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  • #5852
    simonrooneyzaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    Suzuki_TL1000R wrote: »
    Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist Documentary
    http://viooz.ac/movies/24216-pantani-the-accidental-death-of-a-cyclist-2014.html

    brilliant movie


  • #5853
    Doc07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Doc07


    If you have time, read 'The Death of Marco Pantani' by Matt Rendell. Great book.


  • #5854
    zurbfoundation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭zurbfoundation


    In fairness SB changed a word in the headline this time


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  • #5855
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    zurbfoundation wrote: »
    In fairness SB changed a word in the headline this time

    Good article and a bit of fun at this time of year. No harm rerunning it IMO.


  • #5856
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    First frost of the year.
    From 18deg on Mon aft to frost on Wed morn.
    Some turnaround!


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  • #5857
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


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  • #5858
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oscar Gateaux wrote: »
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    Is he descending on a fixie?:pac:


  • #5859
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Skillz man


  • #5860
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    nelson-haha.jpg

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/28/a-depressing-sign-of-americas-obesity-problem-fatter-crash-test-dummies/


  • #5861
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    That magical feeling when you realise your gps has been paused for the last 10k


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  • #5862
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    rollingscone wrote: »
    That magical feeling when you realise your gps has been paused for the last 10k

    Or doing a segment, knowing you got the KOM, looking down and realising your GPS is paused.


  • #5863
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Or caring in the first place.


  • #5864
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    So yesterday, I see a guy lock up a black, brakeless singlespeed. With FREEWHEEL. Wtf? It was matt black with a red 5 spoke aerospoke ( I think they're called?) on the front. He had a fat schwalbe marathon plus on the front and a slick 25 on the back. The whole thing made my brain ache.


  • #5865
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    gadetra wrote: »
    So yesterday, I see a guy lock up a black, brakeless singlespeed. With FREEWHEEL. Wtf? It was matt black with a red 5 spoke aerospoke ( I think they're called?) on the front. He had a fat schwalbe marathon plus on the front and a slick 25 on the back. The whole thing made my brain ache.

    Was he bearded and wearing a wooly hat / tweed jacket / checked shirt?


  • #5866
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    gadetra wrote: »
    So yesterday, I see a guy lock up a black, brakeless singlespeed. With FREEWHEEL. Wtf? It was matt black with a red 5 spoke aerospoke ( I think they're called?) on the front. He had a fat schwalbe marathon plus on the front and a slick 25 on the back. The whole thing made my brain ache.
    This never gets old.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPEnvarwErw


  • #5867
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Hunterbiker wrote: »
    Was he bearded and wearing a wooly hat / tweed jacket / checked shirt?

    No this was a stealth hipster - all in black.


  • #5868
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    gadetra wrote: »
    No this was a stealth hipster - all in black.
    I bet it was black check though


  • #5869
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Hunterbiker wrote: »
    I bet it was black check though

    Nope they've been colonising black denim for quite a while now. I just wish they contained a bit of imagination. I like skinny jeans on a guy.
    This chap I fear may not be long for this world, riding around Dublin as he is with no brakes and a freewheel. The marathon plus On the ' aero' wheel. fat tyre On the front. I suspect pathological dimness.


  • #5870
    couerdelion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭couerdelion


    gadetra wrote: »
    So yesterday, I see a guy lock up a black, brakeless singlespeed. With FREEWHEEL. Wtf? It was matt black with a red 5 spoke aerospoke ( I think they're called?) on the front. He had a fat schwalbe marathon plus on the front and a slick 25 on the back. The whole thing made my brain ache.

    It wasn't a coaster brake?

    Other wise why? My brain hurts just thinking about how quickly Darwins law of natural selection would occur.


  • #5871
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Does handlebar tape have to be sticky on one side?

    I ordered some off ebay for $2. It arrived today but it doesn't have any adhesive, will it still work?


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  • #5872
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    couerdelion wrote: »
    It wasn't a coaster brake?

    Other wise why? My brain hurts just thinking about how quickly Darwins law of natural selection would occur.

    Maybe. It did tick though which made me think it was a freewheel. The mind boggles!


  • #5873
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Pompous wrote: »
    Does handlebar tape have to be sticky on one side?

    I ordered some off ebay for $2. It arrived today but it doesn't have any adhesive, will it still work?

    Wrap some sellotape upside down around the handlebars first.


  • #5874
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    gadetra wrote: »
    Maybe. It did tick though which made me think it was a freewheel. The mind boggles!

