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

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  • #8222
    guanciale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭guanciale


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Parcel motel trying to charge me €91 for a bike. Is this the norm?

    Happened to me.
    If you collect the bike as oppose to delivered to a motel it is much cheaper - i did this last year.

    Bring a blade to get rid of the packaging - the folks at the Dublin base (near Ikea) were fine with me leaving the packaging with them.


  • #8223
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Any idea of best way to contact them?
    guanciale wrote: »
    Happened to me.
    If you collect the bike as oppose to delivered to a motel it is much cheaper - i did this last year.

    Bring a blade to get rid of the packaging - the folks at the Dublin base (near Ikea) were fine with me leaving the packaging with them.

    I done that as well, the PM crowd let me leave it in one of their bins outside the depot.

    Phone is the best way, or at least, the way that worked for me. Sorry I forgot to mention I collected mine, which may have helped with the reduction.


  • #8224
    MediaMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭MediaMan


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Parcel motel trying to charge me €91 for a bike. Is this the norm?
    You could get a real motel room for less than that.


  • #8225
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    But he won't be able to cycle to it on his new bike :pac:


  • #8226
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Was waiting at a junction this morning, and a rear-ending happened right in front of me (and not the sexy kind!). No obvious cause bar complete lack of judgement on the part of driver behind. I went away thinking, 'how does that not result in any penalty points?'


    (NB I may not have thought through enforcement and long-term consequences.)


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  • #8227
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    buffalo wrote: »
    Was waiting at a junction this morning, and a rear-ending happened right in front of me (and not the sexy kind!). No obvious cause bar complete lack of judgement on the part of driver behind. I went away thinking, 'how does that not result in any penalty points?'


    (NB I may not have thought through enforcement and long-term consequences.)

    You left the scene of a RTI? How does THAT not result in any penalty points!?!


  • #8228
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    You left the scene of a RTI? How does THAT not result in any penalty points!?!

    I wrote my details down and left them with the front driver in case there was any dispute.

    I'm now short an envelope for my Christmas cards though... :(


  • #8229
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    best remark i heard when at the scene of an accident - in a good natured manner - 'what are you going to do, give her a backer to hospital?'


  • #8230
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    best remark i heard when at the scene of an accident - in a good natured manner - 'what are you going to do, give her a backer to hospital?'
    Tangentially reminds me of when the car of a colleague at work had a puncture and he couldn't get the wheel off to put on the spare wheel. He'd jacked up the car, got the wheel nuts off, but the wheel just wouldn't come off the axle. It came to me then that the wheel had probably fused with the axle, the way seat posts fuse with the seat tube in bikes. So I rang up someone I knew who was knowledgeable about cars, asked him how to get a fused wheel off an axle, relayed to information to my colleague, the wheel was removed and I went home, happy in my good Samaritan status.

    Then the next day I heard people at work talking about it, and how there had been a crowd of people trying to help, and, with a laugh: "yeah, even that guy who only cycles tried to help".


  • #8231
    scott.s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭scott.s


    buffalo wrote: »
    Was waiting at a junction this morning, and a rear-ending happened right in front of me (and not the sexy kind!). No obvious cause bar complete lack of judgement on the part of driver behind. I went away thinking, 'how does that not result in any penalty points?'


    (NB I may not have thought through enforcement and long-term consequences.)


    Should be driving without due care and attention which is 2 points I think. Would probably only happen if a guard witnessed it though as you could say it's down to other factors.


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  • #8232
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,090 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    .. the wheel had probably fused with the axle, the way seat posts fuse with the seat tube in bikes. So I rang up someone I knew who was knowledgeable about cars, asked him how to get a fused wheel off an axle, relayed to information to my colleague, the wheel was removed....
    Presumably the tip was to unjack the car and drive forward for a little bit. Usually does the trick.


  • #8233
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Presumably the tip was to unjack the car and drive forward for a little bit. Usually does the trick.

    I find a few swift blows of a club hammer does the job.


  • #8234
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i'm curious about what tip tomasrojo was given.


  • #8235
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    buffalo wrote: »
    Was waiting at a junction this morning, and a rear-ending happened right in front of me (and not the sexy kind!). No obvious cause bar complete lack of judgement on the part of driver behind. I went away thinking, 'how does that not result in any penalty points?'


    (NB I may not have thought through enforcement and long-term consequences.)
    The guy who deliberately rammed into the back of my car twice and then left the scene last year was not prosecuted by AGS and would not have picked up any points. They have left it to the insurers to sort out. He does face a private prosecution though, and I suspect his insurance premiums will have become rather prohibitive.


