But that’s everywhere.
Beach Road. Yarra Boulevard. St Kilda Road. Willaimstown Road. Sydney Road.
There are tossers everywhere.
Thankfully it seems to only be one road getting loaded with tacks.
If I flip this though - folks seem to hate Beach Road & Yarra Boulevard - so where do you like to go & why?
not true, that’s why I ride everywhere but Kew.
Eastern burbs early in the morning. No traffic, good road surfaces, good undulating hills or some steeper ones if you prefer. Riding back along trails next to rivers as the sun rises cos it’s pretty and it avoids the increasing traffic heading towards the city.
I find the boulevard conveniant during the week when I’m short on time and usually try and change it up on the weekends for something a bit more stimulating.
I can see why some people don’t like it, cutting laps of the same road gets pretty dull, but it keeps me fit enough to bitch the sailor boys when riding up ruckers hill, so I guess it aint all bad, true?
I only ride on the indoor trainer.
That means the only dickhead I encounter is myself.
Update from BNV: The puncture fairies have been haunting the Kew Boulevard in recent weeks, but it is no fantasy: tacks are regularly being strewn along the popular training circuit to deliberately cause grief. Fortunately there have been no reports of serious incidents thus far. But the malicious spreading of tacks on this road is putting lives at risk, something that the culprit would be aware of. Local police are aware of the situation and are actively working to apprehend the individual responsible.
They believe success will come their way, although it make take some time. Riders are advised to remain alert and report anything suspicious. And keep riding the Boulie: we must never signal that these behaviours can succeed in deterring people from riding.
Was it just before the bridge?
Probably me helping a guy who had just got a tack.
He was on the boulevard just short of Chandler Hwy. I didn’t pay much attention to details. I came up from MYT, crossed the road and went over the bridge, about 6:15 or so.
It’s fucking good for training if you go there and bury your self from one end to the other a couple of times it’s great,
I don’t get why MLB people hate roads that are “common” spots to ride.
Could be worse you could be at the gym, put one earbud in and zone out and don’t have to think about traffic, I havnt had a tack touch wood but I usually take the road not the paths.
Williamstown/Altona/Werribee South/Tarneit area. Once past docklands you have barely any traffic lights, there’s bike lane or decent road shoulder 99% of the time and most of the drivers out that way seem fairly polite/conscious of cyclists (when compared to jerks who zip by within inches on Beach Rd).
yep, on a 65km round trip from Brunswick to Altona, I hit maybe 10 sets of lights.
Half of them within the first few kms, and subsequently the same ones on the way back.
The lights further out are usually green anyway.
^ There’s traffic lights in your lounge room?
Are you haters serious? It’s a great spot. On weekend rides I like to head bush and into the mountains, but during the week I just want to get as much non-urban air as I can. The blvd ticks a lot of boxes for me.
Not many places in the world where you can live central in a large city and ride somewhere like that.
^^ I’m with you diddy
+1
ftfy…
welcome to melbourne!
boulie ‘secret trails’ are super fun for something so close to the city.
Yes I’m serious,
its mainly the feeling of the road, i don’t like it, i am allowed to have a negative opinion of it and i choose to ride smoother roads, no big deal. different strokes 
Maybe try swapping your 19c tyres for something larger? 
Sounds a little like the Lower North Shore in Sydney except the LNS is hella hilly - rad times!
I agree with both of you.
It’s got definite advantages but I don’t like the road surface.