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

buffalo · 16-10-2013 11:43pm

Well, that's an odd choice...

Chris O’Dowd to play Irish sports journalist in Lance Armstrong biopic
Shooting to begin tomorrow on film based on David Walsh’s book about disgraced cyclist

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/chris-o-dowd-to-play-irish-sports-journalist-in-lance-armstrong-biopic-1.1563172

CramCycle · 17-10-2013 12:00am

buffalo wrote: »

Well, that's an odd choice.../QUOTE]
All depends on whether he can loose the Roscommon accent for it or not, great actor but I have never heard him with an accent that is not his own.

Idleater · 17-10-2013 7:26am

buffalo wrote: »

Well, that's an odd choice...

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/chris-o-dowd-to-play-irish-sports-journalist-in-lance-armstrong-biopic-1.1563172

Have you tried turning the blood off and on again?

Jawgap · 17-10-2013 9:09am

Advice on hedge-fighting distributed to the Irish Volunteers

Hedge-Fighting for Small Units - It will sometimes be possible for a solitary cyclist sniper well posted on a road to enfilade transverse hedges from the road. This would help to frustrate turning movements by small 'parties in the immediate nieghbourhood of the road.

A good cyclist should be able to spring on his machine instantly and sprint off at top speed from such a position when once it became untenable.

Cycles in cases of necessity are not absolutely confined to roads; they can wheel their machines along paths and thus escape across country if cut off. If the cyclists are laying an ambush their safest way of retreat may be across country for some distance and then by cycle on a different road. In that case the best place for their machines to begin with would be the second road.

........I'd be captured at the first try

rollingscone · 17-10-2013 9:56am

Jawgap wrote: »

Advice on hedge-fighting distributed to the Irish Volunteers

........I'd be captured at the first try

Several attempts were made during Easter 1916 to get past the armed OTC Garrison in Trinity College by cycling at speed across College Green. They were unsuccessful...before SRAM Force chains it was impossible to outrun bullets.

rollingscone · 17-10-2013 10:06am

Have been pondering a peaked winter cap. Originally I was just looking at the peaked version of my current Baa Baa merino skullcap but the Belgian style caps and the Craft winter hat have also piqued my interest.

Jawgap · 17-10-2013 10:11am

rollingscone wrote: »

Several attempts were made during Easter 1916 to get past the armed OTC Garrison in Trinity College by cycling at speed across College Green. They were unsuccessful...before SRAM Force chains it was impossible to outrun bullets.

Kevlar tyres would have helped too.....and helmets.....and hi-viz

During de Emergency (WWII for our British viewers) the Cavalry Corps included 14 Cyclist Squadrons. Each Squadron had an establishment of 118 (all ranks), and was organised much like an infantry rifle company. Each Squadron included a number of motor cycles and light lorries in the support role.

thebouldwhacker · 17-10-2013 11:04am

History lessons. And the division between Jan and the party bus grows.

Perhaps the bus should be stickied as the quality of both threads is better than what was the single campervan thread.... Just saying is all.

daragh_ · 17-10-2013 11:13am

Idleater wrote: »

Have you tried turning the blood off and on again?

Richard Ayoade - Paul Kimmage.
Matt Berry - McQuaid.
Chris Morris - Verbruggen.

I may have had a lot of coffee this morning.

Lusk_Doyle · 17-10-2013 11:15am

daragh_ wrote: »

Richard Ayoade - Paul Kimmage.
Matt Berry - McQuaid.
Chris Morris - Verbruggen.

I may have had a lot of coffee this morning.

I don't know who any of those people are.

buffalo · 17-10-2013 11:21am

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

I don't know who any of those people are.

Paul Kimmage is a journalist, McQuaid was head of the UCI until recently, and Verbuggen was there before him. All clear now?

Jawgap · 17-10-2013 11:23am

Omar Sharif to play McQuaid.........

....oh wait, he was Egyptian, not Moroccan........

Idleater · 17-10-2013 11:25am

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

I don't know who any of those people are.

Paul Kimmage is an author and journalist, he is most known for his questions put to Armstrong (the cyclist) during tour de France interviews.

Pat Mc Quaid is the Irishman who was recently beaten in a leadership contest in cycling's governing body.

Hein Verbruggen was president of cycling's governing body during the "Armstrong era"

Hope that helps :-)

Zyzz · 17-10-2013 12:00pm

I ride a 175mm crank now, will there be much power difference if I go larger/smaller?!

