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

Chuchote

buffalo wrote: »

I'm not sure where you're seeing that as standard. The most common phrasing is that the "bike/cyclist collided with a car/vehicle/pedestrian/etc".

Sorry, I'm not being clear. What I mean is that "traditional standard" is what was taught to journalists in my day #creak. It was taught so that no one would be blamed by implication for a crash that could have been caused by either, neither or both.

On the other subject here - if anyone else who's seen broken glass on the Grand Canal cycle path would like to report it, this is where you can do it:

http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-roads-and-traffic-road-maintenance-and-street-repair/repair-road-or-footpath

Chuchote

Report in the Indo of the 54-year-old man badly hurt in Mayo:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/cyclist-airlifted-to-hospital-in-critical-condition-after-road-crash-35768607.html

Both the cyclist and the driver of the vehicle involved were travelling in the same direction, towards Killala, at the time of the collision

buffalo

Beasty wrote: »

.... and what did you collide with last week buffalo? Looks like the road may have taken a bit of a battering.....

The road collided with me.

dastardly00

Has anyone seen the Official 2017 Tour de France Race Guide in shops in Ireland yet? I normally get it in Easons, but they seem to only ever get a limited supply, and it sells out pretty quickly. I haven't looked around yet myself; I'll probably check on Saturday.

magicbastarder

i saw it in easons in blanchardstown on saturday.

ednwireland

Got one in easons in enniskillen on saturday

dastardly00

magicbastarder wrote: »

i saw it in easons in blanchardstown on saturday.

ednwireland wrote: »

Gog one easing in enniskillen on saturday

Thanks lads, I'll head into town on Saturday and pick one up.

Hey ednwireland, go home you're drunk

Jawgap

ednwireland

ednwireland wrote: »

Got one in easons in enniskillen on saturday

They are in Easons in Dundrum too.

Chuchote

The ultimate fixie - Trocadero Velo, from France. Oh là là!

Bikes with separate action for front and back wheels. Pretty weird.

RacoonQueen

On topic for the off topic thread...but, is bee cycles still there in dolphins barn? road bike could do with a professional going over and he's always been my go to guy but it's been a while...

Alek

Still there!

Harrybelafonte

Chuchote wrote: »

The ultimate fixie - Trocadero Velo, from France. Oh là là!

Not fixed. Rear wheel continues to spin when they stop pedalling?
Only a front brake on a singlespeed?
No foot retention?
Look like ****in idiots trying to be different.

W?nkers

cjt156

^^^Once again; the answer to a question that has never been asked.

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/travis_robert/status/869687734608244736

magicbastarder

i'd not realised there was a motocross track beside eastpoint business park until yesterday. do they ever open it to BMXers, or other unmotorised bikes?

seamus

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'd not realised there was a motocross track beside eastpoint business park until yesterday. do they ever open it to BMXers, or other unmotorised bikes?

Belongs to these guys;
https://www.facebook.com/dublincitymx/

I'd be surprised if they ever "officially" allowed BMXers onto it. MX and BMX don't mix

ThisRegard

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://twitter.com/travis_robert/status/869687734608244736

That's a lovely streetscape.

Chuchote

George Hook has invited Ciaran Cuffe and Owen Keegan to walk the Clontarf cycle path and see is it safe; Cuffe's agreed on condition that Hooky will cycle on the way back, and he's said ok, he will.

manafana

Those parents that complain are walking on cycle path while their kids are cycling, if it was just a kid cycling it would be fine, its the parent causing issue, some points of it are fine, others its quiet narrow, it certainly could be improved, but again its because of cars that the thing is where it is

Chuchote

Presumably the lads will stop and talk to people on bikes as they walk it.

magicbastarder

Chuchote wrote: »

walk the Clontarf cycle path and see is it safe

i assume you mean walk alongside it?

Chuchote

magicbastarder wrote: »

i assume you mean walk alongside it?

It's not what I mean, it's what they mean that matters.

magicbastarder

i just have a vision of george hook walking down the centre of the cycle path, dealing with (rightfully) annoyed cyclists, and drawing the 'see, i was right!' conclusion.

Wishbone Ash

First world problems and all that but things like this make me lose the will to live.

Did the printer not notice it? Did the person who placed the sticker on the bus not think it looked odd? Did the driver not spot it? And do the management team at Mathews not feel a bit silly?

magicbastarder

the most egregious example of a signwriter going with 'this is the copy i was given and this is what i'll use' that i know (hard to read with the light conditions:

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.4490441,-6.3439716,3a,75y,129.56h,95.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sj5Vty009ijUcoNhRqhvLOw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

(to explain - the yellow strip above the sign for the white house reads 'Lift Your'e Right Foot')

Wishbone Ash

magicbastarder wrote: »

the most egregious example of a signwriter going with 'this is the copy i was given and this is what i'll use' that i know (hard to read with the light conditions:

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.4490441,-6.3439716,3a,75y,129.56h,95.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sj5Vty009ijUcoNhRqhvLOw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

(to explain - the yellow strip above the sign for the white house reads 'Lift Your'e Right Foot')

Yes, that's been there for many years now. There another one at the entrance of an amusement place in the city centre which reads "It's not the hand your dealt but the way you play them".

magicbastarder

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Yes, that's been there for many years now.

yeah, they cut the hedge back a few years ago to make it easier to read.

CramCycle

magicbastarder wrote: »

yeah, they cut the hedge back a few years ago to make it easier to read.

It does not make it easier to read

tomasrojo

I like this one, from Kilmainham Gaol, December 2011:



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