Ray Darcy Bike stolen

Caroline_ie

Ray Darcy got his bike stolen in Donnybrook, he just said it on the radio... he seems gutted.

It's a flat bar hybrid black Ridgeback with black panniers with CDs and Clothes ...

if anyone spots it maybe we'll get a bobble head Ray ...? yeay

Mr Velo

Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella

ronaneire

Paddy_Fowler wrote: »

Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella

Tis the Season

mloc123

lol, +1 on the nicer person comment

flickerx

Maybe now he'll stop going on about how dangerous cycling is, and start telling people about the misery of public transport instead.

niceonetom

no lock = no sympathy. Sorry Ray.

papac

If anyone can hear a dripping sound-worry not. Its just my heart bleeding for Ray Darcy.:D

With the amount of money he gets paid I am sure he can afford another bike.
I have a picture of Dustin tearing through Donnybrook on a Ridgeback Hybrid in my head now.I bet it was him.:)

studiorat

Shouldn't be too hard to miss...

topper75

Caroline_ie wrote: »

black panniers with CDs and Clothes

WTF? Let's hope his stocking has some 'Streetwise Classes TM' vouchers on Christmas morning.

I am not a fan either, but for fairness' sake I hope he gets it back.

Caroline_ie

He said he didn't really care about the bike, he just wants his panniers back!

niceonetom

Caroline_ie wrote: »

He said he didn't really care about the bike!

Well he's not our type of people then, is he?

Jawgap

.tut.....tut....tut....

You're all missing the point - the story isn't that a bike was stolen, or that Ray d'Arcy's bike was stolen......

The story is a bike was stolen in "leafy" Dublin 4 Donnybrook......

.....exepect the Garda crack down on bike theft to follow in due course:)

Actually, I've a mental picture of a skanger heading towards Beech Hill, seeing the unlocked bike and thinking "that's the young fella's pressie taken care of" then opening the paniers and realising he had all his Christmas shopping done in one go......

Sorry Ray. Hard luck, but I'm sure some bike shop will be donating a bike to you before long.....

papac

Curse you Caroline.ie. Now Dustin is wearing lycra and Oakleys-Snotser is on the crossbar and I will be chuckling to myself in public for the rest of the day.:P

Caroline_ie

niceonetom wrote: »

Well he's not our type of people then, is he?

he mentioned he was being realistic - he says he knows the bike would probably never be recovered and passed on, but the panniers could have been ditched somewhere.

kmick

Whats he got in the panniers. Let me guess
Rays Underpants
Rays small black T
Rays comfy trousers
Rays headband.
Rays over-sweet personality.

Mr. Presentable

Schadenfreude much?

I trust you'd be as dismissive if your bike got swiped.

Mr. Presentable

Paddy_Fowler wrote: »

Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella

Except maybe you, eh?

Doctor Bob

Stolen bike threads invariably elicit broad sympathy in here. Why not this time?

I'll keep my eyes peeled in leafy D4. Dodder's the first place I'd look.

Doctor Bob

(Having said that, I'd be finding it difficult to sympathise if it were Ryan Tubridy's bike. But there's not much chance of that.)

niceonetom

Why so little sympathy? Well, for me, because it wasn't locked.

I'm not giving a nelson here, more a sort of gallic shrug of "well that's what you get". That's not schadenfreude it's c'est la vie.

JacksonHeightsOwn

the annoying thing is, some bike shop is bound to ring him up and give him a free bike now, i bet my bottom dollar on it

at least it happened in donnybrook, and not the city centre, ha ha, some rogue yuppy is now cycling Darcys bike while scrunched into his leprechaun sized clothes

paddyduc

"Sorry Ray. Hard luck, but I'm sure some bike shop will be donating a bike to you before long....."

I doubt it.

emty

Ah,I love the smell of begrugery in the morning

RobFowl

Might have been one of Santa's elves after a night out

the_syco

Caroline_ie wrote: »

It's a flat bar hybrid black Ridgeback with black panniers with CDs and Clothes ...

I'm wondering... how/where on a bike do you store CDs and Clothes?

jwshooter

i reckon your hearts would look small on a plate.

if noting it will help high lite what scum bags there is walking around ireland .
its a rotton dirty little counrty ,with no law or order.

there is not to many of us that would let our bikes out of our sight on a day out.

why do we have to put up with it .because the cops dont care.

