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

Rob A. Bank

How Franck Cammas the leader of the Volvo Ocean Race and his crew relax...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cCASpSu3yU

The boats are due in Galway on July 3rd for the finale of the event.

doozerie

Lumen wrote: »

Unless I've misunderstood, doozerie's debate happened within the confines of his own skull.

I did actually say to her that the trailer had a roll cage and was safer than any other form of bicycle transport, and she did indeed ignore me - an impressive feat given that I was only a couple of feet away from her so I wasn't easy to ignore.

The bit that played itself out only inside my head, unfortunately, was the scene of my daughter doing her Tasmanian Devil impression on yer wan, which was a shame. I even had a line prepared for the moment when my daughter would have had yer wan in a full nelson - "Where's *your* helmet god now, be-aitch!". Sadly, the opportunity didn't arise

Holyboy

Should I get my self a road bike and start cycling?

All views appreciated

Tonyandthewhale

Holyboy wrote: »

Should I get my self a road bike and start cycling?

All views appreciated

No, cycling's gay.

Darkglasses

Holyboy wrote: »

Should I get my self a road bike and start cycling?

All views appreciated

Nah, you wouldn't like it. Although your hoopy ears are probably pretty aero.

Holyboy

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

No, cycling's gay.

That's what I thought but I need to replace the very bad things in my life with some thing else very soon and seeing as I'm in the trade it seems to make sense!

Holyboy

Darkglasses wrote: »

Nah, you wouldn't like it. Although your hoopy ears are probably pretty aero.

I'm not so sure, they whistle at speed.

Tonyandthewhale

Chatattack, I'm not trying to re-start the helmet debate and make the camper van no fun for anyone. This is because I don't actually have anything to say about the helmet debate that hasn't already beeen said and given the lenght and depth of previous helmet debates it seems unlikely that you do either so if we don't already agree at this stage we're probably not going to, and that's ok. A little bit of disagreement is good every now and then.

What I am raising issue with, as someone who has dabbled (albeit only briefly) in statistics during my academic career is the piece quoted below where you accuse the opposition of relying on 'sketchy statistical analysis' and then cite a 'sample study of 1' to support your views, which is pretty much the definition of statistically sketchy.

chakattack wrote: »

the driver psychology/safety in numbers argument has very little real evidence aside from some arguably sketchy statistical analysis.

My sample of 1 study has shown twice that...

Can I just say. OH HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD, WOMAN OF JOESPH, HOST OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, VEHICLE OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. FORGIVE US FOR THIS MOST MALLIFICIENT TRANSGRESSION OF ALL THAT IS JUST AND RIGHT AND PURE IN THE WORLD. Billions of blue blistering barnacles there is wrong and there is wrong and then there’s just holding your head in your hand, putting on your frown face and wailing to all the gods and demons and spirits and ghosts and talismens in Christendom and beyond for some small, smidgeoning slice of forgiveness. Some crimes are too great, too far beyond our comprehension of wickedness, too massively depraved to ever merit pardon. But within this subset of unparalleled evil acts is a consortium of wrong so great so as to exceed our human capacity for punishment. All that remains is to wish for undoing.


I am stumped, flabbergasted, shocked, appalled and simply exhausted by what I have seen here.



But then again, it's possible I have an unreasonably low tolerance for poor science.

Lumen

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

But then again, it's possible I have an unreasonably low tolerance for poor science.

If a man walks up to you in the street and punches you in the face, do you ask him to do it again for the sake of statistical significance?

Tonyandthewhale

Lumen wrote: »

If a man walks up to you in the street and punches you in the face, do you ask him to do it again for the sake of statistical significance?

Yeah, I have a problem...

Beasty

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

Yeah, I have a problem...

You would certainly have a problem as that would constitute an invalid sample given you would have influenced the outcome ...

RobFowl

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

No, cycling's gay.

Gay is good though...

Doctor Bob

Lumen wrote: »

If a man walks up to you in the street and punches you in the face, do you ask him to do it again for the sake of statistical significance?

In his book Innumeracy, the mathematician John Allen Paulos tells a story about a statistician who, knowing the odds of a bomb on a plane were very slight and the odds of two bombs much slighter still, would carry a bomb every time he flew.

Doctor Bob

AstraMonti wrote: »

http://boingboing.net/2009/03/19/verizon-doesnt-under.html

This is amazingly hilarious. The guys on the phone can not understand the difference between 0,002 cents and 0,002 dollars.

Speaking of Innumeracy, this Verizon tale reminded me of another story in the book, where a student who was asked to calculate hair growth in miles per hour said it couldn't be done.

Jawgap

Mix-ups like that happen to the best of them

doozerie

Bike lockers now available in parts of Dublin. Interesting idea, though I wonder whether you'd have trouble with storing a bike with a full length rear mudguard.



Edit: Oops, already covered in this thread

Vélo

Has there been a Boards Fantasy League done up on Velogames for this years TDF?

I can't find anything and someone normally has one set up by now.

Lumen

Vélo wrote: »

Has there been a Boards Fantasy League done up on Velogames for this years TDF?

I can't find anything and someone normally has one set up by now.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79342746&postcount=48

Chips Lovell

Tinkoff are back, sponsoring Saxo Bank this time, leading to a big change to their kit.

RobFowl

Theres a new Garmin kit as well (Sharp additional title sponsors) no pics as yet that I've seen.

lennymc

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

i dont know what i tinkoff that top.

Lumen

Too much yellow. Got no respec'.

doozerie

Hmm, two banks funding real estate on the same jersey. What could possibly go wrong?

tomasrojo

Jawgap wrote: »

Mix-ups like that happen to the best of them

When I worked in a lab in California, we were under strict instructions to use metric for all measurements, I assume to avoid this sort of expensive gaffe. I think the only non-metric allowed was psi for gas pressure (I was working with gas chromatography).

hardCopy

doozerie wrote: »

Bike lockers now available in parts of Dublin. Interesting idea, though I wonder whether you'd have trouble with storing a bike with a full length rear mudguard.



Edit: Oops, already covered in this thread

Did you photoshop out the Hi-Viz and helmet? The other thread has a bib and helmet in the pic.

Lusk Doyle

tomasrojo wrote: »

Jawgap wrote: »

Mix-ups like that happen to the best of them

When I worked in a lab in California, we were under strict instructions to use metric for all measurements, I assume to avoid this sort of expensive gaffe. I think the only non-metric allowed was psi for gas pressure (I was working with gas chromatography).

Ain't that fancy for farting?!?

furiousox

Let the head rule the heart and went to bed on Friday night without bidding on this.
Never again, I say, I say...NEVER AGAIN! :mad:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2012-BMC-Team-Machine-SLR01-Carbon-Road-Frameset-53cm-/230810567423?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item35bd61c2ff


A $4000 frame for $1525

Dubba

2011 BMC Road Racer SL01 on adverts for €800 if your interested

http://www.adverts.ie/bikes/bmc-full-carbon-road-bike-frameset/1704455

furiousox

Too big, but thanks for the heads up.

tonycombat