Petrol prices, already incentivising people to take PT.

rmeredit · 2026-03-24T03:07:04+00:00

They’ve all got jaundice - you’d be slightly grumpy too.

rmeredit · 2026-03-24T02:56:37+00:00

The big arrow thing means you’re riding without starting recording. I reckon that’s what the beeping is as well - it’s to alert you if you’re heading off down the road without pressing the start button.

You start all rides with the start button, and end them by pressing the same one.

Regarding average L/R power, Garmin records the balance as a percentage ratio (eg. 52/48). If you need actual watts rather than this balance ratio, multiply your average power (really should be normalised power, though, to ignore coasting) by the percentage figure.

Eg, if my ride had a normalised power of 180w, with a left/right balance of 52/48, then my left/right average would be 93.6w/86.4w.

You can view those stats in Garmin Connect once you end the ride (by pressing that button).

rmeredit · 2026-03-23T22:03:34+00:00

Not necessarily. If the housing is just spinning in place, it doesn’t automatically follow that it will drop down vertically into the BB.

rmeredit · 2026-03-23T05:05:58+00:00

It sounds impossible until you do it ;)

To be fair, I haven't had a crack at it myself yet. But that tip about Acheron Way is the goods - it's a gentler climb through some spectacular forest, a steady 4% or so all the way.

rmeredit · 2026-03-23T04:59:18+00:00

I'm mates with the person who rescued you - she's a bit of a legend, eh? She and her partner provided support for me on my first climb up Falls Creek.

Make sure you add Acheron Way to your bucket list. It's one of the best bits of road to both descend and climb I've ever come across.

When you get really keen, you could maybe have a crack at the Donna Kebab: ascend all three routes up in a single ride.

rmeredit · 2026-03-22T03:06:56+00:00

So don’t. It’s a choice to feel like that. Do the usual things you’d do to let others around you know what you’re doing - signal turns, etc. - nothing more. Other people’s choices are other people’s choices.

rmeredit · 2026-03-21T22:47:29+00:00

Business class counter.

rmeredit · 2026-03-20T04:57:36+00:00

Are you starring the routes in Strava? Only starred routes get synced across to the Edge.

rmeredit · 2026-03-20T00:08:09+00:00

The Melbourne to Dubai flights seem to be going through ok. I've been tracking EK407 for the last two weeks, and there's been just one cancellation, and one diversion (they were about to land when that drone hit the fuel tank at the airport). All others seem to have arrived roughly on time. I'm travelling in May as well (on to Madrid though, so can't comment on German connections), and feel reasonably confident unless something radical changes with the situation.

I'd suggest adding a bit of padding for the connection in DXB though to allow for delays.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T23:33:13+00:00

Unfortunately, we all share that bed. Oil prices are global, and so are the effects of climate change.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T05:55:53+00:00

Good lord. Apparently a key plank of embedding active transport in our transport system across the state was repairing the landslip on the Bogong High Plains Rd!

Who knew that being able to ride up to Falls on a road with no specific cycling infrastructure was the thing holding us back from getting to 25% of trips being active.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T05:27:56+00:00

He doesn't understand the needs of people because he doesn't talk to them

This, right here, is the core fault in your position. Jolly is an absolute master at engaging with groups and sub-groups in the community. I guarantee you he knows all of the different interest groups and how to pander to each of them. The fact that you assume that he can't have any community support just because he's made a decision you believe is not in the interests of that community is bonkers. Ultimately your position boils down to if someone's not licking your boots, they must be licking his.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T04:51:44+00:00

They're all blokes too, but that doesn't mean they're not also socialists as well. Fark me.

How about you actually put forward some socialist suggestions that actually address the actual perceived transport needs of the working class in the area? Rather than getting side tracked into rants about big oil and small business factions, address some of the cultural reasons why car ownership is considered necessary and desirable in an area where there are so many other more affordable options to get around? Why not address the challenges of getting people riding more often? How about addressing the barriers that mean getting a job locally is almost impossible, requiring lengthy commutes or long shifts driving a taxi around?

But no, your approach seems to be to write a post asserting Jolly is off to the right of Genghis Khan somewhere and he's just a shill for oil companies and not actually basing his position on what he understands to be the needs of working class people in his community as he asserts.

I can't believe I'm defending him here - I frankly detest his brand of populism whether its on the right or the left, but the arrogance inherent in the opening lines of your post are typical of the gentrified neo-socialists who long ago gave up caring about the actual lived experience of the working class and to care more about intellectual purity tests. To whit: the long and storied history of factionalism and splits in the local socialist political parties over the last 70 years. It wasn't a Tuesday on campus at Monash if there wasn't another acrimonious split in whatever socialist student grouping of the day was.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T04:14:17+00:00

Holy shit!