Caroline_ie

the_syco wrote: »

I'm wondering... how/where on a bike do you store CDs and Clothes?

The answer was in the quote ... panniers.

Maybe i am being silly but the shows keeps me well entertained in work. I hope he gets he bike and CDs.

poochiem

"Southside in Crime Shocker!"

Nah don't wish harm on anyone even a boring beige nothing like d'arcy. On the bright side it could be a heart-warming tale of someone down on their luck with their dole cut and no christmas bonus 'happening' on a christmas present packed with more christmas presents. yay

flickerx

Doctor Bob wrote: »

Stolen bike threads invariably elicit broad sympathy in here. Why not this time?

Maybe because through his constant bitching about the supposed dangers of rush hour cycling (despite cycling to work himself, figure that one out) on his radio show, he is a force more for harm than good for cycling in this city?

I think he'd probably be happier picking his nose in the rear view mirror, stuck in the jam, like the rest of them.

tunney

Amazing.

If someone doesn't say hello to another cyclist, they're a pr!ck.
People go out of their way to post the location of ice.
Whenever a cyclist dies there is an RIP thread.

The sense of commardre dissappears quite quickly eh?

tomasrojo

flickerx wrote: »

Maybe because through his constant bitching about the supposed dangers of rush hour cycling (despite cycling to work himself, figure that one out) on his radio show, he is a force more for harm than good for cycling in this city?

It's certainly why I don't like him, though I don't derive any pleasure from his bike being stolen.

From his descriptions of incidents he has on the road, he appears completely clueless about how to cycle in traffic. Now we know he hasn't the common sense to lock his bike in the street.

Someone should put a copy of Cyclecraft in his sock this Christmas.

Turbulent Bill

flickerx wrote: »

Maybe because through his constant bitching about the supposed dangers of rush hour cycling (despite cycling to work himself, figure that one out) on his radio show, he is a force more for harm than good for cycling in this city?

I think he'd probably be happier picking his nose in the rear view mirror, stuck in the jam, like the rest of them.

Despite all his whinging (about almost everything), it's a good thing that he cycles, and the fact that he still does it and is cut up about loosing his bike shows belief. Very few national figures (except the Greens) are known to the public as cyclists - can you really see Gerry Ryan on a spin? The lack of 'normal' role models is one of the reasons why ordinary Joes don't cycle.

faceman

Sure why stop at slagging off D'arcy for having his bike nicked? Why not congratulate the thief on an easy steal too?

bcmf

Doctor Bob wrote: »

(Having said that, I'd be finding it difficult to sympathise if it were Ryan Tubridy's bike. But there's not much chance of that.)

Now if it could just be organised for Tubridy to be nicked.......

tomasrojo

Turbulent Bill wrote: »

Despite all his whinging (about almost everything), it's a good thing that he cycles, and the fact that he still does it and is cut up about loosing his bike shows belief. Very few national figures (except the Greens) are known to the public as cyclists - can you really see Gerry Ryan on a spin? The lack of 'normal' role models is one of the reasons why ordinary Joes don't cycle.

I would agree, except that he makes cycling sound awful, and he clearly "cycles furiously" to use the old legal parlance, and puts himself in hazardous situations, which he then presents on his radio show as inevitable.

So he almost certainly deters people from cycling. Gerry Ryan, etc., do less harm. In my opinion.

He's a well-paid radio presenter, who had an unremarkable bike stolen because he lacks general common sense. I think some of the glee here is excessive, but I don't see why I should feel pretty cut up about this.

blorg

I can't believe the lot of you are condoning this criminal behaviour.

axer

flickerx wrote: »

Maybe because through his constant bitching about the supposed dangers of rush hour cycling (despite cycling to work himself, figure that one out) on his radio show, he is a force more for harm than good for cycling in this city?

I think he'd probably be happier picking his nose in the rear view mirror, stuck in the jam, like the rest of them.

So its not dangerous cycling in rush hour traffic?

tomasrojo

axer wrote: »

So its not dangerous cycling in rush hour traffic?

No, it isn't dangerous. Certainly not anywhere near as dangerous as he makes out.

