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Anyone doing Melburn Roobaix on Sunday 29th June? I am. If any others maybe have a BF thread beverage stop along the way somewhere.
http://fyxo.co/melburn-roobaix/
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Anyone doing Melburn Roobaix on Sunday 29th June? I am. If any others maybe have a BF thread beverage stop along the way somewhere.
http://fyxo.co/melburn-roobaix/
Melburn Roobaix:
I got venue start email today. Hawthorn rego from 9:30am to 11am. You can start riding when you want. Route distance is 35km. Finish at Brunswick velo by 3:30pm. I think the shortest ride distance A to B is about 22km, so the route meanders a bit, but not that much. I haven't done MRoobaix before so I'm not sure how much the laneways, Q&As, and traffic slow you down, but I doubt the event will be much more than 2.5 hours actual riding time.
As for meetup. I'm not from Melburn so leave it to someone else to suggest. Particularly giffler if you have been before and know how event plays out and the likely route. It seems to me that somewhere in/near Brunswick St around lunch-time would fit. I'm on my own so I can fit in with others OK.
Also for those from Melburn - I'll be riding to Hawthorn from City side for the start. Can I cross the Yarra River from Yarra Boulevard, Burnley and get to Glenferrie Road, Kooyong in a bike friendly way, i.e. not needing get onto M1 toll road?
Thanks. I got onto Google maps and used the street view guy to walk around and do a reccy for me. Looks like the there is a bike / walk path alongside Gardiners Creek bridge across Yarra and then the bike path comes down and goes under the elevated Tollway along the creek to the start site. Perfect.Yeh mate, the capital city trail runs all the way along the yarra, you can cross over at multiple spots and can get off at Auburn rd to get to the start line, i'll be taking the same route but from Richmond.
Melburn Roobaix:
I got venue start email today. Hawthorn rego from 9:30am to 11am. You can start riding when you want. Route distance is 35km. Finish at Brunswick velo by 3:30pm. I think the shortest ride distance A to B is about 22km, so the route meanders a bit, but not that much. I haven't done MRoobaix before so I'm not sure how much the laneways, Q&As, and traffic slow you down, but I doubt the event will be much more than 2.5 hours actual riding time.
As for meetup. I'm not from Melburn so leave it to someone else to suggest. Particularly giffler if you have been before and know how event plays out and the likely route. It seems to me that somewhere in/near Brunswick St around lunch-time would fit. I'm on my own so I can fit in with others OK.
Also for those from Melburn - I'll be riding to Hawthorn from City side for the start. Can I cross the Yarra River from Yarra Boulevard, Burnley and get to Glenferrie Road, Kooyong in a bike friendly way, i.e. not needing get onto M1 toll road?
Thanks. I got onto Google maps and used the street view guy to walk around and do a reccy for me. Looks like the there is a bike / walk path alongside Gardiners Creek bridge across Yarra and then the bike path comes down and goes under the elevated Tollway along the creek to the start site. Perfect.
I hear that often " I can't go wrong" from mates after other pinheads in cars hit themYeh, from fed square there is a bike path along the yarra pretty much the whole way there, if you go from fed square along the river you basically can't go wrong (seems really easy when you do it everyday)
Fellas, I'm doing around the bay this year, 210km route, which is the "easier" option Melbourne-Queenscliff-Sorrento-Melbourne or vice versa.
Will be my first double ton and i dont want to be copping a headwind all day, any suggestions/previous experience appreciated.
Last year I think we got to the finish about 2-3 so took us pretty much the whole day, keeping in mind we stopped for lunch, drinks, had to put the crank back on for person I was riding with as it fell off, had to stop at a bike shop to get a new bolt as it fell off again (have to put in here this wasn't the worst damage we witnessed, we were riding with a big group and heard a massive crack behind us just as we were finishing a sector. Turned out someone had cracked a carbon frame), getting lost once or twice.
Not sure how best to do the meet up, I guess it depends on when everyone starts. If your by yourself maybe we can meet up before the ride and you can ride with us?
I'll be riding in from the city as I'm not from Melbourne either, the start place is the same as last year and was really easy to get to as you pretty well ride alongside the river until you get to Glenferrie road.
Giffler and Phantom13 I started a discussion in our BigFootyCC Strava group re meeting up at Roobaix.
http://www.strava.com/clubs/64687
I know Phantom is a member, are you Giffler? It's might be easier to have a joint discussion there than here.
I expect we will be at registration for a while as there were long queues previously from photos I've seen - so it is probably easier to link up there and exchange mobile nos so we can keep in touch - or via private message prior if bigfooty has that facility.
Also to Giffler since you have prior experience - is the puncture experience very much worse than normal? I've got Conti 4 seasons tyres which are supposed to be tougher than their gatorskins. Just wondering if likely to need a few more tubes than normal.
that is my rule but I still carry 3 for some reasonI only just saw this and the Strava message. All good that its all sorted out now. Weather is looking awful for tomorrow! Gonna be fun in the wet. Ive got 2 tubes if i blow more than that i'll probably call it a day.
So ive been looking around and getting a little calendar going for some rides toward the end of the year into next year. It looks like the Kinglake ride might be no more? Haven't been able to find anything about it for 2014. Seems like the bigger rides are getting harder and harder to maintain. In the last few years the Beechworth ride, Eastlink and now (potentially) Kinglake gone.
Yes I put things in calendar, but don't plan too far ahead. Whittlesea/Kinglake rides no great loss to me as there is no accommodation there any more. Although people coming from Melbourne for day would be OK. That's a personal vent as I paid up to do Cycling Vic Whittlesea challenge but there were no accommodation options within an hour's ride of start location (that's none, not booked out).
I've also got Sam Miranda Gran Fondo pencilled in for 23 August. Starts near Wangaratta - where SM winery is, Oxley I think. Then goes south into Strathbogies / King Valley and comes back to start. Experience will be weather dependent though - maybe lucky, maybe not. Coincides with a CV bike race on the same course later that day. Includes a gravel section they are calling strade nero (black roads).
Last year the anti-clockwise route would have been much easier.
Depends on the day though I'd suspect.
So ive been looking around and getting a little calendar going for some rides toward the end of the year into next year. It looks like the Kinglake ride might be no more? Haven't been able to find anything about it for 2014. Seems like the bigger rides are getting harder and harder to maintain. In the last few years the Beechworth ride, Eastlink and now (potentially) Kinglake gone.