Great night last night; Big Bike Film night feature “The Moment” (at the Academy Cinema) on the birth of freeride mountain biking. Amazing riding often captured with huge (by today's stds) cine/video cameras on neck breaking helmet cams.
My orignal plan to train in (so wouldn't arrive a sweaty puddle) and bike home was foiled by not feeling up to cycling thanks to an odd sinus/head cold thing I've had going on. Was mostly over it but decided to take it easy. Should have done it though, would have got home quicker!
The Aotea carpark was full so I ended up in Victoria St. The digital capacity signs in Nelson St made that decision painless.
It had over a hundred parks available when I entered but about half of those were consumed by idiots who can't park their stupid huge SUV/Utes and left the gaps between the next car/wall/column too narrow to park without climbing out the sunroof or back hatch to escape!
Got back to the carpark to find just one (of only two!) pay machine working and it wasn't accepting notes; card or coin only. Not a problem but card payments take about twice as long as cash, no paywave...
25 minutes in the line waiting to pay would have had me more than half way home on the bike!
