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Animal Sprints
I ran over a red belly black the first day I got my 928 Bianchi. Must have
been an omen. The next ride I got a puncture, etc. Always nice to be meeting nature and turning it into a landing strip. Ahh a cycling Harry Butler fest... |
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Animal Sprints
On 2007-03-20, Bleve (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: On Mar 20, 7:05 pm, gplama gplama.2nq...@no- mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote: Jono L Wrote: Found a new one on the way home from Kinglake on the Greensborough bypass -The Squashed turkey sprint! hahaha, triple points for rareness!!!! Jawwoo and I spotted a ghost wombat about 2kms out of Warragul.. and it has a red eye. Rabid albino ghost wombat points up for grabs during the Baw Baw Classic!!! We saw two wombats in Westerfolds tonight (trying out the new HID .. halogens are obsolete .. and how ...). One did two fast passes in front of me, and the other ambled along the bridge over the yarra while we suggested that it get a move on. No ghosts .. these were real! I've been thesis writing, at work, the past few nights (hey, gotta do it one day!) I rode home Tuesday night for the first time at night -- I was quite looking forward to 30 minutes of pure dark adaption to see just how damn clear the sky is around here. But more than a little nervous about the trip home. In the first 5km of my commute home is a 500m drop. I usually attain 72 or so km/h down one long straight, and 85km/h down another (picking a very fine line between bike swallowing pot holes). But I also note that the local astronomers are given a 60km/h limit between dusk and dawn when driving observatory cars (and no way would one risk doing silly things in their own cars). Monday night, I had left my battery connector home, so caught a lift home at 10:00pm. Roos everywhere, with one close enounter. I sat on the brakes all the way down on Tuesday, not getting above 55km/h (and only then when I had a straight stretch where I could see the side of the road in my 15Watter). I was only going about 40km/h an hour down a 5% slope when one roo did give me the "I'm about to hop in front of you, you puny hu-man" look at me. I indeed missed him by 30cm or so -- I wasn't pushing the anchors don't as hard as they could safely go, but I came pretty close to it. The rims were hot at the bottom. Despite the slow going down about 15km of hills, I only lost 10 minutes on my usual time home. Plenty of uphills where it doesn't matter if it's dark or not. -- TimC "Back off, man. I'm a scientist." - Dr. Venkman, _GhostBusters_ |
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Animal Sprints
byron27 Wrote: During my time in Vancouver the problem was deer and bears. Climbing up Mt Seymour and Cypress the reigning fear among cyclists was to come across a bear in the ditch adjacent to the road as you were climbing (12k's at 7.5%) at around 15-20 kph. If the bear freaked and decided to go you, there was no way of out riding them. In my case, I would give gravity a try. I can't outrun anything up hill, but my mass might stand me in good stead in a down hill sprint if I was attempting to escape an angry bear. SteveA -- SteveA |
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