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    #1322
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Captain Havoc wrote: »
    Ballyhoura on RTE 1 now

    yep not bad surprised to see something interesting on nationwide

    you can watch it here

    http://www.rte.ie/news/nationwide/

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #1323
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    Guess what the title of the section was?????????


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    #1324
    uberwolf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,580 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    ednwireland wrote: »

    you can watch it here

    good watch. Enjoyed that. Far cry from my self built trails!


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    #1325
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Saw a guy last night riding up Camden street, iPod in, no hands, playing the pretend drums. Had to laugh given the conversations on here this week.


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    #1326
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    el tonto wrote: »
    Saw a guy last night riding up Camden street, iPod in, no hands, playing the pretend drums. Had to laugh given the conversations on here this week.

    Reminds me of a guy I see on the Clontarf track. Every time I see him in the morning he is on a call on his mobile, riding with no hands, without fail.

    I've not seen him for a while now, but I was always curious to know who he was talking to.


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    #1327
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Raam wrote: »
    Reminds me of a guy I see on the Clontarf track. Every time I see him in the morning he is on a call on his mobile, riding with no hands, without fail.

    I've not seen him for a while now, but I was always curious to know who he was talking to.

    Was almost hit by a guy riding no hands on the mobile on Harcourt Street the other day. He didn't notice the pedestrian lights were red and I had to jump out of the way.


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    #1328
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    el tonto wrote: »
    He didn't notice the pedestrian lights were red green and I had to jump out of the way.

    Surely?


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    #1329
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Lumen wrote: »
    Surely?

    I meant that he had a red, not me.


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    #1330
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    Surely?

    Red for the man on the bike :)


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    #1331
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    el tonto wrote: »
    I meant that he had a red, not me.

    The same thing happened to me this morning, with a car.

    For some reason (lack of sleep, probably) I attempted to deploy some sort of "you wanna piece of me, mofo" arms-akimbo gangster strut towards the offending vehicle, which I'm sure is much less convincing in reality than it appears in my head.


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    #1332
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    The same thing happened to me this morning, with a car.

    For some reason (lack of sleep, probably) I attempted to deploy some sort of "you wanna piece of me, mofo" arms-akimbo gangster strut towards the offending vehicle, which I'm sure is much less convincing in reality than it appears in my head.

    I dunno man, you look pretty hard in that avatar


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    #1333
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Lumen wrote: »
    For some reason (lack of sleep, probably) I attempted to deploy some sort of "you wanna piece of me, mofo" arms-akimbo gangster strut towards the offending vehicle, which I'm sure is much less convincing in reality than it appears in my head.

    You weren't toting your trusty chainset?


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    #1334
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    el tonto wrote: »
    You weren't toting your trusty chainset?

    Unfortunately not, the teeth cause unacceptable wear to the lining of my manbag.


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    #1335
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Lumen wrote: »
    Unfortunately not, the teeth cause unacceptable wear to the lining of my manbag.

    Perhaps you could fashion some sort of holster?


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    #1336
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    A bashring could certainly be utilised somehow.


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    #1337
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Broke a red light this morning. Caught by motorbike cop.
    Informed I will be receiving summons.
    Let that be lesson.

    Empty street at 7am so I just cruised in thru.
    The shame.


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    #1338
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Broke a red light this morning. Caught by motorbike cop.
    Informed I will be receiving summons.
    Let that be lesson.

    Empty street at 7am so I just cruised in thru.
    The shame.

    You're a bad man.


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    #1339
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Broke a red light this morning. Caught by motorbike cop.
    Informed I will be receiving summons.
    Let that be lesson.

    Empty street at 7am so I just cruised in thru.
    The shame.

    Were you driving or cycling?


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    #1340
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    el tonto wrote: »
    Were you driving or cycling?

    Or walking?


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    #1341
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Bike.
    I took responsibility admitting I knew what I was doing and knew it was wrong. But I may have been a little smug.


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    #1342
    Vélo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    You should change your username to

    RLJ


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    #1343
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Informed I will be receiving summons.

    OK, but what to wear? I suggest full Liquigas kit. It's probably still on on special offer.


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    #1344
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    OK, but what to wear? I suggest full Liquigas kit. It's probably still on on special offer.

    Excellent idea. You should arrive into the courtroom like you are in the middle of a race. Ask the judge to hurry the hell up before you loose too much sight of the main bunch.


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    #1345
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I'm sure that will tickle the Irish judiciary's famous sense of humour.


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    #1346
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Broke a red light this morning. Caught by motorbike cop.
    Informed I will be receiving summons.
    Let that be lesson.

    Empty street at 7am so I just cruised in thru.
    The shame.

    Operation Free Flow, huh! I think if you you do it smartly, like slow down greatly look both ways and don't be an eejit about RLJ then generally you're OK. A bit like a motorbike in the bus lane, I reckon you're ok as long as you're not taking the p!ss. Having said that if I'm on the bicycle and I see the florscent Gardai jackets I tend to track stand (badly!) at the lights. Garda Jeep pulled up beside me one day and said "you'll stop at the next set of red lights won't you?", I replied that I would, and I did, but not the ones after.


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    #1347
    CheGuedara
    Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭CheGuedara


    All the greats get done eventually - like Cipo on the motorway*, so it probably falls as being sligthly Euro.

    At least it wasn't a commuter race and you celebrated as you coasted through the light like someone contesting the green jersey!

    * he told the officer it was the only place he could safely get up to full speed?!


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    #1348
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    Didn't the Pirate get away with lots of brushing with the law in Italy. Vaguely remember seeing a picute of his 4x4 plowed into a parked car and him having a laugh with the cop.


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    #1349
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    Didn't the Pirate get away with lots of brushing with the law in Italy. Vaguely remember seeing a picute of his 4x4 plowed into a parked car and him having a laugh with the cop.

    I think it was 20 cars, wasn't it? He was having trouble getting out of a parking space or something. (That and the steroid rage or coke psychosis or whatever the poor man had at the time.)


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    #1350
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    About red lights: At the top of Kill Avenue, junction with N11, there is a red light for cars turning left. The cycle lane, however, just has a yield sign painted on it. The left hand turning car lane has no such road painting.

    My understanding is that it is not red light jumping because it is just telling me to yield to cyclists coming down the cycle path.

    Or am I reading it all wrong? I kind of felt today like I was running a red light.


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    #1351
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Bang goes the theory on BBC1 are doing a human power station experiment for their show. It's popular science for the masses, simply trying to raise energy awareness, so don't be expecting any nobel winning scientists performing experiments.


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