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

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  • #6212
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    recently, my earworms have mainly been kate bush. mainly 'cloudbusting'. i think i am better off than you.

    You probably are. I am very poor.


  • #6213
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    I accidentally got this into my head a few days ago and it refuses to leave. I blame the evil death rays of the sisters of Charity



  • #6214
    StevieGriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭StevieGriff


    Any have Conor McGregor followed on Instagram?
    Bit bizarre but he's pictured here with a Dura Ace branded frame much like the ones you'd see on top of Shimano Neutral Support cars and at Shimano press releases. Didn't think they were available to buy. Also, that's Julian Dalby (1990 Irish National Road Race Champ) on the right


  • #6215
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Went for a spin today. While struggling up some small hills I could not get "Under the sea" by Sebastian from The Little Mermaid out of my head!
    You asshat


  • #6216
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    CramCycle wrote: »
    You asshat

    What?


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  • #6217
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    What?
    For putting the song in my head, I can't get it out.


  • #6218
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    CramCycle wrote: »
    For putting the song in my head, I can't get it out.

    Best line and double entendre:

    "Darling it's better down where it's wetter"


  • #6219
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Oh, God, calypso!



  • #6220
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Why is it that, when the names of people who have died (in whichever manner but normally in tragic circumstances) are released, they are always named "locally"? What is the reason for this term?


  • #6221
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Why is it that, when the names of people who have died (in whichever manner but normally in tragic circumstances) are released, they are always named "locally"? What is the reason for this term?

    Not officially released or something like that.


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  • #6222
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,266 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Raam wrote: »
    Not officially released or something like that.
    yep, i've always assumed it means 'we got this information from a local rather than confirmation from the gardai'.


  • #6223
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    StevieGriff wrote: »
    Any have Conor McGregor followed on Instagram?
    Bit bizarre but he's pictured here with a Dura Ace branded frame much like the ones you'd see on top of Shimano Neutral Support cars and at Shimano press releases. Didn't think they were available to buy. Also, that's Julian Dalby (1990 Irish National Road Race Champ) on the right

    Julian is now a doctor and is on McGregor's medical team.


  • #6224
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Why is it that, when the names of people who have died (in whichever manner but normally in tragic circumstances) are released, they are always named "locally"? What is the reason for this term?
    Yeah, think it means "not officially confirmed, but we're fairly sure it's accurate".

    Another one they use, which is more insidious, is "known to the Gardaí", which really shouldn't be allowed, on the grounds that they know very well what people will assume it means but they haven't actually said it.


  • #6225
    StevieGriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭StevieGriff


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Julian is now a doctor and is on McGregor's medical team.

    A doctor?! The man was stone cold crazy in his racing days. Got booted from the ras for drawing a swastika on his helmet.


  • #6226
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,134 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    StevieGriff wrote: »
    A doctor?! The man was stone cold crazy in his racing days. Got booted from the ras for drawing a swastika on his helmet.
    There was a thread here on that sometime last year!


  • #6227
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,134 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    There was a thread here on that sometime last year!
    Well not last year but 2010!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056055198


  • #6228
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Anyone tried getting on an Irish Rail train during peak times with a disassembled bike? Ooor, has anyone cycled out to Mondello from Dublin for racing.


  • #6229
    robyntmorton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    I can't say I have, but are we talking Dart, or commuter? The staff might argue a bit during high peak on certain routes, but don't take the piss trying to bring it at the absolute busiest time and I doubt they'd say anything.


  • #6230
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Anyone tried getting on an Irish Rail train during peak times with a disassembled bike? Ooor, has anyone cycled out to Mondello from Dublin for racing.

    Can You put it in a couple of bin liners? Or wheelie bin liners? Wheels in one and frame in another?

    I've sneaked a bike on unbroken alright, but the kildare trains are packed and heuston are pretty strict.


