Socceroo Day, all day.

TimC

On 2005-11-16, flyingdutch (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!
>
> We blitzed it!
>
> We left at 8:40am
> I arrived at Fed Square at 9:15
> Gabby Arrived (by Bus/tram) at 8:40!!!

Time machine! Or more corectly, space machine, for no time was
involved in Gabby's trip.

> Had a nice chat with 'negative-norman' John Faine whilst donning
> coffees waiting for her arrival

Heh. "How many times have you been hit?"

You've had more than 1 off, haven't you?

> Big thanks to Lama.
> Whilst he helped me cut approx 10mins off my usual cruisy-commute
....
> Wot's this i hear cfsmtb on a ROAD bike???
> and there i was on the pig commuter!
> (with lama on the roady towing me )

Cheating all around!

--
TimC
I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. --unknown

TimC

On 2005-11-16, ghostgum (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> flyingdutch Wrote:
>>
>> Heard your 'opponent' on air this arvo already predicting a loss (for
>> him)
>>
> That was because he normally rides in. He probably knew how long it
> was going to take by bike and car.

Regular car commuters probably think he doesn't know the best way to
get there by car, then.

--
TimC
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical." -- Niels Bohr