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

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    #5762
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,602 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Wearing the right clothes is important to cyclists
    Having seen the influx of garish yellow/green helmets and shoe covers, it would appear that this statement is becoming increasingly incorrect.


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    #5763
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Try ditching the willie warmer and then set it horizontal on the bars, see if that helps.

    I know someone who keeps getting twice the climbing meters that everyone else does on spins with him, and his garmin is at a similar angle.

    None of the above might work though, and you might have a unit with a faulty barometer! (which takes its readings from a small hole on the back)
    magicbastarder wrote: »
    is it possible that the hole is blocked by the cover?
    Alek wrote: »
    1. hole may be blocked by the cover
    2. hole may be blocked by water trapped under the cover

    Thanks for the advice. Didn't think of water ingress but ditched the willie warmer and no difference.

    Funny thing is, the problem is intermittent with both altitude and temp.

    Time to hit up Garmin customer support methinks.


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    #5764
    cjt156
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    6 Shillings for a large fur muff? Shouldn't that be in the Bargain Alert thread?


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    #5765
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Having seen the influx of garish yellow/green helmets and shoe covers, it would appear that this statement is becoming increasingly incorrect.

    I'm sort of intrigued by all the people wearing helmet rain covers all year round, including the summer.

    I assume they just don't want to forgo the extra hi-viz, and the loss of ventilation perhaps is unimportant to them, or they haven't considered it.


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    #5766
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I'm sort of intrigued by all the people wearing helmet rain covers all year round, including the summer.

    I assume they just don't want to forgo the extra hi-viz, and the loss of ventilation perhaps is unimportant to them, or they haven't considered it.

    Agreed.

    I'd rather wet 'helmet hair' for the rest of the day than sport a rain cover on my helmet while on the bike.

    Slightly related, I'm loving my new Galibier Tourmalet 2 rain cape that arrived just in time for the monsoon season this week.


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    #5767
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I should add, I've seen people wear the rain covers when it's not raining. Again, I assume they just think they shouldn't refuse any hi-viz that passes before them.


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    #5768
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,038 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Having seen the influx of garish yellow/green helmets and shoe covers, it would appear that this statement is becoming increasingly incorrect.
    Envy of Orwell club kit will get you nowhere. :pac:


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    #5769
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,602 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Lumen wrote: »
    Envy of Orwell club kit will get you nowhere. :pac:
    Not my cuppa tea really, for some reason, it just doesn't look that great when I am overtaking them all the time on my commute home.


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    #5770
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    cjt156 wrote: »
    6 Shillings for a large fur muff? Shouldn't that be in the Bargain Alert thread?

    Mmmmdepends. In 1913
    The ‘spare-men’ earned a paltry weekly wage of 9 shillings. Significant deductions were made for such items as the company uniform and rule book. New employees received no pay for the first six weeks of their employment. In addition, workers could be reported for petty infractions of the company’s strict code of conduct and so incur deductions on their already meagre wage. Given the conditions under which the tram workers laboured, Larkin described William Martin Murphy as ‘the most foul and vicious blackguard that ever polluted any country’.

    https://dublin7peopleshistory.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/on-this-day-in-1913-the-dublin-lockout-begins/


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    #5771
    rollingscone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    I feel like SportsPursuit are trolling me.

    I placed an order at one address, when had to move office I sent a Customer Service message to update the address, they pretty much immediately contacted me with instructions to be fair.

    After I input it they sent me a message querying if the address was correct, as their message form doesn't allow commas or spacing apparently.

    I replied by resending the address in numbered order i.e. 1. Office name 2. BUilding name 3. Area name. 4. Post code.

    Got the dispatch message today...address in order 4, 3, 1, 2....Errrmm


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    #5772
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,968 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    rollingscone wrote: »
    I feel like SportsPursuit are trolling me.

    I placed an order at one address, when had to move office I sent a Customer Service message to update the address, they pretty much immediately contacted me with instructions to be fair.

    After I input it they sent me a message querying if the address was correct, as their message form doesn't allow commas or spacing apparently.

    I replied by resending the address in numbered order i.e. 1. Office name 2. BUilding name 3. Area name. 4. Post code.

    Got the dispatch message today...address in order 4, 3, 1, 2....Errrmm
    I'm going through the same horror with a change of address. We sold our house and are renting temporarily until something attractive comes on the market. The last time we moved (16 years ago) it seemed fairly straightforward but this time we seem to be in a vicious circle whereby some utility companies won't accept a change of address without proof. And what proof do they require - yes a utility bill! FFS! :rolleyes:

    Several other institutions whom I contacted, thanked me for informing them of my change of address by letter to my old address. :rolleyes:

    (BTW - I'm in a sort of heaven with the rented house. The location doesn't really appeal to us to but there's a fantastic shed with 6 fluorescent lights, work benches etc., and a heavy duty steel door The owner was into motorbikes and had it set up to work on them. Mrs WA in wondering how I seem to be able to spend so much time in there! :pac:)


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    #5773
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,091 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I'm going through the same horror with a change of address. We sold our house and are renting temporarily until something attractive comes on the market. The last time we moved (16 years ago) it seemed fairly straightforward but this time we seem to be in a vicious circle whereby some utility companies won't accept a change of address without proof. And what proof do they require - yes a utility bill! FFS! :rolleyes:

    Several other institutions whom I contacted, thanked me for informing them of my change of address by letter to my old address. :rolleyes:

    (BTW - I'm in a sort of heaven with the rented house. The location doesn't really appeal to us to but there's a fantastic shed with 6 fluorescent lights, work benches etc., and a heavy duty steel door The owner was into motorbikes and had it set up to work on them. Mrs WA in wondering how I seem to be able to spend so much time in there! :pac:)

    Where is this rental Nirvana? Tell us when you move out and it's back on the market. Apartment living, leaves little room for anyway to do but the most basic of maintenance and cleaning at the moment. My neighbour is probably sick of me being in the hallway cleaning the bike and doing the various things I'm okay at.


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    #5774
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    I've wondered for awhile now that there must be a market for some kind of foldable bike bath/workstand combo for apartment dwellers. Not something I could design myself tbh.


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    #5775
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    When I lived in an apartment, I did all my maintenance in the parking space assigned to my apartment under the building, as I thought I might as well get some use out of it, the price being included in the rent for the apartment. Some vigilance was required to stop people treating it as a "free" parking space though.

    This problem continued when I moved to a housing complex with centralised parking. When I asked people to stop parking in my space, they protested that I wasn't using it. I mulled over hanging my washing out in their garden in response.


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    #5776
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I saw Wishbone Ash on the BBC4 last night (the band, rather than the Boardsie). On the basis of this piece (Van Dis? -- sort of a bop workout) they really were great musicians.


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    #5777
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,602 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    This problem continued when I moved to a housing complex with centralised parking. When I asked people to stop parking in my space, they protested that I wasn't using it. I mulled over hanging my washing out in their garden in response.
    While I have a dislike of private clampers, you could inform your neighbours that their reg is not registered to that space and the clampers don't care if it's normally empty.


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    #5778
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    When I lived in an apartment, I did all my maintenance in the parking space assigned to my apartment under the building, as I thought I might as well get some use out of it, the price being included in the rent for the apartment. Some vigilance was required to stop people treating it as a "free" parking space though.

    This problem continued when I moved to a housing complex with centralised parking. When I asked people to stop parking in my space, they protested that I wasn't using it. I mulled over hanging my washing out in their garden in response.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6YmOJnr0E


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    #5779
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    While I have a dislike of private clampers, you could inform your neighbours that their reg is not registered to that space and the clampers don't care if it's normally empty.

    Not a live issue anymore, as I don't live there now. It got amicably solved in the end.


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    #5780
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,833 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Do my bike washing and maintenance is done in thy footpath outside ny flat, but it's in the complex off the main road so it's grand. Bringing buckets of water up and down thy stairs is a total pain in the hole though.


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    #5781
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,091 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    I've managed to feck up my front brake on the tourer when trying to fit the dynamo light. Tried watching a video on canti brakes but to no avail. A trip to lbs where it'll probably be fixed in all of 5 mins I'd say beckons


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    #5782
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,859 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Where is this rental Nirvana? Tell us when you move out and it's back on the market. Apartment living, leaves little room for anyway to do but the most basic of maintenance and cleaning at the moment. My neighbour is probably sick of me being in the hallway cleaning the bike and doing the various things I'm okay at.
    might it be worth approaching the newly rebuilt rediscovery centre in the pumphouse in ballymun to see if they'd consider let you using their facilities for a small fee?


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    #5783
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,091 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Good idea actually.


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    #5784
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Is that different to the Boiler House?


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    #5785
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,859 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i think someone posted that they're looking for someone to run the bike recycling on a three day a week basis - which might imply the workshop is unused the other days?


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    #5786
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i think someone posted that they're looking for someone to run the bike recycling on a three day a week basis - which might imply the workshop is unused the other days?

    Or maybe that someone else runs it the other days?


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    #5787
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,859 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    yeah, that's a possibility too. i know the chap who runs the furniture place to see, nice fellow called ger. have dropped in a few things over the years.
    i might pop in and ask about the bike facilities.


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    #5788
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Bless me Raam, for I have sinned.

    Dressed for the road bike this morning but, on a whim, jumped on the MTB for the commute. Without changing my attire.

    It was mostly dark. I may have gotten away with it.


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    #5789
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    Bless me Raam, for I have sinned.

    Dressed for the road bike this morning but, on a whim, jumped on the MTB for the commute. Without changing my attire.

    It was mostly dark. I may have gotten away with it.

    ****!!!

    Nobody told me there was a dress code! I have been making terrible foxes paws all these years! What is the correct dress for mountain biking versus road biking?


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    #5790
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    Bless me Raam, for I have sinned.

    Dressed for the road bike this morning but, on a whim, jumped on the MTB for the commute. Without changing my attire.

    It was mostly dark. I may have gotten away with it.

    As long as it was all white, then I have no problem here.


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    #5791
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,968 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    ...Dressed for the road bike this morning but, on a whim, jumped on the MTB for the commute. Without changing my attire.....
    It would have been much worse if you had done it the other way around! :eek:

    *shudders*


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