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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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    #2702
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Diarmuid wrote: »
    Why implement wireless on a groupset? It's an solution looking for a problem. The shifters or gears don't move from the bars/frame. All you're adding is the requirement to have distributed batteries. All downside, no upside.

    Well yes, but SRAM eTap looks lovely (IMO) and that's more important.

    I hanker for an early midlife crisis as an excuse to get it.

    That said, my 10 Speed Sram Red is still near perfect. It would be perfect but I can't adjust the RD after its winter hibernation.


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    #2703
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Diarmuid wrote: »
    Why implement wireless on a groupset? It's an solution looking for a problem. The shifters or gears don't move from the bars/frame. All you're adding is the requirement to have distributed batteries. All downside, no upside.


    No cables, man, NO CABLES!


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    #2704
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Weighed in and should be in the cage around 9ish.

    I'm sure you're all a bag of nerves waiting to hear how I got on!


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    #2705
    Torres09
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Torres09


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Weighed in and should be in the cage around 9ish.

    I'm sure you're all a bag of nerves waiting to hear how I got on!

    Good luck Jimmy rather you than me...


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    #2706
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Decision loss...


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    #2707
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    silver wheels on a bike with a black groupset. yea or nay?


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    #2708
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    murica fcuk yeah

    https://twitter.com/dongho_chang/status/1114234493412319232

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #2709
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    silver wheels on a bike with a black groupset. yea or nay?

    No from me. However, I don't like silver wheels in general


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    #2710
    Miklos
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Miklos


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    silver wheels on a bike with a black groupset. yea or nay?

    It’s a yes from me!

    Can’t figure out why that’s coming out upside down...


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    #2711
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,167 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Australians always did have funny tastes though.


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    #2712
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    if there's anyone else like me (god help you) who's interested in townland names you wouldn't know about were it not for the segment names on strava, it's well worth checking out logainm.ie - for example, i'm often pass through a place called mallahow (oldtown to naul road, it's the first of the three sisters)
    it turns out the literal translation as bearla is 'hilltop cave' or 'hilltop souterrain'.
    i've checked the map on archaeology.ie and i'm not 100% certain if any of the features listed there (mainly ring ditches, seemingly), might be the one which led to the townland name.


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    #2713
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,220 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    if there's anyone else like me (god help you) who's interested in townland names you wouldn't know about were it not for the segment names on strava, it's well worth checking out logainm.ie - for example, i'm often pass through a place called mallahow (oldtown to naul road, it's the first of the three sisters)
    it turns out the literal translation as bearla is 'hilltop cave' or 'hilltop souterrain'.
    i've checked the map on archaeology.ie and i'm not 100% certain if any of the features listed there (mainly ring ditches, seemingly), might be the one which led to the townland name.

    Would it be named after the Tomb at Fourknocks?

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/FourKnocks+Tomb/@53.5910486,-6.3338557,15.75z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48673e75f91de56d:0x8e2973bb8e292029!8m2!3d53.5965657!4d-6.3264915


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    #2714
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    fourknocks is quite a distance away, it's a couple of hills over, about 4km as the crow files, roughly, from what i can see.


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    #2715
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,167 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    if there's anyone else like me (god help you) who's interested in townland names you wouldn't know about were it not for the segment names on strava, it's well worth checking out logainm.ie - for example, i'm often pass through a place called mallahow (oldtown to naul road, it's the first of the three sisters)
    it turns out the literal translation as bearla is 'hilltop cave' or 'hilltop souterrain'.
    i've checked the map on archaeology.ie and i'm not 100% certain if any of the features listed there (mainly ring ditches, seemingly), might be the one which led to the townland name.

    There's a place called Yellow Walls on the road from Hollystown to Kilbride which will be familiar with a few cyclists who do that route the weekend. As far as I know there's nowhere in the actual area that uses that name but it comes up on google maps when flagging the weather etc for the location you're in etc.

    There's no walls around there, let alone yellow ones, so that's one I've always wondered about.


