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

22-01-2018 11:40PM

Just watching the racing in Argentina there, yet another country I've seen and added to my bucket list of places to go because of bike racing.

EDIT: Actually the roads they were riding on even though they were in the middle of nowhere today looked 1st rate. Anyone cycled that part of the world?

23-01-2018 12:06AM

Oh just flicked over to RTE Paul Kimmage up next on Claire Byrne

buffalo · 23-01-2018 08:51AM

I need the car after work today so drove in this morning. Takes about the same amount of time, but the stress! Bumper to bumper on so many stretches, going nowhere. And the law-breaking! 500m of the N2 - 13 cars in the bus lane. Every left turn junction, cars queuing in the bus lane early. Red light breaking, yellow-box ignoring, cyclist-close passes and my favourite - taking a right turn onto a main road from the wrong side of the side road, at speed.

I don't know how people do it every day, I can't wait to get back on my bike.

eeeee · 23-01-2018 10:42AM

I got a lift in evening rush hour last week and I honestly do not know how people do it for hours every day. Like that bumper to bumper, rampant law breaking, and so, so, so stressful. After it I'm amazed they aren't more accidents tbh.

Vel · 23-01-2018 11:31AM

I usually cycle in around 7am in the mornings and home again around lunchtime so I don't really get to experience the full on rush hour that often, but when I do it shocks me how anyone could stick it regularly. I cycled down the Dundrum Road last week around 8.45am and the amount of stressed out beepers was something else!

It was quite sh1t show with my fellow cycling commuters this morning between 7 and 7.30am. The majority of cyclists I saw were without any lights whatsoever, and the majority of those I saw with lights had the rear red light on the front - its almost like its a 'thing'!!

I can't help but politely say 'get some lights' as I pass, especially to the ones sailing across junctions on red lights all in black!

Macy0161 · 23-01-2018 11:35AM

Vel wrote: »

It was quite sh1t show with my fellow cycling commuters this morning between 7 and 7.30am. The majority of cyclists I saw were without any lights whatsoever, and the majority of those I saw with lights had the rear red light on the front - its almost like its a 'thing'!!

The majority I saw still had lights, but there did seem to be more without lights this morning*. They all had helmets and hiviz, which as the RSA keeps telling us, is the most important thing...

*colleges back today, but would've thought I was ahead of the college crowe tbh!

RobFowl · 23-01-2018 11:48AM

Drove in yesterday, went though what I thought was a shallow collection of water, came up to 2/3 wheels and car stalled and didn't restart, now TFBUNDY as we used to say in hospitals...
Cycled this am and you would think I'd have been clever enough to go a different way...
Cold wet feet now ........

LollipopJimmy · 23-01-2018 11:54AM

I can't get from work to College on time if I cycle. I've tried it and my lecturer is getting pee'd off at me waling in late. So Monday and Tuesday my only option is to drive into the city at 5.30pm, I usually make it on time and can get a coffee. I was never an angry driver though and can do the drive with a high level of zen

Lusk_Doyle · 23-01-2018 01:53PM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I can't get from work to College on time if I cycle. I've tried it and my lecturer is getting pee'd off at me waling in late. So Monday and Tuesday my only option is to drive into the city at 5.30pm, I usually make it on time and can get a coffee. I was never an angry driver though and can do the drive with a high level of zen

Leave earlier!

LollipopJimmy · 23-01-2018 02:06PM

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Leave earlier!

I really can't, it's hard enough getting out of work at 5.30. I was coming in earlier to leave earlier but still couldn't get out

Lusk_Doyle · 23-01-2018 02:10PM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I really can't, it's hard enough getting out of work at 5.30. I was coming in earlier to leave earlier but still couldn't get out

All I'm reading are excuses. Now get out there, find a solution and make it happen.

Motivation is my strong suit.

marvin80 · 23-01-2018 06:48PM

I heard from club mates the An Post/Sport Ireland Tour of Sligo has been cancelled this year (usually on the May bank holiday weekend) - awful pity.

I'm guessing it's an expensive event to put together and they want to allocate funds to other areas.

I wonder will this affect any of the other cycles (Meath/Clare/Waterford/Cork).

marvin80 · 23-01-2018 06:55PM

Weepsie wrote: »

I thought An Post had stopped all of their cycling related sponsorships as of this year?

