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  • #252
    AssaultedPeanut
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭AssaultedPeanut


    Saw this beautiful piece of bike locking today on Abbey Street, had to take a quick snap :D


  • #253
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/11-conversion-therapy-methods-curing-homosexuality_n_1068103.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008#s440886&title=Bicycling

    American neurologist Graeme M. Hammond suggests bicycling as a cure for homosexuality. He believed "homosexuality was rooted in nervous exhaustion and that bicycle exercise would restore health and heterosexuality."


  • #254
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    RobFowl wrote: »
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/11-conversion-therapy-methods-curing-homosexuality_n_1068103.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008#s440886&title=Bicycling

    American neurologist Graeme M. Hammond suggests bicycling as a cure for homosexuality. He believed "homosexuality was rooted in nervous exhaustion and that bicycle exercise would restore health and heterosexuality."

    You should forward that piece to Eamon Delaney


  • #255
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    I had a soccer match tonight and I actually cried like a little girl on the pitch. I was supposed to be sitting the match out as I'm sick and I was on the sauce last night but only eleven players showed up and none of the ones that did were our first, second or third choice goalkeepers so I ended up in goal. We were 3-0 down in the second half when one of their players went to hoof the ball in their half, high. I came out a bit, I let it bounce but misjudged the speed of it, I tried to catch it before it got to the goal but it slipped from my grasp on the line and tears started to come from my eyes, a real "ground opening" moment. I got up off the ground, wiped the tears from my eyes and only let in one more goal before the match was done. I don't think I'll ever be allowed between the sticks again, which is a good thing for all concerned. I've tried to find a youtube of something similar but can't find anything so spectacularly shít. I can't wait to be playing full back again.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #256
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,514 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Give it up Cap'n - you're past it....


  • #257
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    Beasty wrote: »
    Give it up Cap'n - you're past it....

    You're right young man.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #258
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,514 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Captain Havoc wrote: »
    You're right young man.
    I see you as an Owen Hargreaves type - all washed-up at the age of 30 or so. More of a Giggsy man myself;)


  • #259
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Beasty wrote: »
    More of a Giggsy man myself;)

    How's the sister in law :rolleyes:


  • #260
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    Beasty wrote: »
    I see you as an Owen Hargreaves type - all washed-up at the age of 30 or so. More of a Giggsy man myself;)

    You have to love him though, picking up all that cash for sitting in a physio room, now that's a job I could do.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #261
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    RobFowl wrote: »
    How's the sister in law :rolleyes:

    BOOM! Nice one!


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  • #262
    Johnners1878
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Johnners1878


    Captain Havoc wrote: »
    I came out a bit, I let it bounce but misjudged the speed of it, I tried to catch it before it got to the goal but it slipped from my grasp on the line and tears started to come from my eyes, a real "ground opening" moment. I got up off the ground, wiped the tears from my eyes and only let in one more goal before the match was done. I don't think I'll ever be allowed between the sticks again, which is a good thing for all concerned. I've tried to find a youtube of something similar but can't find anything so spectacularly shít. I can't wait to be playing full back again.

    My sympathies Captain, I've been that soldier. Goalkeeper is an unforgiving position. Now I play midfield...


  • #263
    Slideshowbob
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Slideshowbob


    RobFowl wrote: »
    How's the sister in law :rolleyes:

    How's the nose?


  • #264
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,803 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Did you know that the Apple Macintosh was nearly called the Apple Bicycle?
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/25/steve-jobs-biography-walter-isaacson-review


  • #265
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Why does the off-topic thread always revert to ball-sports talk?


  • #266
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Tonyandthewhale wrote: »
    Why does the off-topic thread always revert to ball-sports talk?

    Off-topic is the clue.....


  • #267
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,514 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    ... the off-topic topics that posters want to pick


  • #268
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    My football coach always told me if the ball ever got near our goalkeeper the defense weren't doing they job. You were losing 4-0 and still no one wanted to go in goal!! You're completely blameless in my book, in fact, well done you for steping up and going in goal in the first place.


