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Pinch Flat

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Stopped at a red light this morning. Another cyclist ran through the red. A pedestrian started screaming and ranting at me 'f'ing cyclists, f'ing red lights apply to f'ing you as well' right up in my face, all agro. Shouting at the person waiting for the green light - absolute idiot. I was kind of shocked and it put me in bad form for a while. I've had my porridge now though so I'm much better now.

Just smile and advise them you've noted their concerns and that you'll bring it up at the weekly meeting that all cyclists in the country are obliged to attend.

DominoDub

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Just smile and advise them you've noted their concerns and that you'll bring it up at the weekly meeting that all cyclists in the country are obliged to attend.

A massive Boards Cycling forum ... Beers Night Meet up ....sounds like a plan.

Seanmk1

A quick spin down the coast road and around the Hill of Howth. 23km at an average 25kph.

Got blasted by a council grit truck, which kinda hurt.

godtabh

Gave Zwift a proper go this morning. Just over an hour on it. Kicked my ass. Constant effort for an hour.

I''m a sweaty mess now but enjoyed it.

Bloggsie

godtabh wrote: »

Got myself a smart trainer. Took me an age to set up (but that may have been my own fault!) and only had time for a 20 min spin.

The forecast for the week is bad so my do a proper road test this week.

here's your brother, will be setting up my turbo on Saturday nite for early Sunday.

magicbastarder

are you guys setting them up on concrete or wooden floors?

Fighting Tao

magicbastarder wrote: »

are you guys setting them up on concrete or wooden floors?

I have the turbo set up on those foam mats that go together like a jigsaw. They are on carpet. Don't find any issue with it and the carpet doesn't get wrecked either.

godtabh

Set up on a foam exercise mat on a wooden floor. Seems to be very little movement at high wattage.

godtabh

Bloggsie wrote: »

here's your brother, will be setting up my turbo on Saturday nite for early Sunday.

Very few Europeans out early morning. Lots of Oz/Kiwis and Yanks. Should be easy to find the irish flag

Alek

Constant effort for an hour.

I''m a sweaty mess now but enjoyed it.

Sounds like CX minus mud.

magicbastarder

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I have the turbo set up on those foam mats that go together like a jigsaw. They are on carpet. Don't find any issue with it and the carpet doesn't get wrecked either.

i was wondering more about the floor structure - i.e. does a wooden floor transmit much noise when you're using a turbo on it.

LollipopJimmy

Commuting this morning was cold and slippy in places. On arrival in work I was greeted by freezing cold showers

Diemos

Have started cycling along the canal, I've moved recently.

It's really frustrating the amount of people who jump to the top of the queue at traffic lights but are then slow as hell.
I had to over take one girl 4 times this morning.
Is there no etiquette on this route? I've never had this experienced before.

LollipopJimmy

Diemos wrote: »

Have started cycling along the canal, I've moved recently.

It's really frustrating the amount of people who jump to the top of the queue at traffic lights but are then slow as hell.
I had to over take one girl 4 times this morning.
Is there no etiquette on this route? I've never had this experienced before.

It's the same every morning. This morning a lady I'd overtaken went to the front of the queue, actually blocked me and when the lights went green she wasn't ready to go because she was texting. No point getting frustrated though because that won't change anything. I go onto the canal at Blackhorse and come off at Ranelagh and it happens the whole way along

Alanstrainor

Diemos wrote: »

Have started cycling along the canal, I've moved recently.

It's really frustrating the amount of people who jump to the top of the queue at traffic lights but are then slow as hell.
I had to over take one girl 4 times this morning.
Is there no etiquette on this route? I've never had this experienced before.

This happens everywhere. Honestly you're better off just biting your tongue, no use talking to people that do this.

Was frozen this morning, I have been wearing my Aldi winter jacket that I picked up last year. It's actually a pretty nice one, and keeps me relatively warm. My main issue now is my hands; my knuckles have gone really dry and are cracking, I reckon due to the cold but I'm not too sure.

Annie get your Run

Diemos wrote: »

Have started cycling along the canal, I've moved recently.

It's really frustrating the amount of people who jump to the top of the queue at traffic lights but are then slow as hell.
I had to over take one girl 4 times this morning.
Is there no etiquette on this route? I've never had this experienced before.

Yep happens to me all the time too from the PP down the quays. I used to stop 'in line' when I started commuting. I don't bother now...

The roads weren't as bad this morning as Monday at least even though it was bitterly cold.

Ciaran_B

Diemos wrote: »

Have started cycling along the canal, I've moved recently.

It's really frustrating the amount of people who jump to the top of the queue at traffic lights but are then slow as hell.
I had to over take one girl 4 times this morning.
Is there no etiquette on this route? I've never had this experienced before.

I've been riding that route for years and it's always been that way. It's incredibly irritating when you have to drop the same person two or three times. I've gotten pretty good at overtaking these slow-coaches now and can easily zip past them.

Fighting Tao

If there was room for cars to pass other cars at lights they would too. It just seems to be human nature that they have to get to the top of the queue first regardless.

Chuchote

Diemos wrote: »

Have started cycling along the canal, I've moved recently.

It's really frustrating the amount of people who jump to the top of the queue at traffic lights but are then slow as hell.
I had to over take one girl 4 times this morning.
Is there no etiquette on this route? I've never had this experienced before.

