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

Unknown Soldier

Secret? Strava Challenge, for those interested.

https://www.strava.com/challenges/cancellara-gore-750

tomasrojo

Chuchote, was that you I called over to today as you were leaving the Dodder river cycleway at Clonskeagh Road? If not, someone is probably still wondering what that was all about.

Chuchote

tomasrojo wrote: »

Chuchote, was that you I called over to today as you were leaving the Dodder river cycleway at Clonskeagh Road? If not, someone is probably still wondering what that was all about.

Was indeed (wave!) Nice pronunciation, by the way!

CramCycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM

I want to raise my hands on the air going past slow moving traffic on the N11, with a big smile, screaming you're welcome.

buffalo

Wondering if the Phoenix Park will be good for a spin tonight with the royal visit... lovely free hard shoulders all the way down Chesterfield Avenue!

daragh_

buffalo wrote: »

Wondering if the Phoenix Park will be good for a spin tonight with the royal visit... lovely free hard shoulders all the way down Chesterfield Avenue!

Was up there at lunchtime. Every single traffic cone owned by AGS has been placed on Chesterfield Avenue. Multiple members of our finest ambling along the bike lanes and hard shoulder enjoying the sunshine. Despite that I got a PB.

Had no idea the Royals were due and was thinking how much clout Orwell have these days

buffalo

daragh_ wrote: »

Had no idea the Royals were due and was thinking how much clout Orwell have these days

heh, wonder how close the club was to a repeat of Joe Biden vs the Nationals.

RobFowl

Last sunday some scrote stole my youngsters bike. Myself and koutobia did a tour round to try to find him but no joy
Roll on to last night when I spotted the toe rag, scumbag, thieving, bollix on it. To cut a long story short recovered the bike without decking the pr*ck ( didn't want to end up un the nick !).
Came home from work to find my young fella had made me a chocolate sundae, spend some of his pocket money on crisps for me and had cleaned my bike !
Happy days and happy Rob

LollipopJimmy

RobFowl wrote: »

Last sunday some scrote stole my youngsters bike. Myself and koutobia did a tour round to try to find him but no joy
Roll on to last night when I spotted the toe rag, scumbag, thieving, bollix on it. To cut a long story short recovered the bike without decking the pr*ck ( didn't want to end up un the nick !).
Came home from work to find my young fella had made me a chocolate sundae, spend some of his pocket money on crisps for me and had cleaned my bike !
Happy days and happy Rob

So I take it you'll be hiding the bike on a weekly basis? :pac:

Lusk_Doyle

Hey nee, do you remember all that tea that you gave me back in 2014? I presume the rosebuds were sans pesticides and all that?!?!

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Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Hey nee, do you remember all that tea that you gave me back in 2014? I presume the rosebuds were sans pesticides and all that?!?!

Yesssss......

Pour quoi?

Lusk_Doyle

nee wrote: »

Yesssss......

Pour quoi?

Well I've developed quite an ...

Ah no, just got around to drinking it today! The thought entered my mind whilst I was taking afternoon tea and gazing out at the roses in my garden and the trouble we've had with pests.

Chuchote

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Well I've developed quite an ...

Ah no, just got around to drinking it today! The thought entered my mind whilst I was taking afternoon tea and gazing out at the roses in my garden and the trouble we've had with pests.

Greenfly: put ends of soap bars in water and let them melt in; spray the resulting greasy, soapy mix on greenfly-infested roses:

http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/insect-control-soaps-and-detergents-5-547/

Black spot: give the roses some nice ripe horse manure, and make sure they're watered enough.

Slugs/snails: make a slug trap or buy one (the bought ones have little umbrellas built in, which is handy in a rainy country. Slugs seem to like Guinness best, but will drink most beers if you add a bit of sugar. Or you can mix milk, sugar and yeast. They drink themselves to death +RIP+

Also go around at night for a few nights picking slugs and snails off plants and killing them. Or if you have ducks or know where they're to be found, donate the victims to them.

For pot plants, ring the pot with around 3cm of copper tape; it gives slugs and snails electric shocks. This also works at the top of raised beds if they're surrounded by wood or concrete and there are no holes to burrow through.

