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

Doctor Bob

Thanks all.

I gave precise details and had a phone pic of the car, including the reg (after blowing his horn aggressively and passing within inches of my handlebars on a winding residential road in Sandymount, he helpfully stopped on a roundabout a couple of hundred metres further on to let his passenger out of the car, then reversed on the roundabout when he saw me taking the photo).

I'll give a follow-up call and see if there's been any progress.

Cheers.

cdaly_

buffalo wrote: »

In my case, the wrong reg corresponded to the same model of car, and one in the area too. Bad luck or bad eyesight on my part.

Rofo wrote: »

That is unlucky. The chances of that happening must be quite low

Chances are pretty high for a january registration. Basically, when you go to buy your new 12-G car and order it in December, the dealer will head in to register a batch of cars and will likely end up with a set of sequential registration numbers for their batch of cars.

Morrisseeee

After competing in the Tommy Sheehan Memorial race in Carrick last w/end, and it's a circuit with alot of climbing, I noticed alot of different climbing styles, especially on the 2nd lap, ie. legs & body are tired and you're using all kinds of methods to 'get up that hill' ! One cyclist had a Pantani style, in the drops, slightly out of the saddle and pushing/mashing a big gear, sadly he didn't have the speed of the 'master' !

So I used the search function (as you do) to check out other threads about climbing style, as surely it's been discussed before, and it brought up some interesting results :
there's the 'low gearing challenge', but I don't think the challenge took place !
crank length: 1 & 2;
& 'to sit or stand up'.

Lumen

Paging Sr Assumpta....Sr Assumpta to the Camper Van.

http://road.cc/content/news/52205-canyon-proud-their-new-ct-scanner-their-what

buffalo

Lumen wrote: »

Paging Sr Assumpta....Sr Assumpta to the Camper Van.

http://road.cc/content/news/52205-canyon-proud-their-new-ct-scanner-their-what

I spent about five minutes scratching my head, trying to work out the Father Ted reference.

Then I realised it wasn't there.

RobFowl

tomasrojo

I hope it's ok to ask this here.

Can anyone PM me and recommend a bookkeeper based in Dublin? I just want to sort out my tax returns for my self-employed work last year. (2011 was my first year self-employed so I'm not sure of the ropes yet. My finances aren't complicated though.)

I looked around the other forums, but I didn't see any institutions or names coming up, probably because it constitutes advertising? Anyway, I'm sure there are some self-employed people here!

furiousox

12 year ban for Ricco...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17775015

ednwireland

furiousox wrote: »

12 year ban for Ricco...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17775015

and here

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ricco-receives-12-year-ban

not before time

Sr. Assumpta

Lumen wrote: »

Paging Sr Assumpta....Sr Assumpta to the Camper Van.

http://road.cc/content/news/52205-canyon-proud-their-new-ct-scanner-their-what

meh.

Sr. Assumpta

Because I can......

Colmhayden76

Collected my new Cento Uno this morning. To anyone I might have met in the phoenix park at about 10 am sorry about the big cheesy grin you might have seen on my face!

On another note why when you say i'm passing on the left do walkers on the cycle path in the park jump onto the verge on both sides and leave you to go up the middle? Is this some sort of ritual up there as here in culchie land where I live the cycle paths are used by motorists as a sort of " sure thats some where to squeeze the car into to turn left at the roundybout yoke up ahead"
I had forgotton how hard cycling in Dublin can be!

RobFowl

Looks sore :eek:

Sr. Assumpta wrote: »

Because I can......

Sr. Assumpta

This was sorer / more sore; apparently...

Lumen

Colmhayden76 wrote: »

On another note why when you say i'm passing on the left do walkers on the cycle path in the park jump onto the verge on both sides and leave you to go up the middle?

Just shout "bike!" as pleasantly as you can manage and let them decide where to go.

Sr. Assumpta

That brings to an end my small repertoire of horrible hand X-rays.

RobFowl

Oooohhh, those sort of things are fun to reduce btw

Sr. Assumpta wrote: »

This was sorer / more sore; apparently...

