La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

Raam

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I’ll be staying in the Ferrycarraig hotel in a few weeks and plan to take the bike to get out for a spin. Any nice spins from there 50-75k?

Down Kilmore Quay is nice.

VW 1

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I’ll be staying in the Ferrycarraig hotel in a few weeks and plan to take the bike to get out for a spin. Any nice spins from there 50-75k?

Hook head is beautiful and well worth a visit, but is 47k each way according to maps.

magicbastarder

very odd; they included a detail where the car is driving over a pedestrian crossing with two kids beside the crossing:

https://twitter.com/SEAT_cars_IRL/status/1142854838923026435

Lusk_Doyle

^looks like two people in running gear running along the path and not kids waiting to cross the road to me.

Wishbone Ash

....and it's an odd place for a pedestrian crossing.

tomasrojo

Two benches too. Nowhere I like to lig my scíth more than beneath a freeway overpass.

RobertFoster

The way the shadows are I thought they were rollerblading.

magicbastarder

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

^looks like two people in running gear running along the path and not kids waiting to cross the road to me.

i think i read the shadows cast by them as their legs, rather than their shadows.

Lusk_Doyle

magicbastarder wrote: »

i think i read the shadows cast by them as their legs, rather than their shadows.

Elementary, my dear Watson.

LollipopJimmy

Thinking of selling my Look and buying something else, purely because I have an option on something a bit special.

I've no idea what the Look is worth though.

Look 765 Frameset (2016 but not much use until this year) - one decal on the chainstay has a mark other than that it could genuinely pass as brand new - Medium

Ultegra R8000 Di2 complete GS including D-fly wireless unit and charger

Look Keo blade 2 pedals

Ritchey bars and stem

Would come with these wheels https://www.bikeinn.com/bike/mavic-ksyrium-exalith-pair/136237370/p (All black spokes, no yellow so slightly older version but still in excellent condition)

Fizik saddle

Everything on the bike is as it should be, Jagwire brake cables, brand new exalith pads, new BB gone on with the cranks, kmc-sl gold chain

This bike is minded like a baby

Any help with a valuation would be appreciated

Hungrycol

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Thinking of selling my Look and buying something else, purely because I have an option on something a bit special.

I've no idea what the Look is worth though.

Look 765 Frameset (2016 but not much use until this year) - one decal on the chainstay has a mark other than that it could genuinely pass as brand new - Medium

Ultegra R8000 Di2 complete GS including D-fly wireless unit and charger

Look Keo blade 2 pedals

Ritchey bars and stem

Would come with these wheels https://www.bikeinn.com/bike/mavic-ksyrium-exalith-pair/136237370/p (All black spokes, no yellow so slightly older version but still in excellent condition)

Fizik saddle

Everything on the bike is as it should be, Jagwire brake cables, brand new exalith pads, new BB gone on with the cranks, kmc-sl gold chain

This bike is minded like a baby

Any help with a valuation would be appreciated

I offer one HUNDRED euros. Moohaahaahaa.

LollipopJimmy

Ah I already have an offer of €300 from a lad in work :P

Fian

Google maps now shows how many bikes are parked at dublin bike stations. just click on the station and it will show how many are there out of the total - so you know how many parking slots are available as well as how many bikes.

LollipopJimmy

Fian wrote: »

Google maps now shows how many bikes are parked at dublin bike stations. just click on the station and it will show how many are there out of the total - so you know how many parking slots are available as well as how many bikes.

Their own app does the same thing and has proven to be really accurate in real time. I assume Google Maps pull the info from the DB app. Still handy

BrianHenryIE

New Kickstarter for an air pollution monitor. Anything similar out there/experience with things like this? I’m tempted.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airsniffler/airsniffler?ref=2n23de

koutoubia

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Ah I already have an offer of €300 from a lad in work :P

I will offer 350...:D

robyntmorton

Random musings on commutes:
Why do these gym goers hate leg day? For a cyclist every day is leg day.
Theres someone riding my wheel and not taking their turn. Is the etiquette to speed up and drop them, or not show weakness by slowing down?
Why do I go faster on days that I feel worse?

