La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

tomasrojo

nee wrote: »

Oh! They look the business. The thoughts of paying €4 for bar ends though.

But then again one of my bikes is completely missing bar ends, my pursuit bars have only 3, and the road bike has one.
It may be time to do something about it!

If you wrap the threads of the bar-end plugs with electrical tape before inserting, they usually stay in place, I find.

Raam

Screw in bar ends? Wrapping them in electrical tape?
Won't someone think of the needless extra weight?!
Wrap your bars properly and you won't need these fudges.

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Raam wrote: »

Screw in bar ends? Wrapping them in electrical tape?
Won't someone think of the needless extra weight?!
Wrap your bars properly and you won't need these fudges.

I didn't even bother trying to put bar ends in the new bars :pac:



I will (have to) before I race it though.

loyatemu

Bar ends are a safety feature, or so I was told when I rocked up to a club ride with one missing, followed by various anecdotes of people who had become gruesomely impaled on their bars. For the sake of €4 I bought some of the screw-in ones (also, they're shiny).

Rechuchote

tomasrojo wrote: »

I find if you enclose the solution tube in a plastic sleeve and keep it firmly closed with an elastic band, the solution doesn't dry out.

Thanks, good tip. I ordered a big can of glue that was supposed to have been here, via ParcelMotel, a week ago but no sign of it. But then Royal Mail seems pretty inefficient.

Rechuchote

loyatemu wrote: »

Bar ends are a safety feature, or so I was told when I rocked up to a club ride with one missing, followed by various anecdotes of people who had become gruesomely impaled on their bars. For the sake of €4 I bought some of the screw-in ones (also, they're shiny).

Much better with these - I can never understand why they are a feature missing from the Tour de France

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Aw now I'd love tassels. I haven't a flat bar bike.
Some day.

Heard the goring stories, I'll have it safely stopped up before inflicting myself in a bunch!

P_1

After a very short but fun friendship, I've managed to lose my bollock back light, it fell victim to the awful N11 cycle lane surface. If anyone found it, treat it well

magicbastarder

could you hammer in a couple of champagne corks?

Specialised make kids bikes? I did not know this. Might be the only way our house ever has one. Saw a fella out on a classic black with white lettering Sworks the other night. What do those go for new 4k-8k for just the frame? Had a strong urge to tell my little girl who was in the back to "get him with the door love" :pac:

Wishbone Ash

nee wrote: »

Aw now I'd love tassels! ....

Brings back memories of cycling in the 1980's with a leather jacket with tassels along the sleeves and across the back. Thought I was as cool as Tony Iommi.

LollipopJimmy

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Brings back memories of cycling in the 1980's with a leather jacket with tassels along the sleeves and across the back. Thought I was as cool as Tony Iommi.

Would that make you Paranoid now?

P_1

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Brings back memories of cycling in the 1980's with a leather jacket with tassels along the sleeves and across the back. Thought I was as cool as Tony Iommi.

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Would that make you Paranoid now?

I thought you were only meant to wear tassles when you rode your white horse Mr Crowley

Lusk_Doyle

P_1 wrote: »

After a very short but fun friendship, I've managed to lose my bollock back light, it fell victim to the awful N11 cycle lane surface. If anyone found it, treat it well

Why did you have lights on your bollock?

CramCycle

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Why did you have lights on your bollock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Z6Y0YNQGg

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Had a lovely experience with Dublin Bus today. Was pedalling home about 15 mins ago down the Rock road. There was a number 7 bus ahead of me. I was tipping along the Merrion Road out of town. The bus had stopped at the bus stop ahead, then as i was coming up to it the indicator came on. It was 50-50 whether I'd make it by without slowing the bus down so I stopped in behind it. The driver pulled out and gave me the hazards of thanks. Aw thought I, maybe it was for someone else (there was no one else on either side of the road but still) or something, but still what a nice driver.
So I ended up passing the bus 4 more times as it was stopped at stops, and the last time just on the Rock Road by Blackrock college. Again it was 50-50 whether I'd make it out or not so I stopped in behind it and the driver gave me the hazards of thanks again! How nice! And all the times they passed me they gave me lots of room too.
What an awesome driver!

tomasrojo

I've mostly pretty positive experience of Dublin Bus drivers. Generally appreciative of you stopping to let them make a manoeuvre and such like.

cdaly_

nee wrote: »

Oh! They look the business. The thoughts of paying €4 for bar ends though.

But then again one of my bikes is completely missing bar ends, my pursuit bars have only 3, and the road bike has one.
It may be time to do something about it!

€4 for bar ends! Mine cost €85...

Rechuchote

nee wrote: »

Had a lovely experience with Dublin Bus today. Was pedalling home about 15 mins ago down the Rock road. There was a number 7 bus ahead of me. I was tipping along the Merrion Road out of town. The bus had stopped at the bus stop ahead, then as i was coming up to it the indicator came on. It was 50-50 whether I'd make it by without slowing the bus down so I stopped in behind it. The driver pulled out and gave me the hazards of thanks. Aw thought I, maybe it was for someone else (there was no one else on either side of the road but still) or something, but still what a nice driver.
So I ended up passing the bus 4 more times as it was stopped at stops, and the last time just on the Rock Road by Blackrock college. Again it was 50-50 whether I'd make it out or not so I stopped in behind it and the driver gave me the hazards of thanks again! How nice! And all the times they passed me they gave me lots of room too.
What an awesome driver!

