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North Rd / Nepean Hwy ride
on the way to morning swim squad have been consistently noticing a swarm
of red blinking lights gathering about North Rd/Nepean Hwy intersection. through searching on internet for further details, found out it's called brumbie ride and it kicks off every morning 6am (which i already knew) + mon/wed/fri easy and tue/thur hard. a few other questions remain in my unknowledgeable head: a) can i just rock up, smile in greeting and try to keep up or is there a different etiquette applicable? b) how far / hard is it really? i'm pretty much still a newbie, but with high ambitions. but the location and time is really convenient for me wed+thu i'll be very grateful for any kind of information in this regard. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Olga wrote:
on the way to morning swim squad have been consistently noticing a swarm of red blinking lights gathering about North Rd/Nepean Hwy intersection. through searching on internet for further details, found out it's called brumbie ride and it kicks off every morning 6am (which i already knew) + mon/wed/fri easy and tue/thur hard. a few other questions remain in my unknowledgeable head: a) can i just rock up, smile in greeting and try to keep up or is there a different etiquette applicable? b) how far / hard is it really? i'm pretty much still a newbie, but with high ambitions. but the location and time is really convenient for me wed+thu i'll be very grateful for any kind of information in this regard. Just to clarify, this is not the brumbies ride, they leave the brumbies in Sandringham at 6 I think as well. Hard is v. hard, average for the 40k's is ~ 40k also called the hr of power for tue/thur. Wednesday you will also find some of this speed, 'supposed' to be an easy ride with rolling tempo on the way back (although you can sit further back and miss out on the turns if you need). Will find that at times this is nearly as hard as a tue/thur. Lots of people will be dropped on a tue/thur so you may get someone to ride with or not. How far? they go straight down the highway to mordy and then back along the beach. Lots stop at racer afterwards. Anyone can rock up but they will be v. intolerant of sketchy riding, its dark and they sit close on the wheel and will expect that you are comfortable to do the same. Tue/wed/thur are not really the days to come if you are not comfortable as speed/being on the edge of your limits won't make you any more capable of sitting in in a bunch comfortably. Definitely would suggest a monday/friday as a better day to start with, see how that goes and then tackle thae hard days. Hope that clarifies it! -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Olga wrote:
on the way to morning swim squad have been consistently noticing a swarm of red blinking lights gathering about North Rd/Nepean Hwy intersection. through searching on internet for further details, found out it's called brumbie ride and it kicks off every morning 6am (which i already knew) + mon/wed/fri easy and tue/thur hard. a few other questions remain in my unknowledgeable head: a) can i just rock up, smile in greeting and try to keep up or is there a different etiquette applicable? b) how far / hard is it really? i'm pretty much still a newbie, but with high ambitions. but the location and time is really convenient for me wed+thu i'll be very grateful for any kind of information in this regard. Just to clarify, this is not the brumbies ride, they leave the brumbies in Sandringham at 6 I think as well. Hard is v. hard, average for the 40k's is ~ 40k also called the hr of power for tue/thur. Wednesday you will also find some of this speed, 'supposed' to be an easy ride with rolling tempo on the way back (although you can sit further back and miss out on the turns if you need). Will find that at times this is nearly as hard as a tue/thur. Lots of people will be dropped on a tue/thur so you may get someone to ride with or not. How far? they go straight down the highway to mordy and then back along the beach. Lots stop at racer afterwards. Anyone can rock up but they will be v. intolerant of sketchy riding, its dark and they sit close on the wheel and will expect that you are comfortable to do the same. Tue/wed/thur are not really the days to come if you are not comfortable as speed/being on the edge of your limits won't make you any more capable of sitting in in a bunch comfortably. Definitely would suggest a monday/friday as a better day to start with, see how that goes and then tackle thae hard days. Hope that clarifies it! -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Olga wrote in message ...
Thank you both for a prompt reply mon/tue/fri are unfortunately exactly the time when i swim which leaves me the hard thursday and wednesday. oh well, i guess the option is simply to ride faster thanks again, will definitely rock up at first opportunity and find out what i'm good for. good luck with your riding! Well, I'd avoid it if I was you. It is by far the riskiest riding I have ever done, and IMO, has become worse than the Hell Ride. If you a strong enough to pull turns, you're ok, but if you all you can do is sit in and be sucked along, then at leat keep your head up. So many dufuses are head down arse up, when they spank it on the road after clipping wheels, they don't even know why. It's gets ugly when you go 3,4,5 a breast then into the next lane, and up comes a car, all the warriors makin' there move around the right get forced back into the one lane....... a little hook at the front is a massive swerve down the back.... Try the Brumbies ride, which is a little more sedate. Also, there is an earlier bunch that leave from North Rd at 5:45 am. It contains older guys with less ego and more brains. |
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Olga wrote in message ...
