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

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Raam

Alek wrote: »

The "fun" part starts further on, past the blockade...

Ah ok, I turned back. Didn't think you could get through.

ThisRegard

Alek wrote: »

Went through the whole length of Dunsink Lane this morning. Jaysus, I never had such overwhelming I-just-want-to-get-the-feck-out-of-here feeling in my cycling career. The dodgiest of the dodgy...

I thought it's closed off at the N3 end so it's dead end? Before it was closed off I used to drive from the N3 to Finglas side occasionally, and yes, it's as you say. You spend the whole length of the road driving around rubbish, rubble and scrap piles.

Alek

Its blocked in the middle, but you can easily portage your bike over.

But don't do it.

manafana

yeah its dirty as and worse on other side contrast to the start of it in castleknock,

Pity as that observatory is quiet historic.

ThisRegard

manafana wrote: »

Pity as that observatory is quiet historic.

It's very underutilised too given it's history, it really should be made more of a tourist and educational attraction (apart from attracting the type of asshole who had tried to burn it down in the past) and factor in Broombridge just down from it where that lad Hamilton figured out his sums.

cjt156

I was talking to someone about that road some time back and ended up having a look on satellite view. If anyone else treated the environment like that there would be an outcry. The authorities have abandoned all responsibility for that area, it looks like something out of Mad Max.

Of course I'm a settled, middle-class male; so it's probably my fault...

ThisRegard

Well I've read that the residents there have claimed that it's not them doing it, but people (I abhor the term 'settled' to describe someone who's not a traveller) using it as an unofficial dump.

magicbastarder

Chuchote wrote: »

(When I scrapped my car, Leo's of Arklow came to Dublin and drove it away and paid me scrap value according to its weight, which was 3 tons.)

are you a tank driver?

Alek

something out of Mad Max

Tru dat.

buffalo

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's very underutilised too given it's history, it really should be made more of a tourist and educational attraction (apart from attracting the type of asshole who had tried to burn it down in the past) and factor in Broombridge just down from it where that lad Hamilton figured out his sums.

You mean...

ThisRegard

Well, that's a different way to teach the history of mathematics/physics, might be on to something for the youtube generaiton!

[how do you even find such a thing?!]

magicbastarder

i was kinda surprised it was completely quashed.

Chuchote

magicbastarder wrote: »

are you a tank driver?

I am not. I don't drive now.

Cars are surprisingly heavy http://cars.lovetoknow.com/List_of_Car_Weights

Tanks weigh about 60 tons.

manafana

Weepsie wrote: »

Sense has prevailed. The woman who got injured in Wicklow, and was so severely injured that she didn't stop at any of the 6 or so hospital or clinics but waited til she got back to Swords has had her €40,000 claim reward overturned.

It was a ludicrous decision in the first instance.

http://www.thejournal.ie/hillwalker-compensation-wicklow-overturned-3244946-Feb2017/

alot those claims are a farce, especially one out on a wild trail, and theirs always on going pain and this and that. Glad it won out as it would ruined walking for so many, its like me suing council if i crash because of rough road surface.

Chuchote

manafana wrote: »

alot those claims are a farce, especially one out on a wild trail, and theirs always on going pain and this and that. Glad it won out as it would ruined walking for so many, its like me suing council if i crash because of rough road surface.

Which you're perfectly entitled to do if that rough road surface is dangerous because the council has mended it incompetently.

magicbastarder

Chuchote wrote: »

I am not. I don't drive now.

Cars are surprisingly heavy http://cars.lovetoknow.com/List_of_Car_Weights

yours was exceedingly heavy though, at 3 tons. there's not a single car on that list which weighed as much as yours.
i drive a skoda octavia, i suppose a middling sized car; it weighs just under one and a half tons.

ED E

tomasrojo wrote: »

I have two 700x28 in the shed. They're too hard to get onto my current wheelset, so they only did a few km. They've been in the shed a few years, but they're absolutely fine, I think. Yours for free, if you want them. I live in Balally/Dundrum/whatever it's called.

Came through bigtime.

Good thing theres no law regarding bald bicycle tyres (inner is still perfect).

Chuchote

magicbastarder wrote: »

yours was exceedingly heavy though, at 3 tons. there's not a single car on that list which weighed as much as yours.
i drive a skoda octavia, i suppose a middling sized car; it weighs just under one and a half tons.

Dunno; that was what the scrappers said my old Ford Mondeo weighed; that was what they paid me for. Maybe they were wrong!

Lumen

Chuchote wrote: »

Dunno; that was what the scrappers said my old Ford Mondeo weighed; that was what they paid me for. Maybe they were wrong!

How many bodies did you have in the boot?

Chuchote

Lumen wrote: »

How many bodies did you have in the boot?

Only the goddess Kanon hanging from the mirror, and my Wheels of the World CD in the front, plus a couple of heavyish jacks that i donated with the car, not needing them any more. But they didn't weigh the car, they looked it up and said that was what it weighed.

tomasrojo

Maybe, knowing the vagaries of the non-metric systems, they were using a little known variant of the "ton". The Greenwich ton or something.

tomasrojo

Just overheard the kids playing upstairs.

This the new president of the USA. His name is Tigger.

Nice to have a steady hand on the tiller again.

Ryath

Rule 24 applies around here to mass too SI units only! Even a Range Rover only weighs around 2500kg. Maybe they gave weight in pounds an older mondeo weighs a bit under 1400kg~ 3000lbs

buffalo

Can someone tell me the name of that light that is also a camera? Maybe I'm just sensitive at the moment, but seemed to get a lot of close passes today.

Lusk_Doyle

buffalo wrote: »

Can someone tell me the name of that light that is also a camera? Maybe I'm just sensitive at the moment, but seemed to get a lot of close passes today.

Fly 6 for the back. Fly 12 for the front.

Raam

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Fly 6 for the back. Fly 12 for the front.

I have the Fly6. Chunky yoke, works well.

Chuchote

tomasrojo wrote: »

Maybe, knowing the vagaries of the non-metric systems, they were using a little known variant of the "ton". The Greenwich ton or something.

Dunno. I got me €150 and me car taken away so I was happy enough with what they told me.

Lusk_Doyle

Raam wrote: »

I have the Fly6. Chunky yoke, works well.

Yea. I got them both. One negative about the 12 is the size of the tightening yoke makes it awkward to mount under the bars. All good aside from that though.

cunavalos

While both riders may have past indiscretions, i saw this photo posted elsewhere today and brought a smile to my face. Valverde and Contadors careers have coincided with my interest in pro cyling and this photo bookends two great careers

Top photo is from Tour of Romandie 2006 and second is from Ruta del Sol 2017

RobFowl

Am getting perilously close to 10,000 posts !
Any suggestions for the big one !!!