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

magicbastarder

https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute/videos/1629537950421691/

Tenzor07

"Tactical urbanism" in Boston...! Well at least they have some sort of segregation rather than just paint!





http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/22/cyclists-respond-walsh-comments-with-tactical-urbanism-cutouts/V1T6kI6FzSFywpAIBaP7AI/story.html

magicbastarder

'excuse me, how long would it take to cycle from here to UCD?'
'oh, eight minutes and 24 seconds'.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.311464,-6.2008217,3a,42.5y,309.16h,85.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5KCuVqjDi1bUEv1_0PMbng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/867098457458298884

Yikes! Just so happened I gave this road a miss tonight..

Diarmuid

ronoc wrote: »

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/867098457458298884

Yikes! Just so happened I gave this road a miss tonight..

I was just coming down there earlier and a garda had the road closed at the viewing point

Fighting Tao

magicbastarder wrote: »

'excuse me, how long would it take to cycle from here to UCD?'
'oh, eight minutes and 24 seconds'.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.311464,-6.2008217,3a,42.5y,309.16h,85.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5KCuVqjDi1bUEv1_0PMbng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I only noticed that today myself when stopped at the lights coming down the road from Woodbine. Quite a peculiar sign.

Wishbone Ash

magicbastarder wrote: »

'excuse me, how long would it take to cycle from here to UCD?'
'oh, eight minutes and 24 seconds'.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.311464,-6.2008217,3a,42.5y,309.16h,85.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5KCuVqjDi1bUEv1_0PMbng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I only noticed that today myself when stopped at the lights coming down the road from Woodbine. Quite a peculiar sign.

Make a Strava segment from there to UCD and we'll cut that 8 min 24 sec in half!

magicbastarder

might be worth a complaint to SDCC - 'your sign says it takes 8 minutes and 24 seconds, i managed it in 4 minutes 35'.

robyntmorton

Time for a Boards time trial? Are we going individual or team?

magicbastarder

it's 2.1km, so they've clearly based the time taken on a 15km/h average. which is slower than the speed i average up to howth summit from the village.

CramCycle

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Make a Strava segment from there to UCD and we'll cut that 8 min 24 sec in half!

Considering Google predict 6 minutes, and google is quite a laid back and relaxed cyclist, the time is way off. I feel a social media campaign coming on :pac:

magicbastarder

we should get paul williams on the case.

VW 1

Anything to get him off the radio in the mornings!

Tenzor07

Great idea! Should get new drivers to get on two wheels before they're allowed drive 4...


city-of-sydney-learner-drivers-should-be-required-to-log-compulsory-cycling-hours-before-earning-licence

tomasrojo

Lovely story about Roger Moore.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/867191673587216384

Tenzor07

Wow, interesting:

naas-court-today-sees-man-banned-drunk-cycling

Ok, so the bicycle had an engine on it fair enough, but:

Mr Boyce told the court how the single man has now purchased an electric bike.

However, Judge Desmond Zaidan told the accused that he will also need insurance for an electric bike.

CantGetNoSleep

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Wow, interesting:

naas-court-today-sees-man-banned-drunk-cycling

Ok, so the bicycle had an engine on it fair enough, but:

I love the way marital status seems to be such a deciding factor in Irish court cases. What difference does it make that he's a single man?

magicbastarder

the language in that article makes my brain hurt.

rubadub

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Ok, so the bicycle had an engine on it fair enough, but:

I have seen electric bikes on sale that I presume would require insurance as they are effectively motorbikes. Unless there was a change in the law, I know there was talk of increasing the speed limitation on them.

LollipopJimmy

That particular judge is a bit of a looper. He has form for sending people to prison for speeding.
Although he let a man off lightly in Donegal because it was his last case in Donegal, this same man went on to kill 8 people in one of the worst road accidents the state has ever seen. It really is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't

Chuchote

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

That particular judge… has form for sending people to prison for speeding.
Although he let a man off lightly in Donegal because it was his last case in Donegal, this same man went on to kill 8 people in one of the worst road accidents the state has ever seen. It really is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't

Or really just a case of damned if you don't.

