Ride home with me (photos)

OK so I remember reading one of these threads on another forum a long time ago but today I decided to make one myself. I'm always in too much of a rush in the mornings so I did it for my ride home.

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Ride home from work with me

OK in the tradition of Eek's awesome ride to work photosets I thought I'd do one. There are lots of photos and the quality isn't great as its a phonecam and they're shaky blurry images but wtf.

The journey is between 10-11 km one way. Naturally I do this twice a day so 22 ish km per day for me. I feel fit already.

Oh btw its from North Melbourne (work) to St Kilda (home) - Thats in Oztrailia too (we drive on the left here to anyone who wonders).

Let's go:

My ride. It actually looks kinda cool in this sunlight. It's not a bad bike. It's great for commuting on but not the best looking bike in the world. Not that I care.
This is also where I chain it up. It's pretty well hidden. I should probably find somewhere undercover but this is fine for now whilst its such nice weather.

Bye bye work. Great coffee. Probably the best thing I can say about work. The ppl are nice though too.

I usually just shoot straight out the gate but today I'm going to feed the bread I have left over from my lunch to the birds swimming in the creek. So let's shoot across the grass to join the lovely bike path running alongside the creek.

oh no! We have been denied!

Instead have to cycle along two of these:

Rail-line crossings.

Where trains are often to be found "Shunting" which effectively blocks the road for anyone so you may as well just sit it out.

Anyway after that we "off road" for a bit to get to the bike path and the creek.

and off we go. Bike path you rock!

Lovely creek (you can see all this from my office window - awesome). No birds though. They've all gone.

None further up and the bike path is ending so I rip the bread into pieces and throw it in the creek and continue. This is Footscray road which is a massive road. Lots of roads in Australia are massive though. They've got way too much space here. In the background you can see the giant ferris wheel being constructed. It'll be cool when its done.

Right time to mix it with the big boys on Footscray road. Spin the cranks! In the distance you can see the tall buildings of the docklands.

Over a junction and the road is a bit more chilled out. We are entering the Docklands area. It's all very swanky here now.

It's an arm!

Waiting at the lights:

I nearly wobbled off the bike here whilst taking the photo. Even though I was stationary.
Note the Channel 7 building and the top of...

Telstra Dome!
Home to the mighty Saint Kilda Saints and some other pretenders. I'll probably not get chance to see the Saints at the Dome this season as we're more than likely not gonna get through to the finals. The Dome is an awesome stadium.

It's a low, setting sun. There are lots of things on the pavements in the docklands. Didn't get any photos of them though.

Its a cow in a tree! and that bridge in the distance who's name escapes me now.

Waiting at traffic lights again!
I'm going up the path obscured by the silver car.

I'm off! Going fast now.

Action shot. I've got the longest skinniest legs ever. I also have a little fat belly so I'm not in proportion or good shape.

Bike path.

My view

Bike path. Melbourne has some of the best cycle routes/paths that I know of. They're very bike friendly compared to most cities.

It looks stationary but I'm rolling along at the same speed as this car. Which isn't too fast as we're both slowing for lights.

It's the free city circle tram!

Waiting to cross big road. When there isn't much traffic I tank it down here to my turning. Too much traffic today though, especially when I'm taking photos. I'm taking the right turn btw.

Still waiting to cross

I don't have a computer. I'm not too fussed about knowing my speed or anything. I just like to know if I'm late for work yet. So I have a watch!

Onto the back streets

Hello fellow cyclists. They always seem to be going the other way to me

This is what the camera pics up when I try to take a picture whilst cycling over one of these:

I nearly came off after going over that one. Trying not to drop the camera and steady the bike at speed is not too easy.

Over the tram tracks (not shown) and we're back on Clarendon Street bridge going over the Yarra river.
Crown Casino is off to your left

More Crown. It's a big place.

If I'm in a rush I turn left right here and go down a big long straight road. However its more scenic if I go straight on and seeing as we're taking photos I'll go straight on.

Go!

Work those pedals!

Didn't get any photos in South Melbourne. It's a nice area but the roads were mega busy so I just shot through.

I'm pretty hot so I stop to take some layers off and look at South Melbourne FC.
We're in Albert Park now which is a great place to be.

The old stand looks like its about to fall down.

I cut through the car park as I intend to show you the lake (not as visible from the road)

Quick offroad

The lake. It's huge. This is just a small bit

I should've saved the bread for these guys.

A runner! I'm totally gonna get into his slip stream!

I like to veer off here to go round the back of the golf driving range

...and bunker practice

more lovely bike paths

lots of golf balls. If I were criminally minded I'd probably steal them and sell them.

We're running alongside the tram here. It's the 96 (the best) Tram route.
On the other side of the tram tracks is the road which is the quicker route.

Tennis courts on the left and in the background is MART who make a good breakfast and some nice coffee.

Albert park has tons of open spaces and sports pitches/facilities

A grass pressing roller thingymajig.

