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

McTigs

Not really worth its own thread, I'm looking for a new groupset for my road bike..... Thinking of shimano ultegra.

Do the websites have sales in January flogging off last years editions and if so which yer go to site?

I'd get my lbs to supply and fit but my neighbour down the road turns out to be a great bike mech and can do full builds so I reckoned cheaper to source from the Internet and give to him

Chips Lovell

It's been a long standing practice for Italian Pro Continental teams to register in Ireland. Panaria - Navigare were doing it as far back as 2006. At one point I think there were three of them doing it.

Beasty

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

It's been a long standing practice for Italian Pro Continental teams to register in Ireland. Panaria - Navigare were doing it as far back as 2006. At one point I think there were three of them doing it.

Thought there was now a requirement to have a certain number of riders from the "home country", or am I thinking about a different level?

Qualitymark

Would it be a good idea to have a Long Low Raking Puck rule to test that a team's members really are Irish? Give them a camán and a sliotar and get them ag iomáint.

wanderer 22

McTigs wrote: »

Not really worth its own thread, I'm looking for a new groupset for my road bike..... Thinking of shimano ultegra.

Do the websites have sales in January flogging off last years editions and if so which yer go to site?

I'd get my lbs to supply and fit but my neighbour down the road turns out to be a great bike mech and can do full builds so I reckoned cheaper to source from the Internet and give to him

CSS have Shimano 105 5800 11sp for €350 on 13th December https://www.cyclesuperstore.ie/shop/pc/adventcalendar.asp

petethedrummer

Qualitymark wrote: »

Would it be a good idea to have a Long Low Raking Puck rule to test that a team's members really are Irish? Give them a camán and a sliotar and get them ag iomáint.

I would fail that test. I grew up in Louth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louth_Senior_Hurling_Championship

Qualitymark

petethedrummer wrote: »

I would fail that test. I grew up in Louth.

Home of the Poc Fada

Unknown Soldier

For Xmas, I'm joining the "whoosh, whoosh" brigade.

I could be dead next year, is my thinking. If this trend continues I need to be properly dead by the end of 2019.

Can't wait for the "whoosh, whoosh" though!

RobertFoster

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

For Xmas, I'm joining the "whoosh, whoosh" brigade.

I could be dead next year, is my thinking. If this trend continues I need to be properly dead by the end of 2019.

Can't wait for the "whoosh, whoosh" though!

Does that mean you're taking up skiing, or are you getting disc wheels?

roverrules

RobertFoster wrote: »

Does that mean you're taking up skiing, or are you getting disc wheels?

Or tinnitus?

www.whooshers.com

rollingscone

Does anyone in times of extreme pressure in work ever find themselves looking fondly at pictures of their bicycles on mountains?

Asking for a friend

Unknown Soldier

RobertFoster wrote: »

Does that mean you're taking up skiing, or are you getting disc wheels?

Not skiing, though I'd like to give that a lash someday. I'll be taking up Wall climbing at some stage followed by Speed roller blade'n. Always fancied both of those.


Sadly my body clock is now tuned into getting up at 4:45am and I'm bored out of my bollix as there is no friggin' way I am heading out in that wind, though I did contemplate it.

Is below savage value for a grand?, and no, I'm not looking to buy one. Was just browsing!

http://www.radon-bikes.de/en/bikes-2016/roadbike/roadbike-training/r1/r1-105/

Qualitymark

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Speed roller blade'n. Always fancied

I'd love to relearn roller blading; tried a few years ago (in my youth I was an ace roller-skater on those steel-wheeled demons - clashclashclashclashclashclash - but nearly put my back and wrist out when I landed on my arse. Only way I could learn now is if there were a hall with ceiling harnesses so you could spend a few hours roped up for a few weeks and relearn the balance, then be confident enough to take it outside.

ThisRegard

Did your roller skates have those lights in the wheels that lit up when you moved? First time roller skating was at the Top Hat, I had a ball.

Qualitymark

ThisRegard wrote: »

Did your roller skates have those lights in the wheels that lit up when you moved? First time roller skating was at the Top Hat, I had a ball.

God, no. Steel wheels on a kind of clamp thing that hung on to your shoes and ruint them. Though Francis Stuart namedrop told me that in the 1930s he used to roller skate in the Pav, where you could watch a film while skating, including skating around behind the screen, which was hung centrally in the hall.

Beasty

So Qualtymark, can I interest you in my other wheel-based sports passion, Roller Derby?

Qualitymark

Beasty wrote: »

So Qualtymark, can I interest you in my other wheel-based sports passion, Roller Derby?

Find me that training place with the ceiling harnesses and I'm in!

Meanwhile, 17 English Quakers are cycling very quietly across Europe in a climate change action http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/blog/climate-change-2/cycling-the-cooperide-from-copenhagen-to-paris/

Thargor

CramCycle

I see they have improved the N11 path quite a bit

manafana

CramCycle wrote: »

I see they have improved the N11 path quite a bit

joys of the world withs cars, roads always the best surface.

crosstownk

Today, while driving, I turned left from Merrion Square onto Clare Street. I had to stop at a red light/green pedestrian crossing while I was waiting to turn right to Lincoln Place. As I was stopped, a cyclist came up my left side, went through the red light at the pedestrian crossing, mounted the footpath (full of peds) and continued cycling on the footpath up Leinster Street. He was in no particular hurry.

It was a Garda. In uniform. On a Garda bicycle.

A stellar example.

Beasty

He was full of peds? Hope they tested him....

rollingscone

crosstownk wrote: »

Today, while driving, I turned left from Merrion Square onto Clare Street. I had to stop at a red light/green pedestrian crossing while I was waiting to turn right to Lincoln Place. As I was stopped, a cyclist came up my left side, went through the red light at the pedestrian crossing, mounted the footpath (full of peds) and continued cycling on the footpath up Leinster Street. He was in no particular hurry.

It was a Garda. In uniform. On a Garda bicycle.

A stellar example.

What is this foot "path" you speak of?

APOSTATE!!!!














Cyclists use the FOOTPAD!

OleRodrigo

AFAIK Guards are allowed break rules of the road while on duty.

Wishbone Ash

OleRodrigo wrote: »

AFAIK Guards are allowed break rules of the road while on duty.

They are exempt from rather than allowed to 'break' the rules (except section 49 etc.)

OleRodrigo

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

They are exempt from rather than allowed to 'break' the rules (except section 49 etc.)

Is it the same thing, more or less?

manafana

arn't the rules of the road for motorised traffic

Wishbone Ash

OleRodrigo wrote: »

Is it the same thing, more or less?

Well no - one can't break a rule that one is exempt from.

Eamonnator

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Well no - one can't break a rule that one is exempt from.

When was one crowned?

rollingscone

manafana wrote: »

arn't the rules of the road for motorised traffic

Nope. There are exemptions from speed limitations for non motorised traffic that's about it.