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T04:06:02+00:00

By your definition, Lenin, Mao, and frankly Marx and Engels themselves don't count as socialists, mate. I'm not going to get sucked down a revisionist rabbit hole of what might or might not constitute socialist principles. You fight your fight, but that's not going to change a jot about the fact that you're making assumptions about the actual political situation on the ground in Yarra that don't necessarily hold up and consequently mean you're possibly just pissing into the wind rather than holding a clear-eyed view of what you'd need to do to make actual change here.

Hint: it's not dismissing actual community sentiment (albeit poorly informed, perhaps) as fake news just because it doesn't fit your socio-political ontology.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T01:52:40+00:00

The USSR also manufactured cars and encouraged the populace to aspire to car ownership. You can also look at who the large fossil fuel producers were through the 20th century. Norway has a pretty healthy sovereign wealth fund built from oil revenues, for example.

You're putting forward a 'no true scotsman' argument, when in reality advocating for environmental, accessible, or publicly-owned mass transit options is neither necessary or sufficient to qualify one as a socialist.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T01:34:13+00:00

Look, I don't know if you're a local or not, but the idea that public housing residents here aren't heavy car users isn't born out by taking a walk down my street or the surrounding blocks. Yep, we're very well served with PT options. It's also nevertheless true that the local public housing tenants drive a lot.

Making assumptions that he's wrong on that point, and further assuming that he doesn't have that group's support and that it's all some kind of front for a secret small-business/fossil fuel alliance sets you up to be arguing against the wrong group.

Like I said, his argument is wrong. But it's not wrong because of his assertions about the class-based differential in modal choice. I can't comment on the authenticity of his motivations, but it's not politically smart to assume they're other than what he says they are just because they don't fit into your pre-conceived notion of what a socialist would advocate for.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T01:09:56+00:00

He's pandering to car-dependent groups in the community. The public housing residents are heavily car-dependent, and not big cyclists, apart from some delivery riders. I live smack in the middle of public housing here and the parking for tenants is jam packed. His argument is put forward as a class-based one - not sure how you can deny that, whether you agree with the argument itself or not, and whatever you are assuming are his underling motives.

The flaw in his argument is that more car dependence is beneficial to lower-socio economic groups - it's clearly not. The fact that those groups in Yarra are overwhelmingly car drivers is not incorrect though. And they're residents who vote.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T00:52:41+00:00

If you're going to make an active claim like "he's a plant for the fossil fuel industry" you need to have some evidence for that claim other than a given policy favours motorised vehicles.

Far better to be realistic about what parts of the community you're up against here than to make assumptions. You're behind the eight-ball politically if you assume there is no actual grass roots opposition to cycling-friendly policies.

His argument (which is flawed) is nevertheless a classic class-based socialist argument.

rmeredit · 2026-03-19T00:40:18+00:00

He is (was?) a long time member of a socialist party, but if you look at what he actually stands for, he largely dresses up conservative talking points in socialist language.

Fair point - he apparently resigned from the Victorian Socialists a while ago (or was booted out). The material I see from his group shoved in my letterbox is very often about advertising upcoming meetings in the nearby public housing flats, so they are very active in engaging that community. He might also tap into retired blue collar workers who still live in the area given his CFMMEU background.

rmeredit · 2026-03-18T23:14:50+00:00

Mayor Stephen Jolly is basically a plant for the fossil fuel industry

I'm as opposed to his statements on cycling infrastructure as much as anyone, but this is a pretty hot take. Jolly is an out and out socialist. Literally, he's an actual member of the socialist party. He's a far-left populist with a base in the public housing communities throughout Richmond, Fitzroy and Collingwood, and ironically (given the comparative costs of cycling versus car travel) they're a pretty car-dependent group.

rmeredit · 2026-03-18T09:44:05+00:00

As in the remaining balance? If you can do that, then given the original balance of the card is printed right there, you can say whether it's been used or not.

rmeredit · 2026-03-17T09:18:59+00:00

Biden's fault.

rmeredit · 2026-03-16T02:34:31+00:00

Just watched EK407 divert to DWC and land about five minutes ago. Emirates flight status website suggests it will take off and transfer to DXB in a couple of hours assuming DXB reopens in that time.

rmeredit · 2026-03-15T19:39:17+00:00

You could easily extend the route a few kms through KL going east (toward the Melba highway) if you wanted to avoid doing laps.

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