For slugs and snails (and mice) eating baby plants, don't plant out the babies until they're big enough to defend themselves, ie until at least they have a couple of sets of true leaves.

LollipopJimmy

Drink themselves to death? That's gas

magicbastarder

main drawback with that is disposing of the soup of manky dead slugs and beer, if you forget to empty it every day or two.

we have very little issue with slugs in our garden, thankfully - but we do have plenty of wild birds visting, and a couple of chickens too.

LollipopJimmy

Stupid Ferrari and their stupid strategy call mean Boylesports won't be adding to my new group set fund

Chuchote

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Drink themselves to death? That's gas

Yeah, you can hear, very faintly, if you lean out an upstairs window and don't startle them, a chorus of "Let the grasses grow and the breezes blow in a free and an easy way, but give me enough of the rare oul' stuff that comes from Victoria Quay…" while the solar lanterns sway.

magicbastarder wrote: »

main drawback with that is disposing of the soup of manky dead slugs and beer, if you forget to empty it every day or two.

we have very little issue with slugs in our garden, thankfully - but we do have plenty of wild birds visting, and a couple of chickens too.

On the other hand, if you leave the corpses there they probably form a biological warfare agent and kill even more.

magicbastarder

so it's obvious and well known how much difference cycling in a group makes in terms of effort and speed. but has it ever been quantified in a reasonable way?
just comparing myself this morning - 46km, 25km/h, to two people i know who went out in groups, who went farther and faster. is there a rule of thumb on how much faster or further you can go in a group?

Lumen

magicbastarder wrote: »

so it's obvious and well known how much difference cycling in a group makes in terms of effort and speed. but has it ever been quantified in a reasonable way?
just comparing myself this morning - 46km, 25km/h, to two people i know who went out in groups, who went farther and faster. is there a rule of thumb on how much faster or further you can go in a group?

To pull some numbers out of my hole, I'd say up to 30% faster and further for the same effort in a large group on a flattish or rolling route, and for smaller groups maybe 20% faster and further.

magicbastarder

cheers, i've been invited out with one group, was just conscious of being able to keep up with them; they went about 10% faster and 50% further than me today, albeit not climbing quite as much despite their longer spin.

Wishbone Ash

Chuchote wrote: »

Greenfly: put ends of soap bars in water and let them melt in; spray the resulting greasy, soapy mix on greenfly-infested roses.....

A squirt of washing up liquid into the sprayer is a lot easier and works well.

LollipopJimmy

magicbastarder wrote: »

cheers, i've been invited out with one group, was just conscious of being able to keep up with them; they went about 10% faster and 50% further than me today, albeit not climbing quite as much despite their longer spin.

Kind of afraid to go in a group myself for the same reasons. I've done 100k solo @27kph with 900metres up so I should be OK... just have to find a club/group that suits me.
The Barrytown Wheelers still about?

magicbastarder

heh, i'd be happy with 27km/h over half that distance...

Chuchote

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

A squirt of washing up liquid into the sprayer is a lot easier and works well.

It works well for washing them off, but if you want biological warfare use the soap - the greasiness disrupts their breeding abilities, etc.

manafana

This has turned into a bit of "how to get away with muder" thread. Your all very lucky the fox hunting haters don't care for snails.

Wishbone Ash

Amanda Coker's year has ended with 140,248kms covered or an average of 384km per day. What a feat of human endurance! :cool:

She's now continuing for the 100,000 miles record. :eek:

ford2600

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

What a feat of human endurance! :cool:
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Steady on. It's not exactly Ranulph Fiennes/Shackleton material?

Don't get me wrong, very difficult very few people could do it.

The way they set it up a flat 10km lap with other riders left no worries/stress with regard to
*maintenance
* food supplies
* getting lost
* being alone for very long periods

IMO any of those Tour Divide/Trans Am type gravel road endurance events are tougher.

Alek

Awesome as it is, the way Amanda does it is like everesting a local hill vs climbing Everest.

magicbastarder

i don't follow that analogy though - she was out to cover distance, and that's all; saying she didn't make it hard enough on herself doing that distance seems a little weird?

manafana

Think key point, is her record is just about the numbers, it hasn't embraced the freedom and exploration that audax riding and long distance rides bring.