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

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  • #3542
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    OldBean wrote: »
    I usually put them inside-out into a cold or 30 degree wash after each ride with Ariel liquid tabs, then hang them by an open window to dry. I think the best thing is to just not let stuff lie about, especially if it's in a gym bag.

    If he's machine drying I'd say that'll be a problem right there for the longitivity of his kit. And if he has to machine dry, get some freshener sheets!

    I was in a Pearl Izumi store in the US a couple of months ago and that was the advice they were giving to customers. The staff were keen cyclists too. Wash at a cool temperature even with other clothes. Then let them air dry. The heat from a tumble dryer or hot wash can mishape the chamois.


  • #3543
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    Tbh, since I lived on my own, I don't think I've ever run a wash higher than 30.

    It's just better for everything.


  • #3544
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    OldBean wrote: »
    I usually put them inside-out into a cold or 30 degree wash after each ride with Ariel liquid tabs, then hang them by an open window to dry. I think the best thing is to just not let stuff lie about, especially if it's in a gym bag.

    If he's machine drying I'd say that'll be a problem right there for the longitivity of his kit. And if he has to machine dry, get some freshener sheets!

    Not machine drying but drying on a rack indoors (which seems like madness to me when there's a line available, but there you go, tis not the same way it takes all of us, as my mother used to say.

    He's tried Lidl liquid (non-biological) and found it left his gear stinky, then tried Ariel and found it left his gear smelling like something out of 18th-century Versailles.


  • #3545
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    OldBean wrote: »

    It's just better for everything.

    Except your machine.

    Do a high temp wash, empty if needs be, once in a while.


  • #3546
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    Never knew that - cheers!


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  • #3547
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,733 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    mavic freewheel stripped lubed and rebuilt definitely a law of diminishing returns on 5 year old wheels - good news though the zondas have left gatwick finally

    My weather

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



  • #3548
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    OldBean wrote: »
    Never knew that - cheers!

    http://www.knowhow.com/article.dhtml?articleReference=1784


  • #3549
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    also, check the inside of the rubber door seal every so often, as gunk can build up here and start to go foul.
    also, regarding the longevity of your clothes - fabric softeners work by slowly digesting the fibres to keep them soft.


  • #3550
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    ford2600 wrote: »
    Except your machine.

    Do a high temp wash, empty if needs be, once in a while.

    Haven't done that for a while, must do it. I tend to wipe the bottom of the rubber seal dry with one of the towels waiting for a separate towel wash.


  • #3551
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    First ever cycling lesson for my middle aged sister in law who's staying with us for a month or so and has learning to ride a bike as a life goal.

    First time teaching someone to cycle in my second language but that turned out to be the least of our problems

    She's fit as a fiddle but we encountered some serious power to weight issues with getting her moving on a Dublin Bike.

    Meanwhile my sister has a perfectly good hybrid out in Meath that I can't get to due to an unseasonal headcold and the inevitable chest infection that followed.

    Mission in danger :-(


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  • #3552
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭buffalo


    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/dubliners-may-get-phone-app-to-check-truck-legitimacy-1.2710115
    Dublin residents will be able to check whether large trucks in their neighbourhood are authorised to be there, with the help of a new phone app being developed by Dublin City Council.

    Might cut down on the number of HGVs in the city centre, though I have no idea how many are authorised vs unauthorised.


  • #3553
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Received one close-pass at speed this morning on my spin and it was from someone with a road bike on a rack at the back of their car. FFS :mad:


  • #3554
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,488 ✭✭✭manafana


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    Received one close-pass at speed this morning on my spin and it was from someone with a road bike on a rack at the back of their car. FFS :mad:

    Failure of testing system, nothing about giving more room the higher the speed, most drivers seem to think the closer the pass the faster they have to go.


  • #3555
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    manafana wrote: »
    Failure of testing system, nothing about giving more room the higher the speed, most drivers seem to think the closer the pass the faster they have to go.

    Too true. However, I'd have expected a better/higher level of understanding from a fellow cyclist!


  • #3556
    AstraMonti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭AstraMonti


    All these ads in eurosport every 5mins are very irritating.


  • #3557
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    Too true. However, I'd have expected a better/higher level of understanding from a fellow cyclist!

    Probably the fellow-cyclist that carved me up on a cycle path, screeching "F… off you old b…" when I caught him up?


  • #3558
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,916 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Probably the fellow-cyclist that carved me up on a cycle path, screeching "F… off you old b…" when I caught him up?

    No, I don't have a car.


  • #3559
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Probably the fellow-cyclist that carved me up on a cycle path, screeching "F… off you old b…" when I caught him up?

    It wasn't me but I do have an irrational hatred of old people so it could be me next time :pac:


  • #3560
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    It wasn't me but I do have an irrational hatred of old people so it could be me next time :pac:

    I have an irrational hatred of young people - I'll wave my umbrella at you and yell creakily, making you wobble and fall off. Fair warning.


  • #3561
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,015 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I have a rational hatred of the young and old alike.


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  • #3562
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Anyone ever get caught staring at one of their bikes lovingly (I did! )?

    What's the popular defence /excuse when your OH comments on it?

    Apparently "I could be looking at far worse things" isn't it.


  • #3563
    cunavalos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭cunavalos


    Podium girls trolling the pro-cyclists at the Tour of Austria
    hGzIl0A.jpg


  • #3564
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    ^ objectifying wurst is no laughing matter.


  • #3565
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,392 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    ^ objectifying wurst is no laughing matter.
    You're right, it's the wurst.


  • #3566
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Caption this

    390892.jpg


  • #3567
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    AstraMonti wrote: »
    All these ads in eurosport every 5mins are very irritating.
    God yes and they are really bad. Especially that Alpecin shampoo one....


  • #3568
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Alek wrote: »
    Caption this

    390892.jpg

    "That's the last time I use a Halfords mechanic"


  • #3569
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,015 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Alek wrote: »
    Caption this

    390892.jpg

    "Do it yourself they said on boards, don't waste money on a Bike shop, there are videos on you tube, the tools are a once off purchase."


  • #3570
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    The inventor of 'bike doping', Istvan Varjas, suggests that personal bests be used as an indicator for testing:

    http:// road. cc/ content/news/196103-mechanical-doping-–-hidden-motor-inventor-reveals-how-he-thinks-cheats-can-be


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  • #3571
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Indo has a piece about a young cyclist "in fight for life" after coming off her bike on the way down the Sally Gap.


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