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Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

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    #4892
    colm_gti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭colm_gti


    bcmf wrote: »
    I have a BBB shimano bb tool that should fit most cups except Campy

    Internal or external BB?


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    #4893
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    ext
    colm_gti wrote: »

    Internal or external BB?


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    #4894
    colm_gti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭colm_gti


    bcmf wrote: »
    ext

    Ah poop, it's an internal BB and track chainset I've opted for, cheers anyway dude, much appreciated :)


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    #4895
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Disappointed to have missed this conference and this presentation.....

    Beer after exercise: Yes or no?

    ".....sixteen healthy young male volunteers, moderate consumers of beer, performed, at 35ºC, two exhausting and dehydrating exercise bouts (60 min running in a treadmill) three weeks apart. After exercise, the subjects rehydrate for 2h, in one occasion only with water and, in the other, first with beer (660 ml) followed by water."

    Trinity or DCU need to do a larger study to investigate this further. UCD can't, they've no bar:pac:

    "Immediately before and after exercise, and after rehydration, a number of variables that could be influenced by exercise, hydration or alcohol were measured. These variables include: body composition, extended blood and urine analysis, plasma volume, markers of muscle damage and inflammation, immunologic parameters, and psychokinetic assessment (including measurements of coordination, attention, stimuli discrimination, perception-reaction time, and visual field).

    In none of these parameters we found neither a specific nor a negative effect that could be attributed to the intake of beer compared to the intake of just water. In conclusion, at least in healthy, young adults, beer in moderate amounts is as effective as water for rehydration and recovery after exercise."

    lghr0173+homer-simpson-duff-beer-the-simpsons-poster.jpg


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    #4896
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    It's up to us cyclist to give out to those cyclists breaking red people.

    Didn't have the heart today. Just sighed and confined myself to the notion that we're all doomed to be RLJ's in the eyes of all other road users.


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    #4897
    colm_gti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭colm_gti


    Just put the first paint chip on my new frame and it hasn't even left the house yet :-/

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    At least it's out of the way now I won't be so anal about where I park it when I start commuting...the search begins for a closely matching nail polish....


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    #4898
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    colm_gti wrote: »
    the search begins for a closely matching nail polish....
    I've heard of people colour coordinating their kit, but matching your fingernails with your bike is a bit much :pac:


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    #4899
    flying11
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭flying11


    this gave me a good laugh when i was flicking through done deal :D
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/bicycles/4090871


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    #4900
    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    can anyone link me to a tube for a 700c hybrid bike on CRC? I think their mobile website is crippled as I can't find half the items I find online till I find an outside link for it if you get me.

    cheap and cheerful is fine, with the standard head thanks!


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    #4901
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,009 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    can anyone link me to a tube for a 700c hybrid bike on CRC? I think their mobile website is crippled as I can't find half the items I find online till I find an outside link for it if you get me.

    cheap and cheerful is fine, with the standard head thanks!

    Road tubes are here:

    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Categories.aspx?CategoryID=2482&SortBy=Price

    You haven't said what tyre width or valve type. "Standard head" depends on your perspective. The skinny high pressure ones are called "Presta", the ones on cars and MTBs are called "Schraeder".


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    #4902
    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    Lumen wrote: »
    Road tubes are here:

    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Categories.aspx?CategoryID=2482&SortBy=Price

    You haven't said what tyre width or valve type. "Standard head" depends on your perspective. The skinny high pressure ones are called "Presta", the ones on cars and MTBs are called "Schraeder".
    thanks. its shrader I'm looking for. the tire says 700-35C. I can only see 650c. will that work?


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    #4903
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    thanks. its shrader I'm looking for. the tire says 700-35C. I can only see 650c. will that work?

    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=26727

    700 x 28-47 will be suitable


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    #4904
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,954 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Involved in an accident with a car last night between Rush and Lusk. Car driver coming towards me made a sudden right turn and I T-boned it. Spent half the night in Beaumont Hospital. Very sore this morning.

    A big thank you those motorists who stopped, called emergency services and offered their contact details as witnesses and to the Paramedics, Garda and Beaumont Staff for their help and advice.


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    #4905
    t'bear
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭t'bear


    Sorry to hear this - take it easy, rest up.


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    #4906
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Giving out to cyclists breaking red is less effective, imho, than simply stopping at red lights yourself; as more people do this it becomes the normative behaviour.


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    #4907
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Giving out to cyclists breaking red is less effective, imho, than simply stopping at red lights yourself; as more people do this it becomes the normative behaviour.

