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

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  • #5702
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Alek wrote: »
    The "fun" part starts further on, past the blockade...

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


  • #5703
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5704
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


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

    But don't do it.


  • #5705
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5706
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #5707
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭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...


  • #5708
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5709
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,418 CMod ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #5710
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    something out of Mad Max

    Tru dat.


  • #5711
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭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...



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  • #5712
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭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?!]


  • #5713
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,418 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i was kinda surprised it was completely quashed.


  • #5714
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5715
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5716
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5717
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,418 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5718
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭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.

    lUKfMJsm.jpg

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


  • #5719
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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!


  • #5720
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,278 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #5721
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #5722
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5723
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5724
    Ryath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭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


  • #5725
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5726
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5727
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Fly 6 for the back. Fly 12 for the front.

    I have the Fly6. Chunky yoke, works well.


  • #5728
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5729
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5730
    cunavalos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭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
    hurl2t.jpg
    Top photo is from Tour of Romandie 2006 and second is from Ruta del Sol 2017


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  • #5731
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


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


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