La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

LollipopJimmy

CramCycle wrote: »

Absolute genius. To partner, flatmate, friends, whoever, "I swear I wasn't posting porn links, I mean look, i even went onto boards to ask is it a common occurrence." :pac:

And we failed him...

Friendship among Women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it.


Friendship among Men:
A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.

Now, THAT'S friendship!

RobertFoster

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

And we failed him...

Oh, on Strava? Yeah there's always seems to be someone posting about riding over Sally Gap from different directions. Definite hacking going on.

Rechuchote

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

And we failed him...

Friendship among Women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it.


Friendship among Men:
A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.

Now, THAT'S friendship!

Is it, now?

LollipopJimmy

Well..

Rechuchote wrote: »

Is it, now?

magicbastarder

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

Hurrache

Hi-vis would have allowed him to be seen easier and avoided such a near miss
https://www.facebook.com/itsgoneviralofficial/videos/195368818030755/UzpfSTEzODQ0ODU0MTQyMzoxMDE1Njk5ODg5MDk1MTQyNA/?sk=h_chr

cdaly_

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

Was it just as you passed each one 'cos that would be confirmation that the sun shines out of your ass...

tomasrojo

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

Were you heading west? I guess north?

magicbastarder

neither - outbound, so south east.

tomasrojo

I had a crazed vision of you heading west, keeping pace with the rising sun. I think that would require you to travel about 1800km/h though.

magicbastarder

i've only ever managed that downhill with a tailwind. and accounting for the rotational speed of the earth's surface. and for the motion of the earth around the sun.

LollipopJimmy

Magicbastarder doesn't do push ups, he does 'earth downs'

Macy0161

cdaly_ wrote: »

Was it just as you passed each one 'cos that would be confirmation that the sun shines out of your ass...

I was going with it being a cheap chinese CREE light messing with the sensors myself...

magicbastarder

someone has half-inched geraint thomas's TdF trophy:

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/tour-france-trophy-stolen/

magicbastarder

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

another minor glitch in the matrix today. a few hundred metres from the office, i told another cyclist that his forks were on backwards - 'bloody hell, it was like this when i got it'; and the next bike i passed, about half a kilometre later - forks also on backwards.

brownian

VW 1 wrote: »

Looking for some pointers for a new set of lights coming into winter again, my back one has given up and my front one has a lifetime of an hour or so, which means daily recharging for the commute.

Specifications/requirements; USB rechargeable, decent battery lifetime (ie. 2 hours or more in the highest mode), for use only on lit streets in Dublin and a budget of around 100 for the two.

Is this realistic? I've checked online and with the plethora of options, not sure which is best to go with.

TIA.

For me, the challenge is always getting a rear light that is really bright enough for people to take notice of. There are loads of bright, decent, front lights (Fenix are rather nice). I must have tried one of most rear lights out there. The Bontrager Flare seems to be about the best; that, or the Exposure Tracer (tho mine died after only one year of use, and didn't have the widest-visible-beam). Lunar have a couple of reasonable ones too.

Anyway, I'd get a decent rear light first, and spend the change on a front one.

bp_me

magicbastarder wrote: »

another minor glitch in the matrix today. a few hundred metres from the office, i told another cyclist that his forks were on backwards - 'bloody hell, it was like this when i got it'; and the next bike i passed, about half a kilometre later - forks also on backwards.

Had this happen to a work colleague who bought a bike online. They never realised they were supposed to turn the wheel back around during assembly (Im guessing they got something in the CRC big box for them to make that mistake).

tomasrojo

magicbastarder wrote: »

another minor glitch in the matrix today. a few hundred metres from the office, i told another cyclist that his forks were on backwards - 'bloody hell, it was like this when i got it'; and the next bike i passed, about half a kilometre later - forks also on backwards.

I saw a kid cycling with the fork on backwards earlier in the year. I tried to explain to his mother before the light changed and I had to head off in the other direction. I think she thought I was criticising something or other.

VW 1

brownian wrote: »

For me, the challenge is always getting a rear light that is really bright enough for people to take notice of. There are loads of bright, decent, front lights (Fenix are rather nice). I must have tried one of most rear lights out there. The Bontrager Flare seems to be about the best; that, or the Exposure Tracer (tho mine died after only one year of use, and didn't have the widest-visible-beam). Lunar have a couple of reasonable ones too.

Anyway, I'd get a decent rear light first, and spend the change on a front one.

I ended up picking up the pair in aldi, two for forty quid and enough life in them to get me there and back to work twice, without recharging.

Wishbone Ash

brownian wrote: »

For me, the challenge is always getting a rear light that is really bright enough for people to take notice of. There are loads of bright, decent, front lights (Fenix are rather nice). I must have tried one of most rear lights out there. The Bontrager Flare seems to be about the best; that, or the Exposure Tracer (tho mine died after only one year of use, and didn't have the widest-visible-beam). Lunar have a couple of reasonable ones too.

Anyway, I'd get a decent rear light first, and spend the change on a front one.

I have a couple of these bad boys - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/lezyne-strip-drive-pro-300l-rear-light/rp-prod163283 - very bright on the highest setting and on the lower settings will run for about 18 hours.

tomasrojo

For rear lights, I've grown to like a standard Dutch-style reflector with light built in, and a Lunar R2 mounted just below it, both set to steady. It gives you something like a big, red light, a bit like a motorbike.

mloc123

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/cateye-rapid-mini-rear-light/rp-prod162706

Using this for a couple of years and find it very bright, charge it every few days

CrowdedHouse

:D

https://twitter.com/sticky_bottle/status/1050126330883387393

Harrybelafonte

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I have a couple of these bad boys - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/lezyne-strip-drive-pro-300l-rear-light/rp-prod163283 - very bright on the highest setting and on the lower settings will run for about 18 hours.

How different are both settings brightness-wise to get such a substantial difference in running time?

Boscoirl

https://twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/1050169156685815808?s=21

Wishbone Ash

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

How different are both settings brightness-wise to get such a substantial difference in running time?

There are 11 settings which is a bit much in my opinion but I only use 2 of them - day time flash mode which is the brightest, and the lowest one which is a running sequence up and down through the 5 LEDs.

The running sequence is perfectly adequate and some club mates have remarked on how good it is (thinking that it's at maximum setting). It has never run out on this setting even on very long rides.

But to answer your question, at night the difference is very noticeable. On the brightest setting, on an unlit area, the whole road behind glows red whereas on the lowest setting, when you look down, the light can only be seen reflecting off the brake assembly or mudguard.

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/tweetymike/status/1050271589504290821

CramCycle

That happened to me oat the yellow house Rathfarnham. Wearing one green Hulk sock and one red Iron Man sock. Courier beside me was staring at my socks so intently he didn't notice his light going green. I had to shout over to him.

Daroxtar

Days spent looking for one of my arm warmers, eventually gave up and bought a new pair today. Wife arrives home and asks me why one of my cycling socks is in her sock drawer......

Raam

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/11/roger-gilles-women-on-the-move-bicycle-racing-1890s

About women bike racing in the late 1800s