They don't even pay road tax Joe. **Off topic thread**

furiousox

Online multi-player turbo training!
Looks good.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/zwift-launch-new-online-multiplayer-turbo-training-game-138404

Beasty

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I managed to get to 44 years without breaking any then broke 3 in about 1 second one night in Oct 2012.

Only broken bones on 3 occasions during my near 54 years - around 10 earlier this year due to a crash when racing. A broken wrist when falling off on ice a few years ago, and 3 breaks to the leg when I was run over about 49 years ago....


.... by a bike

quozl

Shattered both eye sockets, broke my jaw in 4 places - 2 top, 2 bottom, broke my nose badly, broke both cheek bones and broke some other assorted bits of my face that I don't know really know how to describe. I've got three metal plates in my face and under the skin you can feel pointy bits of bone, plates & screws

The consultant took photos for teaching as he said it was very unusual to see someone with that many broken bones in both sides of their face apart from road traffic accident fatalities.

All in the one snow-boarding accident!

And yet I'm still this beautiful! Just ask Buffalo, he'll vouch that I'm gorgeous...

Alek

Shattered both eye sockets, broke my jaw in 4 places - 2 top, 2 bottom, broke my nose badly, broke both cheek bones and broke some other assorted bits of my face that I don't know really know how to describe. I've got three metal plates in my face and under the skin you can feel pointy bits of bone, plates & screws

You give me shivers. Not in a good way. :eek::eek::eek::eek:

magicbastarder

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I managed to get to 44 years without breaking any then broke 3 in about 1 second one night in Oct 2012.

a mate of mine who used to be a rugby player finished his career with a tackle - he felt his cruciate go as he pivoted into the tackle, but completed it, and the other player fell on him and dislocated his shoulder and broke his arm a few inches below the shoulder in the process. all in the space of about one second.

lennymc

For some bizarre reason I decided to go back to college. I swore the last time I finished studying that that was it, and never again would I even think about doing anything like that again.....

carthoris

lennymc wrote: »

For some bizarre reason I decided to go back to college. I swore the last time I finished studying that that was it, and never again would I even think about doing anything like that again.....

You never learn do you ... :pac:

Iranoutofideas

Ordered a Rose Pro SL2000 on Aug 18th last.

It shipped from Germany Monday via DHL who handed it over to An Post yesterday.


Of course, now that it is on Irish soil there is a delay...:mad:

ThisRegard

quozl wrote: »

All in the one snow-boarding accident!

This is not in the vein of the usual helmet question and saying you could have still been gorgeous if you had, but were you wearing one ? I never used to wear one skiing, but everyone I went with who snowboarded did.

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Quozl your post made me queasy. Are you affected by it now? Argh the pain of it must have been chronic. Did you get to choose who you wanted to look like when they rebuilt you?!

quozl

ThisRegard wrote: »

This is not in the vein of the usual helmet question and saying you could have still been gorgeous if you had, but were you wearing one ? I never used to wear one skiing, but everyone I went with who snowboarded did.

Nope, wasn't wearing a helment but this was about 9 years ago and people were more lax about helmets then. I'd very likely have been better off wearing one but considering how lucky I feel about how it all worked out I'm not really sure that'd I'd change anything even if I could! Poor Schumacher was wearing a helmet and bad luck can really f*ck you over either way.

The ****wit who went into me at high speed from behind and caused the accident was wearing one and body armour! Fortunately he only hurt his wrist from the impact - I acted as his crumple zone

quozl

gadetra wrote: »

Quozl your post made me queasy. Are you affected by it now? Argh the pain of it must have been chronic. Did you get to choose who you wanted to look like when they rebuilt you?!

I don't think it affects me now though I have a really poor memory which I've always wondered if it's related but I'd guess it's just me I don't remember having a bad memory before the accident but I am getting older!

