"Bleve" <
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> Melbourne today .. one wind and a half! Was doing laps of the
> Blackburn velodrome, so at least 33% of the time it was a tailwind ...
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> Then, riding in to town along the Burwood Hwy, dropping down towards
> Deakin and Station St - normally a 60km/h+ stretch ... 40km/h working
> hard into it! Urgh!
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Don't you mean tailwind??? I left home at about 0610h this morning on the
road bike and had a massive tailwind all the way down Heidelberg road. I
was sitting on 45km/h on the flats and I was hardly pedalling. I hit 73km/h
down the hill past Ivanhoe Cycles where I usually only hit about 60 or so!!
I got on the bike for the trip home at about 4pm and was very happy when I
had another tailwind for the trip home!!! Was pretty good right up until I
hit the bottom of the hill to Ivanhoe cycles again when it started to ****
down with rain. I stopped off at Ivanhoe cycles to get out of the rain for
a while and to check out a couple of bikes. I have a cunning plan to get
myself a dual suspension XC bike for enduros......the only thing left in the
way is somehow keeping it a secret from the missus - maybe I could just
blend it in with all the other bikes in the shed......."Yes hon, I have
always had that bike....it just looks new because I washed it"
Came back outside....rain had stopped but road was wet enough to throw up a
bit of water but not enough to get too upset over. All in all it was a
great day of commuting for me.
Ride On,
Gags