Cookie_Monster

after 2 weeks or crapness and bike being stripped to replace lots of bits I can finally get back on the road for some much needed cycling, this is tomorrow in Palmerston North
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1100162

Can't wait to get to the 93km mark :pac:

Cookie_Monster

altough I love living in NZ there's still the odd time that something makes so pissed off it's like being at home again

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/6777006/Police-to-take-hard-line-on-hard-hats
Stupid laws and stupider enforcement, it's not even a law to wear them on the coastal path :mad::rolleyes:

DirkVoodoo

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

altough I love living in NZ there's still the odd time that something makes so pissed off it's like being at home again

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/6777006/Police-to-take-hard-line-on-hard-hats
Stupid laws and stupider enforcement, it's not even a law to wear them on the coastal path :mad::rolleyes:

If I were attacked by a rampaging bear, I would probably develop a strong fear of bears and spend a lot of time warning neighbours not to leave their bins open because it might attract the bears and that if they encountered one, more than likely they would get mauled and probably killed too.

He had a nasty crash, it doesn't mean that everyone cruising down that path will suffer the same should they come off. We don't even know any details of his crash, perhaps he was mauled by a bear?

Australia and NZ have a long way to go, all this paranoia about cycling helmets is painful. I've had to explain to parents that we can't fit Nutcase helmets on toddlers because their neck muscles aren't strong enough to cope with the 300+ g weight of it. They don't care about the necks, they care about the heads and they buy the helmets regardless.

petethedrummer

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Australia and NZ have a long way to go, all this paranoia about cycling helmets is painful. I've had to explain to parents that we can't fit Nutcase helmets on toddlers because their neck muscles aren't strong enough to cope with the 300+ g weight of it. They don't care about the necks, they care about the heads and they buy the helmets regardless.

Sell them some neck braces too.

tomasrojo

petethedrummer wrote: »

Sell them some neck braces too.

Toddler exoskeleton. Don't you love your child?

Lumen

For wattage nerds needing some perspective...

https://twitter.com/#!/GeraintThomas86/status/116811786166079488

"Just done my 5minute power efforts on the turbo with Jez. Had him by 3w, 580 pretty happy with that..."

He's about 71kg, so that's over 8W/kg for 5 minutes. Fffffff.

Hungrycol

tomasrojo wrote: »

I hope it's ok to ask this here.

Can anyone PM me and recommend a bookkeeper based in Dublin? I just want to sort out my tax returns for my self-employed work last year. (2011 was my first year self-employed so I'm not sure of the ropes yet. My finances aren't complicated though.)

I looked around the other forums, but I didn't see any institutions or names coming up, probably because it constitutes advertising? Anyway, I'm sure there are some self-employed people here!

Try the Taxation forum:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1208

Chips Lovell

http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Main_Page

LOL

seamus

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Main_Page

LOL

http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Cycling

In many countries, the oul' most commonly used vehicle for road transport is a feckin' utility bicycle, bejaysus.

tomasrojo

Hungrycol wrote: »

Try the Taxation forum:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1208

Thanks; sorted now, thanks to kind PM from a regular.

Rofo

Genius! It's different each time you re-load the page

"In many countries, the most commonly used vehicle for road transport is an oul' utility bicycle. These have frames with relaxed geometry, protectin' the oul' rider from shocks of the bleedin' road and easin' steerin' at low speeds. Would ye believe this ****e?I][URL="http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Wikipedia:Citation_needed"][COLOR=#0066cc]citation needed[/COLOR][/URL][/I"

tomasrojo

Rofo wrote: »

Genius! It's different each time you re-load the page

"In many countries, the most commonly used vehicle for road transport is an oul' utility bicycle. These have frames with relaxed geometry, protectin' the oul' rider from shocks of the bleedin' road and easin' steerin' at low speeds. Would ye believe this ****e?I][URL="http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Wikipedia:Citation_needed"][COLOR=#0066cc]citation needed[/COLOR][/URL][/I"

Police officer on a feckin' bicycle in El Salvador. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan.

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daragh_

On Exchequer Street just now.

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