The one time it might be worth filling out "our online report form".

But maybe you don't want to get the driver into trouble!

CramCycle

Had to head up the embankment this morning out of Tallaght, I'd say nearly 40 trucks passed me over the few km. Every single one of them gave at least 2m, coming to bends where there was no shoulder space they held back.

It was a really nice experience, except for the silver bus that skimmed me on a corner and I had to touch the side to stop myself being pushed off the road.

Managed to glance behind after to see the look of horror on the lorry drivers face as he thought he was about to be calling the gardai, not an ambulance.

LollipopJimmy

Positive feedback is always nice, be nice if DB passed it on to him but a post in their FB page might be better.
I worked in an energy company and was in the office late one night, recruitment is my gig but I had worked across various parts of this company and one of the agents came to me with an issue which I managed to resolve for the customer, meant me staying a lot later and having a back and forth with the previous supplier (issue with a prepaid meter) The next day we got a mail to the complaints inbox titled 'This is not a complaint' which sang my praises and it went as far as the commercial director who gave me a gift card. So don't think positive feedback won't be appreciated.

Nice piece on TV3 news there about the Big Ride For Africa down in Castlemartin. Not an event or charity I was aware of. Sean Kelly was there on his bike too lending his support.

CramCycle

On a slightly less positive note, I fell off my bike today. I decided to use the bike lane instead of the road. The drop of rain obviously made things a bit slippy but coming to a weird junction at a roundabout, which gave no clear way for a bike to continue, I slowed, almost to a stop when the wheel went from under me. A little scraped but fine but I did lay there for about a minute as I tensed up and it was a bit sore, as I struggled to get up, and my bike lay in a heap beside me one thing struck me. Not one person stopped, or even slowed.

When I commute home, if I see a motorist with a flat or engine trouble, I'll pull over to see do they need a hand, same with people who have flats, most times they don't (although on a few occasions i have given cars a push wearing cleats which is more annoying than you might think).

What is wrong with people, who sees a person lying on the road with a vehicle beside them that doesn't look like it was placed there gently and just drives around them.

While are economy maybe improving, the part of us that seems to be referred to as civilised seems to be getting slowly further away.

tomasrojo

Yeah, I helped an Australian woman in a rental car change a flat last week. Nobody else seemed to be stopping.

Actually, it was a bit unfortunate, because she'd pulled in on the Drummartin Link Road, and was blocking the ramp onto the cycle track at the T-junction with the Kilmacud Luas stop. A passing cyclist turned around to give her the stink eye, made a hames of mounting the ramp, and hit the ground. So I helped her fix up her bike too.

EDIT: And a few weeks before that, I helped a woman whose car was emitting a stink of burning plastic and not moving get off the Goatstown Road. Again, I was the only person who stopped to help, but when I started pushing the car, another guy leapt out of a car to push too. Maybe people just can't see that much of what's going on around them when they're in a car.

tomasrojo

Now I think about it, I slipped on painted road markings one frosty day (you know the way they're the last bit of the road to thaw; well, I wasn't sufficiently aware of it at the time), and was lying on the road, and people just drove around me until I got up. But then a passing DCU student on a bike stopped to see if I was ok. But he was in my class!

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CramCycle wrote: »

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tomasrojo wrote: »

Now I think about it, I slipped on painted road markings one frosty day (you know the way they're the last bit of the road to thaw; well, I wasn't sufficiently aware of it at the time), and was lying on the road, and people just drove around me until I got up. But then a passing DCU student on a bike stopped to see if I was ok. But he was in my class!

This makes me really sad. Hope you're ok Cram.

I was on crutches for a year and a half once. I was on Henry street on the run up to Christmas. I collapsed, and no one stopped to help. When I opened my eyes people were stepping over me and my crutches. It took me ages to clamber up.

I always stop when I see someone down, struggling or walking with a bike. Stopped for one woman last week but her hangar was broken, nothing I could do for that sadly, but everyone else was just pedalling by her. Made me a bit sad.

I helped another guy who struggled with English get his chain back on a couple of Christmases ago in front of the Shelbourne one evening. It was dark, cold, raining. He had the bike upside down and was fiddling goodo with it. I popped the chain back on her him (it was wedged a bit). He said 'Thank you. But you are woman?' ! :rolleyes:
There are at least those of us who do stop. There is good in the world. Isn't there?!!!

CramCycle

nee wrote: »

I was on Henry street on the run up to Christmas. I collapsed, and no one stopped to help. When I opened my eyes people were stepping over me and my crutches. It took me ages to clamber up.

Well you certainly beat me on the "how sh1tty can the general population be to another person" competition.

magicbastarder

on the converse, my sister's sister in law had an epileptic fit on henry street recently. half a dozen people stopped to help, one woman specifically said she stopped so her handbag would not get stolen!

ED E

magicbastarder wrote: »

on the converse, my sister's sister in law had an epileptic fit on henry street recently. half a dozen people stopped to help, one woman specifically said she stopped so her handbag would not get stolen!

Pedestrians are people you silly, cyclists aren't human.

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magicbastarder wrote: »

on the converse, my sister's sister in law had an epileptic fit on henry street recently. half a dozen people stopped to help, one woman specifically said she stopped so her handbag would not get stolen!

Faith in humanity restored!