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

ThisRegard

So what lengths do you go to if your son is not waited for by the peleton after he crashes?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2016/sep/05/cyclists-father-causes-crash-pulling-barrier-into-riders-path-video

CramCycle

There are a lot of fat people who cycle. It’s not a weight loss exercise

thejournal.ie comments section has once again bested me and science.

lennymc

The GT stage threads on here used to be great - they had insight and intelligent conversation/debate about the contenders for the stage. Unfortunately, imho, they seem to have turned into a sky bitchfest. Sky win, big bad sky. Someone else wins, haha, take that sky. There are also some pretty bizarre near conspiracy theory comments. It's a pity really, because if I didnt miss the useful information and debate, it would be quite funny. It actually reminds me of the journal.ie comments section sometimes...

RobFowl

lennymc wrote: »

The GT stage threads on here used to be great - they had insight and intelligent conversation/debate about the contenders for the stage. Unfortunately, imho, they seem to have turned into a sky bitchfest. Sky win, big bad sky. Someone else wins, haha, take that sky. There are also some pretty bizarre near conspiracy theory comments. It's a pity really, because if I didnt miss the useful information and debate, it would be quite funny. It actually reminds me of the journal.ie comments section sometimes...

Had to unfollow a few on twitter in the last few days as I just had enough of the anti Sky and doping innuendos.
Am no fan of Sky but am a fan of cycling and good bike racing !

lennymc

@robfowl - ditto.

ednwireland

Weepsie wrote: »

Not to mention the constant whining about Carlton Kirby and now the bemoaning the lack of HD broadcasting, even though live broadcasting a cycling race is a pretty complex task as it is

ha ha i was bitching about picture breakup from rio, then i thought these are live pictures from Rio FFS.

and i remembered i used to read a weekly paper that used to come out with the tour info in it

Chuchote

Cllr Paddy Smyth lashes the removal of funding for safe cycling infrastructure http://www.thejournal.ie/cycling-greenways-2964771-Sep2016/

Already TheJournal's comments section is hotting up

(As an extra added bonus, there's the usual mix-up when 'on behalf of' is used instead of 'on the part of' in a quote.)

Lumen

Weepsie wrote: »

Not to mention the constant whining about Carlton Kirby and now the bemoaning the lack of HD broadcasting, even though live broadcasting a cycling race is a pretty complex task as it is

Ah now, don't be hijacking an entirely legitimate whinge to mount a defence of Carlton. :pac:

Chips Lovell

"I'm going to raise my voice REALLY LOUD NOW because I've NO IDEA who's just won and maybe that will disguise it".

Lusk_Doyle

lennymc wrote: »

The GT stage threads on here used to be great - they had insight and intelligent conversation/debate about the contenders for the stage. Unfortunately, imho, they seem to have turned into a sky bitchfest. Sky win, big bad sky. Someone else wins, haha, take that sky. There are also some pretty bizarre near conspiracy theory comments. It's a pity really, because if I didnt miss the useful information and debate, it would be quite funny. It actually reminds me of the journal.ie comments section sometimes...

Don't forget the Carlton bashing too which is really to the fore this season.

Edit: too slow Doyle!

Darkglasses

https://twitter.com/cyclingweekly/status/773231553891672068

Find gels a bit manky already? Well you'll LOVE if we put ALCOHOL in it!

I'm throwing up on my garmin already.

robyntmorton

Darkglasses wrote: »

Find gels a bit manky already? Well you'll LOVE if we put ALCOHOL in it!

I'm throwing up on my garmin already.

Hey, I'll try anything once!

Chuchote

Mmm, used to lash back those liqueur chocolates at Christmas as a kid, the ones with the dark chocolate shaped like bottles, and crunch, and you got a mouthful of delicious supersweet spirits. Now if they made them in gels…

robyntmorton

Chuchote wrote: »

Mmm, used to lash back those liqueur chocolates at Christmas as a kid, the ones with the dark chocolate shaped like bottles, and crunch, and you got a mouthful of delicious supersweet spirits. Now if they made them in gels…

The perfect thing for breaking in your new steed on Christmas Morning! You could be on to something there.

Miklos

Went to the Pinarello store in London today trying to get a helmet for my uncle. They had a nice selection of Rudy Projects helmets but I think I would have needed to club one of the staff members with one to get their attention. Utter fuppin baxters.

By contrast, I also popped into the Rapha Cycle Club off Regent St, nice coffee and cake with the Tour of Britain on the big screen. Would be great to have something like that in Dublin.

Chuchote

Miklos wrote: »

Went to the Pinarello store in London today trying to get a helmet for my uncle. They had a nice selection of Rudy Projects helmets but I think I would have needed to club one of the staff members with one to get their attention. Utter fuppin baxters.