  • #269
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Manliest bike in the universe

    http://www.adverts.ie/bikes/manly-bike-for-sale/1070699


  • #270
    Sr. Assumpta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Manliest bike in the universe

    http://www.adverts.ie/bikes/manly-bike-for-sale/1070699


    I thought you were a day ahead of us down there??? ;)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75238521


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  • #271
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Pucking Functure again this morning. And it's quite difficult to listen for escaping air when there's a gale blowing :mad:


  • #272
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Sr. Assumpta wrote: »
    I thought you were a day ahead of us down there??? ;)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75238521

    I stole it from AH :o

    thought they were enough ahead of the rest of this place to get away with it


  • #273
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Just(say Around 12:10) passed a young lad on Harcourt going the wrong way on a red/wine road bike that was way to big for him. I'd be highly suspicious of him, not to judge or anything. If this happens to be anyone on here's bike, he'll be on about two dozen CCTV cameras. Will keep an eye on the stolen reports thread.


  • #274
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Lethal_Bullet wrote: »
    Just(say Around 12:10) passed a young lad on Harcourt going the wrong way on a red/wine road bike that was way to big for him. I'd be highly suspicious of him, not to judge or anything. If this happens to be anyone on here's bike, he'll be on about two dozen CCTV cameras. Will keep an eye on the stolen reports thread.

    If it was a Planet X Uncle John cyclocross bike I'll hunt him down and feed him his fingers.


  • #275
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Tacx Lumos Front and Rear LED Handlebar Lightset with indicators!!!


  • #276
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Sram is hoping to raise $300 million in an IPO.


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  • #277
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Sr Assumpta, I saw this and thought of you...

    Man's pained face shows up in ultrasound scan of testicle


  • #278
    Sr. Assumpta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    Lumen wrote: »
    Sr Assumpta, I saw this and thought of you...

    Man's pained face shows up in ultrasound scan of testicle

    Lumen, you read The Mirror ???? :eek:



    Never meet your hero.........


  • #279
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Sr. Assumpta wrote: »
    Lumen, you read The Mirror ???? :eek

    No, the internet sent me a link.

    I usually read the Farmers' Journal or the American Journal of Proctology, whichever comes to hand.


  • #280
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I used to read the Journal every week in a previous life.


  • #281
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    I used to read the Journal every week in a previous life.

    As a proctologist?


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  • #282
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I'm sure the farmers felt like I was one at times


  • #283
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    I'd be interested in seeing an ultrasound scan of a testicle belonging to pained face.


  • #284
    Sr. Assumpta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    Lemag wrote: »
    I'd be interested in seeing an ultrasound scan of a testicle belonging to pained face.

    Oh, between us I'm sure we could arrange something.....


  • #285
    Crow92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Crow92


    Saw a bike painted green white and orange with some kind of diy "disc" on it outside the jury's inn at christchurch.Very funny looking. Anyone else spot it? I didn't get a chance to catch a picture of it.


  • #286
    Vélo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    Fair play to the Garda I saw yesterday evening at 5.00pm by The Temple Theatre. He had stopped a Ninja on a bike who had no lights on, he went to the boot of the car and gave him a hi-viz jacket. I'm not sure if he did anything else but I'm sure he at least gave the Ninja a lecture.


  • #287
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,803 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Vélo wrote: »
    Fair play to the Garda I saw yesterday evening at 5.00pm by The Temple Theatre. He had stopped a Ninja on a bike who had no lights on, he went to the boot of the car and gave him a hi-viz jacket. I'm not sure if he did anything else but I'm sure he at least gave the Ninja a lecture.
    The cyclist still wasn't cycling legally after his gift. The lecture was a good idea though.


  • #288
    kennyb3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    First cycle in 2 months for me tonight - only allowed 30mins but i cant wait to be honest


  • #289
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    3 x flashing back red lights, 1 x flashing white light up front, reflective shoecovers and gloves and the Garda still stopped me to see if the bright 'highlighter' yellow top I was wearing had reflective strips on it, it was an Assos winter one and it did so he was happy. WFT :rolleyes:


  • #290
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    3 x flashing back red lights, 1 x flashing white light up front, reflective shoecovers and gloves and the Garda still stopped me to see if the bright 'highlighter' yellow top I was wearing had reflective strips on it, it was an Assos winter one and it did so he was happy. WFT :rolleyes:

    Last year, Drumcondra, about this time of the year - two TK11s on the front, two Smart LEDs on the back, a hi-vis windstopper and (I think) a reflective band on the helmet and I still got stopped to be given a leaflet about lighting up!!