Going faster now

Zoom!

Tried to get a shot of a passing cyclist but failed

Lots of trees

Hockey Pitches.

Cut through rape tunnel

• Not actually called Rape Tunnel.
  
  

along the road a bit (busy) and we're in St Kilda at the Fitzroy St/ Grey Street junction. A second after taking this shot the lady behind me on a bike rolled through the red light and over to grey street. Danger! Silly girl.

I waited for the lights to turn green and headed up Grey Street. Turns out she didn't get far. Ha! So I took a photo of her. Grey Street is usually full of Prostitutes but there were none today and it was too busy to take photos.

After the last photo I went straight on at the lights and cut down a side street. Again busy so no photos. I did try to get one of the side street but it failed:

and suddenly I am home!

good on ya bike. We rule!

Now go take pics of your route to work and post them for everyone to see.

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***but use square brackets, not the curly ones I have used here.

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leeww You need to start your image tag with {img} and end it with {/img}

***but use square brackets, not the curly ones I have used here.

I know.

God I hate BB code. Why not just post in HTML.

I was gonna post it all up and edit it. Here goes.

Also I had to post it in sections cause Vanilla seems unable to handle large posts.

Actually fuck that. I'm not editing it all I'll put it on my blogspot that I never use. Feel free to browse back through the other posts. It's almost all just bookmarks and links for stuff I want to remember. Except for this Rasmussen thing I made for Le Tour this year. Well I actually just hacked someone's swf. It took all of 5 minutes.

Ride home from work with me*

*EDIT: this is the same link as at the top of the page btw.

If this thread were a music single I'd re-release it (with a remix)

I didn't realise you were brob, tallsam. I was going to post something very similar here after seeing your post on Yayhooray this morning, and remembering eek's classic one. Good to see you here too.

tallsam [quote]leeww You need to start your image tag with {img} and end it with {/img}

***but use square brackets, not the curly ones I have used here.

I know.

God I hate BB code. Why not just post in HTML.

I was gonna post it all up and edit it. Here goes.

Also I had to post it in sections cause Vanilla seems unable to handle large posts.[/quote]

BB Code is better than HTML because HTML allows people to break all of the pages. It also allows people to perform XSS attacks that could give them access to other people's logins. So for security and usability, HTML is disabled. Finally, not everyone knows HTML but most people have had some exposure to BB Code.

And Vanilla can handle long posts, up to 8MB in size, I'll prove it to you by re-posting your stuff for you.

Actually I'll edit your first post so you can edit it if you want to.

hey brob! when did you move to melbourne?

Man that was wicked! I really enjoyed looking at that, and reading. Heh, you're funny too.

took me a while to work out the places from the pics and i'm from melbourne. that would be a crzy cross-town ride during peak hour, scary!!

wait...turn around and have a nice hearty vietnamese meal in footscray! westsiiiiide

I enjoyed that, too...

Damn, I am a nerd - my girlfriend was right...

Are there any cars? Seems like all the roads seem empty? Do you finish work at an odd time?

Yeah, TheDude is echoing my thoughts.. it looks dead! Did the water crisis knock out all Melbourne's population?! Don't tell me petrol is that expensive that the lazy cnuts have stopped driving everywhere?!?!

sob still, it reminds me of home!!! waaaaaaaaa!!! :(

velocity boy: Fair enough. I'm just being miserable. It's ok now though!
Also RE long posts tried to post it on another board using Vanilla and it said "this post if xxx characters too long" so I had to split it up like that. I never tried it here. Just copied the sections.
Thanks for reposting it though.

hardhat, ffub: Hello. I'm in Melbourne until the end of Feb. I'm on a working holiday visa (1 year). I'd like to stay longer but I think my gf wants to get back when the year is up. Also I am required to leave so might get in trouble if I stay but apparently ppl do it all the time.

RE lack of cars: I finish work at 5pm. Although that day I left at 10 to. There were some bits where it was pretty busy but I wasn't taking photos then for that reason. I try to stick to quieter roads but some roads (Clarendon St) are unavoidable and almost always busy.

Thanks for the comments all. Someone do one of their commute and post it here.

No way I'm stopping during my commute! I'll die. :)

Here's pics from my first ever ride in snow.. it's also my old commute.. Ealing to Baker Street..

ha! when was that? I don't remember it snowing that much in the last 2 years..

It snowed like that this year! I remember, London ground to a halt and I Moving Target had a story about how the messengers that made it to work earned a (relative) fortune.

hippy No way I'm stopping during my commute! I'll die. :)

I only stopped at lights and for traffic to clear.

Yeah, i remember when it snowed. I just finished building up my bike the night before but i didn't have any brakes to fit, but fck it i HAD TO RIDE.

Got as far as the end of my road before i changed my mind. Perhaps if i had a fat tyred mountain bike, i wouldn't've minded so much. but 700x23's - madness. hope you didn't injure yourself, hippy.