    It should have a front brake really. I have a 2 speed coaster brake hub on my commuter, and a normal front calliper.


  • #5875
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    Pompous wrote: »
    Does handlebar tape have to be sticky on one side?

    I ordered some off ebay for $2. It arrived today but it doesn't have any adhesive, will it still work?

    it usually has a strip down the middle about 3mm wide that's sticky and is covered in a paper backing like a sticker. Remove this paper backing and it should reveal the sticky strip.


  • #5876
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Pompous wrote: »
    Does handlebar tape have to be sticky on one side?

    I ordered some off ebay for $2. It arrived today but it doesn't have any adhesive, will it still work?

    Doesn't have to be really sticky like sellotape, but there should be some kind of grippy surface on it yeah


  • #5877
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    gadetra wrote: »
    Nope they've been colonising black denim for quite a while now. I just wish they contained a bit of imagination. I like skinny jeans on a guy.
    This chap I fear may not be long for this world, riding around Dublin as he is with no brakes and a freewheel. The marathon plus On the ' aero' wheel. fat tyre On the front. I suspect pathological dimness.

    Atheism rests its case


  • #5878
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Idleater wrote: »
    It should have a front brake really. I have a 2 speed coaster brake hub on my commuter, and a normal front calliper.

    Fixes with no brakes are ok I think, I have no coaster brake experience so I can't comment on that. It also had tiny straight bars. I don't get that aesthetically. Track bars look way better, and are just as neat. I mean that's what those bikes are based on surely? The weird tiny straight bars jus don't work for me.

    Pompous on the bar tape, maybe some double sided tape on your bars and stretch the tape over that? If you put it On the bar tape you won't be able to stretch it. Unless it's tape you aren't supposed to stretch obviously! Our just wrap it super tight? ( imagine it would slip after a while though?)


  • #5879
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    De Bhál wrote: »
    it usually has a strip down the middle about 3mm wide that's sticky and is covered in a paper backing like a sticker. Remove this paper backing and it should reveal the sticky strip.

    Yeah I know, but like I said this doesn't have a sticky strip. I'm asking if it will work without one.
    Darkglasses wrote: »
    Doesn't have to be really sticky like sellotape, but there should be some kind of grippy surface on it yeah

    Yeah, should be, but for $2 from China I guess I got what I paid for :D


  • #5880
    clog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭clog


    Pompous wrote: »
    Yeah I know, but like I said this doesn't have a sticky strip. I'm asking if it will work without one.



    Yeah, should be, but for $2 from China I guess I got what I paid for :D

    Bar tape never used to come with a sticky strip. Start off at the bar end and keep it under tension always maintaining a bit of overlap and it will hold.


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  • #5881
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    clog wrote: »
    Bar tape never used to come with a sticky strip. Start off at the bar end and keep it under tension always maintaining a bit of overlap and it will hold.

    Good stuff. I was thinking maybe this was the case but was not sure since I've only ever re-applied my existing tape (that had a sticky strip). Thanks.


  • #5882
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    http://www.thejournal.ie/ebola-nurse-goes-for-bike-ride-1753682-Oct2014/

    Bloody cyclists, clogging up our roads, without paying any bloody tax, and breaking quarantine while they do it......it's a bleedin disgrace.


  • #5883
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Happy Hallowe'en Boardsies :)

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  • #5884
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Pumpkin done! Happy Halloween everyone :)

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  • #5885
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Rain's a comin'....gonna get soaked on the way home in Dublin in the next hour or so!


  • #5886
    Hmmzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    First the Orbital Sciences Anteres rocket blows up and now Virgins Space Ship 2 has crashed killing one of the pilots and seriously injuring the other one. What a bad week for space travel :(.


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  • #5887
    Plastik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭Plastik


    I've a cheap fixie for knocking around locally and to do a 4.6k round trip to the Dart station. Last time I used it was two Fridays ago. Living in an apartment, with a wife that doesn't have much time for two other bikes stored in the bath let alone a third hanging around, I decided for better or worse that the fixie would live in the communal bin sheds. Keypad access and a load of other bikes kept down there also. There's nothing to lock it to, so the best I can do is just lock wheel to frame. Unfortunately it was broken into a few weeks ago and 5 or 6 bikes taken. Not mine though! I put this down to the fact that they were either disturbed before taking mine or that one of the scrotes was more knowledgeable than others and realised that he wasn't going to get through my Kryptonite lock without anything less than an angle grinder. So two Fridays ago was the last time I used it to go to the Dart. Popped down Thursday gone to throw a bag in the bin aaaand ... no sign of the bike. Could have been taken anytime in the 6 days since I used it.

