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

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tomasrojo

De Bhál wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/driving-today-here-are-the-places-there-will-be-garda-checkpoints-as-part-of-slow-down-campaign-36244588.html

why are they advertising where they will be?

I presume it's the same "fair play" logic that leads them not to use hidden speed cameras and to advertise where mobile speed units will be: they don't wish to profit off "catching motorists out".

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, as the risk of being caught is about the only thing that makes people keep to speed limits. Essentially, the "fair play" approach means that people are free to speed except for certain roads at advertised times.

Same logic applies to only installing speed cameras at accident blackspots. Some roads are so hazardous that no pedestrians or cyclists use them, which gives them a pretty good safety record, based on the flawed metric of only measuring killed/seriously injured people.

(The article says that the advertised areas are just some of the units that will be deployed on the day.)

loyatemu

you never see speed enforcement in urban areas either (i.e. town and city streets) - walking around Greystones the other evening (dark, wet) I reckon most cars were going at least 10k over the limit - 50km/h is already too fast IMO in areas where there are a lot of pedestrians and cyclists.

The older I get the more anti-car I'm becoming - literally the most dangerous and environmentally damaging thing most people do every day, yet everyone is so blasé about it...

tomasrojo

I think my wife was happier before I started pointing out the hundreds of small indignities imposed on pedestrians by people who design streets and people who drive one them.

buffalo

tomasrojo wrote: »

I think my wife was happier before I started pointing out the hundreds of small indignities imposed on pedestrians by people who design streets and people who drive one them.

There's a T-ish junction near me. On top of the T is a school, and on the right side of the T is residences. To the left of the T is a short stretch of path which ends in a dead end in both directions (https://goo.gl/maps/8ftBF9vjWbw).

They put in two pedestrian crossings a few months ago. They are not connected, so each must be activated separately. And where do they connect? On the dead end path! So there is no direction connection between the school and the residences.

So no pedestrians use them.

Not only that, but because they're on the corner and not connected, drivers often come around the corner and don't even see the lights are red.

So it would be dangerous for pedestrians to use them.

WHO BUILT THIS!?

CramCycle

robyntmorton wrote: »

Yeah, but most of the other gym users there are asses.

As a furtherment of the analogy, are people who do not use mudguards at the minute like those people who don't bring a towel into the gym with them and leave puddles of sweat on the equipment?

robyntmorton

CramCycle wrote: »

As a furtherment of the analogy, are people who do not use mudguards at the minute like those people who don't bring a towel into the gym with them and leave puddles of sweat on the equipment?

Well yes and no. At least in the gym they're not spraying it into your face.

Both are evil though!

LollipopJimmy

robyntmorton wrote: »

Well yes and no. At least in the gym they're not spraying it into your face.

Both are evil though!

I'd rather have road water sprayed on my face than lie down on a sweaty bench. I was a member of Energie fitness and I left because I couldn't cope with the filth anymore, the leather on most benches was worn through leaving the foam exposed and when you leaned on them the sweat would come up through. Pretty horrid

buffalo

Weepsie wrote: »

How long has that school been there. I used to live nearby and would still cycle by there regularly when heading to Dublin 15 from town and never once noticed it.

If you ask me, that whole area, though nice in some,or even many ways is an example of bad design, planning and the typical just throw em up style that has long been adopted in Ireland.

It's a small enough school (maybe just a montessori?), just a couple of pre-fabs I think.

And agreed on the design, though there's also some extremely lazy humans. The village area has free underground parking, but yet people still double-park when they go to the shops. There's no loading bays for commercial vehicles making deliveries. There's no pedestrian crossing in the village, though really it should have a zebra crossing at least - when the level crossing opens it's impossible to cross for a few minutes at rush hour. And the one pedestrian crossing at the canal is routinely ignored - only last week I saw someone beeping at the car in front for stopping! Despite of course the 15 car tailback at the Halfway House roundabout 200m up the road...

...I never realised how much I dislike about the area until just now. :P

magicbastarder

i used to go cycling round there when it were all just fields...

dahat

Goes to the gym...aggravates an old back injury, great start to wait looks like a ****e weekend.

LollipopJimmy

dahat wrote: »

Goes to the gym...aggravates an old back injury, great start to wait looks like a ****e weekend.