There wasn't any pain at the time that I can recall and I stayed concious (lying down!) for however long it took the helicopter to arrive, so that must have been at least ten or fifteen minutes? After that I woke up in the hospital and there was plenty of morphine and a huge need to pee.

Unfortunately I look pretty much the same after the accident - except my nose is even less beautiful than it already was! I tried telling the doctors that I looked like Brad Pitt beforehand but they didn't seem to believe me.

ROK ON

lennymc wrote: »

For some bizarre reason I decided to go back to college. I swore the last time I finished studying that that was it, and never again would I even think about doing anything like that again.....

Snap - same here. Nuts, can't believe what I wad thinking.

Work paying for a two year programme. I also get a very onerous study allowance which was unexpected. When I queried this I was informed that I received the highest study allocation as the exams are deemed very difficult. I believed that they would be a bit of a laugh - again what was I thinking - answer I wasn't thinking.

Two years and four exams of various types of maths and stats.
Some of the stuff in my textbooks are more obtuse than my masters which was in economics and spent a significant amount of time on econometrics.

I should be shot.
Lenny we might get a study group organised!!!
We could bring turbos to relieve the boredom.

lennymc

we must be nuts ROK ON.

daragh_

Bloody Students.... clogging up the interwebs.

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daragh_ wrote: »

Bloody Students.... clogging up the interwebs.

Someone has to work to buy bikes so we can get them second hand

slap/dash

Feckin students.

furiousox

Zyzz

Dat lean/angle though..

Iranoutofideas

My new bike is in Portlaoise. Tracking updated at 9:30 tonight. Doubt I'll have it by tomorrow though

Wishbone Ash

gadetra wrote: »

....Did you get to choose who you wanted to look like when they rebuilt you?!

You've brought me right back to Lee Majors in my idyllic childhood of the 1970's! :cool:

"Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive....Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better...stronger...faster."

bcmf

quozl wrote: »

I don't think it affects me now though I have a really poor memory ........ I don't remember having a bad memory

I think I see your problem!

rollingscone

This morning's spin in the park got upgraded from 'near rabbit strike' to a Stag charging across the road barely a bike length ahead of me making some angry sounding noises.

Time to invest in some A2GR kit...

fiacha

rollingscone wrote: »

This morning's spin in the park got upgraded from 'near rabbit strike' to a Stag charging across the road barely a bike length ahead of me making some angry sounding noises.

Time to invest in some A2GR kit...

LOL , the rut is on at the moment so there will be lots of stags running around roaring and not paying attention to what people / cars are in their way. They will also be spread out in areas you don't normally see them.
Well worth slowing down if you are out in the Park during the dark hours. I clipped the rear end of a stag (easy now !) many years ago and I may as well have ridden straight into a wall. The mature stags are 100kg plus of muscle and bone.

Iranoutofideas

fiacha wrote: »

LOL , the rut is on at the moment...Well worth slowing down if you are out in the Park during the dark hours. I clipped the rear end of a stag (easy now !) many years ago and I may as well have ridden straight into a wall. The mature stags are 100kg plus of muscle and bone.

That you Paul? Is that why there is a "beef" between you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugailEn8U5o

ThisRegard

This eejit. And for bonus points, the guy on the Dublin Bike who stops and waits at a red light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtmczQWr32A

seany15

ThisRegard wrote: »

the guy on the Dublin Bike who stops and waits at a red light

Right in the middle of a pedestrian crossing though. smh.

ThisRegard

seany15 wrote: »

Right in the middle of a pedestrian crossing though. smh.

Baby steps !

Iranoutofideas

Woken up this morning by the postie with my new Rose Pro SL 2000. It's the 2015 model with the new 11speed 105. It's gorgeous

Of course it would have to be pissing down outside for the first time in weeks!

Alek

My front disc brake screams like a slaughtered pig in the rain. No need to use a bike horn, I even got cars pulling off at the sound of me stopping today. :mad::mad:

I also don't know if they have less power when wet or is it me being too ashamed to use them.