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crossalis
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 I'll fix my road bike (I'm only riding my mountain bike at the moment) and have a crack this weekend.
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Joel
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| Posted: Thu 26th Jun 10:43am Post subject: |
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| crossalis wrote: | | I'll fix my road bike (I'm only riding my mountain bike at the moment) and have a crack this weekend. |
good stuff 
although dunno if the weather is looking conducive to a good time with strong southerlies predicted. good for happy valley, but not so good for the other parts of the route.
it's all about picking the right day 
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ThingOne
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| Posted: Thu 26th Jun 10:49am Post subject: |
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| Joel wrote: | | crossalis wrote: | | I'll fix my road bike (I'm only riding my mountain bike at the moment) and have a crack this weekend. |
good stuff
although dunno if the weather is looking conducive to a good time with strong southerlies predicted. good for happy valley, but not so good for the other parts of the route.
it's all about picking the right day |
A find a light northerly to be best, or a totally still day.
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SteveC
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| crossalis wrote: | | except for the fact I am in Wellington at the moment... |
Are you just visiting Alister or are you here to stay? - It would be good to see you back keeping the A grade honest this season.
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crossalis
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| Posted: Thu 26th Jun 4:48pm Post subject: |
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Ummmm, sort of visiting... long story...
I don't think I will be racing much as it would mean I would need to upgrade my license to an international one (I have an Aussie license).
I might fit the Ayup lights to the road bike tonight and go round the bays.
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Joel
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| Posted: Thu 26th Jun 9:18pm Post subject: |
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i pick monday as a good day for a good crack with the forecast of southerlies dying.
| SteveC wrote: | | crossalis wrote: | | except for the fact I am in Wellington at the moment... |
Are you just visiting Alister or are you here to stay? - It would be good to see you back keeping the A grade honest this season. |
Steve you going to show us up with your TT speed? (although no TT bars or Aero wheels 
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Fraser
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 6:57am Post subject: |
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Has anyone ever thought of getting the council to paint kilometre marks on the road to help things? It helps if its the special no wearing paint they do the road markings with. They do it on some of the routes here in Europe. No big deal where you start it, but if they are on the routes around the bays and along the favourite rides then it makes life alot easier and also cuts out discrepancies regarding bike computer set ups. It can also be done on the pavement to help runners, but you may not want that. 
Either that or you paint stuff on the road like they do in France
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Fraser
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 7:03am Post subject: |
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Either that or I get a Skoda Octavia with 12 bikes on the roof and filled with a bunch of Italian/French yelling at you to follow you guys round the bays and shout out split times and give you water bottles and various drugs.
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Joel
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 8:22am Post subject: |
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i prefer the second option!
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crossalis
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 8:37am Post subject: |
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Went round last night (bit sketchy in some parts in the dark!).
Was just over 48 minutes, not sure of average speed as my Polar speed sensor needs a battery.
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ThingOne
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 10:09am Post subject: |
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| crossalis wrote: | Went round last night (bit sketchy in some parts in the dark!).
Was just over 48 minutes, not sure of average speed as my Polar speed sensor needs a battery. |
Woah.. thats a 40kmh average, thats fair flying.. I dont think that will be beatable. 
Leaderboard..
48:00 - crossalis
54:20 - Joel
58:00 - ThingOne (Cant remember the seconds)
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sifter
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 10:10am Post subject: |
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| ThingOne wrote: | | crossalis wrote: | Went round last night (bit sketchy in some parts in the dark!).
Was just over 48 minutes, not sure of average speed as my Polar speed sensor needs a battery. |
Woah.. thats a 40kmh average, thats fair flying.. I dont think that will be beatable. |
Al - you must have been fair hauling just about everywhere. What sort of speed do you sustain up Happy Valley?
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Joel
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 10:17am Post subject: |
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good work
48min is flying, averaging over 40km/hr on the flat to make up for happy valley.
got me motivated to ride the route in anger now 
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crossalis
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 10:20am Post subject: |
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I have no idea as my speed sensor wasn't working.
I think I got lucky last night as it was calm and I had almost no traffic, but a lot colder than my last decent effort on a road bike (a crit in 36 degrees!)
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Conners
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| Posted: Fri 27th Jun 10:31am Post subject: |
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| Joel wrote: | | crossalis wrote: | | sub 50, easy... |
got to love the internet, talk is cheap. specially when posting from another country.
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| crossalis wrote: | Went round last night (bit sketchy in some parts in the dark!).
Was just over 48 minutes, not sure of average speed as my Polar speed sensor needs a battery. |
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