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It’s that time of year for the Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix circuit is setup ready for the four day racing event.

I just got back from a long weekend in Melbourne, where I took the rare opportunity to ride my brother’s mountain bike around the Formula One street circuit. Rare, not because I got my brother’s bike rideable again, but because its only about one week each year when you can still drive, ride, skate or walk around the actual race circuit with most of the barriers and infrastructure in place. For a brief moment you actually get to experience what it would be like to be one of the Formula One racing drivers going around the track. Even if it is about 200-300 kph slower riding a mountain bike.

On a bike you also can ride around the complete track whereas motorists can only drive around half of the track.

So it makes it safe for families with children to ride or skate around the track. But it’s wise to be extra careful in the areas of the track where motorists are allowed.

It was interesteing to see the pitt straight area restricted to one lane one way traffic with a 20kph speed limit. They’re taking no chances with any rev heads getting carried away.

It’s a good idea to get up early if you have some jobs to do before riding the local bike tracks. However I recently got a special wake up call in my West Perth hotel at 6am. And I didn’t have to book it!

I initially had no idea what that humming noise was that woke me up. I thought it was machinery or a truck in the service station behind the hotel. The internal fire alarm wasn’t ringing like the one in front of the hotel. But I knew what the alarm was for when I saw two fire engines turn up in about 10 minutes after it started.

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Cyclists are already dropping by here on a daily basis. And I want everyone to have a great experience while they are here. But my basic shared hosting plan was starting to give me some concern in regards to the speed that the web pages show up in your browser.

So I came up with a great solution.  Read the rest of this entry »

Cyclists on a popular Sydney bike trail are being targeted by speed laser guns in an effort to encourage them to keep at reasonable speeds.

I headed over to Sydney recently to review a few more bike trails. Spent a few days riding around Circular Quay to The Domain, Centennial Park and Olympic Park. And it was at the large circular track at Centennial Park where I saw laser speed guns being used on motorists and cyclists. Read the rest of this entry »