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

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/cmcgovern/status/879790820609708034

robyntmorton

Buy your bike from us. If it's stolen, we will find it. If we don't, we will replace it... For free!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/502257/dutch-manufacturer-will-track-down-your-stolen-bike%E2%80%94and-if-they-cant-theyll-replace

Wishbone Ash

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://twitter.com/cmcgovern/status/879790820609708034

I didn't need to know that. Please make it go away.

Chuchote

robyntmorton wrote: »

Buy your bike from us. If it's stolen, we will find it. If we don't, we will replace it... For free!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/502257/dutch-manufacturer-will-track-down-your-stolen-bike%E2%80%94and-if-they-cant-theyll-replace

I seem to remember going ooh at that a while ago then realising the bikes were dear, ugly and male-only. Or tall-person-only.

robyntmorton

Chuchote wrote: »

I seem to remember going ooh at that a while ago then realising the bikes were dear, ugly and male-only. Or tall-person-only.

My immediate thought when seeing the image at the top of the article was "what the hell is that?"

I like, nay, love, the idea. If it could be properly implemented into something that doesn't look so monstrously ugly, they could be on to something.

Chuchote

robyntmorton wrote: »

My immediate thought when seeing the image at the top of the article was "what the hell is that?"

I like, nay, love, the idea. If it could be properly implemented into something that doesn't look so monstrously ugly, they could be on to something.

Of course, maybe the monstrousness is why the bikes aren't stolen?

Chuchote

Take the Great Dublin Survey to tell the Dublin Chamber of Commerce what kind of city you'd like
https://www.greatdublinsurvey.ie/

dastardly00

For anybody who likes Dr. Ross Tucker, the exercise physiologist based in Cape Town, South Africa, he is giving two free talks in UCD this Thursday (29th).

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dr-ross-tucker-presents-the-icarus-problem-elite-sport-and-the-pursuit-of-human-performance-limits-tickets-34967746471?aff=es2

I like listening to him whenever he's on Off The Ball and his I find his articles about cycling and other sports very interesting.

I'd love to attend but I'd have to take time off work and I'd be wrecked for work the next day after the trek across the country!

nomdeboardie

Just came across BBC2 coverage of catamaran racing (Americas Cup) – one vessel doing their winching(?) action by arm power, the other via pedal power :pac:



(Maybe this is not unusual, though - I know little about sailing)

ThisRegard

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Just came across BBC2 coverage of catamaran racing (Americas Cup) – one vessel doing their winching(?) action by arm power, the other via pedal power :pac:



(Maybe this is not unusual, though - I know little about sailing)

Came up a while ago, http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057707776/1/#post102662104

Chuchote

Dublin City Council discussing cycling infra now - watch live https://dublincity.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/291702

magicbastarder

if you set strava to private (i've done so, so as not to spam my friends with my commutes), are times you set on those private runs recorded on leaderboards?
e.g. if i (god forbid) set a KOM on a segment on a private ride, would that KOM be hidden?

Luxman

magicbastarder wrote: »

if you set strava to private (i've done so, so as not to spam my friends with my commutes), are times you set on those private runs recorded on leaderboards?
e.g. if i (god forbid) set a KOM on a segment on a private ride, would that KOM be hidden?

No. I don't think it appears on a public leaderboard but will show up as a PB for you

LollipopJimmy

Yup I had a KOM that was taken from me 2 years before I got it... somebody obviously went to public profile and then the KOM went to them

Sarz91

Whats the deal with unplaced riders in races? Say for an A3 race with Junior having won, would the first A3 rider across the line still get 10 points or how does it work?

eeeee

Sarz91 wrote: »

Whats the deal with unplaced riders in races? Say for an A3 race with Junior having won, would the first A3 rider across the line still get 10 points or how does it work?

No, first across the line gets points for first and on down the line.
You get first unplaced A2 and woman in mixed races (A1 + A2, A4 + women), but they don't get any points.

