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

Beasty · 18-09-2012 3:32pm

iregk wrote: »

The football one is a bizarre trend that only appears to be infecting Liverpool fans where the belief is held that wearing a full kit is fine for any occasion

Yep - it started with shellsuits, then this:

(in case you ever wondered what RobFowl looked like;))

Junior · 18-09-2012 3:43pm

One for Tyler Farrar or a Triathlete that you know (I jest)

https://icedot.org/crash

Jawgap · 18-09-2012 6:06pm

AstraMonti · 19-09-2012 8:09am

Boobs and bikes... NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6R-cZB3qwg

Junior · 19-09-2012 10:32am

I remember some time ago a few people defending Joe Papp on here..

Have a read of this http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=18585

RR in the first post is the short hand for the Username TheRaceRadio.

doozerie · 19-09-2012 11:47am

I'm lost for words. One of the few remaining reliable bastions of conflict, WD40, have gone and changed the rules. They've introduced a new "specialist" range which includes specific lubricants. The absolute hoors!

No longer can a simple statement of "I use nothing but WD40 to lube my chain and it's great!" be automatically countered by the stock response of "Here now, that's not a lube, ya tube!". With no casual outlet for all that pent-up anti-WD40 anger any longer, I fear that some people might just explode. It's outrageous, which is just a little ironic.

Whatever next? Will mountain bikers start wearing lycra now? Will road riders start growing facial hair? Where will it all end? I must go and lie down...

petethedrummer · 19-09-2012 12:28pm

Junior wrote: »

I remember some time ago a few people defending Joe Papp on here..

Have a read of this http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=18585

RR in the first post is the short hand for the Username TheRaceRadio.

I liked his frankness but I had read some stuff that wasn't nice about him. This stinks though.

Darkglasses · 19-09-2012 9:39pm

Found an old energy gel...How much out of date is too much?

le petit braquet · 19-09-2012 9:45pm

From the Rapha website:

Scientific research shows the Chartreuse colourway offers exceptional visibility in low light. Though not technically fluorescent, studies have found that the rods in the retina – the part of the eye that work best in low light – are particularly receptive to the yellow/green colour. As a result, chartreuse is increasingly used around the world for emergency vehicles.

Mycroft H · 19-09-2012 9:48pm

Darkglasses wrote: »

Found an old energy gel...How much out of date is too much?

I found a Kendal Mint Cake expired from 2007 last week in a Caving emergency food supply. It was still good.

doozerie · 20-09-2012 12:34am

le petit braquet wrote: »

From the Rapha website:

Scientific research shows the Chartreuse colourway offers exceptional visibility in low light. Though not technically fluorescent, studies have found that the rods in the retina – the part of the eye that work best in low light – are particularly receptive to the yellow/green colour. As a result, chartreuse is increasingly used around the world for emergency vehicles.

Here is their chartreuse pro team jacket, in the "flesh". Don't look directly at it though, it'll melt your eyes

tomasrojo · 20-09-2012 12:39am

doozerie wrote: »

Here is their chartreuse pro team jacket, in the "flesh". Don't look directly at it though, it'll melt your eyes

Well, I'm afraid that that jacket is not "reflective" and therefore will not be endorsed by the RSA.

Also, why the black armband? Is the user in mourning for the loss of his retinas?

doozerie · 20-09-2012 12:42am

Darkglasses wrote: »

Found an old energy gel...How much out of date is too much?

1. Open it and look at the contents.
2. If it's not mouldy or generally manky looking, then sniff it.
3. If it smells okay, grit your teeth.
4. Eat it.
5. If nausea overtakes you, go back two steps and reconsider going to step 4 (maybe it'll be okay second time round...).
6. If digestive "issues" overtake you later, go back three steps and reconsider going to step 4.

doozerie · 20-09-2012 12:46am

tomasrojo wrote: »

Well, I'm afraid that that jacket is not "reflective" and therefore will not be endorsed by the RSA.

Also, why the black armband? Is the user in mourning for the loss of his retinas?

The trims and armband are reflective, apparently. Possibly the armband really isn't reflective, as such, it just actively attracts the eye as a relief to the pain induced by looking at the rest of it.

tomasrojo · 20-09-2012 12:50am

There's a woman round my area who has a sort-of hi-viz jacket that looks like a Mondriaan painting. I quite liked it. Better than the binman look anyway.

RobFowl · 20-09-2012 12:52am

Darkglasses wrote: »

Found an old energy gel...How much out of date is too much?

Knock it back, if you vomit immediately it's well out of date.
If it take 4-6 hours to vomit and gives you diarrhoea then probably less so.

Darkglasses · 20-09-2012 1:06am

Impeccable advice gents. I'll probably have it next Sunday. If it makes me chunder, then at least we can say for sure that 1 year out is too old for a gel. :pac:

EDIT: Or, possibly just that gels make you vomit regardless of their age.

Lumen · 20-09-2012 9:31am

tomasrojo wrote: »

There's a woman round my area who has a sort-of hi-viz jacket that looks like a Mondriaan painting. I quite liked it. Better than the binman look anyway.

This morning I saw a hi-viz clad gentleman riding along wearing these "safety goggles":

You can never be too safe! :pac:

Jawgap · 20-09-2012 9:46am

doozerie wrote: »

The trims and armband are reflective, apparently. Possibly the armband really isn't reflective, as such, it just actively attracts the eye as a relief to the pain induced by looking at the rest of it.

The armband is a Rapha feature - it tells the world that you have more money than sense

CramCycle · 20-09-2012 10:40am

Lumen wrote: »

This morning I saw a hi-viz clad gentleman riding along wearing these "safety goggles":

You can never be too safe! :pac:

I used to wear my lab glasses when I was an undergrad, effective, never got fogged up and IMO it took a certain amount of style to pull it off (admittedly I was lacking this style but I tried).

doozerie · 20-09-2012 11:09am

Since the thread has already veered into the realm of mad scientists (who can wear any goggles they like on the bike, incidentally - as long as you have the wild hair and intensely staring/demented eyes unique to your profession, no-one will dare to question what you are wearing), I'll take the opportunity to ask if any of ye can tell me where I could buy a pipette in Dublin? I need to measure out small amounts of non-toxic liquids so either a 5ml or 10ml capacity would do, and a plastic one would be fine. I'd need it to be reasonably accurate so I guess I'd probably need a pipette pump too, or whatever that yoke is called to measure stuff. I'd be grateful for any pointers to possible sources, and if you had even a rough idea of what this might cost I'd be very interested in that too. Thanks.

I put this question to Google already and it laughed at me and pointed me at Irish sites selling pipettes by the box load. Then it stole my lunch money from my online bank account and posted embarassing pictures of me online too

I plan to use the pipette for dosing my tropical aquarium, incidentally. I thought I should clarify that before Pat McQuaid comes knocking on my door to criticise/applaud me. And no, my fish are not a testing ground for a future doping programme for me either - I couldn't manage to fit their tiny HRM straps, the slippery buggers, so the whole monitoring/testing plan fell through. Quite literally.

Ryath · 20-09-2012 11:28am

doozerie wrote: »

Since the thread has already veered into the realm of mad scientists (who can wear any goggles they like on the bike, incidentally - as long as you have the wild hair and intensely staring/demented eyes unique to your profession, no-one will dare to question what you are wearing), I'll take the opportunity to ask if any of ye can tell me where I could buy a pipette in Dublin? I need to measure out small amounts of non-toxic liquids so either a 5ml or 10ml capacity would do, and a plastic one would be fine. I'd need it to be reasonably accurate so I guess I'd probably need a pipette pump too, or whatever that yoke is called to measure stuff. I'd be grateful for any pointers to possible sources, and if you had even a rough idea of what this might cost I'd be very interested in that too. Thanks.

I put this question to Google already and it laughed at me and pointed me at Irish sites selling pipettes by the box load. Then it stole my lunch money from my online bank account and posted embarassing pictures of me online too

I plan to use the pipette for dosing my tropical aquarium, incidentally. I thought I should clarify that before Pat McQuaid comes knocking on my door to criticise/applaud me. And no, my fish are not a testing ground for a future doping programme for me either - I couldn't manage to fit their tiny HRM straps, the slippery buggers, so the whole monitoring/testing plan fell through. Quite literally.

You started that blog yet that Lumen suggested

Chemist was given one with antibiotics for my daughter a few weeks ago or a syringe? Or do you actually want a laboratory one that's accurate to 0.5%?

CramCycle · 20-09-2012 11:35am

doozerie wrote: »

I'd need it to be reasonably accurate so I guess I'd probably need a pipette pump too, or whatever that yoke is called to measure stuff. I'd be grateful for any pointers to possible sources, and if you had even a rough idea of what this might cost I'd be very interested in that too. Thanks.
y.

You want a pipette gun, which are great but vary on price, expect to be paying from 125 to 250euro

Pipette fillers are cheaper but more of a pain to use and in no way as cool, only cost about 20euro.

You'll also have to get pipettes then but they are quite cheap, I'll spare you a few if you want.

You can also mouth pipette but unless your a hard ass scientist I would not recommend this, only Chemists with a death wish do this.

CramCycle · 20-09-2012 11:38am

Just thought you'd get a plastic syringe for dosing cattle for little or nothing at a vets or a supply store. Costs a few euro and would be reusable.

doozerie · 20-09-2012 11:55am

@Ryath, I'm using a plastic syringe at the moment, which came with some medicine for my daughter at one stage - even pesky bugs can yield useful gadgets

It has worked well except when the bottle I'm taking the dose from is nearing the end and it becomes an awkward 2-handed job to tilt the bottle, reach the syringe in, etc. So in reality my desire for a pipette is more for its convenience than its accuracy. Mind you, I'm dealing regularly with a 2ml quantity, and it would be reassuring to know that the measure is reasonably accurate since at that level a small mistake in measuring could make for a relatively large problem so a pipette should give some peace of mind too.

@CramCycle, Thanks for the info. My inner cool fella says pipette gun, my wallet says pipette filler. If the fillers are only slightly awkward then that'd be fine as I dose the tank only once a day. I'd consider a mouth pipette only if I could get one of my fish to volunteer to do the mouthing - they are tough to negotiate with though, we trash things out for hours, and 30 seconds later they've completely forgotten everything we agreed to

Thanks for the offer of the pipettes, and do you know any good sources of the fillers in Dublin? If I can buy pipettes from the same supplier then you needn't go to the bother of giving me any yourself.

CramCycle · 20-09-2012 12:13pm

doozerie wrote: »

Thanks for the offer of the pipettes, and do you know any good sources of the fillers in Dublin? If I can buy pipettes from the same supplier then you needn't go to the bother of giving me any yourself.

College shops, the one in UCD science shop used to sell them but that was years ago, I'll see can I lay my hands on one and PM you later, its the first week back, some 1st year is going to leave one behind guaranteed.

ROK ON · 20-09-2012 12:16pm

doozerie wrote: »

Here is their chartreuse pro team jacket, in the "flesh". Don't look directly at it though, it'll melt your eyes

I bought the chartreuse oversocks.
They are da bomb.

Lusk Doyle · 20-09-2012 12:20pm

I use a spoon for measuring the treatment for my aquarium. What's wrong with that?

doozerie · 20-09-2012 12:30pm

@Lusk Doyle, Pfft, spoons are so uncool. Except when you are playing them, that is:

Rick%20playing%20spoons.jpg

doozerie · 20-09-2012 12:50pm

Just to swing the topic vaguely back to cycling for a while, I got a fright on the way home yesterday. A guy in a large Merc skimmed past my elbow as I was cycling in the cycle lane. Apparently the lane was so appealing that he felt the need to drive in it too. I'd been delayed in work which rarely makes me happy, I was tired and hungry, and I was anxious to get home to see my daughter before her bedtime. A slightly volatile mix but still stable. However, as tests have now shown, adding obnoxious driving into the mix releases the red mist. In a big way.

The jaw bone may well be connected to some head bone or other, but when the red mist takes over the jaw bone reattaches itself to the rage bone. I yelled. Loudly. No reaction from the driver, but a few turned heads from pedestrians. So, I chased after him. Driving in the cycle lane was obviously working well for him 'cos while all the other cars remained in their lane, he happily motored along mostly in the cycle lane. I almost caught him at a set of red traffic lights, but he took a left, which by coincidence was also my route home. My legs were burning, my lungs were burning, my indignation was screaming. I was closing on him as he tried to bully a car ahead of him out of his way. I was suffering though. Then the car in front turned off and the gap started to open up.

I yelled again, spraying spittle across half of south Dublin as I did so. No reaction. Some diplomacy-challenged area of my brain rushed to my aid with the suggestion that I give him "the finger". There was a brief internal debate over the merits of trying to speed up with only one hand on the bars, the pointlessness of gestures generally, the prospect of looking like a mental case to all and sundry (that battle was already lost though), etc. Anger doesn't do indecisiveness though, so I found myself belting along the road with one arm extended, one finger raised, and my best approximation of an "I'll bleedin' bust ya!" scowl on my face. I must have looked like a demented, confused and/or ill-equipped, jouster. Even after the car disappeared into the distance the scowl persisted for the rest of my ride, well and truly exercising some evil-villian face muscles that regular daily life never feels the need to call upon.

I'm calmer today, so I'd approach things more rationally. If that driver were standing in front of me now, I'd calmly and politely ask him why he so casually nearly ran me over and why he thought it okay not to acknowledge his mistake (it was a mistake, right? - my anger bone would like to know) in any way whatsoever. I'd try to explain how scarey it can be to have a ton of metal whistle by your elbow at speed, and how I'm not even slightly reassured by the stock response of "sure I'm a feckin' great driver, me, I skim past things all the time without hitting them". I'd give him the opportunity to explain the incident from his perspective. Then I'd promptly drop his car keys down the nearest sewer, administer a swift wedgie to him, and cycle away contented.

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

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