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    #2716
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    there's also a yellow walls road in malahide. i've wondered where the name comes from.


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    #2717
    magicbastarder
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    though i guess this might help: https://oldyellowwalls.org/why-yellow-walls/


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    #2718
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,167 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    though i guess this might help: https://oldyellowwalls.org/why-yellow-walls/

    That's pretty interesting, cheers.


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    #2719
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Best news I've heard all day!
    A long-awaited contra-flow cycle route on Lombard Street East, linking the junction of Pearse Street and Westland Row to the quays is set to be built.

    The project will include 2 metre wide one-way segregated cycle lane heading south-north from the junction of Pearse Street to City Quay.

    https://irishcycle.com/2019/04/08/contra-flow-cycle-lane-to-be-built-between-westland-row-and-the-quays/


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    #2720
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/1115240958864572419


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    #2721
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/1115240958864572419

    I cycled out that way earlier today, would have been just my luck to get a smack of a JCB


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    #2722
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Scroll down and a new type of victim blaming happening. Blaming Irish Rail and just about stopping short of blaming the bridge. It's not as it's a new bridge. It's nearly 130 years old.

    https://twitter.com/aidanbreen/status/1115253369860501509


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    #2723
    magicbastarder
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    not enough hi-vis on the bridge.


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    #2724
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Scroll down and a new type of victim blaming happening. Blaming Irish Rail and just about stopping short of blaming the bridge. It's not as it's a new bridge. It's nearly 130 years old.

    https://twitter.com/aidanbreen/status/1115253369860501509

    Another prime example of why having a PhD does not necessarily make you intelligent.


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    #2725
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Another prime example of why having a PhD does not necessarily make you intelligent.

    Yeah. He's not letting it go either. Some of his recommendations are just a bit like solutions that are looking for problems.


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    #2726
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Yeah. He's not letting it go either. Some of his recommendations are just a bit like solutions that are looking for problems.

    I did laugh at his, Railway bridges are not the hill I thought I would die on comment.
    He just doesn't get that the problem is the driver, and most of his solutions do not over come this.


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    #2727
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I did laugh at his, Railway bridges are not the hill I thought I would die on comment.
    or this one?
    https://twitter.com/aidanbreen/status/1115264826945806337

    physician, heal thyself.
    his twitter bio is toe curling.


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    #2728
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    His website is better, he reviews products he makes himself. He has to be a character actor, it's just too much too believe. I can't wait for the TV show, hopefully C4 or the BBC pick it up after RTE turn it down.


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    #2729
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,891 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Everybody is using that "Hill to die on" phrase these days, I cringe when I hear it.

    Tbh if a bridge is getting struck repeatedly maybe they could put signs or chains or something at the same height on the approach roads that will make a lot of noise when struck without doing any damage? Or some kind of laser that sets off lights and sirens when something too tall is approaching? Im not a city planner but Im sure its been solved in other countries before now.


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    #2730
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users Posts: 6,483 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Thargor wrote: »
    Everybody is using that "Hill to die on" phrase these days, I cringe when I hear it.

    Tbh if a bridge is getting struck repeatedly maybe they could put signs or chains or something at the same height on the approach roads that will make a lot of noise when struck without doing any damage? Or some kind of laser that sets off lights and sirens when something too tall is approaching? Im not a city planner but Im sure its been solved in other countries before now.

    Chains? That guy suggested poles. So a truck hits the chain or pole and where do they go? Who do they kill?

    The driver is at fault for not knowing the height of his vehicle and for ignoring the signs. No one else. Basic trucking would have prevented the situation.


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    #2731
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,891 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    Chains? That guy suggested poles. So a truck hits the chain or pole and where do they go? Who do they kill?

    The driver is at fault for not knowing the height of his vehicle and for ignoring the signs. No one else. Basic trucking would have prevented the situation.
    Well some kind of noise maker, they're not going to be designed in a way that sends shrapnel flying all over the place, which is better, hitting this or hitting a bridge?

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