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Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

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  • #3332
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,488 ✭✭✭manafana


    I see all sorts of road users breaking rules etc, it has nothing do with the mode of transport but rather the user. Cars just happen be one most likely to kill you.


  • #3333
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭buffalo


    http://giveabeep.org/#introduction

    Via here: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.ie/2016/06/beeping-cyclists.html
    The Give a Beep campaign has given 500 wireless buttons, connected to a mobile app, to cyclists in London.

    Every time one of the cyclists is frustrated with cycling conditions on London roads they can press the wireless button to send an e-mail to the London Mayor. Each 'beep' is also added anonymously to the Give a Beep interactive map.


  • #3334
    Kav0777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Kav0777


    CramCycle wrote: »
    He mounted a footpath in the link and done a U turn on what i think is a one way street. Being a pedant I know but, its not a great start :pac:

    It looked like a pedestrianised street too


  • #3335
    NamelessPhil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    As usual on a long solo spin I bring a small FM radio (Dealz) with me to distract me from my own thoughts. Over the many kilometres of Irish countryside that I've covered in the last few years, I've discovered that RnaG has stellar reception from Enniscorthy to Sligo. Every other radio station has patchy reception particularly in Wicklow river valleys and Sunday afternoon radio is either sport or "classic hits" urgh!

    On Sunday I dragged myself around the Ardattin 200 which finishes in Bray, I still had 20km to get home, the radio station starts playing "Take the long way home" by Supertramp. Later on, having taking the shorter way home, with the rain clouds threatening on the horizon I was cycling to "Give me shelter" by the Stones. Sometimes it comes up with a suitable tune.


  • #3336
    irishrover99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    Interesting article for anyone in the market for cycling goods/bikes in the near future. Ill be pulling the trigger a nice new Ribble bike if they do leave the E.U and the currency slides as predicted.

    Would the retailers drop there prices that are in Euro's when you select your region or would it be best to buy in GBP currency.


    https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/eur/3858-hsbc-and-ubs-forecast-parity-in-euro-to-pound


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  • #3337
    ednwireland
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    irishrover99 wrote: »

    Would the retailers drop there prices that are in Euro's when you select your region or would it be best to buy in GBP currency.


    https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/eur/3858-hsbc-and-ubs-forecast-parity-in-euro-to-pound

    Think generally you get a better rate of you let the card do the conversion rather than the shop.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #3338
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    ednwireland wrote: »
    Think generally you get a better rate of you let the card do the conversion rather than the shop.

    Think so too. We always put it through in Euro when in Poland and let the bank do the change.


  • #3339
    Beasty
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    It's probably a couple opf percent extra when UK hotels try to convert your bill to Euros. I always pay in local currency rather than the currency of the card

    If there is a big slide in sterling I reckon you will get the benefit for maybe 6 months or so, but once stocks are getting topped up (particularly ahead of XMas) the sterling prices will head back up and you will no longer see much of a benefit. It's definitely a game worth playing (if you can afford it!) short-term though


  • #3340
    buffalo
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    Don't want to go digging up an old thread, but apparently the ghost bike in Harold's Cross was removed today:

    https://lovindublin.com/pics/pics-the-ghost-bike-at-harolds-cross-bridge-has-been-removed-by-the-council-today


  • #3341
    Ryath
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Think so too. We always put it through in Euro when in Poland and let the bank do the change.

    Should you not be paying in zloty to let the your credit card company do the conversion. If you do the conversion on the machine you are using their banks exchange rate which is usually worse than your credit card company.

    As ednwireland said buying from the uk you are usually better paying in sterling and using your credit card company's exchange rate. I have found the odd time it can be better to use the online stores exchange rate, guess they are just slower to update if there is a rise in the rate but most of the time it. Have found this with PX and ribblle a few times.


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  • #3342
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Ryath wrote: »
    Should you not be paying in zloty to let the your credit card company do the conversion. If you do the conversion on the machine you are using their banks exchange rate which is usually worse than your credit card company.

