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Friday February 22, 2008 Ride Journal

Andrew | February 22, 2008 2:47 pm

Late start this morning, getting away at at 6:45 AM instead of 6:00 AM to ride a circuit from Churchlands to Fremantle to Canning Bridge and then along the freeway across to the Fremantle line out to Subiaco and back to Churchlands. I called into Anne’s for a quick before work chat and also fixed my geocache, Pirates’ Revenge.

All the ride was 50.77 km in 2 hours 28 minutes at an average of 20.6 km. Not a great average and I was riding a bit flat, but good to get the kilometres done.

I also had the bonus of seeing the driver who did the left turn on me from the right lane. Got the registration number which I believe is 1CGS 122.

Finished off the days riding with my regular commute to Fremantle.

Total of 69.56 km for the day.

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Facebook – One Group Closed … One Still There

Andrew | 2:03 pm

I am pleased to note that Facebook closed one anti-cyclist group but one still remains. This one is owned by a Anna Heenan. It may be time for Anna to hear from her State’s police force or better still the Australian Federal Police. Such stupidity, threatening or desiring to commit violence against another person is really a sad indictment of the individual.

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Does Facebook Support Injuring and Killing Cyclists?

Andrew | February 21, 2008 8:30 am

The question is does Facebook support the advocating of injuring or your son or, daughter or brother or sister or mum or dad or partner? Well it appears to do so, allowing this group which advocates the attacking of cyclists, i.e., road rage, violence to remain on Facebook. What sort of business is Facebook when it allows this sort of behaviour? If you don’t like what Facebook is allowing let them know via this link.

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Thursday February 21, 2008 Ride Journal

Andrew | 8:13 am

Got my act together this morning and headed to work “early” and caught the parents dropping off kids at school at Churchlands and Newman High Schools. Not the greatest environment to ride in, but thankfully no issues outside these schools.

However, turning into the campus from Cromarty Road, I had a women in a dark green 4WD (Toyota maybe?) who decided she couldn’t wait the five seconds for me to turn and tried to pass me. She ended up on the median strip and gained zilch. I turned to see her on the median strip just as I was clearing the entrance into the campus. Really makes you wonder why her life was so important that she need to save a few seconds while putting mine at risk?

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 Ride Journal

Andrew | February 20, 2008 7:31 am

Cold this morning coming out of Fremantle at around 7:00 AM. Might need to start wearing my vest on these morning rides. ESE blowing at up to 26 km/h which means pretty much head or side winds all the way to Churchlands. Despite this managed my fastest time this morning, best commute average, good cadence and a higher average heart rate. All up pretty happy with the ride and my improvement of late. I did ride on the big chain ring a lot more this morning. Maybe something to work on more.

I did regretfully have a driver “incident” on Curtain Avenue. A Brightwater truck caught in traffic at the Grant Street pedestrian crossing, decided that I should not be able to pass on his left in the dedicated cycling lane and attempted to block me. A quick flick to the truck’s right and I was pass and back in front of the truck safely. While I got out of it okay, it was not a nice experience to suddenly have a truck moving over to try and block one’s path. The whole behaviour by the idiot behind the wheel is quite unbelievable given the incident the day before.

Ride to and from Churchlands to ECU went without dramas. Just a nice easterly wind to contend with both ways and oh Empire Avenue on the way home.

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