    Was away for the weekend and thought a little about it. It's a heavy bike. The wheel was locked to the frame so it can't be rolled or cycled anywhere. And scrotes are lazy. Little bit of waste ground next to the apartment so took a stroll this evening when I got home. Went the "wrong" way around so didn't find it until the end, but about 200m away from the bin shed ...

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    Muppets. They spent a bit of time on the Kryptonite trying to get it off. Absolutely loads of hacksaw marks on it, but all superficial. Moral of the story, a good lock, worth it's weight in gold.


  • #5888
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Zyzz wrote: »
    Pumpkin done! Happy Halloween everyone :)

    w_J2v_HOO.jpg

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/pumpkin-carving-is-the-new-dick-size-say-men-2014103192320

    :pac:


  • #5889
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    Interesting idea, to use bioluminescent technology for the likes of street lighting.


    And here is a specific instance of the technology being applied to make road markings that glow. Apparently that’s in place on a road in the Netherlands for testing, and may be used in other countries if it proves successful.


  • #5890
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    doozerie wrote: »
    Interesting idea, to use bioluminescent technology for the likes of street lighting.

    We are edging closer to a hi-viz utopia. This is great news for humans, safety councils and tree dwelling animals.


  • #5891
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Bought one of these last night:

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/moon-x-power-330-rechargeable-front-light/

    To go along with my lyzyne Micro on the front. Hoping it's good, my commute through the city centre isn't the most fun in the dark evenings, here's hoping some extra light will help.


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  • #5892
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057317493

    Not sure if this was already posted here, but there's a discussion over on Forum Requests about a MTB sub-forum if that interests you either way :)


  • #5893
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    got on the road bike . got to the bottom the hill from home get a thunk thunk thunk when I hit the brakes. big long crack in the rim. only had those ksyrium sl for 4 years.

    My weather

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



  • #5894
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Bought one of these last night:

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/moon-x-power-330-rechargeable-front-light/

    To go along with my lyzyne Micro on the front. Hoping it's good, my commute through the city centre isn't the most fun in the dark evenings, here's hoping some extra light will help.

    I have the Moon 300, and it's perfect for late night country training. The lower modes are good for city commuting, but it'd be dazzling on full power or flashing.


  • #5895
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    ednwireland wrote: »
    got on the road bike . got to the bottom the hill from home get a thunk thunk thunk when I hit the brakes. big long crack in the rim. only had those ksyrium sl for 4 years.

    4 Donegal road years. They're like dog years.


  • #5896
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    buffalo wrote: »
    I have the Moon 300, and it's perfect for late night country training. The lower modes are good for city commuting, but it'd be dazzling on full power or flashing.

    Will keep that in mind! My commute has a mixture of lit and unlit roads, and the Micro doesn't really cut it on the unlit side of things. Looking forward to getting my hands on it now, to see what it's like.


  • #5897
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Just to stir the pot... If any acquaintances start a little rant at you about how tarnished cycling is by doping and how it's inherent to that particular sport, you can start pointing at runners over the years who doped, we're now up to 36 Kenyans caught doping in the last two years and not a word from media outlets.


  • #5898
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Another sweaty but unsatisfactory effort on the turbo tonight, still too worried about toppling the bike to really commit.


  • #5899
    drogdub
    Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭drogdub


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Just to stir the pot... If any acquaintances start a little rant at you about how tarnished cycling is by doping and how it's inherent to that particular sport, you can start pointing at runners over the years who doped, we're now up to 36 Kenyans caught doping in the last two years and not a word from media outlets.

    Listening to 2nd captains last week they had the Kenyan winner of the Dublin Marathon asked him why Kenya was so successful and there was not one mention of EPO. If that was one of the Irish cycling pros, there would be a load if questions on doping.


  • #5900
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    To be fair to the Second Captains, they have been quite vocal on doping in other sports before, namely soccer and tennis.


  • #5901
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    To be fair to the Second Captains, they have been quite vocal on doping in other sports before, namely soccer and tennis.

    they have an agenda in this case, someone has come on as a guest that's high profile so they avoid the topic. Only cyclists or sometimes runners get the doping line. Say James Mcgee was on they would not ask him about doping I feel.


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