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

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  • #4232
    LollipopJimmy
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    Amazing the number of bike maintenance videos there are on YouTube. Equally amazing that none of them are by Irish people. (Though I just watched one by a guy with a strange accent, sounded like Irish with a layer of rather ladylike English pronunciation smeared over it.)

    I've found a few quite helpful. I've built engines, I can weld, I've worked on suspension geometry on high end race cars... think I can get gears to work properly on a bike after cable replacement? I'm learning though :pac:


  • #4233
    Chuchote
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    Surprising, though, that none of the bike shops here, or even Rothar, which runs bike mending courses and the City & Guilds bike mechanic course, don't do these videos as advertising. Though Rothar do have a few about their social activism.

    And I wonder what happened about the Cycling Officer - do we have one?



  • #4234
    magicbastarder
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    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    think I can get gears to work properly on a bike after cable replacement? I'm learning though :pac:
    my next planned work on the bike is cabling; my rear derailleur indexes fairly well on the smaller cogs, but the bike gets much 'chattier' on the bigger cogs, and i suspect it's neglected cabling; the cables are at least six years old and have seen no maintenance in that time. do they begin to stretch as they age?

    maybe we need a general bike maintenance thread...


  • #4235
    Wishbone Ash
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    ... the cables are at least six years old and have seen no maintenance in that time. do they begin to stretch as they age?...
    :eek: I'd replace them at least annually. The outer cables also need to be replaced every so often as crap builds up in them.


  • #4236
    Chuchote
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    How do you get the cables in through the frame and out again?

    And my back brake, the little drum yokes on the lever and at the Y don't seem to screw and unscrew, they just turn around; I have a horrid feeling I actually need new brakes.


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  • #4237
    magicbastarder
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    :eek: I'd replace them at least annually. The outer cables also need to be replaced every so often as crap builds up in them.
    to be fair, they've only got about 3-4k on them in that period.


  • #4238
    Wishbone Ash
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    to be fair, they've only got about 3-4k on them in that period.
    Ah fair enough.


  • #4239
    magicbastarder
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    the bike was in storage for years, only used for the first time in anger again in summer 2014. last year was cut short by knee issues (not caused by the bike) and this year i've decided to ignore the knee issues and have racked up just 1,150km this year, since may.


  • #4240
    LollipopJimmy
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Ah fair enough.

    Just an average Thursday for you


  • #4241
    RobFowl
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    :eek: I'd replace them at least annually. The outer cables also need to be replaced every so often as crap builds up in them.

    I had my inner cables done last week and after 8k this year they had started to get a bit rusty in side. Tend to do the outer cables much less regularly though though on my long term list for end of year.


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  • #4242
    ThisRegard
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    Listening to the Newstalk item on the proposed 30kph limit for parts of Dublin. The usual clowns, and host, chimed in with the whataboutery on how evil cyclists, and them speeding.

    Ciaran Cuffe said the limits will apply to everybody.


  • #4243
    buffalo
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    And I wonder what happened about the Cycling Officer - do we have one?

    Yes. https://dublin.ie/working/articles/meet-a-dubliner-sarah-scannell-cycling-walking-officer/


  • #4244
    buffalo
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    http://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/08/23/after-a-year-of-freethecyclelanes-some-want-tougher-measures/
    “If a motorist does park in a cycle lane it is inconvenient, obnoxious, and potentially dangerous,” [Conor Faughnan] said.

    But he’d be wary of any singling out of one type of transport when, he says, pedestrians and cyclists can also be bad road users.

    WHATABOUTERY ALERT


  • #4245
    Chips Lovell
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Ciaran Cuffe said the limits will apply to everybody.

    It won't.


  • #4246
    ThisRegard
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    I know, which is why I thought it was unusual for him to declare it.


  • #4247
    traprunner
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    buffalo wrote: »
    Yes. https://dublin.ie/working/articles/meet-a-dubliner-sarah-scannell-cycling-walking-officer/

    Is she new to the job?


  • #4248
    buffalo
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    traprunner wrote: »
    Is she new to the job?

    January I think.


  • #4249
    manafana
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    It's not going to end until a) the Corpo starts building again, and b) the State gets serious about compulsory purchase of derelict, unused houses where people are storing their money in bricks and mortar. I can't see either happening under the current Dail.

    Quiet few unused houses about, corner of rathmines on canal as a major example of prime real estate.

    Same in London with high value property alot of it held by trusts/funds unused.


  • #4250
    tomasrojo
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I know, which is why I thought it was unusual for him to declare it.

    In practice, obviously, cyclists will be keeping under the limit more than users of motorised vehicles. So it will look as if what he said is true. Agree that it's strange to phrase it that way.