CramCycle

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

That particular judge is a bit of a looper. He has form for sending people to prison for speeding.

Anything over 10% of the limit and if our prison system could take it, I would ask, why not. Sounds like one of the more sensible judges (although the bar is not high).

LollipopJimmy

CramCycle wrote: »

Anything over 10% of the limit and if our prison system could take it, I would ask, why not. Sounds like one of the more sensible judges (although the bar is not high).

He fined me €500 for doing 114 on the 3 lane N7 and threatened to ban me. I'd never received as much as a parking ticket before that and from the time I was 19 until I was 26 I drove in excess of 250000kms. I was driving a fleet car and the fine went to them rather than me so I ended up in court. Common sense needs to prevail too.

To be honest it's the fact that there is no consistency in the courts that bothers me. If the punishment for everybody doing 114 was €500 and 4 points in court then I'd be ok with that but it's not, depends on the mood of the Judge, some people get 100, the points are compulsory though.

seamus

magicbastarder wrote: »

'excuse me, how long would it take to cycle from here to UCD?'
'oh, eight minutes and 24 seconds'.

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's 2.1km, so they've clearly based the time taken on a 15km/h average. which is slower than the speed i average up to howth summit from the village.

That's not far from where I work, I'd frequently go that way on a lunchtime run, and there are a few of those signs in that set of estates, with walking and cycling times between UCD and Booterstown DART station. It's a great way of enticing people to walk and cycle by showing how quick it is, but it's so bizarre that they went for "exact estimates". Wouldn't it be neater to just say "9 mins"?

That said, I can equally see some pedant sending in an email to the council asking, "Where did you get 9 minutes from? I calculate at the average human walking speed of 14.986km/h it would take 8.4356 minutes. Why are you misleading people?"

Tenzor07

rubadub wrote: »

I have seen electric bikes on sale that I presume would require insurance as they are effectively motorbikes. Unless there was a change in the law, I know there was talk of increasing the speed limitation on them.

Anything vehicle that requires an engine to propel it on the roads should certainly have insurance etc, however as an E-Bike has a motor but cannot be propelled solely by the motor then it's a bicycle...as the assistance cuts out above about 25 kph anyways.

rubadub

Tenzor07 wrote: »

an E-Bike has a motor but cannot be propelled solely by the motor then it's a bicycle...as the assistance cuts out above about 25 kph anyways.

we do not know what sort of electric bike the guy got. I have seen lads on ones which did not appear to be petrol and it was moving with no pedalling. Also others which are pedal assist can go faster than 25kph.

This is the legal definition of what is covered by the cycle to work scheme

? pedal cycle ? means?

(i) a bicycle or tricycle which is intended or adapted for propulsion solely by the physical exertions of a person or persons seated thereon, or

(ii) a pedelec,

but does not include a moped or a scooter;

? pedelec ? means a bicycle or tricycle which is equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of 0.25 kilowatts, of which output is progressively reduced and finally cut off as the vehicle reaches a speed of 25 kilometres per hour, or sooner if the cyclist stops pedalling;

Tenzor07

rubadub wrote: »

we do not know what sort of electric bike the guy got. I have seen lads on ones which did not appear to be petrol and it was moving with no pedalling. Also others which are pedal assist can go faster than 25kph.
This is the legal definition of what is covered by the cycle to work scheme

Dunno either, I guess it means a standard ebike..

Ah sure legal definitions vary in each country / jurisdiction...

ford2600

https://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/goodvibrations.html

My in law is on TV tonight, which is a pretty interesting story. Anyone with an interest in music should enjoy it

Lusk_Doyle

ford2600 wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/goodvibrations.html

My in law is on TV tonight, which is a pretty interesting story. Anyone with an interest in music should enjoy it

Saw an ad for this the other day. It looks very interesting.

Tenzor07

Spotted in Dublin: Dial-a-mattress! or something!