Forum: Australia
October 29th 07, 04:51 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 10
Views: 500
Glenvale crits
Can anyone tell me if you can still get a day license for Glenvale
crits, last time I was there (the day FD had a great fall) you could get
a day license for $19 or thereabouts. Also what distance...
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Forum: Australia
October 21st 07, 02:01 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 1
Views: 536
mad magpie
ChrisRiley wrote:
Hello, All!
its mad magpie season and for those of you who use kongadera RD in hume (
north of melbourne ) be warned that a magpie nesting near the puppy farm has
taken a...
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Forum: Australia
October 15th 07, 01:10 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 33
Views: 1,824
Passing commuters
Bean Long wrote:
BT Humble wrote:
My favourite is when I'm commuting home on Aaargh[1] and I get passed
while I'm stopped at the pedestrian lights by a poser/wannabe who
blows the red. ...
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Forum: Australia
October 9th 07, 06:12 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 4
Views: 360
OK so I admit Perth turned it on
Travis wrote:
On Oct 8, 8:41 am, wrote:
OK so I admit Perth turned it on weather wise today
(Monday) for people to get out and enjoy it.
Eh? It rained...
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Forum: Australia
October 8th 07, 06:36 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,041
Cycling is good for your eyes
thefathippy wrote:
How old are you?
When my wife got specs (for distance viewing), the opthalmologist
commented that *some* people with weak scripts find their distance
vision gets...
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Forum: Australia
October 8th 07, 05:55 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,041
Cycling is good for your eyes
I went to get my eyes checked today for the first time since 2000. I've
got glasses but have generally only worn them when driving at night, so
my eyes aren't too bad. Over the past 7 years my eyes...
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Forum: Australia
October 3rd 07, 09:16 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,078
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Forum: Australia
September 30th 07, 11:30 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 16
Views: 902
Magpie map
Hooray, finally solved problems I was having with IE by getting the
Magpie Map off googlemashups and onto my Optusnet account. New url...
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Forum: Australia
September 30th 07, 12:31 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,272
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Forum: Australia
September 26th 07, 12:36 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 9
Views: 654
Worlds in Victoria - Official
blah wrote:
On Sep 26, 1:44 pm, gplama gplama.2xi...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote:
Good to hear from ya blah... I thought you'd pulled a 'Brett' on us!
Its now been over two...
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Forum: Australia
September 26th 07, 06:11 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 9
Views: 654
Worlds in Victoria - Official
blah wrote:
Great... just after I move from the country. Oh well, we might be back
by then.
So where are you now? Somewhere hot and sandy or have you moved on?
DaveB
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Forum: Australia
September 26th 07, 03:43 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 14
Views: 531
Cyclist booked in Melbourne
phillip brown wrote:
On Sep 25, 9:34 pm, "PeteSig" wrote:
"Joel Mayes" wrote:
There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work...
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Forum: Australia
September 23rd 07, 09:23 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 8
Views: 684
He's back!!!
beerwolf wrote:
In the absence of a magpikely.com,
http://magpiemap03.googlemashups.com
Note: have found a fault with viewing the map through IE but works
through Firefox.
DaveB
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Forum: Australia
September 14th 07, 05:57 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 16
Views: 902
Magpie map
Ok the very rough first cut is ready for perusal and comment.
Here's the map. http://magpiemap03.googlemashups.com/
What i really want at the moment is locations of some known pesky birds.
Aims...
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Forum: Australia
September 8th 07, 01:52 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,326
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Forum: Australia
September 8th 07, 11:39 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,326
car vs bike commuting on 'the car show'
RV wrote:
Steers on a dime to avoid dills.
Stop at city lights, walk across as pedestrian with motor running and
clutch in, then resume trip as motor bike.
Compare the times and get back...
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Forum: Australia
September 8th 07, 03:17 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,326
car vs bike commuting on 'the car show'
RV wrote:
Pfff wot a load of crap
2 words for the *******
Motor Bike
For my commute the mbike is about 10mins faster than cycling at a very
casual pace (riding hard I could probably...
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Forum: Australia
September 7th 07, 04:11 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,326
car vs bike commuting on 'the car show'
Campag wrote:
The episode is up now, click linky to watchy.
http://www.thecarshow.com.au/web-tv-ep25.htm
And there was I wondering what ever happened to the proposed race with
GPLama....
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Forum: Australia
September 6th 07, 05:19 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 20
Views: 966
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Forum: Australia
September 3rd 07, 12:05 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 13
Views: 584
Suicide wallabies
TimC wrote:
On 2007-09-02, Aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:30:43 +1000, TimC
...
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Forum: Australia
August 30th 07, 05:32 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 16
Views: 902
Magpie map
DaveB wrote:
However I logged on to another account and can see the map but can't
update it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Found the GoogleMaps tutorial. Will see how I go.
DaveB
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Forum: Australia
August 30th 07, 05:00 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 16
Views: 902
Magpie map
Following from the link cfsmtb posted, I started to setup a Google map
for killer magpie sitings.
http://tinyurl.com/ywclmm
However I logged on to another account and can see the map but can't...
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Forum: Australia
August 30th 07, 04:51 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,197
Ouch! @#$%^ birds
cfsmtb wrote:
Travis Wrote:
I was about to suggest the same thing! A magpie map would be very
useful I think.
Pilfered this link from the bicigaga list:
http://tinyurl.com/2a3z85
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Forum: Australia
August 29th 07, 09:54 AM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,715
Another bird story
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
Rolled up to the servo with this bird on the bike, pity that was in
the days before cameras on mobile phones....
Zebee
My mbike was in for a service one day and...
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Forum: Australia
August 28th 07, 11:37 PM Posted to aus.bicycle
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,139
Magpies! Known swoopers??
JoeDe wrote:
On a Saturday couple of years ago, a maggie near the roundabout at Research
gave me a cut on the cheek and scared the crap out of me. The next morning
on a group ride through the...
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