Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

manafana

cdaly_ wrote: »

Why do you think it's half empty?...


Anyway, didn't they only manage to get Al Capone on tax evasion charges...

half empty? from watching on tv and numerous media reports.

Doc07

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

He may need the assistance of Minister Ross now!

Ross will be in first flight out of there if he hasn't left already.

Beasty

Can't get my head round this triathlon lark

Why don't they just do 3 bike rides

magicbastarder

because some asshole parked their bike the other side of the lake as a prank.

Jawgap

It'd be brilliant if they got it, to have the Worlds so close.....

Welcome to Yorkshire to bid for world cycling race

Yorkshire is making a bid to host the cycling Road World Championships in 2019.

Tourism organisation Welcome to Yorkshire said the government would underwrite the cost of the venture.

Details of the successful bid are due to be announced at the Union Cycliste International's annual congress in Qatar in October.

The Road World Championships is an event for professional cyclists, with male and female riders competing.

Riders take part for the chance to win the rainbow jersey.

Look's like UK Sport and British Cycling are supportive of the bid and the chief of the UCI being a knight of the realm they must stand a reasonable chance?

Plus, it is God's country after all, or so every feckin' Yorkshire man I met when I worked there told me!!!!

Beasty

Jawgap wrote: »

Plus, it is God's country after all, or so every feckin' Yorkshire man I met when I worked there told me!!!!

FFS - why don't you listen???

It's God's own county, not country!

North Yorkshire is still bigger & better than the other bits....

BTW, think all I said to you was "Keep up Lad"

Jawgap

Beasty wrote: »

FFS - why don't you listen???

It's God's own county, not country!

North Yorkshire is still bigger & better than the other bits....

BTW, think all I said to you was "Keep up Lad"

What do you know......owt or nowt? 'County' would be far too small a concept for the men of the White Rose - surely you divide the world into Yorkshire and notYorkshire?

btw.....I was listening......

"God’s Own Country, is a phrase that was first used to describe the Wicklow Mountains and has subsequently been used to refer to several places, including ......Yorkshire....."

Interesting, that it was used to describe the Wicklow Mountains first......:D

Beasty

As they've just mentioned - the Brownlee's are from Yorkshire. Guess triathlon can't be that bad

Chuchote

Guerrilla bike lanes

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3062788/world-changing-ideas/guerrilla-bike-lanes-show-cities-how-easy-it-is-to-make-streets-safer

The next day [after cyclists were killed by rogue drivers], the director of transportation at the SFMTA told a reporter that "the best bike infrastructure in the world would not have prevented these collisions." Bike and pedestrian advocates disagree, and since the city hasn't done much to help, they're taking action themselves—temporarily redesigning local bike lanes themselves.

In a few recent interventions, the activists demonstrated how much better design can help. On Golden Gate Avenue, for example, a new painted bike lane was ignored by cars, and it was filled with traffic. When the activists put up simple orange construction cones, cars immediately started staying in their own lane.

tomasrojo

I noticed a similar phenomenon on Inchicore Road:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79015851&postcount=44



Anyone who uses that stretch (I think that end hasn't changed recently, unlike the Hilton end) will know that the motorists don't keep that clear of the cycle track in general.

LollipopJimmy

tomasrojo wrote: »

I noticed a similar phenomenon on Inchicore Road:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79015851&postcount=44



Anyone who uses that stretch (I think that end hasn't changed recently, unlike the Hilton end) will know that the motorists don't keep that clear of the cycle track in general.

It's quicker for me to come home from town that way but I avoid it most days opting to go past Richmond Park instead

rollingscone

Last time I was in Paris I noticed that they had kerbs on the bus /cycle lanes.

That's my go to instant infrastructure now, ban taxis and add kerbs to keep private transport out.

Imagine the utility added to the N11 /N4/ N3

The only problem would be buses getting stuck behind cyclists / Another upside would be buses having to exit and re-enter the lane to overtake cyclists.

Oh and of course they'd all be 24hrs and magnetically disable unauthorised vehicles.

Chuchote

Interesting guidelines for bike infrastructure:

http://www.makingspaceforcycling.org/MakingSpaceForCycling.pdf

ThisRegard

rollingscone wrote: »

Last time I was in Paris I noticed that they had kerbs on the bus /cycle lanes.

That's my go to instant infrastructure now, ban taxis and add kerbs to keep private transport out.

The kerbing doesn't stop people using the Grand Canal one for parking.

rollingscone

ThisRegard wrote: »

The kerbing doesn't stop people using the Grand Canal one for parking.

That's where the disabling comes in.

Or more realistically the buses being obstructed leading to actual enforcement.

CramCycle

Have to say, I ended up ising the Pearse St. Double bus lane this week. I have been out of town for awhile.

That is a beacon of how it should be done. Maybe put a ANPR camera for non PSV automatic fines. The inside one becomes a de facto large bike lane at busy times, no more pinch point at Pearse St. Station.