Thank you both for a prompt reply mon/tue/fri are unfortunately exactly the time when i swim which leaves me the hard thursday and wednesday. oh well, i guess the option is simply to ride faster thanks again, will definitely rock up at first opportunity and find out what i'm good for. good luck with your riding! Well, I'd avoid it if I was you. It is by far the riskiest riding I have ever done, and IMO, has become worse than the Hell Ride. If you a strong enough to pull turns, you're ok, but if you all you can do is sit in and be sucked along, then at leat keep your head up. So many dufuses are head down arse up, when they spank it on the road after clipping wheels, they don't even know why. It's gets ugly when you go 3,4,5 a breast then into the next lane, and up comes a car, all the warriors makin' there move around the right get forced back into the one lane....... a little hook at the front is a massive swerve down the back.... Try the Brumbies ride, which is a little more sedate. Also, there is an earlier bunch that leave from North Rd at 5:45 am. It contains older guys with less ego and more brains. |
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Olga wrote:
Thank you both for a prompt reply mon/tue/fri are unfortunately exactly the time when i swim which leaves me the hard thursday and wednesday. oh well, i guess the option is simply to ride faster thanks again, will definitely rock up at first opportunity and find out what i'm good for. good luck with your riding! Traditionally the Wednesday goes out pretty relaxed then hits a bit of speed on the way back. It's supposed to be a small chainring day all the way, but this sin;t always adhered to. It's worth turning up and hanging in as long as you can, your technique and suffering ability will improve. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Olga wrote:
Thank you both for a prompt reply mon/tue/fri are unfortunately exactly the time when i swim which leaves me the hard thursday and wednesday. oh well, i guess the option is simply to ride faster thanks again, will definitely rock up at first opportunity and find out what i'm good for. good luck with your riding! Traditionally the Wednesday goes out pretty relaxed then hits a bit of speed on the way back. It's supposed to be a small chainring day all the way, but this sin;t always adhered to. It's worth turning up and hanging in as long as you can, your technique and suffering ability will improve. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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PiledHigher wrote in message ...
Just to clarify, this is not the brumbies ride, they leave the brumbies in Sandringham at 6 I think as well. Hard is v. hard, average for the 40k's is ~ 40k also called the hr of power for tue/thur. Wednesday you will also find some of this speed, 'supposed' to be an easy ride with rolling tempo on the way back (although you can sit further back and miss out on the turns if you need). Will find that at times this is nearly as hard as a tue/thur. I thought this was mainly a Caulfied/Carnegie ride. The roads are pretty flat so if you sit at the back it should be pretty cruisy even on the 'hard' days(somehow I always ended up doing turns at the front). They don't like triathletes (or didn't used to) so I just kept my mouth shut and didn't tell them. |
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PiledHigher wrote in message ...
Just to clarify, this is not the brumbies ride, they leave the brumbies in Sandringham at 6 I think as well. Hard is v. hard, average for the 40k's is ~ 40k also called the hr of power for tue/thur. Wednesday you will also find some of this speed, 'supposed' to be an easy ride with rolling tempo on the way back (although you can sit further back and miss out on the turns if you need). Will find that at times this is nearly as hard as a tue/thur. I thought this was mainly a Caulfied/Carnegie ride. The roads are pretty flat so if you sit at the back it should be pretty cruisy even on the 'hard' days(somehow I always ended up doing turns at the front). They don't like triathletes (or didn't used to) so I just kept my mouth shut and didn't tell them. |
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North Rd / Nepean Hwy ride
errr, I think the bullhorns, Syntace bars, bar end shifters, profile aero
bottle and twin behind the seat bottle holders may have given you away. If that didn't do it the Accenture "man bra" top, wetsuit, and getting out of your shoes everytime you stopped definitely did :-) "D. Advocate" wrote in message om... PiledHigher wrote in message ... Just to clarify, this is not the brumbies ride, they leave the brumbies in Sandringham at 6 I think as well. Hard is v. hard, average for the 40k's is ~ 40k also called the hr of power for tue/thur. Wednesday you will also find some of this speed, 'supposed' to be an easy ride with rolling tempo on the way back (although you can sit further back and miss out on the turns if you need). Will find that at times this is nearly as hard as a tue/thur. I thought this was mainly a Caulfied/Carnegie ride. The roads are pretty flat so if you sit at the back it should be pretty cruisy even on the 'hard' days(somehow I always ended up doing turns at the front). They don't like triathletes (or didn't used to) so I just kept my mouth shut and didn't tell them. |
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