I'm always hurting myself between one thing and another, especially playing football and I always just carry on and don't give a fiddlers except when it comes to the back. It genuinely scares me and I always rest when i feel a niggle starting in my back

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Thanks for the lift Brian :pac:

dahat

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I'm always hurting myself between one thing and another, especially playing football and I always just carry on and don't give a fiddlers except when it comes to the back. It genuinely scares me and I always rest when i feel a niggle starting in my back

Back is always a worry, I'll rest up and assess if I really need to be doing what I'm doing in the gym.
As my wife said, "you have have cycled 9000km this year nearly and no injury, 3 weeks going to a gym and you are laid up.." maybe she has a point.

ford2600

dahat wrote: »

Back is always a worry, I'll rest up and assess if I really need to be doing what I'm doing in the gym.
As my wife said, "you have have cycled 9000km this year nearly and no injury, 3 weeks going to a gym and you are laid up.." maybe she has a point.

Rather than trying to get stronger learn to move properly.

dahat

ford2600 wrote: »

Rather than trying to get stronger learn to move properly.

Another fair point, I suspect I was squatting the reps too quick with a loss of form for speed as a result of being too keen.
This was a 3 month plan max so I don't know if I want to risk too much either.

Alek

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LollipopJimmy

dahat wrote: »

Another fair point, I suspect I was squatting the reps too quick with a loss of form for speed as a result of being too keen.
This was a 3 month plan max so I don't know if I want to risk too much either.

Squats are amazing and you'll feel some serious benefits BUT form needs to be damn near perfect and I'd recommend having a good trainer show you how to do them properly.

Lusk_Doyle

Alek wrote: »

I know someone who has done this. Twice.

Lusk_Doyle

What the actual feck is the stayers track race about???!!!

robyntmorton

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

What the actual feck is the stayers track race about???!!!

Google is leaving me scratching my head. It looks... insane.

CrowdedHouse

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

What the actual feck is the stayers track race about???!!!

Was just about to say too!

Quare bikes -both motor and pedal

eeeee

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

What the actual feck is the stayers track race about???!!!

Derney racing. Regular scratch but you have a derney in front of you. There's a roller on the back of the derney so the front wheel of the bike can touch it, and the bike is that way so it has greater stability for hitting the roller and aero gainz

Lusk_Doyle

nee wrote: »

Derney racing. Regular scratch but you have a derney in front of you. There's a roller on the back of the derney so the front wheel of the bike can touch it, and the bike is that way so it has greater stability for hitting the roller and aero gainz

Eh, they ain't no derneys!

robyntmorton

Looks something like this?

As I said, it looks insane.

manafana

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Squats are amazing and you'll feel some serious benefits BUT form needs to be damn near perfect and I'd recommend having a good trainer show you how to do them properly.

learn to squat with no weight first, for cyclists the best exercises are done with the body

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manafana wrote: »

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for cyclists the best exercises are done with the body

Depends what kind of cyclist you are

Lifting heavy only helps me.

ThisRegard

The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling's Golden Generation by Barry Ryan is on Amazon Kindle for £6.64 at the moment for anyone that might be interested.

Wishbone Ash

ThisRegard wrote: »

The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling's Golden Generation by Barry Ryan is on Amazon Kindle for £6.64 at the moment for anyone that might be interested.

Mrs WA left a copy on my pillow the other night. Pretty good so far although I'm only a few chapters in.

LollipopJimmy

nee wrote: »

Depends what kind of cyclist you are

Lifting heavy only helps me.

Absolutely, Chris Hoy didn't get his quads from cycling. Squats and deadlifts

In saying that I've been training Muay Thai and BJJ the last while, it's unreal, couple that with the heavy lifting and I'm not feeling too much fear in my prep for a Quest Ireland challenge next year, but I'll not say too much about that around here given it's perilously close to being a triathlon

Ryath

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Absolutely, Chris Hoy didn't get his quads from cycling. Squats and deadlifts

In saying that I've been training Muay Thai and BJJ the last while, it's unreal, couple that with the heavy lifting and I'm not feeling too much fear in my prep for a Quest Ireland challenge next year, but I'll not say too much about that around here given it's perilously close to being a triathlon

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