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thinks too much · 2014-03-12 19:46:33

A few of us from the club went down to do the Sean Kelly Tour of Waterford route and while descending after Mama Road climb and traveling about 60 kmph a sheep ran across the road into my path. I landed head first and to be honest I still don;t know how I was not killed. I broke my clavicle and have cuts and grazes. helmet…

12-03-2014 7:46pm

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A few of us from the club went down to do the Sean Kelly Tour of Waterford route and while descending after Mama Road climb and traveling about 60 kmph a sheep ran across the road into my path. I landed head first and to be honest I still don;t know how I was not killed. I broke my clavicle and have cuts and grazes. helmet is a write off but definitely saved me.

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#2 12-03-2014 8:12pm

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I'm glad ewe are OK and hope that you wool be more careful descending in future.

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#3 12-03-2014 8:19pm

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Lumen wrote: »

I'm glad ewe are OK and hope that you wool be more careful descending in future.

Those are some baaaaaaad puns.

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#4 12-03-2014 8:24pm

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And the sheep?

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#5 12-03-2014 8:26pm

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P M me your address and I'll send you a medal

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#6 12-03-2014 8:29pm

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Ewe already know what a baaaahhhd crash i had in my last race. Helmet saved me from being completely fleeced.

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#7 12-03-2014 8:33pm

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Long running post on this exact topic last year threw up a raft of crap from the anti helmet brigade.

Let's not go there again cause we all know helmets don't save lives

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#8 12-03-2014 8:34pm

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Jesus wept. So many woolly puns...........

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#9 12-03-2014 8:39pm

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I'd say the sheep also has cuts, and grazes.

CPL 593H

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#10 12-03-2014 8:40pm

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From photos taken in your cycle thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89416501&postcount=2754
is that them? Look at the waiting for their next victim.

Get well soon though

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#11 12-03-2014 8:41pm

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furiousox wrote: »

I'd say the sheep also has cuts, and grazes.

Ah for flock's sake....

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#12 12-03-2014 8:47pm

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Lucky lucky, speedy recovery...was having this discussion earlier today to a teenager who didn't want to wear his bike helmet, needeless to say the bike went back into the garage, no lid no cycle

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#13 12-03-2014 8:50pm

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AmberGold wrote: »

Long running post on this exact topic last year threw up a raft of crap from the anti helmet brigade.

Let's not go there again cause we all know helmets don't save lives

Agree, the last thing we need is people trying to pull the wool over our eyes!*

* runs away sheepishly..

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#14 12-03-2014 9:07pm

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I came on here hoping to read a well thought out articulate thread on the merits of wearing a helmet but instead all I find is a raft of childish sheep puns.

Thanks for mutton.

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#15 12-03-2014 9:08pm

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detones wrote: »

I came on here hoping to read a well thought out articulate thread on the merits of wearing a helmet but instead all I find is a raft of childish sheep puns.

Thanks for mutton.

No need to lambaste us.

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#16 12-03-2014 9:12pm

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Lumen wrote: »

I'm glad ewe are OK and hope that you wool be more careful descending in future.

Lumen your post is so good it's been 'Thank'ed by a Raam

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#17 12-03-2014 9:25pm

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This topic has been rammed down our throats time and time again. Its a load of tripe.

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#18 13-03-2014 12:02pm

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I am surprised, it could have been a lot worse, a few cuts & grazes & a broken bone, no one had the decency to ask how the sheep was?

hopefully roasted with some root veg & mint!

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#19 13-03-2014 12:29pm

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I'm getting the flock out of here!

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#20 13-03-2014 4:37pm

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Looks like I came out best. Although she seems to have some real good Health Insurance. Lets hope She does not try to make a claim against me.

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#21 13-03-2014 5:07pm

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thinks too much wrote: »

https://scontent-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1899937_10152089942193558_1867000841_n.jpg

Looks like I came out best. Although she seems to have some real good Health Insurance. Lets hope She does not try to make a claim against me.

If anyone knows how to get the picture to show on the thread without having to click on link feel free to change.

Amazing, the shear audacity of her.

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#22 13-03-2014 5:55pm

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Ovis-ly ewe wool recover. Were the sheep's kin nearby?

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#23 13-03-2014 6:15pm

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Bones and flesh will mend on a far more important note how is the bike
and please stop with the puns it is very sore falling of a bike suf fulk up and stop making fun of him how would ewe like it

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#24 13-03-2014 6:53pm

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derealbadger wrote: »

Bones and flesh will mend on a far more important note how is the bike
and please stop with the puns it is very sore falling of a bike suf fulk up and stop making fun of him how would ewe like it

Bike is ok thank the lord. but if the wife asks then its in bits and will have to be replaced by a new one.

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#25 13-03-2014 9:40pm

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One should always invest in good quality safety equipment ... don't be a sheepskate.

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#26 13-03-2014 9:42pm

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NBar wrote: »

Lucky lucky, speedy recovery...was having this discussion earlier today to a teenager who didn't want to wear his bike helmet, needeless to say the bike went back into the garage, no lid no cycle

The teenager is more likely to die from the results of obesity (from not cycling) than a head injury (from cycling without a helmet).

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#27 13-03-2014 9:46pm

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"OP, next time we will be ready for you"

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#28 13-03-2014 10:07pm

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good advice being given here

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#29 13-03-2014 10:36pm

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Keep_Her_Lit wrote: »

One should always invest in good quality safety equipment ... don't be a sheepskate.

I like to ride without a helmet, get some sheep thrills.

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#30 14-03-2014 12:07am

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It happened on the Sean Kelly tour route? that's down in the "Blaaaaaa" country....

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#31 14-03-2014 7:24am

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buffalo wrote: »

I like to ride without a helmet, get some sheep thrills.

Careful now! I wouldn't tell your other half that's why you go cycling in the Wicklow mountains, there's a few possible interpretations to that sentence

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#32 14-03-2014 7:48am

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One lad makes a pun and ye all follow....

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#33 14-03-2014 9:22am

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J o e wrote: »

One lad makes a pun and ye all follow....

They saw someone grabbing the limelight, but didn't want to let him hogget.

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#34 14-03-2014 9:52am

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Moo

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#35 14-03-2014 11:21am

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Keep_Her_Lit wrote: »

"OP, next time we will be ready for you"

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/372923/298482.jpg

What's with all the daft pics? :rolleyes:

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#36 14-03-2014 12:26pm

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3 days in and people are flocking to post on this thread.

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#37 14-03-2014 2:24pm

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At least your companions had the good sense not to Draft Ewe.

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#38 14-03-2014 2:28pm

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Perhaps if you drove in future?

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#39 14-03-2014 2:43pm

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Bit of a spill last week myself. Lamb-ped me head off the ground.

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#40 14-03-2014 5:24pm

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tomasrojo wrote: »

Perhaps if you drove in future?

Wether permitting.

Anyway, that's my tupping's worth, so I'm out!

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#41 14-03-2014 8:51pm

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bedirect wrote: »

good advice being given here

Talk is sheep.

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#42 20-03-2014 9:55pm

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Im surprised one of the mods hasn't closed this thread down already..

cRAMcycle maybe?

:pac:

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#43 20-03-2014 10:18pm

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Zyzz wrote: »

Im surprised one of the mods hasn't closed this thread down already..

cRAMcycle maybe?

:pac:

This thread doesn't get closed until I've posted my selfies showing how the helmet saved me - without it I was like a lamb to the slaughter .... (but I'm a bit too sheepish to post them yet)

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