Wishbone Ash

Luxman wrote: »

No. I don't think it appears on a public leaderboard but will show up as a PB for you

If a ride is made private after appearing on a leader board, will it stay there?

Chuchote

Aldi has a "bike trailer and stroller" for €150 next Thursday; dunno if that's a bargain…

https://www.aldi.ie/2-in-1-bike-trailer-%26-stroller/p/077476148141100

tomasrojo

Chuchote wrote: »

Aldi has a "bike trailer and stroller" for €150 next Thursday; dunno if that's a bargain…

https://www.aldi.ie/2-in-1-bike-trailer-%26-stroller/p/077476148141100

Aldi always copy the branding of what they are undercutting, so that's meant to be equivalent to a Chariot Cougar, which is about €800.

It might be ok, in which case it could well be worth buying, even as a goods trailer. The Chariot Cougar is exceptionally good though.

Miklos

I've always struggled with the idea of those yokes, they just don't seem safe.

tomasrojo

Miklos wrote: »

I've always struggled with the idea of those yokes, they just don't seem safe.

It's a very common perception. They seem to be safer than bike seats though. Think Zürich Insurance did a comparison.

I certainly never got broad support from relatives for using the Chariot Cougar with the kids on normal roads. The bakfiets got nearly universal approval (or, more likely, no open dissent).

Based on the times I did use it with the kids, and the very many times I've used it as a goods trailer, people give you a lot of room with what looks like a kids trailer.

magicbastarder

tomasrojo wrote: »

Aldi always copy the branding of what they are undercutting

always bugged me, but someone pointed out that one reason they get away with it is that sometimes the brand they are undercutting are the ones producing the cheaper goods for them.

tomasrojo

magicbastarder wrote: »

always bugged me, but someone pointed out that one reason they get away with it is that sometimes the brand they are undercutting are the ones producing the cheaper goods for them.

I think there was something in the papers in the UK about a customer buying a family pack of Hula Hoops and finding Snackrite equivalents in it. Or vice versa. Guess they went down the wrong bagging line.

EDIT:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/aldi-own-brand-hula-hoops-found-inside-kp-packet_uk_58f5cc6be4b0b9e9848e0f12

LollipopJimmy

tomasrojo wrote: »

I think there was something in the papers in the UK about a customer buying a family pack of Hula Hoops and finding Snackrite equivalents in it. Or vice versa. Guess they went down the wrong bagging line.

Buddy of mine worked in Aldi and one of her customers hit the jackpot... Got Hula-Hoops in the Aldi branded multi pack outer.

I worked for a frozen food company many years ago, nearly all of the Tesco/Dunnes branded frozen fish, pizza and veg was produced and supplied by them. It's a common practice

Fian

http://www.thejournal.ie/epo-cycling-amateur-lancet-study-3470653-Jun2017/

It seems we've all been wasting our time diligently taking EPO. Honestly what does it take to improve - actual exercise?

Ah well.

Lusk_Doyle

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

If a ride is made private after appearing on a leader board, will it stay there?

If a Strava segment falls in a forest but nobody is there to hear it, is it still yours/mine?

LollipopJimmy

Fian wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/epo-cycling-amateur-lancet-study-3470653-Jun2017/

It seems we've all been wasting our time diligently taking EPO. Honestly what does it take to improve - actual exercise?

Ah well.

Would this kind of carry on happen in the amateur ranks? A gym I trained in briefly, one of the warehouse type places was full of lads openly taking steroids and the likes.

CramCycle

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I worked for a frozen food company many years ago, nearly all of the Tesco/Dunnes branded frozen fish, pizza and veg was produced and supplied by them. It's a common practice

Same here, two very large UK retailers marketing to two very different economic groups, but it was the same desserts going into different packaging. A long time ago though, I am sure it doesn't happen anymore.

Same way Pat the Baker baked for half the country, although at least in that regard they bake them by following the different instructions from each client, rather than simply repackaging.

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/FailsWork/status/880781754214346752

tomasrojo

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FailsWork/status/880781754214346752

Well, "you must use cycle tracks where provided", so ...