  • #8236
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Beasty wrote: »
    The guy who deliberately rammed into the back of my car twice and then left the scene last year was not prosecuted by AGS and would not have picked up any points. They have left it to the insurers to sort out. He does face a private prosecution though, and I suspect his insurance premiums will have become rather prohibitive.

    Hang 'em high Beasty ;)


  • #8237
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I find a few swift blows of a club hammer does the job.

    Exactly or if you’ve no hammer you use the spare wheel. Have done it 4-5 times.


  • #8238
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I done that as well, the PM crowd let me leave it in one of their bins outside the depot.

    Phone is the best way, or at least, the way that worked for me. Sorry I forgot to mention I collected mine, which may have helped with the reduction.

    So a phonecall was made and it was sorted. I arrived tonight to collect. The box was ****ing massive. I’m used to much smaller bike boxes. Opened box and the whole bike built in its entirety was in it. PM guy took box. Lucky I had roof rack on and off we went. Junior finally graduates from a BMX.


  • #8239
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,070 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Xmas shopping earlier and while looking at some shirts etc for Xmas day I was promptly told not to buy anything as you won't wear it so just spend money on cycling gear as you'll get the wear out of that!

    A good sort my Mrs is!!!


  • #8240
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I didn't mean to leave people on tenterhooks. The advice about the car wheel fused to the axle was to tap the wheel from the axle side, rotate it a bit, tap it again, etc., until it came off. I guess that's pretty much the club hammer route?

    (And to put some copper grease on the axle before installing the wheel in future.)


  • #8241
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    The guy who deliberately rammed into the back of my car twice and then left the scene last year was not prosecuted by AGS and would not have picked up any points. They have left it to the insurers to sort out. He does face a private prosecution though, and I suspect his insurance premiums will have become rather prohibitive.

    Nope. They ain't found me yet!


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  • #8242
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    So a phonecall was made and it was sorted. I arrived tonight to collect. The box was ****ing massive. I’m used to much smaller bike boxes. Opened box and the whole bike built in its entirety was in it. PM guy took box. Lucky I had roof rack on and off we went. Junior finally graduates from a BMX.

    ...to...?


  • #8243
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    ...to...?

    MTB. He'll have to stop swinging the bike from side to side soon enough.


  • #8244
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    dahat wrote: »
    Xmas shopping earlier and while looking at some shirts etc for Xmas day I was promptly told not to buy anything as you won't wear it so just spend money on cycling gear as you'll get the wear out of that!

    A good sort my Mrs is!!!

    My partner told me I had to get some new clothes as everything is getting old looking and I haven't bought anything new in awhile. Went online, problem solved. Fresh lycra on the way.


  • #8245
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I didn't mean to leave people on tenterhooks. The advice about the car wheel fused to the axle was to tap the wheel from the axle side, rotate it a bit, tap it again, etc., until it came off. I guess that's pretty much the club hammer route?

    (And to put some copper grease on the axle before installing the wheel in future.)

    It can take a serious amount of hammering though (from past experience).. Technicians usually loosen the wheel bolts/nuts and drive a bit while steering, ala WA's suggestion above.


  • #8246
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Technicians usually loosen the wheel bolts/nuts and drive a bit while steering, ala WA's suggestion above.

    Worked for me recently...


  • #8247
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Yeah, that tip about driving a bit with the wheel nuts loosened sounds like a good plan. Wasn't needed on that occasion anyway, and I guess the idea would have been misattributed to someone who drives anyway! ;)


  • #8248
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Yeah, that tip about driving a bit with the wheel nuts loosened sounds like a good plan. Wasn't needed on that occasion anyway, and I guess the idea would have been misattributed to someone who drives anyway! ;)

    Loosen them and Just drive a few metres and wobble the steering from side to side. Happened me and I called a friend of the auld fellas who worked for a on call tyre company.


  • #8249
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    https://twitter.com/SadhbhOS/status/943843072345083904?s=09


  • #8250
    robyntmorton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    Anyone cycling in the Smithfield area in the next while, please note:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/943875228027031552


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  • #8251
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    cycling through malahide earlier, spotted a car with hazards on, sitting at least a metre from the kerb with the door open, thought to myself 'oh you bleeding tool' - and then spotted the driver administering to (presumably) his young daughter being ill at the side of the road. some things you just have to let slide...

    a little later, passing st. aidan's - beside DCU on collins avenue; good god, that's a hot mess of parents making a hames of the cycle lane and pulling out without looking, picking their darlings up from school.


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