I had my first night ride with my new dyno light yesterday. Mixed lighting conditions from extremely well lit (no headlight needed to see clearly) to quite dark (although never zero ambient lighting ( Read more... )

Next Wednesday (13th of October) is National Ride to Work Day. There's a breakfast at the Perth Concert Hall, and one at Midland Square.

Current forecast is sunny. For the last week the weather has been glorious for the ride to work - cool enough to think about long sleeves for the first 5km or so, but usually not actively cold.

Is 7am-9am Wed 24/03/2010 on Riley Oval.

I am very likely to be attending, closer to 07:00 than 09:00.

There is a fund raising walk on Sunday the 8th of Nov. The route covers the Narrows, Causeway and Windan Bridges as well as the foreshore paths in between. No official notice on whether anything will be closed, or which sides of the bridges are in use, but expect any or all of these paths to be very clogged at least all morning. First group starts ( Read more... )

City of South Perth/Town of Victoria Park have two free courses this week:

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Tomorrow (Wed) is National ride to work day.
(Their registration form fails on gender.)

[Edit 20091014 My completely unscientific guestimate is 2-3x normal bike traffic this morning.]

My inability recently to take a PC tower case home unassisted (a lighter object of the same dimensions, or a smaller object of the same weight would be fine, but I was concerned about stability, both of the load and of me) has reignited interest in acquiring a trailer ( Read more... )

The Great Bike Ride (round the river, 10km, 53km or 106km) is on the 22nd of November.

Entry for the 53km is $65, was it that expensive last year?

I've talked to a few people about bikes recently. This one is probably a little high on the price bracket (RRP US$1150), but definitely interesting:

Trek Soho
Flat bars. 8 speed internal geared hub. Belt drive. Roller brakes. 700x32 wheels. Comes with mudguards.

[Edit 20091019: To follow up on some of the comments below: I have seen the District ( Read more... )

There's a 30km ride for the opening of the Perth-Bunbury highway next Sunday. Details.

Tempted, main annoyance would be getting home sensibly.