    Some muppet did all that (breaking reds, as I sat patiently at each light then caught up with him again) by the American Embassy today, went through every red, even the one opposite Roly's which is pretty darn dangerous.

    He was riding a Trek, in baggies. Fookin' Freds, where's Anto Walsh when he is really needed???


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    #4908
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    Fookin' Freds, where's Anto Walsh when he is really needed???
    Floggin wheels on boards.ie ironically enough ;)


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    #4909
    doozerie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    Qualitymark wrote:
    Giving out to cyclists breaking red is less effective, imho, than simply stopping at red lights yourself; as more people do this it becomes the normative behaviour.

    Personally I favour both approaches. People who break red lights seem to be oblivious to anything and anyone around them - if they can willfully ignore the fact that their own actions often place themselves in the path of other cyclists and cars, or put them on a collision course with pedestrians, then I reckon they are unlikely to be swayed in their attitude by the fact that other people stop at red.

    Pointing out to them the ignorance and danger of their actions can offer an unwelcome insight into their character though. I've had abuse and threats hurled at me in response, on occasion - there clearly are some people out there with a serious grudge against the world. Offering a hug rarely helps either, I've found, it seems to make some of them a bit cross.


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    #4910
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    On way out of Tallaght towards town the other night and I passed by two lads RLJing and with no lights, one nearly got his rear wheel smashed off at the junction after rolling into crossing traffic. On the way past, nice and politely I said, careful there your lights aren't on. One, sheepishly replied, oh thanks, knowing he had no lights. The other replied "So WHAT!!!" followed a few seconds later by "I DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY LIGHTS" but i was already a good bit away.

    He caught me as he ran another light and screamed that my lights were broken, giggling to himself. I passed him again, saying thanks for the warning, smiling and pulled away effortlessly. We then came to the junction beside Esso at the entrance into Rathmines, where in a move of desperation, to end his life, he sped through a red light screaming, "COME ON GREEN LIGHT", not sure why, luckily a car stalled and he was not run over. I caught him again, as him and his friend kept winding back and forth across the street in an effort to block both cars, buses and other cyclists alike. At this point, I just continued on, the kid wants to die, its his choice, I just don't want to be the one to beat him to death, his own stupidity should take care of that for him.


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    #4911
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭buffalo


    doozerie wrote: »
    Offering a hug rarely helps either, I've found, it seems to make some of them a bit cross.

    Don't let that put you off, they just don't realise they need a hug. HUG THEM ALL!


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    #4912
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    CramCycle wrote: »
    and pulled away effortlessly..

    Yea right! I'd say you were burning up but trying to all cool and the gang!


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    #4913
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Involved in an accident with a car last night between Rush and Lusk. Car driver coming towards me made a sudden right turn and I T-boned it. Spent half the night in Beaumont Hospital. Very sore this morning.

    A big thank you those motorists who stopped, called emergency services and offered their contact details as witnesses and to the Paramedics, Garda and Beaumont Staff for their help and advice.

    Get well soon and I hope the injuries are not too bad :)


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    #4914
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,308 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    And the mascot for the next World Championships is

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    #4915
    Morrisseeee
    Registered Users Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    ^^ that nose will only get bigger and bigger and bigger (unfortunately) :(

    .....meanwhile in Ireland somewhere:
    sorry..............ooooops...............yikes.............just tryin to.................em..........

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    #4916
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Bloody hell. What happened there?

    Was there three tractors and another went down the middle?


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    #4917
    Crow92
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Crow92


    F friend linked me to this video, some good bits in it.

    5:00-8:30:testing cheap coil locks, abus/kryptonite chains and D locks, quite shocking.

    9:00-13:00 : police setting up stings to catch a thiefs.


    http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Gone-in-60-secs-theft-video-2012.html


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    #4918
    Bikerbhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Bikerbhoy


    Morrisseeee wrote: »
    ^^ that nose will only get bigger and bigger and bigger (unfortunately) :(

    .....meanwhile in Ireland somewhere:



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    A game of '' CHICKEN '' ... perhaps.......and obviously enough neither of the 3 were..!!!!


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    #4919
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    got a new headlamp. Hurry up royal mail. I wan't my stuff now.


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    #4920
    lennymc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    im looking at buying some campagnolo bib tights, but all my bikes have shimano/sram. will they be compatible?


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    #4921
    Plastik
    Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Plastik


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    Ready to kick some ass at the Marathon tomorrow.


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