Baxters :pac:

rollingscone

Had to throw out a pair of worn out increasingly thin and baggy bib shorts last night.

Even though I'm still a gross fatty I felt a strange sense of achievement at having outlasted them on the bike.

Or maybe that's just the anticipation of getting to buy new bike stuff talking

Thud

Anyone else get burned by the young lad on the old trek usually wearing tracksuit pants, what look like work shoes, a cap and headphones around Cruagh/Featherbeds/Johnny foxes?

Seems to whizz past me any time I'm up there lately, not on Strava as far as I can tell

Doc07

Thud wrote: »

Anyone else get burned by the young lad on the old trek usually wearing tracksuit pants, what look like work shoes, a cap and headphones around Cruagh/Featherbeds/Johnny foxes?

Seems to whizz past me any time I'm up there lately, not on Strava as far as I can tell

Thank you. I though I was hallucinating when he burned me a few weeks ago. Didn't even have the decency to look like he was trying. He would be easily top 10 on the cruagh segment.

Thud

Ha ha probably. Thought he was commuting first few times but he's passed me and then turned around further up the road and come back at me a couple of times lately.

Wishbone Ash

Thud wrote: »

Anyone else get burned by the young lad on the old trek usually wearing tracksuit pants, what look like work shoes, a cap and headphones around Cruagh/Featherbeds/Johnny foxes?

Seems to whizz past me any time I'm up there lately, not on Strava as far as I can tell

On a bike that is too big for him??

I've got burned a couple of times lately by a young chap fitting that description between Blake's Cross and Swords. On both occasions he passed me with his work boots and tracksuit bottoms flapping in the wind but I couldn't hold his wheel despite throwing the kitchen sink at him.

Didn't appear on Strava Fly By either.

Lusk_Doyle

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

On a bike that is too big for him??

I've got burned a couple of times lately by a young chap fitting that description between Blake's Cross and Swords. On both occasions he passed me with his work boots and tracksuit bottoms flapping in the wind but I couldn't hold his wheel despite throwing the kitchen sink at him.

Didn't appear on Strava Fly By either.

Apologies. I've been keeping incognito when out on the road of late.

Wishbone Ash

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Apologies. I've been keeping incognito when out on the road of late.

...and you've shrunk a lot!

(BTW - this chap has no finesse on the bike - just brute force/speed).

wanderer 22

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

...and you've shrunk a lot!

(BTW - this chap has no finesse on the bike - just brute force/speed).

Does he look at his stem a lot?

Lusk_Doyle

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

...and you've shrunk a lot!

(BTW - this chap has no finesse on the bike - just brute force/speed).

You saying I got finesse? Woo Hoo!

Chuchote

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

You saying I got finesse? Woo Hoo!

I've always liked that word ever since I worked as a waitress in one of Dublin's trendiest and most self-regarding and classiest restaurants, back in the day. For some reason, although I tended to treat the male clientele as if I were a dominatrix/strict nanny and they were very naughty boys, I got the highest tips in the place.
Anyway, this one night we were all hanging on until the last customers would leave. You couldn't ask people to go, the most you could do was float up meaningfully (and not too meaningfully at that) with a coffee pot and offer them refills every now and then.
We couldn't call for the minibus to take us home (northside staff first, because the chef was a northsider, then southside) until the last diners had left. And there was a couple who just stayed and stayed. They were in the middle of a screaming row, mostly in whispers.
Finally, at 3am, with the lot of us wallfalling, the dishes and pots long since washed and the exhausted staff drooping over a table at the end of the room, one waitress came back with exciting news. They were obviously about to leave.
What had happened was that the woman of the couple had obviously produced the ultimate insult. As the waitress hopefully waved her pot of coffee, the man leaned across at the woman and hissed "You have NO FINESSE!" and threw the carafe of wine at her, and huffed out.
The woman was mopped up, comforted, the bill extracted from her and she was put in a taxi and at last, at long, long last, at 5am for the southsiders, we could go home and sleep.

Lusk_Doyle

@ Chuchote: So are we agreed on my finesseness then or what?

Wishbone Ash

Chuchote wrote: »

..... since I worked as a waitress in one of Dublin's trendiest and most self-regarding and classiest restaurants, back in the day.....

Jammet's?

Wishbone Ash

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

@ Chuchote: So are we agreed on my finesseness then or what?

Better let her see you on the TT bike in the skinsuit and pointy helmet!

Lusk_Doyle

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Better let her see you on the TT bike in the skinsuit and pointy helmet!

Slam dunk right there.