Meeting tomorrow so I rang the DET office location and was told “no worries” about secure bicycle parking. They will let me use their undercover lockup. cool. Now I just need to secure the Netbook for the trip over Reserve Creek and it is all go. I think I will ride the Cypress rather than the Shogun as the route is hilly rather than the usual flat to undulating Tweed route.
Edit: the meeting went a bit longer than advertised and I didn’t leave until after 4:30PM through the thick hot smoky air filling the Tweed Valley. Rode Reserve Creek Rd. as planned but needed to ride the last 3 kms in late twilight. Made it home with another 23 km on the commuter computer.
Just a test posting to see if posting will do my tweet for me. Commuted home against the wind today. I thought it would be a nice Nor’Easter but it didn’t really get that far round just an annoying crosswind. And the smoke from local fires on Watty Bishop Clotiers Creek made for a difficult to breath ride towards the end…
Tomorrow is the official last day of winter. The days have been starting to be really nice but now the dry strong spring winds will be getting up and then the fires start. This week, being the last before permit season, has been bad and the next few days will be much worse. Riding will start to need the increase in winds usual for this time of year and the sunscreen will need to be packed on long rides. That is if i get to do any 
bloody old age.
I have been lucky this year no bombardments. Even though there are a family of 6 magpies in the yard! Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.
This arvo, Peter and Rick wanted to ride up Cudgera Creek Road. But they decided to drive to the Reserve Creek Intersection so they could get in a Norm watching the footy on TV after. I rode down Kanes against the moderate SE and arrived at the spot but no-one was there. So I rode off slowly towards Wabba on my own. As it turned out made it to the top and did a U-Turn and enjoted the descent. As i hit the bitumen the other two turned up riding their bikes. Still feeling fresh I choose to ride back up. They raced and I cruised no worries again. The fish oil and glucosamine seem to be doing the job, to the point of feeling more pains in my good knee than the bad one.
Any way turned again at the top and raced down meeting a car near the bottom and just avoiding the ditch on the side of the road. Still feeling pretty good I decided to say no thanks to the the ride in the combi home and chose to instead to take advantage of the Sou’Easterly and do a push along the freeway to Clothiers Creek, not droping below 30kms/hr on the Cypress hybrid. But the turn down Watty Bishop put an end to the speed. So decided to enjoy a dawdle home to finish with a 20km/hr average over the ride. Not bad when you include the 5 km of climbing on gravel and the Kanes Road undulations.
Anyway 40kms all up and one of the longest rides I have been able to go on without pain for a very long time.
This week i decided to “register… for the 2010 Bicycle Commuter Challenge!” with Bicycle NSW, not sure why at all. Got all the crap provided including an e_logbook in the form of an excel spreadsheet, which looks to have been created by a high school student. It required inclusion of few functions to actually make it at least a little automated. FGS the sum() fn has got to be the most basic spreadsheet function and yet the sheet required the user to actually manually sum a column. For an organisation that is funded and where employees are paid and are not volunteers it is a little amaturish. This may seem a bit contrite and petty but hey It’s just an opinion
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