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

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

Seller might be limiting his potential market, http://www.adverts.ie/bikes/black-man-s-bike/1679774

LOL That's priceless!

I hate sunburn. Feck off sun.

BX 19 wrote: »

I hate sunburn. Feck off sun.

(jumps up and down with clenched fists)

"NO!....NO! NO! NO!...!"

Getting a loan of this in August. Get to keep it for a year. Where are the drops? What are those big knobbly things? Will anyone talk to me if I ride it? I'm confused and conflicted. :eek:

daragh_ wrote: »

Getting a loan of this in August. Get to keep it for a year. Where are the drops? What are those big knobbly things? Will anyone talk to me if I ride it? I'm confused and conflicted. :eek:

I can keep it for you if you like

I knew I could count on you guys. Sniff.

Group Hug? (Just keep your hands away from my 'truffles', mmmkay?).

BX 19 wrote: »

Factor 30 and it still burned my ears and neck. Bah.

I should move to Norway

I only use kiddies sunscreen. Factor 50 with an OCD approach to reapplication got me down the east coast of Australia in November. I was as white going home as when I got there. It also made me the most popular person to stand beside in group photos.

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Locked up the bike today but forgot to remove the Garmin! :eek: It was still there when I returned. Phew! Thank you God.

Your a lucky man

I've had lights robbed when I was silly enough to leave them on the bike.

Back home in Wexford from today, absolutely heavenly after the months of Dublin city centre non-stop. So quiet!

Well I had a lovely run-in tonight on the way into town. South quays, waiting outside Tara St station for the lights to change. They go green, and I push off on the aul' commuting bike. As I do so, a guy with his phone glued to his ear steps out into the side of me. We collide lightly, both staying upright, but I think I knocked the phone from his hand. I brake, and turn around to see if all's okay.

Turns out he's not one bit ****ing happy, standing gobsmacked and outraged. He grabs the glass bottle of Bulmers from his bag, and starts toward me. Only for his friend who was shouting at him and the crowds standing around in the broad daylight, I don't think he'd have hesitated long in having a go at me with it. Got out of there quicksmart, shaking like a leaf. He didn't have the air of a junkie or anything, just an average punter.

In hindsight, I should've got the Gardaí down, but there's probably not much they could do, only have a word. I worry about the world sometimes. One woman driving by checked if I was alright a little further down the quays. She was beeping her horn while the whole thing transpired, fair play to her, not much else you could do without stepping in. Bloody hell though, Dublin, never ****ing boring is it?

Crow92 wrote: »

Never understood why people do **** like that.

A couple of years ago, someone in a group of kids threw what turned out to be a waterbomb at me as I was driving past on the motorcycle.
I shat myself and got a fair shock as I saw a blob coming at me and then the (relative) sudden cold of the liquid.
I stopped and pulled over to investigate and obviously the group scarpered presumably not having banked on actually 1 hitting the target and 2 the target stopping.

Crow92 wrote: »

^^^^
I was cycling home last night beside the Fatima luas stop on the road, 3 kids standing on the path, one about 13 years old looks and me with a weird smile, as I pass the last kid (bout 10 years old) jumps from behind a lampost with giant red boxing glove and swings a punch at me. Completely misses me. I almost laughed it off after roaring at him.
Never understood why people do **** like that.

Whenever I see groups of kids or teenagers (or drunks) on the footpath, I take the centre of the lane, unless there's traffic following me. I have a slightly chipped front tooth from losing control when a kid pretended to take a swing at me when I myself was a kid, and kids continued pretending to swing at me on and off over the years until I realised that they were too lazy to walk very far out into the road.

I've never been too sure what's so funny about pretending to punch people.

A dog chased me from his gateway the other day, but it didn't follow me this far.

just placed an order for sunglasses...kiss the sunshine goodbye everyone

Idioteque wrote: »

Cycling in towards Dun Laoghaire and traffic is fairly heavy. Guy in his late 40's or so on his old garden shed mountain bike is a bit all over the place on the road but happy as larry on this sunny day.
A car comes along side him and he over reacts and pulls up onto the adjacent footpath and shouts "Yeah, DRIVING in just to get your SALAD"....

I was in stitches

I had a very eloquent gentleman on Dorset Street (srsly, no sarcasm) ask me if I was in the Tour de France while I was trackstanding at a red light. He then proceeded to tell me that track standing was bad for the chain, but I was very acrobatic. Then he took off. Such a lovely start to the day!

There was a name being called over the PA in Skerries yesterday, and I knew I recognised it, but couldn't quite place why the name was significant. Took me a while to realise it was you RobFowl! Hope all was well in the end!

RobFowl wrote: »

It was, potentially nasty and a stupid accident but all ok

Was that the incident with the champagne cork? Or does your hippopotamus oath forbid you from talking about it?

Also, I just remembered my €2.50 e/w bet on Hesjedal to win the Giro. \o/

Maybe if this had been available to audiences at the time:

manafana wrote: »

The battery packs look very out place, and id rather rely on cable, electronic braking anyone?

It's been done. Reported that the electronic brakes were guaranteed to only fail to respond three times in every trillion pulls of the lever.

You could have a single set for your entire life, and pass them onto your children and their grandchildren and they'd never miss a beat. Theoretically.