    As ednwireland said buying from the uk you are usually better paying in sterling and using your credit card company's exchange rate. I have found the odd time it can be better to use the online stores exchange rate, guess they are just slower to update if there is a rise in the rate but most of the time it. Have found this with PX and ribblle a few times.

    Duh baby brain strikes again. I meant what you said!


  • #3343
    tomasrojo
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    buffalo wrote: »
    Don't want to go digging up an old thread, but apparently the ghost bike in Harold's Cross was removed today:

    https://lovindublin.com/pics/pics-the-ghost-bike-at-harolds-cross-bridge-has-been-removed-by-the-council-today
    I've never liked Ghost Bikes, but I feel bad about it because a lot of people do seem to favour them. I think their effect on the general pubic is to reinforce the already prevalent notion that cycling results in death. If I had to design a campaign to put people off cycling, putting extra, and very visible, emphasis on cycling deaths over every other type of death would be on my list of things to do.

    I'm aware that this is far from the intention of the people who put them up.


  • #3344
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,916 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I hope this attitude isn't common:
    Not every fatal bike accident is memorialized. That includes one of a young man riding in the South Hills. "He's going the wrong way down a one-way street, no helmet on, ran a stop sign into a busy intersection," Mr. de la Cretaz said. "Maybe it's kind of cold -- he showed no obvious concern for safety. There's no ghost bike for him."
    http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2010/12/01/Ghost-Bikes-Rough-memorials-honor-cyclists-killed-while-riding/stories/201012010140

    No soup for you.


  • #3345
    magicbastarder
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    Ryath wrote: »
    Should you not be paying in zloty to let the your credit card company do the conversion. If you do the conversion on the machine you are using their banks exchange rate which is usually worse than your credit card company.
    have i missed it, or are there no ATMs in T2 in dublin, which dispense foreign currency?
    there are (were?) AIB ATMs in T1 which would dispense sterling and dollars - so the only option if you do want to land with currency in your pocket is to use the bureau de change in T2 which charges about 10 or 12% commission, i think?


  • #3346
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Fian


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    have i missed it, or are there no ATMs in T2 in dublin, which dispense foreign currency?
    there are (were?) AIB ATMs in T1 which would dispense sterling and dollars - so the only option if you do want to land with currency in your pocket is to use the bureau de change in T2 which charges about 10 or 12% commission, i think?

    Or wait until you arrive, find an ATM and withdraw cash.

    I was in washington recently, on arrival in the airport I went to bureau de Change to change € to $. $300 was going to cost me €340. I said no thanks and went to the ATM in the wall beside the Bureau de Change and withdrew $300 for less than €300 as you would expect. Lesson learned - no more bureau de change for me.


  • #3347
    OldBean
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    There is (Or was?) two BOI ATM's in T2 underneath the elevator up to the airside restaurants that dispensed Euro, GB sterling and Dollars at some of the best rates I've gotten.

    Bureau De Change in the US are generally awful. If you have time and an American friend, deposit the money in their account and pick it back up the next day (Banks in bigger cities can usually do it straight away).


  • #3348
    bp_me
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    have i missed it, or are there no ATMs in T2 in dublin, which dispense foreign currency?
    there are (were?) AIB ATMs in T1 which would dispense sterling and dollars - so the only option if you do want to land with currency in your pocket is to use the bureau de change in T2 which charges about 10 or 12% commission, i think?

    Underneath the escaltors just past security.


  • #3349
    magicbastarder
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    so they're *after* you get through security?


  • #3350
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Very cheeky but looking for comments on this thread in Health sciences (Cycling injuries in an Irish AE, research in IMJ published today)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100043628#post100043628


  • #3351
    bp_me
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    so they're *after* you get through security?