I mean it goes to sh1t once you get off it but for a short stretch,it is how it should be.

petethedrummer

tomasrojo wrote: »

Anyone who uses that stretch (I think that end hasn't changed recently, unlike the Hilton end) will know that the motorists don't keep that clear of the cycle track in general.

I've been driven at twice by beeping taxis for obeying the law there.

tomasrojo

petethedrummer wrote: »

I've been driven at twice by beeping taxis for obeying the law there.

I got berated for "blocking" a parked taxi driver trying to leave the two-way cycle track nearer the Hilton end a few years ago (pre-"upgrade"). I was heading towards the IMMA with a trailer and a bus was coming along, so I was waiting for the bus to pass, or the taxi to leave the cycle track, so the taxi driver let me have it for "going the wrong way". Says the man illlegally parked on the funny bit of the road with the funny bike symbols on it, pointing two ways.

(Of course, he also drove at me, to reinforce his road safety message.)

tomasrojo

It's quite funny taxi drivers taking anyone to task for their behaviour on that stretch of road, seeing as they've been running an informal, and illegal, taxi rank outside the Hilton on the cycle track for about a decade.

Fian

Tried to swap my brake cable yesterday evening. Gave up - could not extract the existing (snapped) cable from the sleeve. Will buy a new sleeve later. I just wanted to ask - is there some trick to it? Sleeve and cable both now in the bin.

I can't figure out how the cable was capable of sliding through the sleeve to pull the brakes but I couldn't pull it through the sleeve, even with a vice grip and pliers?

The cable snapped just beside where it attached to the brakes, so the sticky sleeve was not what caused it to snap.

Anyway I am baffled.

Chips Lovell

LOL

PLANS to tackle childhood obesity have been scaled back because the money has been spent on winning Olympic cycling medals.

Officials had considered introducing new children’s sports facilities across the UK but admitted that priority was given to Sir Bradley Wiggins and some of his friends.

Hungrycol

Fian wrote: »

Tried to swap my brake cable yesterday evening. Gave up - could not extract the existing (snapped) cable from the sleeve. Will buy a new sleeve later. I just wanted to ask - is there some trick to it? Sleeve and cable both now in the bin.

I can't figure out how the cable was capable of sliding through the sleeve to pull the brakes but I couldn't pull it through the sleeve, even with a vice grip and pliers?

The cable snapped just beside where it attached to the brakes, so the sticky sleeve was not what caused it to snap.

Anyway I am baffled.

Can you not just push it out with a longer "new" cable?
(sorry re read your post!)

Chuchote

Got the old bald tyre off, at cost of almost-sprained wrist. Got lecture from friend who said he never had a puncture in his life but flies fleetly around on MTB tyres. Looked at the Marathon tyre. Instructions have horrified red "!" on what you shouldn't do, but I can't understand the pictures. :mad:

This fellow puts the tyre on with the tube inside (?????)

Is that advisable? I've always put a tyre half on, then slid the tube inside?

And what are these releasable cable ties? I've never heard its like!

tomasrojo

Releasable cable ties have a little lever inside the head that allow you to release and re-use them. I have a few in my repair kit. Very handy. They sell them (or did sell them) in Halfords out Tallaght way.

EDIT:
http://www.halfords.ie/workshop-tools/garage-equipment/fuses-electricals-fixings/halfords-releasable-cable-ties-hfx416-black

Chuchote

Ah, thanks.

Got the effing thing on in the end. Couldn't push it on, so used the tyre lever. I know that was vewwy, vewwy wrong, but feck it, it worked.

tomasrojo

I don't regard it as wrong. If you can do it without pinching the tube, it's better than straining your thumbs. Puncture-resistance tyres are much harder to push on with hands alone than regular ones.

I had to abandon using Armadillos, as when I got slightly deeper rim wheels, I couldn't get them on, even with tyre levers. At least not without ten minutes of lever-straining (and occasionally -breaking).

Actually, I still have those two last Armadillos, nearly new, if anyone wants them. 700x28. They have been lying around in a shed for three years, but I think they're fine.

Chuchote

Those close to me instruct me that the correct way is to use the heels of your hands on the last bit, but even using the precious pigskin gardening gloves that Lidl sold once a few years ago and never again, I can't do this – at least not easily enough to be bothered with.

I took cognisance of the instructions of one of the various old-English-gents on YouTube and repeatedly slid my fingers under the tyre edges to seat in the tube, and then pinched the tyre all around the wheel to loosen the wire bead a bit, which may have helped.

Darkglasses

I have always pushed the tyre back on with tyre levers since getting gator skins. You're going to want to check around the whole rim if it's pinched anywhere anyway.

magicbastarder

i've a panasonic ribmo, which is more of a workout taking off/putting back on that the cycling itself.

Wishbone Ash

Chuchote wrote: »

Ah, thanks.

Got the effing thing on in the end. Couldn't push it on, so used the tyre lever. I know that was vewwy, vewwy wrong, but feck it, it worked.

Marathons are directional - did you put them on the right way?