  • #6231
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Twice, once to Wexford and once to Longford. Stopped going to Longford with the bike all together. Walked off, popped off both wheels and sort of stuck them to the frame with my bike locks and carried it on without being stopped. The train was not full. Wexford from Pearse, the steward (is that the right name) in the station came over to me and told me that technically we were not allowed bikes on at this time. He let me away with it but warned if the train that came along was near capacity, i would not be allowed board. It was half empty.

    To Mondello, I know a few guys who have done it from various clubs for races there, headwind is the only negative to it but it is definitely doable.


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  • #6232
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    robyntmorton wrote: »
    I can't say I have, but are we talking Dart, or commuter? The staff might argue a bit during high peak on certain routes, but don't take the piss trying to bring it at the absolute busiest time and I doubt they'd say anything.
    nee wrote: »
    Can You put it in a couple of bin liners? Or wheelie bin liners? Wheels in one and frame in another?

    I've sneaked a bike on unbroken alright, but the kildare trains are packed and heuston are pretty strict.
    CramCycle wrote: »
    Twice, once to Wexford and once to Longford. Stopped going to Longford with the bike all together. Walked off, popped off both wheels and sort of stuck them to the frame with my bike locks and carried it on without being stopped. The train was not full. Wexford from Pearse, the steward (is that the right name) in the station came over to me and told me that technically we were not allowed bikes on at this time. He let me away with it but warned if the train that came along was near capacity, i would not be allowed board. It was half empty.

    To Mondello, I know a few guys who have done it from various clubs for races there, headwind is the only negative to it but it is definitely doable.

    Thanks guys. I'm not a fan of confrontation (despite the impression my posts on here might give), so I really don't want words with staff. I'm working through a few more options at the mo.


  • #6233
    robyntmorton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    It might work out, if you look at the Phoenix park tunnel services from Grand Canal Dock. They're serviced by intercity trains, which have bike racks onboard. There's not much bike capacity, and I have no idea what competition is like for them, but it's a shot.


  • #6234
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    robyntmorton wrote: »
    It might work out, if you look at the Phoenix park tunnel services from Grand Canal Dock. They're serviced by intercity trains, which have bike racks onboard. There's not much bike capacity, and I have no idea what competition is like for them, but it's a shot.

    They're pretty quiet tbh. Took one recently at 6pm and all was quiet on it, that's what got me thinking.


  • #6235
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Friend of mine did the wheels-off-everything-into-a-bin-liner strategy for a while. Seemed to work fine.


  • #6236
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Well not last year but 2010!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056055198

    I first heard about him here fairly recently. Maybe it was a tangent on another thread. Something about making bar tape out of expired pet snakes and a hard-shell helmet out of a coconut or melon, or something like that (pretty small head or pretty big coconut, so think I misremember that).


  • #6237
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    been away for a while lads :) hoping to get properly back into my cycling/mechanics this summer. Quick question, hydraulic brakes on roadbikes, are they worth the hassle? thinking of buying a Ribble aero 883 disk but could save money on going standard brakes


  • #6238
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,507 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Icyseanfitz wrote: »
    been away for a while lads :) hoping to get properly back into my cycling/mechanics this summer. Quick question, hydraulic brakes on roadbikes, are they worth the hassle? thinking of buying a Ribble aero 883 disk but could save money on going standard brakes
    They're better in some ways and worse in others.


  • #6239
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    can imagine if a frame has integrated cables they could be a nightmare for maintenance. Are they too powerful with the small tyres of a road bike? im imagining front end slipping from them


  • #6240
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,266 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    this is getting dangerously close to being rerouted to the dedicated thread.


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  • #6241
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,507 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Icyseanfitz wrote: »
    can imagine if a frame has integrated cables they could be a nightmare for maintenance.
    Not really. Hydraulic lines don't really need maintenance.
    Icyseanfitz wrote: »
    Are they too powerful with the small tyres of a road bike? im imagining front end slipping from them
    No, they're fine.


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