    That's my recollection but it may have changed since Christmas


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  • #3352
    eeeee
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Very cheeky but looking for comments on this thread in Health sciences (Cycling injuries in an Irish AE, research in IMJ published today)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100043628#post100043628

    Ha I'm amongst the injured in that study! Vincent's fcuked up with me though. There's no mention of injuries occurring during racing though, I would have thought that would have been an important question to ask. I suppose it comes under the accidents with other cyclists and falling off the bike sections, although I have to say neither representative of the actual cause. Be good to see how many injuries come from racing too.

    ETA Surprisingly small amount if the total injuries as a result of collisions with motorists. And a surprisingly (to me) large amount as a result of hitting pedestrians and other cyclists.


  • #3353
    traprunner
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Very cheeky but looking for comments on this thread in Health sciences (Cycling injuries in an Irish AE, research in IMJ published today)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100043628#post100043628


    Pity it wasn't last year as I would have been one of the stats in St. Vincent's! In the Health Sciences forum you mention that helmet use is not mentioned. I was asked numerous times throughout my St. Vincent's experience if I was wearing a helmet. If the research is updated next year then I'd expect it to be mentioned.


  • #3354
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    traprunner wrote: »
    Pity it wasn't last year as I would have been one of the stats in St. Vincent's! In the Health Sciences forum you mention that helmet use is not mentioned. I was asked numerous times throughout my St. Vincent's experience if I was wearing a helmet. If the research is updated next year then I'd expect it to be mentioned.

    I'm in the stats and they never asked me about a helmet.
    Also beyond the obvious fracture and dislocation they failed to spot another injury and fracture that required surgery upon seeing another doc, so stats not 100% representative of injuries!


  • #3355
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    nee wrote: »
    I'm in the stats and they never asked me about a helmet.
    Also beyond the obvious fracture and dislocation they failed to spot another injury and fracture that required surgery upon seeing another doc, so stats not 100% representative of injuries!

    I thought that they were very thorough with me. However, it was only the next day that my hand hurt and it hurt for a couple of months afterwards. My own GP sent me for an x-ray that was thankfully clear. I don't recall it hitting the ground during the fall. I don't blame them for missing it as if I didn't feel pain they weren't to know.


  • #3356
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    traprunner wrote: »
    I thought that they were very thorough with me. However, it was only the next day that my hand hurt and it hurt for a couple of months afterwards. My own GP sent me for an x-ray that was thankfully clear. I don't recall it hitting the ground during the fall. I don't blame them for missing it as if I didn't feel pain they weren't to know.

    Everyone is different I suppose. I hadn't a lot of good things to say about that time I was in. They're shockingly, horrendously busy. however I had a completely different experience even I went in with an appendix last September. Again horrifically busy (I was 20 hours waiting to be seen) but got the appendix out after a few days.
    I don't know how they manage in that department, beds everywhere, literally everywhere, it's no wonder they miss things. The conditions staff have to work under in there are really, really horrendous. With the appendix, after the 20 hour wait outside, I was on a trolley in front of a lift, beside another trolley about 3' away, with another trolley 1' from the end of mine, they were everywhere, in every possible nook and cranny. Some very sick people there, young and old. I honestly don't know how staff manage it, it's incredible. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of pressure they're under of a quiet day never mind a busy one.


  • #3357
    OldBean
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    so they're *after* you get through security?

    Yep. The ATM's outside just distribute Euros.


  • #3358
    Unknown Soldier
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    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I hope this attitude isn't common:

    http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2010/12/01/Ghost-Bikes-Rough-memorials-honor-cyclists-killed-while-riding/stories/201012010140

    No soup for you.

    I don't have a problem with said "attitude"

    Based on the article, I'd agree.


  • #3359
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,916 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with said "attitude"

    Based on the article, I'd agree.
    Well, the behaviour was ludicrous and it's hard to say that he wasn't the author of his own misfortune, but for the Ghost Bike curator to sit in judgement is really quite weird. The dead guy doesn't care that you have withheld your little white bike.


  • #3360
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Who's Nee ????


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  • #3361
    Rogue-Trooper
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Who's Nee ????

    The artist formerly known as gadetra.

    Or possibly one of these...........

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIV4poUZAQo


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