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

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  • #7382
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    is it just me, or has anyone else started receiving kudos from people they've no connection to, on strava?
    got one today from a chap in Rio. not that i would usually disavow praise, but i was wondering what it was about my spin through ardcath and the naul which stood out for someone in brazil.
    Get them all the time. I think they are hoping you will follow them and return the kudos.

    (Is the chap from Rio the one who is usually top the Boards.ie leaderboard and is a member of dozens of |\strava clubs?)


  • #7383
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,358 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    actually, i've just noticed it's rio de janeiro, italy:

    https://www.strava.com/athletes/22059850


  • #7384
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    actually, i've just noticed it's rio de janeiro, italy:

    https://www.strava.com/athletes/22059850
    He's in the boards.ie Strava club and following almost 3000 others. Probably has set up some sort of automated system for giving kudos to thousands.


  • #7385
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Just see he gave me kudos also - must have done everyone in the club.


  • #7386
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    must have done everyone in the club.

    That guy, we all know that guy, every club has one ;)


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  • #7387
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Watching Home of the Year last night, there was an aluminium-sided north Dublin house with a huge room set up as a cycling workshop. Beautiful house!

    https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/home-of-the-year-30003316/10768415/


  • #7388
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Watching Home of the Year last night, there was an aluminium-sided north Dublin house with a huge room set up as a cycling workshop. Beautiful house!

    https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/home-of-the-year-30003316/10768415/

    Can't believe that the carbon one didn't win it.


  • #7389
    koutoubia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Just see he gave me kudos also - must have done everyone in the club.
    He didnt give me kudos ...fooker


  • #7390
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    Kudos has lost its currency. A spin into work, nipping down the shops for milk or some such..and some saddo is bound to give you the thumbs up.

    Why would you want them anyway? Unless you place well in a race or finish a tough brevet in good time...all the rest is a bit of an embarrassment.

    Hard men ? Needy big girls blouses is more like it. Get out and get some validation the old fashioned way - on the podium/ finishers list. ;)


  • #7391
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    Hard men ? Needy big girls blouses is more like it. Get out and get some validation the old fashioned way - on the podium/ finishers list. ;)

    Do you mean a Strava KOM podium? :D


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  • #7392
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    Unless you place well in a race or finish a tough brevet in good time...all the rest is a bit of an embarrassment.

    Pff. Races.

    What's your hurry?


  • #7393
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    buffalo wrote: »
    Do you mean a Strava KOM podium? :D

    The stickybottle/ gale force wind assisted Strava KOM podium ;)


  • #7394
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Pff. Races.

    What's your hurry?

    I'm slowly dying, every second that passes brings me closer to the grave.


  • #7395
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Pff. Races.

    What's your hurry?

    If you're not chasing KOMs are you even cycling? :pac:


  • #7396
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,335 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Mamils beware!

    http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/chris-hoy-middle-aged-men-lycra-mamils/


  • #7397
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I don't know what's more ridiculous.

    A middle aged man, who frequently wears lycra, cautioning other middle-aged men not to wear lycra?

    Or middle-aged men getting so upset about this middle-aged man's comments that he had to publicly apologise for them?


  • #7398
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    The stickybottle/ gale force wind assisted Strava KOM podium ;)

    They are the best ones - also known as Beasty specials! I got one by 5 mins over a 19km segment recently. Mine forever unless a pro peleton comes through!


  • #7399
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Or middle-aged men getting so upset about this middle-aged man's comments that he had to publicly apologise for them?

    I think he's apologising purely out of commercial self-interest.


  • #7400
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,358 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    or he made the initial comments out of commercial self interest too.

    i did not know he sold gear until this. goal achieved.


  • #7401
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,177 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Fecking catastrophic failure on my track pump tonight, the black rubber on the main tube has turned all white and powdery and it just blew apart on me, I couldnt believe it, its only 3 years old aswell. Anyone know when they'll be in Lidl or Aldi or seen any bargains lately?


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  • #7402
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,358 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    they had them in aldi a few days ago - for a massive €6.


  • #7403
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    Thargor wrote: »
    Fecking catastrophic failure on my track pump tonight, the black rubber on the main tube has turned all white and powdery and it just blew apart on me, I couldnt believe it, its only 3 years old aswell. Anyone know when they'll be in Lidl or Aldi or seen any bargains lately?

    They were due to be in Lidl on Monday 28 too, I have one and it is solid for the price and does what it should too, buy two while you are at it. You should find them around somewhere


  • #7404
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,177 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    In there yesterday, perfect timing, thanks:

    https://www.lidl.ie/en/special-offers.htm?id=98&week=1


  • #7405
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,177 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Wow those Lidl track pumps are the cycling bargain of the year, all metal, big clear gauge, lovely smooth action and a box full of adapters built into the handle for air matresses and various other stuff, it feels so well made, more like a €50 pump than €7, 3 year warranty aswell.


  • #7406
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    I'm suddenly fearful for the €200 deposit on my rental bike after noticing that my f'ing clown feet have worn away patches of paint on both cranks and a descent through a minor landslide yesterday put a chip the size of a match-head in the fork. :- |


  • #7407
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    rollingscone wrote: »
    I'm suddenly fearful for the €200 deposit on my rental bike after noticing that my f'ing clown feet have worn away patches of paint on both cranks and a descent through a minor landslide yesterday put a chip the size of a match-head in the fork. :- |

    Ah sure with any luck they'll be selling off rental bikes from tomorrow anyway.


  • #7408
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Bike commuting by electoral division, from the Census. Oddly, Harold's Cross, which normally comes up top for cycling in surveys, has fewer than the eastern neighbours:


    http://census.cso.ie/p6map21/


  • #7409
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    No one cycles to Cherrywood? Am I reading it right?


  • #7410
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    No one cycles to Cherrywood? Am I reading it right?
    ....and no one cycling in from Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush, Lusk either! :confused:


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  • #7411
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,358 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    maybe no one fills out the census up there?


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