    I find it quite funny that when trying to get across what a piffling speed 30km/h is, people tell me what it is in mph. We've had km/h for years; I'm a trained scientist; I know how fast 30km/h is, thanks. Then they go on to tell me that they can walk that fast, revealing that they don't know how fast 30km/h is.


  • #4251
    magicbastarder
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    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Then they go on to tell me that they can walk that fast, revealing that they don't know how fast 30km/h is.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm7-LEBznk


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  • #4252
    Chips Lovell
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    I'm always puzzled by people younger than me using imperial measurements. What schools did they go to?


  • #4253
    magicbastarder
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    i was recently telling some german colleagues about the not inconsiderable period where ireland had road signs in km and speed limit signs in mph. they thought it was hilarious.


  • #4254
    tomasrojo
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    Are they still married? (The couple in the clip; not the German colleagues.)


  • #4255
    tomasrojo
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    buffalo wrote: »
    http://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/08/23/after-a-year-of-freethecyclelanes-some-want-tougher-measures/



    WHATABOUTERY ALERT
    “Is the same hotline going to be used to report cyclists mounting footpaths and breaking red lights? Because that’s every bit of poor,” said Faughnan.

    Yes, at least motorists would never do those two things.


  • #4256
    Skrynesaver
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i was recently telling some German colleagues about the not inconsiderable period where Ireland had road signs in km and speed limit signs in mph. they thought it was hilarious.

    A while ago I asked Mrs Saver to pick up a short run of of 1/2" copper pipe i needed to tidy up the dishwasher installation.

    Being of a US-ian persuasion she asked for a yard of 1/2" copper pipe only to be informed that 1/2" copper pipe could only be bought by the metre...


  • #4257
    Chuchote
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    Yes, I wish we'd **** or get off the pot on metric. Just go metric altogether and leave behind the feet and inches and pounds and ounces and stones.

    As for red lights, I was at the lights at the Clonskeagh end of Beaver Row a while ago, standing on the left of the right-turn lane, watching for the lights to change so I could go across into the Dodder park cycle track.

    The cars were coming through from my left, driving towards town on a green light, and with a green filter bringing them around on my right where I waited and into Beaver Row.

    As I watched the lights controlling these cars, their light for straight ahead changed to red, then the light for the filter to Beaver Row changed to red. I switched my gaze forward to look for my green light to cross and go into the park.

    The lights turned green and I cycled across – and then, right in front of my wheel, a driver whipped through and around into Beaver Row. It wasn't even as if she was catching the end of the green filter; the green filter had changed to red a good 10 seconds before, and I'd started only when my light went green.

    As Tom Jones would say, it's not unusual ♫♪♫


  • #4258
    tomasrojo
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    The real hold-out for Imperial seems to be human height. It's slowly on the retreat elsewhere, though I don't expect it to disappear. But you almost never hear an Irish person express the height of another human in cm or m.

    Human weight is another hold-out, but at least it's pretty common to hear people's weight expressed in kg, especially in medical contexts.

    Except for babies for some reason. People get very confused about metric babies.


  • #4259
    Chuchote
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    tomasrojo wrote: »
    The real hold-out for Imperial seems to be human height. It's slowly on the retreat elsewhere, though I don't expect it to disappear. But you almost never hear an Irish person express the height of another human in cm or m.

    Human weight is another hold-out, but at least it's pretty common to hear people's weight expressed in kg, especially in medical contexts.

    Except for babies for some reason. People get very confused about metric babies.

    Age, though. The young, especially those who go to the gym, know their statistics in metric, in my experience.

    We haven't yet settled on a way of saying it; I'd say "One metre eighty", have also heard "One point eight metres".

    For the old and creaky, it would be a big help if we moved over completely; while most people can envisage what 30cm means now, we still have to translate metres to feet - we know what six feet looks like immediately…


  • #4260
    lennymc
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Listening to the Newstalk item on the proposed 30kph limit for parts of Dublin. The usual clowns, and host, chimed in with the whataboutery on how evil cyclists, and them speeding.

    Ciaran Cuffe said the limits will apply to everybody.

    Afaik, technically there is no legislation that deals with a pushbike travelling in excess of a posted speed limit as the law relates to motorised vehicles iirc.


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  • #4261
    tomasrojo
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    Age, though. The young, especially those who go to the gym, know their statistics in metric, in my experience.
    Yeah, I can imagine gym frequenters might give their height in metric. I don't really hear people doing it.

    If I fill out forms, I always leave the Imperial blank. My mortgage-approval medical assessment, done over the phone by a nice lady from England, ended up giving me a height of 183m. So you'll know me when you see me.


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