They didn't sponsor any of the sportive/cycle series last year so Sports Ireland stepped in. But this year Sport Ireland are not running the Sligo one.

guanciale · 23-01-2018 08:25PM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I can't get from work to College on time if I cycle. I've tried it and my lecturer is getting pee'd off at me waling in late. So Monday and Tuesday my only option is to drive into the city at 5.30pm, I usually make it on time and can get a coffee. I was never an angry driver though and can do the drive with a high level of zen

Your lecturer is pee'd at you.
You need to remind him/her that they are paid to show up whereas you are paying. College is the opposite of work in this regard.

LollipopJimmy · 23-01-2018 08:42PM

guanciale wrote: »

Your lecturer is pee'd at you.
You need to remind him/her that they are paid to show up whereas you are paying. College is the opposite of work in this regard.

Ah he's not said anything but you can see the irritation and no matter how quiet you creep in it disturbs the rest of those also paying. It's disrespectful to the rest of the class

magicbastarder · 23-01-2018 11:21PM

https://twitter.com/BoardExplored/status/955632323185213440

buffalo · 24-01-2018 04:41PM

I was reading the below story earlier (a non-story if there ever was one), but what struck me as noteworthy was the thumbnail
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/this-is-why-you-get-f-killed-truck-driver-films-tirade-against-cyclists-20180123-h0ne5l.html

Is this another misleading example of the oft-mentioned but rarely actually sighted 4-abreast peloton?

magicbastarder · 24-01-2018 09:36PM

one thing that's been annoying me of late - why can't bike manufacturers settle on a standard for bike frame sizing?
my main bike is a claimed 52cm - and the top tube is 52cm long, but the effective top tube is 53.5 or thereabouts - so what's the bleeding point in saying it's a 52?

surely there's a basic parameter or set of parameters they could go back to which would mean that when you see a frame size mentioned, you'd be able to trust that rather than having to disregard it and consult a geometry chart?

CramCycle · 24-01-2018 09:47PM

I presume because relaxed/race/touring, having a standardised frame size would not work as from manufacturer to manufacturer, nay from model to model, the relative dimensions are different.

Idleater · 24-01-2018 10:07PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

one thing that's been annoying me of late - why can't bike manufacturers settle on a standard for bike frame sizing?
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surely there's a basic parameter or set of parameters

Stack and reach

25-01-2018 12:32AM

Lad passed me this morning when I was out with the mutt on a rather nice Kuota and equally nice gear , and randomly reminded me I've never owned a pair of overshoes. I was never one for road shoes anyway, wear mtb or touring ones on the road bike but can't say I've ever been bothered by cold or wet feet.

magicbastarder · 25-01-2018 09:38AM

i've occasionally rued leaving the house without overshoes - if it's frosty or especially wet on the way in on my commute, i don't enjoy pulling on wet shoes for the journey home.

LollipopJimmy · 25-01-2018 10:51AM

Today is new bike day! :pac:

I haven't taken delivery yet and I'm already looking at the next one. This being single craic is turning out better than I thought

seamus · 25-01-2018 06:22PM

https://twitter.com/CH415_/status/956484446743646208

Wait for it.

"If only there was a Garda arou....oh."

Alek · 26-01-2018 10:39AM

Does anyone know if this entrance to Powerscourt Demesne is usuall open?

https://goo.gl/maps/3ChXPDMBjNP2

Plastik · 26-01-2018 08:14PM

Alek wrote: »

Does anyone know if this entrance to Powerscourt Demesne is usuall open?

https://goo.gl/maps/3ChXPDMBjNP2

No, not usually as far as I know.

magicbastarder · 27-01-2018 12:26AM

want.
how many steel bike builders are there in the UK - and ireland - now? i hope someone is keeping track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuUi12XbalE

Wishbone Ash · 27-01-2018 04:50PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

... i don't enjoy pulling on wet shoes for the journey home.

Would you not stuff them with newspaper when you take them off? The paper will absorb the moisture during the day and they'll be 90% dry for the commute home. (I thought everyone did that!)

magicbastarder · 27-01-2018 04:56PM

i have done it, but there's a drying room in work, and newspaper a little hard to come by in there. but it's why i would wear overshoes if i thought it was going to be wet.

buffalo · 27-01-2018 06:12PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Would you not stuff them with newspaper when you take them off? The paper will absorb the moisture during the day and they'll be 90% dry for the commute home. (I thought everyone did that!)

That and stick 'em under any hand/hair dryer available for a bit (don't melt any glue).

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