Is this perhaps due to the fact that Irish people have never really copped on to the purpose of queueing? Eastern Europeans get particularly crazy about this, because in their countries it's first come first served, and once you're in a queue you wait politely for your turn.

Diemos

OK, thanks for the replies.

Alanstrainor

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh fell off because i'm a knob-head. Was about 2 minutes away from my house this morning after leaving for work and thought I might have forgotten my phone. There was an on-path cycle track beside me with a really low curb so I decided to pull in and stop. I pulled in, didn't lift my front wheel for some silly reason, the bike went along the curb, and I went tumbling off onto the cycle track. Felt like a right bell-end. A few scratches and a sore shoulder and hip for my silliness. Ugh.

LollipopJimmy

Leaving the house at 5.30 this morning, stuck on the cycling gear then wimped out and took the car

P_1

Got a new set of lights today and took them out for a test spin. Both Bull Walls in a nice 29km loop. 200 lumens are fantastic things to have.

https://www.strava.com/activities/785292213

Unknown Soldier

It's the little things in life... and this is one of them

I only noticed today but I somehow managed to pass 20,000 KM since I started cycling in 2013.

20,000km!

Considering this was me when I started in 2013, I think I am allowed to be slightly chuffed!

I didn't have the best few weeks on the bike of late, there seemed to be a strange correlation between doing something nice for crosstownK and getting sick the next day.

Suffice is to say this Monday I didn't have anything to drop off at his gaff and I managed to commute in and out of work OK

90km done this week and feeling very much over my commuting/cycling PTSD, which is cool

secman

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

It's the little things in life... and this is one of them

I only noticed today but I somehow managed to pass 20,000 KM since I started cycling in 2013.

20,000km!

Considering this was me when I started in 2013, I think I am allowed to be slightly chuffed!

I didn't have the best few weeks on the bike of late, there seemed to be a strange correlation between doing something nice for crosstownK and getting sick the next day.

Suffice is to say this Monday I didn't have anything to drop off at his gaff and I managed to commute in and out of work OK

90km done this week and feeling very much over my commuting/cycling PTSD, which is cool

Did you ever manage to quit smoking or get the numbers down from 40 a day , just curious .
Well done on 20k km milestone.

triggermortis

Haven't been able to commute this week as needed to take stuff into and out of work. Was up early to sort a work pass out so got out for a quick 20km after that, Skerries - Balrothery - Balbriggan - home. I could have killed two birds with one stone and cycled to work to do the pass, but wasn't keen on locking up my good bike and didn't want to ride my commuter. I did get a first try of my new Sorpasso bib tights and Alpha jacket and am very impressed. Toasty warm spin

Unknown Soldier

secman wrote: »

Did you ever manage to quit smoking or get the numbers down from 40 a day , just curious .
Well done on 20k km milestone.

Cheers, but nope I never did.

I think it is locked into my dna/puberty as I started really young. Such is life.

Really wrecks my head seeing young teens smoking in this day and age though. All we had was some crap about Superman and Nick O'Tine

If I was hiring people these days and they were young, I wouldn't hire a smoker, due to them being stupid.

They might as well set fire to a ten euro note, daily.

crosstownk

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

I didn't have the best few weeks on the bike of late, there seemed to be a strange correlation between doing something nice for crosstownK and getting sick the next day.

Suffice is to say this Monday I didn't have anything to drop off at his gaff and I managed to commute in and out of work OK

Jeezus, man. Why didn't you drop a spare tube to my gaff this morning?

I got two punctures on my way to work today. The front went flat at Harolds Cross. I replaced the tube at the bus stop just before the bridge and the lad in Delaney's bike shop lent me a track pump to get the pressure up. Fair play to Delaney's as my Aldi mini pump only gets to 3 or 4 bar before my arm feels like that of a 16 year old with a magazine in hand.

Then at Santry the front felt vague and when I stopped at the lights at Northwood, I felt the tyre and it was soft. I cycled on and got to Airside on very low pressure - I just about made it. I could feel the rim on the ground as I pulled in to work.

At lunch time I patched both tubes. I noticed that both punctures were the same distance from the valve so I inspected the tyre again. In my haste and in the relative darkness at Harolds Cross, I had missed the shard of glass that was embedded in the tyre despite checking at the time.

I fitted the patched tube to the front wheel and walked to Eurocycles where the lads there let me use their track pump.

I really need to invest in CO2.

Chuchote

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Cheers, but nope I never did.

I think it is locked into my dna/puberty as I started really young. Such is life.

Really wrecks my head seeing young teens smoking in this day and age though. All we had was some crap about Superman and Nick O'Tine

If I was hiring people these days and they were young, I wouldn't hire a smoker, due to them being stupid.

They might as well set fire to a ten euro note, daily.

Just mentioning… my father started smoking at 13, as working-class boys did in those days, and was smoking 80 a day when he decided to quit. The next day he quit, and never smoked again (until, in old age with dementia creeping up on him, he bizarrely took it up again, though he'd only smoke three or four a day then).

magicbastarder

for my father, the biggest issue with giving up was he couldn't relax if he didn't have cigarettes on hand; he didn't need to smoke them, just felt he needed to go out and buy some. so he smoked his last packet down to about 7 cigarettes, and wrapped it up in about 20 layers of sellotape and stuck it in his jacket pocket, and that was that.