I cant wait to get back on my bike(s); Geelong, Australia
02-26-10, 08:59 PM
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I cant wait to get back on my bike(s); Geelong, Australia
I have always liked cycling recreationally anyway. But from late teenage years I seemed to have too many things going on, and I didn't have enough time to spend on my bike, not to mention 20's - getting married, emigrating, starting a life in a new land (originally Irish - now Australian), 30's - raising kids, keeping down jobs, paying mortgages, parents died in my 40's - realising life is getting shorter!! - So I have been enjoying my return to the bicycle for a couple of years now. In fact, I've gotten more into cycling than i ever had been as a youngster - must be making up for lost time. Last year I rode around the bay - 210 kilometer ride, in Melbourne Australia - great day out after months of practise. I've been trying to get the family interested, and my wife and two of our younger kids had a weekend rail trail cycle in January, with a stay over in a cabin. We had a ball!, and I bought my daughter (11 years old) a bike so we might do the great Victorian bike ride this year - 1 week cycling trip. Only thing is I've caught some bug at the moment and am really low on energy for the last 6 weeks - I need to hurry up and get better, so I can get back on my bike. In the mean time I'm checking out web forums such as this to feed my appetite 
02-26-10, 09:18 PM
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Welcome to Bike Forums! It's great that you're getting the whole family into riding.
What kind of bike do you have?
What kind of bike do you have?
02-26-10, 10:24 PM
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I have a trek roadbike, bought 2nd hand, so i don't really know - but it has ultegra gears and it's alum frame, I think it's 2005 model. I love it, goes really well. I also have a scott sub 20 that i have for commuting into work and back - 30 kms round trip, just haven't done it in a while. I got Fiona a monaco bicycle, made by an Australian manufacturer - Apollo. I need to get her to be able to ride up to 100 kms a day and feel comfortable.........
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Seeing as how it's basically almost 'fall' there, have the temperatures/conditions been comfortable for cycling?
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Hi Rollfast,
It is the first day of fall in Australia, the temprature dropped to 66 F today, but it will still be into the mid 80's F for the next 6 weeks or so. Then it can get a lot colder in the winter months, down into the low 40's F in Geelong where I live. But I love cycling and the temperature has never put me off before... But I might think twice if it's cold with a head wind into the rain, right now I haven't been on a bike in 6 weeks so I reckon I'd go out in any weather
It is the first day of fall in Australia, the temprature dropped to 66 F today, but it will still be into the mid 80's F for the next 6 weeks or so. Then it can get a lot colder in the winter months, down into the low 40's F in Geelong where I live. But I love cycling and the temperature has never put me off before... But I might think twice if it's cold with a head wind into the rain, right now I haven't been on a bike in 6 weeks so I reckon I'd go out in any weather
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Hi Rollfast,
It is the first day of fall in Australia, the temprature dropped to 66 F today, but it will still be into the mid 80's F for the next 6 weeks or so. Then it can get a lot colder in the winter months, down into the low 40's F in Geelong where I live. But I love cycling and the temperature has never put me off before... But I might think twice if it's cold with a head wind into the rain, right now I haven't been on a bike in 6 weeks so I reckon I'd go out in any weather
It is the first day of fall in Australia, the temprature dropped to 66 F today, but it will still be into the mid 80's F for the next 6 weeks or so. Then it can get a lot colder in the winter months, down into the low 40's F in Geelong where I live. But I love cycling and the temperature has never put me off before... But I might think twice if it's cold with a head wind into the rain, right now I haven't been on a bike in 6 weeks so I reckon I'd go out in any weather
Have the bushfires hit badly this year? I haven't heard as much, I blame all the other garbage going on here and elsewhere for blotting important things like that from my knowledge. I know people from NSW and VIC (St. Kilda/Melbourne and Brisbane especially) but not much else other than Machka (and she's an exile of sorts).
03-18-10, 02:48 AM
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Snow has never put me off if the conditions will allow biking as they are my private transportation. It might be a long trek if you wanted to go surfing however.
Have the bushfires hit badly this year? I haven't heard as much, I blame all the other garbage going on here and elsewhere for blotting important things like that from my knowledge. I know people from NSW and VIC (St. Kilda/Melbourne and Brisbane especially) but not much else other than Machka (and she's an exile of sorts).
Have the bushfires hit badly this year? I haven't heard as much, I blame all the other garbage going on here and elsewhere for blotting important things like that from my knowledge. I know people from NSW and VIC (St. Kilda/Melbourne and Brisbane especially) but not much else other than Machka (and she's an exile of sorts).
It's still in the 80's over here this week - so we are enjoying an extended warm period. We didn't have bush fires TG this year but we had freak storms a couple of weeks back with flooding in melbourne, golf ball sized hail stones and lots of clean up work after. I have friends who had been cycling in the storm - and they have bruises to prove how bad it was.
03-18-10, 02:54 AM
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