Lusk_Doyle · 17-10-2013 12:01pm

Harvey Keitel or DeNiro would be a good fit as Kimmage IMO.

John Price (The Kennedys / Pirates of the Caribbean...) as McQuaid.

Christopher Plummber as Verbruggen.

rollingscone · 17-10-2013 12:11pm

Zyzz wrote: »

I ride a 175mm crank now, will there be much power difference if I go larger/smaller?!

I fail to see the relevance of this question to the casting of the Lance Armstrong movie.

Also I seem to recall the notion of crank length directly impacting power being discredited?

Zyzz · 17-10-2013 12:15pm

rollingscone wrote: »

I fail to see the relevance of this question to the casting of the Lance Armstrong movie.

Also I seem to recall the notion of crank length directly impacting power being discredited?

Apologies, Id cast Enda Kenny as Lance as they're both <snip>

Lol snipped..but you get the idea

ednwireland · 17-10-2013 1:52pm

our local shop says that sports supplements will now be 23% vat rated as opposed to 0%. didnt see this anywhere is it true ?

dogsears · 17-10-2013 1:57pm

ednwireland wrote: »

our local shop says that sports supplements will now be 23% vat rated as opposed to 0%. didnt see this anywhere is it true ?

Yes. I think effective from 1 November.

AstraMonti · 17-10-2013 2:00pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZo36yh41bw

Awesome, about time!

Zyzz · 17-10-2013 2:06pm

AstraMonti wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZo36yh41bw

Awesome, about time!

Can't wait to get my teeth into that..

:pac:

Lumen · 17-10-2013 2:36pm

dogsears wrote: »

Yes. I think effective from 1 November.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-00737.jsp
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-02185.jsp
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-01506.jsp
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-02262.jsp

I see.

bcmf · 17-10-2013 2:39pm

rollingscone wrote: »

Have been pondering a peaked winter cap. Originally I was just looking at the peaked version of my current Baa Baa merino skullcap but the Belgian style caps and the Craft winter hat have also piqued my interest.

Well done.
You have just chosen yourself to be the new organiser for a new Rapha winter hat group buy.
Yes count me in.
Thanks

bcmf · 17-10-2013 2:43pm

Zyzz wrote: »

I ride a 175mm crank now, will there be much power difference if I go larger/smaller?!

I moved from a 175 to 172.5 and I didnt notice any power loss but a lot of niggling knee things went away.
I also changed pedals to a wider platform so that may have helped.

Idleater · 17-10-2013 2:48pm

bcmf wrote: »

Well done.
You have just chosen yourself to be the new organiser for a new Rapha winter hat group buy.
Yes count me in.
Thanks

Seconded. Put me down for a country one.

Jawgap · 17-10-2013 2:58pm

ednwireland wrote: »

our local shop says that sports supplements will now be 23% vat rated as opposed to 0%. didnt see this anywhere is it true ?

In fairness, the money to run the country has to come from somewhere and if the full rate of VAT didn't apply to cycling related stuff such as this and other trivial things like helmets, other areas - more socially beneficial - might have to bear a higher VAT burden :pac:

Lusk_Doyle · 17-10-2013 3:05pm

Jawgap wrote: »

In fairness, the money to run the country has to come from somewhere and if the full rate of VAT didn't apply to cycling related stuff such as this and other trivial things like helmets, other areas - more socially beneficial - might have to bear a higher VAT burden :pac:

Must resist....

thebouldwhacker · 17-10-2013 3:18pm

Jawgap wrote: »

In fairness, the money to run the country has to come from somewhere and if the full rate of VAT didn't apply to cycling related stuff such as this and other trivial things like helmets, other areas - more socially beneficial - might have to bear a higher VAT burden :pac:

Ah bless.... the first Troll post in the Jan thread.

Jawgap · 17-10-2013 3:26pm

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Ah bless.... the first Troll post in the Jan thread.

Apologies - I just realised - lapdancing posts go in the party bus - mods, please relocate the offending item!

dogsears · 17-10-2013 3:42pm

Lumen wrote: »

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-00737.jsp
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-02185.jsp
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-01506.jsp
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/decision-detail-02262.jsp

I see.

Apparently Revenue now consider various products that were previously zero-rated for VAT to be "ergogenic" products, thus liable at 23%.

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