Let's be honest, sometimes I have too much time to think!

Mickiemcfist

BrianHenryIE wrote: »

New Kickstarter for an air pollution monitor. Anything similar out there/experience with things like this? I’m tempted.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airsniffler/airsniffler?ref=2n23de

What's the point? Pollution is where heavy traffic is, if you're trying to avoid pollution, avoid high volume routes. I just don't see what possible value it could add.

Rechuchote

From Twitter:

Ken Mc Fadden
@unspeakable28
Very serious looking accident at front of dept of health, motorbike & bicycle mangled a good distance off the road , hope everyone is ok but it looks really bad , gardai have it blocked off

Rechuchote

BrianHenryIE wrote: »

New Kickstarter for an air pollution monitor. Anything similar out there/experience with things like this? I’m tempted.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airsniffler/airsniffler?ref=2n23de

Breezometer app works well, but it uses the EPA's monitoring stations, some of which (I'm told) have been closed down.

magicbastarder

so it doesn't have its own monitoring capability? it just pulls in the readings from nearby ones?

LollipopJimmy

robyntmorton wrote: »

Random musings on commutes:
Why do these gym goers hate leg day? For a cyclist every day is leg day.
Theres someone riding my wheel and not taking their turn. Is the etiquette to speed up and drop them, or not show weakness by slowing down?
Why do I go faster on days that I feel worse?

Let's be honest, sometimes I have too much time to think!

- If you don't struggle to get off the toilet after leg day then you're doing it wrong. Tbh I've given up on conventional gym work myself and am fully focused on fighting.

- Speed up and drop them, never show a chink in the armour, if they keep up with you call them out for being a lazy git and tell them to take a turn.

- It's a mental thing, free your mind and your legs will follow

Rechuchote

magicbastarder wrote: »

so it doesn't have its own monitoring capability? it just pulls in the readings from nearby ones?

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Raam

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Thinking of selling my Look and buying something else, purely because I have an option on something a bit special.

I've no idea what the Look is worth though.

Look 765 Frameset (2016 but not much use until this year) - one decal on the chainstay has a mark other than that it could genuinely pass as brand new - Medium

Ultegra R8000 Di2 complete GS including D-fly wireless unit and charger

Look Keo blade 2 pedals

Ritchey bars and stem

Would come with these wheels https://www.bikeinn.com/bike/mavic-ksyrium-exalith-pair/136237370/p (All black spokes, no yellow so slightly older version but still in excellent condition)

Fizik saddle

Everything on the bike is as it should be, Jagwire brake cables, brand new exalith pads, new BB gone on with the cranks, kmc-sl gold chain

This bike is minded like a baby

Any help with a valuation would be appreciated

You crazy! That bike is beautiful.

LollipopJimmy

Raam wrote: »

You crazy! That bike is beautiful.

I know but have a line on a Ridley with Bora Ultra wheels and Super Record EPS.

magicbastarder

get with the times, daddio. 'super records' are called 'CDs'.

eeeee

Can you even imagine something like that even being suggested here?

Rechuchote

Maybe one day, if we vote in the right councillors, and go and talk to people on the routes where pedestrian cycling infrastructure may be built, telling them about the joys of kids being able to play in the street, old ladies being able to sit and have a goss with their shopping bags, bees and butterflies returning to the hedges and similar unremembered joys.

eeeee

God there's nothing like the thwomp of a disc.
Heading to training today, and it sounded like thunder all the way over and back :pac:

Left my bike leaning against a wall out back on friday evening just after the down pours when I was moving stuff around in the shed and forgot about it but remembered before bed. Went to wheel it in and felt something wet on my hand ..... covered in slugs :mad: