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

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  • #3872
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    My parents spent their honeymoon in Rush, in 1944.


  • #3873
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    My parents spent their honeymoon in Rush, in 1944.

    Nine months later a little Eamonnator arrived!


  • #3874
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Nine months later a little Eamonnator arrived!

    A 'Rush Baby'

    *Shudder*


  • #3875
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Nine months later a little Eamonnator arrived!

    No, but my eldest sister did.


  • #3876
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Chuchote wrote: »
    I've seen lots of outrage lately over L-drivers driving alone. http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/l-plate-drivers-and-deaths-on-our-roads-1.2742792
    The writer of that article seems to assume that because a vehicle displays an L plate, the driver is on a Learner Permit. We probably should adopt the regulations that some other countries have whereby the displayed plate must apply to the driver only - i.e. in a shared vehicle, a person with a Driving Licence must remove the plate for the duration of their time behind the wheel.

    (Incidently, my most serious cycling accident was caused by a 17 year old learner driver who had only been behind the wheel for a couple of weeks. She was driving alone and immediately left the scene of the accident. She returned about 15 minutes later when I was being stretchered into the back of an ambulance. And yes, it happened here in Rush!)


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  • #3877
    magicbastarder
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    a few times recently, i've forgotten to take the L plate down in the car after my wife has been driving - and it makes life more dangerous. it's like a red rag to a bull, a certain cohort of drivers simply *have* to overtake you because they're clearly terrified of being stuck behind a learner. i've seen two absolutely ludicrous overtaking manouevres in a few weeks, the likes of which you'd usually see a couple of times a year.

    none of these happened in rush, though.


  • #3878
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    The writer of that article seems to assume that because a vehicle displays an L plate, the driver is on a Learner Permit. We probably should adopt the regulations that some other countries have whereby the displayed plate must apply to the driver only - i.e. in a shared vehicle, a person with a Driving Licence must remove the plate for the duration of their time behind the wheel.

    (Incidently, my most serious cycling accident was caused by a 17 year old learner driver who had only been behind the wheel for a couple of weeks. She was driving alone and immediately left the scene of the accident. She returned about 15 minutes later when I was being stretchered into the back of an ambulance. And yes, it happened here in Rush!)

    I was under the impression that we already had that regulation?

    Your incident sounds awful, did she return with a fully licenced driver?


  • #3879
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    I was under the impression that we already had that regulation?
    AFAIK we don't - the regulations are geared towards the requirements for the learner and I don't think there is any stipulations for non-learners driving the same vehicle. I'm open to correction.
    LollipopJimmy wrote:
    Your incident sounds awful, did she return with a fully licenced driver?
    She returned on her own looking very frightened. I presume she panicked at the time.


  • #3880
    magicbastarder
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    AFAIK we don't - the regulations are geared towards the requirements for the learner and I don't think there is any stipulations for non-learners driving the same vehicle. I'm open to correction.
    i wouldn't see it as a big issue really (having made the mistake myself) - it's not as if it creates extra danger on the roads.


  • #3881
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i wouldn't see it as a big issue really (having made the mistake myself) - it's not as if it creates extra danger on the roads.
    It may cause inconvenience to the Gardai though if they were to pull over every L plate on a motorway, or every L plate on ordinary roads driving unaccompanied only to discover that the driver has a licence.


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  • #3882
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    AFAIK we don't - the regulations are geared towards the requirements for the learner and I don't think there is any stipulations for non-learners driving the same vehicle. I'm open to correction.

    She returned on her own looking very frightened. I presume she panicked at the time.

    I got pulled many years ago exiting the M50 in my then OH's 'L Plate' clad Seat Ibiza, Guard gave me an awful rollicking for driving with the plates up. Maybe he was just furious that it was the one time he actually pulled somebody with L's for driving on the M50 they happened to have a full licence.

    Panicking is no excuse to hit and run, it was pure self preservation with no regard for the poor sod she knocked down. I told ya earlier, Rush is full of odd people :pac:


  • #3883
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    ... I told ya earlier, Rush is full of odd people :pac:
    She was Latvian! ;):D


  • #3884
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    She was Latvian! ;):D

    So you are saying that Rush is a magnet for the odd people then?


  • #3885
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    If I'm cycling any distance (in my terms, not those of most people here), I find myself constantly shifting my arse back on the saddle. I'm not sure if I'm shifting back to get to the wider, more comfy bit, or to give my legs a little bit of a stretch. Do I need to move the saddle forward or backward (if either is possible)?


  • #3886
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    It may need to be tilted up a bit - you could be gradually sliding forward.


  • #3887
    Unknown Soldier
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    For the record, and as you well know, I'm not from Lusk (thankfully)!!!

    I however am.

    As much as I am considered a "nordie" I was actually born in Dublin and spent the first few years of my life in Lusk. About the first three, possibly four.

    The earlier chatter about Rush beach reminded me of the following. I never did lose that baby fat :o I look happy though!

    2gvr68j.jpg
    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    A 'Rush Baby'

    *Shudder*

    I was born 10 months after my older('ist) brother...

    I can imagine how the conversation went on the night I was conceived. :o


  • #3888
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    2gvr68j.jpg

    Cute as a basket of kittens!


  • #3889
    magicbastarder
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    If I'm cycling any distance (in my terms, not those of most people here), I find myself constantly shifting my arse back on the saddle. I'm not sure if I'm shifting back to get to the wider, more comfy bit, or to give my legs a little bit of a stretch. Do I need to move the saddle forward or backward (if either is possible)?
    just attach some stickyback velcro to the saddle, problem solved.


  • #3890
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    I was born 10 months after my older('ist) brother...

    I can imagine how the conversation went on the night I was conceived. :o

    Probably along the lines of "Sure, it could hardly happen again so soon, could it?"


  • #3891
    magicbastarder
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    whoever invented watermelons, i would like to meet them and shake their hand. nice way of hydrating before going out on a spin, and there's nothing like chowing down on some nice cold watermelon when you get back.


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  • #3892
    LollipopJimmy
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Probably along the lines of "Sure, it could hardly happen again so soon, could it?"

    Or a lot of bargaining.... I'll do the night feeds for a month if ya let me

    Empty house for me tonight, means I can get away with popping my cassette in the dishwasher


  • #3893
    Wishbone Ash
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    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    .... popping my cassette in the dishwasher
    Now that's a new euphemism to me! :D


  • #3894
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Now that's a new euphemism to me! :D

    There's the Rush coming out in ya again


  • #3895
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    just attach some stickyback velcro to the saddle, problem solved.

    Hah. Have just taken the velcro off my battenburg-cake hi-viz because it was eating up all my blouses; the hooky part is still hooky but the woolly part has gone all stringy and no longer clings. I'm about to sew on poppers to replace the velcro.

    Talking of things that don't stick, I'm going to need to replace my back light, which seems to have fallen off. It was a USB rechargeable one, which I liked; would yiz recommend the same, and at what power? Any nice lights out there? I liked this one because it was quite bright but also small.


  • #3896
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Hah. Have just taken the velcro off my battenburg-cake hi-viz because it was eating up all my blouses; the hooky part is still hooky but the woolly part has gone all stringy and no longer clings. I'm about to sew on poppers to replace the velcro.

    Talking of things that don't stick, I'm going to need to replace my back light, which seems to have fallen off. It was a USB rechargeable one, which I liked; would yiz recommend the same, and at what power? Any nice lights out there? I liked this one because it was quite bright but also small.

    I'd say that you probably need both a power meter amd a coach to be sure.


  • #3897
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I'd say that you probably need both a power meter amd a coach to be sure.

    A coach in the sense of Bianconi or Trappatoni?


  • #3898
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Chuchote wrote: »
    A coach in the sense of Bianconi or Trappatoni?

    It's your money!


  • #3899
    Wishbone Ash
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    A coach in the sense of Bianconi or Trappatoni?
    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    It's your money!
    Well played Chuchote! I think it was lost on LD.

    I spotted a seriously impressive rear light this evening in Dublin city centre (and I don't impress easily!). I asked the cyclist what brand it was. He said it a
    was from Giant in their shop on the Long Mile Rd. USB rechargeable although he said it only lasted about 3 hrs (so no good for me) but the bees knees for urban commuting.


  • #3900
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Well played Chuchote! I think it was lost on LD.

    Oh I understood it perfectly.


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  • #3901
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Well played Chuchote! I think it was lost on LD.

    I spotted a seriously impressive rear light this evening in Dublin city centre (and I don't impress easily!). I asked the cyclist what brand it was. He said it a
    was from Giant in their shop on the Long Mile Rd. USB rechargeable although he said it only lasted about 3 hrs (so no good for me) but the bees knees for urban commuting.

    Hmm. Hadn't thought that there might be a variation in how long the charge holds.


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