Just to be clear, I am not condoning in any way this theft. I don't derive any pleasure from it. I just want him to stop misrepresenting cycling. This was maybe the wrong place to bring it up.

axer

tomasrojo wrote: »

No, it isn't dangerous.

So you have never had frustrated drivers pull out in front of you without looking first?

Maybe his point is that if there was proper cycle lanes etc then it might not be so dangerous.

bikeblues

wow ,
why do you bother with a cycling forum if you couldnt care a less about bad things happening to fellow cyclists -
or is it a hard core of *cough* "elite" cyclists who post here - who consider the rest to be scum ?

what a bunch of miserable tossers

Caroline_ie

I agree on the Role model thing. The idea that a well off public figure cycles into work ( himself and his producer both do ) does looks good. I am tired of people thinking I only cycle because I can't afford a car.

tomasrojo

I have had very, very few incidents I would classify as dangerous. I find walking around town more hazarous.

If one follows the principles outlined in Cyclecraft, cycling in traffic is fine.

I'm not a fan of cycle lanes either, because they make junctions more hazardous, not less hazardous. The bit between junctions isn't generally hazardous.

72hundred

blorg wrote: »

I can't believe the lot of you are condoning this criminal behaviour.

Well for the record I'd like to say I most definitely not condoning thief in anyway!

cdaly_

flickerx wrote:

I think he'd probably be happier picking his nose in the rear view mirror

Hmm, wonder where I could get a handlebar-mounted rear-view mirror?...

papac

I can't believe the lot of you are condoning this criminal behaviour.

I think few, if any, of us are seriously condoning criminal behaviour.Bike thieves are scumbags and I don't think anyone here will say otherwise. I am just slgging RD off in a tongue in cheek manner as is my wont. He annoys me and I am having a harmless laugh at his expense. He can do the same to me if he wants.
I too think he makes cycling out to be some kamikaze style event and that he undoes any service he does to cycling by this.Others may think differently.

RobFowl

blorgTimAllen
I can't believe the lot of you are condoning this criminal behaviour.

Fixed

coolbeans

axer wrote: »

So you have never had frustrated drivers pull out in front of you without looking first?

Maybe his point is that if there was proper cycle lanes etc then it might not be so dangerous.

Cycle lanes don't make a jot of difference regarding safety in the greater scheme of things. Actually the ones in Ireland make the craft more dangerous. Cycling in traffic is perfectly safe. It's generally the chap or chapette on the bike who is the determining factor over whether it is dangerous or not. Frustrated drivers are a given and must be accepted but more importantly anticipated.
In summary: competent cyclist in rush hour traffic = safe BUT incompetent cyclist in the same situation = disaster waiting to happen.
Ray is probably incompetent. It's usually very easy to anticipate a dangerous situation up ahead. Aforementioned competent cyclist will avoid this.

blorg

papac wrote: »

I think few, if any, of us are seriously condoning criminal behaviour. <snip>

I didn't see you condemning it!

coolbeans

I'm big into criminal behaviour so I am.

thebouldwhacker

Stealing bikes = bad
Ray Darcy = not everyone's cup of tea (I think he is nothing more than a wet tea towel)
Fast approaching Christmas hols = slight delirium
Boards cycling forum = light hearted banter

Ray Darcy's bike being stolen = Meh....... bad for him, shouldn't happen, ever, but tbh... meh.

Turbulent Bill

tomasrojo wrote: »

I would agree, except that he makes cycling sound awful, and he clearly "cycles furiously" to use the old legal parlance, and puts himself in hazardous situations, which he then presents on his radio show as inevitable.

So he almost certainly deters people from cycling. Gerry Ryan, etc., do less harm. In my opinion.

He's a well-paid radio presenter, who had an unremarkable bike stolen because he lacks general common sense. I think some of the glee here is excessive, but I don't see why I should feel pretty cut up about this.

If and when adult cycling lessons start next year (I think DCC are organising these), we should email Ray to get him signed up. I'd love to hear a report on this - "I kept finding myself in dodgy situations, but now I'm just assertive and life is sweeter", that sort of thing.

I don't think his type of bike is important - BSOs and Cervelos are both sought by the scum.