Guys, link to some pics from my latest trip around the Med with the Lo’s.

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Hopefully this works… Hope everyone is doing well back at home and look forward to catching up when we return in early Nov.

First ride yesterday since moving back to Melbourne. I know, it’s disgraceful.

Interesting, to say the least.

Riding on Glenhuntly Road with Ash, who was leading. Quite busy with cars parked on the side. A car was double parked, ready to parallel park. I slowed down in order to go around the car. Little did I know that road bike tyres and tram tracks don’t mix. My front tyre became stuck in the groove of the track and I went A over T, falling onto my right side. Luckily the car coming the other direction was about 30 metres away and travelling slowly. Managed to get up straight away and ran to the footpath with grazes on my right hip and knee.

More importantly, the bike seemed alright. Scratches on the brake lever and handlebar, and my right handlebar is bent inwards slightly. However, I continued riding about 15 more kilometres, a little worse for wear. Nice abrasion, especially on my hip.

Do you guys recommend that I take it to a store to get the bike checked out? Everything seems to be working fine. Does the handlebar need to be straightened?

It’s been over two months since the last YPR! I couldn’t rustle up Dr Lam for this ride because he “wanted to sleep in”. Don’t know if that’s a euphemism for something else or he really wanted to sleep in.

We decided to do a nice big eastern suburbs loop. The plan was for Keith to head to my area first where we would then head out east to Ringwood to meet HYG. From there we would south west towards Keith’s place to drop him off, then head back north to my area at which point HYG would turn back east and head home alone. Keith started his day at 5:20am and reached home before 8:00am. I started my day at 5:50am (a little later than I originally planned after I slept in 15 minutes the had to make a last minute visit to the loo) and finished my ride at 8:30am.

There was a good mix of hills and flats in the route. Very few cars at that time of day obviously. The only downer for the morning was waking up wet roads and drizzle which lasted most of the ride. Otherwise, good ride!

Email etiquette rule no. 967:

Use meaningful subject lines.

It’s not that hard, is it?

SUBJECT: not working
SUBJECT: request
SUBJECT: staff
SUBJECT: URGENT
SUBJECT: Document

*Walk into some sort of bakery, see a sign saying ‘Belgian Bun’ which looks something like a coffee scroll*
*Points at Belgian Bun*

Me: Is that the Belgian Bun?
Shop Assistance (SA): Yer.
Me: What’s in it?
SA: *Shrugs shoulders* Dunno.

…they’re all just till operators here I tell ya. And if the cash machine didn’t tell them how much change to give, they wouldn’t know that either.

(BTW I did buy it in the end, and it’s pretty much the same as coffee scroll except without the coffee flavour)