    Maybe you have to be lit up like this before they don't stop you.....

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQRK-d4ZOm4ZSc49ZmtCzknjzRk2NeLOhS1_qeRoQPX8ZubOeu9wt21s8ZVHw


  • #291
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Seen as this thread is named after a fine practitioner of medicine, this might be of interest.....

    Are physiological attributes of jockeys predictors of falls? A pilot study

    Not sure if you could extrapolate to cyclists - but if you are a lard-arse, unfit jockey, it seems you are more likely to fall!


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  • #292
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,803 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Last year, Drumcondra, about this time of the year - two TK11s on the front, two Smart LEDs on the back, a hi-vis windstopper and (I think) a reflective band on the helmet and I still got stopped to be given a leaflet about lighting up!!

    Maybe you have to be lit up like this before they don't stop you.....

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQRK-d4ZOm4ZSc49ZmtCzknjzRk2NeLOhS1_qeRoQPX8ZubOeu9wt21s8ZVHw
    I was aware they were advising cyclists on having lights, but I was unaware that they were pushing hi-viz like this. They shouldn't be; it's a waste of police time. If you have decent lights, that's the end of it. There's no requirement to dress like a binman. Even if hi-viz is a useful complement to legally required lights, it's none of their business to be stopping people who are already conspicuous. Do they stop motorists during the day to tell them what a good idea day-time running lights are?

    EDIT: And while I'm giving out, what is it with all those roadside LED signs with warnings to cyclists that have been running on and off all year? Intoxicated pedestrians constitute a much larger group in the KSI statistics. Go and lecture them for a while.


  • #293
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    3 x flashing back red lights, 1 x flashing white light up front, reflective shoecovers and gloves and the Garda still stopped me to see if the bright 'highlighter' yellow top I was wearing had reflective strips on it, it was an Assos winter one and it did so he was happy. WFT :rolleyes:

    Where did this crazy waste of resources happen?


  • #294
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    RT66 wrote: »
    Where did this crazy waste of resources happen?

    Swords: Traffic Garda pulled in to give out to car owners who parked on a double yellow to pop into a shop (newsagents). I had stopped for milk and proceeding on my merry way when waved to stop me and said "no it's OK I see you have reflective strips on your top".


  • #295
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    "Out for delivery"

    Are there are sweeter words to see when you're tracking a purchase?


  • #296
    G rock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭G rock


    received my fenix this morning and managed to temporarily blind myself. still reeling a bit.

    "i wonder if this is bright, let me take a look...."

    my dopiness knows no bounds!


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


    G rock wrote: »
    received my fenix this morning and managed to temporarily blind myself. still reeling a bit.

    "i wonder if this is bright, let me take a look...."

    my dopiness knows no bounds!

    I tried mine on the wife's cat and the kids - it made all their eyes light up!!

    Didn't try it on the wife though - too much sense for that:)


  • #298
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Dirty hipsters… :rolleyes:

    http://twitter.com/Ichigear
    @Ichigear
    Single Speed Fix Gear track bicycle shop, right behind Paradise Showgirls in Industry CA. Visit ur favorite pole dancer while getting your fixie bicycle fix


  • #299
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,803 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Bunnyhopper wrote: »
    Dirty hipsters… :rolleyes:

    http://twitter.com/Ichigear
    It's a trend:
    Owen Wilson was a man on a mission when he pedaled his way to Scores West Side strip club on a mountain bike.

    According to the The NY Post, Wilson parked his bike at the checkroom and then sat down to enjoy the topless talent.
    http://www.hollyscoop.com/owen-wilson/owen-wilson-bikes-for-strippers.html


  • #300
    Crow92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Crow92


    Anyone here read bicycling science 3rd edition by gordon wilson? If so what'd you make of it? Is it very theoretical?


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  • #301
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Crow92 wrote: »
    Anyone here read bicycling science 3rd edition by gordon wilson? If so what'd you make of it? Is it very theoretical?

    I've read it and enjoyed it and managed to make sense of it even though I'm not a science-engineering-maths sort at all. There are lots of formulae and graphs that look quite intimidating when you're not used to reading that sort of thing, and I'm sure I didn't understand every detail, but it's well-written enough that given a bit of time and re-reading I could always figure out the gist of it.


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