Thought I'd start a new thread where people can spill the beans on their last ride.

I'll start....I rode to the end of the road and back. Headwind out was horrrendous but managed to average 50kph all the way home. Total distance 100...aaahhh...metres

I was a good night to be out
My round trip was ..Avondale--Sumner--Up the back of Heathcote--PMH--halswel back to PMH, back around St martins over the little hill --ferry rd and back home to Avondale .Just a little over 62ks

Thursday --From work ,short bays then south shore north shore and back home

6 times hill intervals up Saddle road Palmerston North, about 30km of climbing in total, various interval lengths.

5 days to find some legs for Takaka hill

Quiet day, thrashed the Soulcraft around town a bit and just enjoyed the odd moment of sun. Going for a ride with the mighty T-Rex tomorrow though, hopefully on his new Ibis.

I rode around the bays and it was stupidly mentally crazily mental mental stupid windy as hell. At one point I was in my smallest gear out of the saddle on the flat trying to pedal

it was stupid mental windy

It was rather windy, westerley I think which is unusual I headed to Sumner after work with a work mate and we didn't notice the tail wind we appeared to have. Just commented on how little wind there was today.
Until we got to Sumner and I started my hard strength intervals only to find we had a horrible head wind home!
Anyone that rode or drove past me probably thought I was a bit weird I had to bring my bike to a standstill adn tehn take off in a rather bigish gear!

I went from South Brighton out over the Halswell Downs, back over to Ferrymead and back to South Brighton detour through some streets around Linwood (ok so yeah I got lost heheeh) total just over 47km - was a windy day really noticed it on the way home

I'm not riding till all teh cake and leftovers are gone. I'll be a fat bastard soon!

VERT wrote: I rode around the bays and it was stupidly mentally crazily mental mental stupid windy as hell. At one point I was in my smallest gear out of the saddle on the flat trying to pedal

it was stupid mental windy

Soft! Wasn't that windy, I was sanding paint outside all arvo and only had to stop my wig blowing off twice!

laurenw wrote: It was rather windy, westerley I think which is unusual I headed to Sumner after work with a work mate and we didn't notice the tail wind we appeared to have. Just commented on how little wind there was today.
Until we got to Sumner and I started my hard strength intervals only to find we had a horrible head wind home!
Anyone that rode or drove past me probably thought I was a bit weird I had to bring my bike to a standstill adn tehn take off in a rather bigish gear!

You do that stuff in public?? I'm usually too embarassed and find some quiet alleyway/ backroad somewhere!

Al_Bushman wrote:
Soft! Wasn't that windy, I was sanding paint outside all arvo and only had to stop my wig blowing off twice!

we stupidly went for a cruisy ride out to taitapu and back - just as the wind went to full on easterly. Meant 40km/h with no effort out - and then a total grovel back.

Of course once we'd got home the wind dropped an hour later

Al_Bushman wrote:

VERT wrote: I rode around the bays and it was stupidly mentally crazily mental mental stupid windy as hell. At one point I was in my smallest gear out of the saddle on the flat trying to pedal

it was stupid mental windy

Soft! Wasn't that windy, I was sanding paint outside all arvo and only had to stop my wig blowing off twice!

Dude I dont know what party of the country you live in but in Wellington along Shelly bay it was easily some of the strongest winds I have ever tried to ride in (not counting the mental stuff you get up Kaukau)

I hear ya - I just about got blown off my bike twice on the way home from work last night, so I broke out the wind trainer when I got home and sat on that for another hour.

Having to use an indoor trainer in Summer...what's that about!!?
I'm totally fed up with this ferking Wellly wind!!!

I rode this today on my commuter bike as I was a silly boy trying to fix my moutainbike yesterday and broke it so much it has to go to the LBS for surgery

I keep getting these urges to get a real road bike and it scares me

hickie wrote: I rode this today on my commuter bike as I was a silly boy trying to fix my moutainbike yesterday and broke it so much it has to go to the LBS for surgery

I keep getting these urges to get a real road bike and it scares me

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