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

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  • #8822
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,352 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    is it just me who thought the photo - or the garb - is not flattering, and that he seems to be carrying his sustenance with him?


  • #8823
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    is it just me who thought the photo - or the garb - is not flattering, and that he seems to be carrying his sustenance with him?

    I reckon it's a bad angle/breathing in situation. He's a very fit person. Stood up he'd be a rake in comparison to a normal person.

    Still an extremely brave skinsuit though.


  • #8824
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Has to be, looks like he's a beer belly there otherwise lol

    In Tour of Abu Dhabi news from today , echelons!!!!!!!!


  • #8825
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Had to drop a letter off in town after dropping the kids off to school, so the first time I tried College Green around rush hour, with the added complication of being on a bakfiets. It was really slow. What a mess.


  • #8826
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I tried College Green around rush hour, with the added complication of being on a bakfiets. It was really slow. What a mess.

    Try it on a rainy day, after 5pm, in the dark, and you may run out of your pardon-my-french-vocabulary to describe the experience.


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  • #8827
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Mind your own business or tell them.

    So on my commute, some mornings I encounter another commuter. He is in or about the same speed as me, sometimes faster, sometimes slower. First of all he got rid of his TT bars, which is great as he was bouncing all over the lane with no brakes but his saddle is upto high on his bike and he is rocking back and forth. I had the same issue and someone pointed it out to me years ago, and is solved alot of issues.

    He is clearly (to me, maybe not to him) very competitive as when ever I overtake, I can hear the effort made to catch and pass me out.

    His leg is locking out and if he dropped the saddle an inch or two, or maybe three, his knees would be in better shape but he would probably be far faster and stronger at taking off. (I think his bike is too large in general but anyway)

    I want to say it to him, as my own knees cry inside when I meet him, and he would also be faster than me IMO if he made this change, so he wouldn't have to bust a gut to pass me in future as I think, overall, he is stronger than me.

    Would you be a busy body/nosey parker and say it, or would you just ignore it? I have had people point out issues with my bike and stuff over the years, and by and large, it has been well received, is there a nice way to say this or is it his problem and he can live with it.

    In case it is anyone here, you turn in at UCD, you used to have TT bars, and you travel in from the Cabinteely direction.

    i'd tell a motorist if there wheel was going flat, or a light was bust, surely this is no different?


  • #8828
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I'd tell him. Just making sure I sound friendly and not patronizing...

    The same way I told a few cyclists that their rear light is f*** blinding: with a big smile :D


  • #8829
    VW 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,545 ✭✭✭VW 1


    Similarly, I told a lady yesterday as I pulled up beside her at a red light that her jacket (a long coat with a split in the back) was covering her rear light and as such it was ineffective.

    She looked at me like I was on another planet!


  • #8830
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    It's a tough one. There's a woman who races on the road and her saddle is way too high, she's rocking all over the place. I really, really want to say it to her but I assume she's comfy at it as it's the second year I've seen her at it. Plus I'm no expert, different strokes and all that. I do wince when I see it though.
    I get unsolicited advice quite a bit, sometimes it's annoying, sometimes it's awesome, sometimes it's annoying, as much to do with the humour I'm in as anything else.
    It's the way you say it. If he's dropped the tribars maybe he's open to experimenting with things so now'd be a good time.

    On a side note I find competitive commuters extremely annoying. Racing is racing, commuting is commuting, I don't understand why people can't just do their own thing.

    On another side note, amongst the most awkward commuting moments for me are when you're going pretty much the same speed or marginally faster than someone else in front of you. Previous attempts to share the load in showed they hadn't ridden like that before (rolling over). I don't know why it's just a little awkward, I don't pass them out and keep my distance but it feels like I'm stalking them.
    As for people sitting on without saying anything...


  • #8831
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Yeah, it's interesting that. I've commented to various people and had responses varying from "Oh sorry" to "What the fsck business of yours is it".

    It's astonishing the number of people who have rear lights that are on but:
    • too dim
    • pointing the wrong way
    • obscured by rear rack/panier/clothing


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  • #8832
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    nee wrote: »
    On a side note I find competitive commuters extremely annoying. Racing is racing, commuting is commuting, I don't understand why people can't just do their own thing.
    Loser talk. :D


  • #8833
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Fian


    nee wrote: »
    On another side note, amongst the most awkward commuting moments for me are when you're going pretty much the same speed or marginally faster than someone else in front of you. Previous attempts to share the load in showed they hadn't ridden like that before (rolling over). I don't know why it's just a little awkward, I don't pass them out and keep my distance but it feels like I'm stalking them.
    As for people sitting on without saying anything...

    I particularly hate when I find myself behind a woman going at the same speed as me.

    If I overtake I am that guy who can't handle a woman being ahead of him and has to establish his masculinity.

    If I do what I would generally do with a guy and go, meh no point overtaking just to sit in front of him, I am sitting back there purely to stare at her bum, especially if lycra is in play.

    In fact most probably the rider in front doesn't even notice me and is not thinking about who is cycling behind her at all.

    Nevertheless I generally find myself overtaking, preferring to be seen as an insecure fool than a pervert. If I get passed back though I draw the line and just sit behind.


  • #8834
    Plastik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭Plastik


    Mind your own business.

    Commuting I pass people daily on bikes too big, bikes too small, saddles too high, saddles too low, no rear lights, non-working rear lights, obscured rear lights, front lights on the rear, pedalling slowly in the hardest gear they can turn over, people trying to draft busses up the N11 on wet days, the works. I actually knocked on the window of a small van driver last week to tell him his rear lights weren't working, the usual with new cars and drivers assuming their external lights are on because the dash is lit. He thanked me for letting him know. The next day, dusk, and there he was again, no lights.

    I CBA anymore.


  • #8835
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Fian wrote: »
    I particularly hate when I find myself behind a woman going at the same speed as me.

    If I overtake I am that guy who can't handle a woman being ahead of him and has to establish his masculinity.

    If I do what I would generally do with a guy and go, meh no point overtaking just to sit in front of him, I am sitting back there purely to stare at her bum, especially if lycra is in play.

    In fact most probably the rider in front doesn't even notice me and is not thinking about who is cycling behind her at all.

    Nevertheless I generally find myself overtaking, preferring to be seen as an insecure fool than a pervert. If I get passed back though I draw the line and just sit behind.

    I have never once thought someone sitting in behind me would have been doing so to look at my ass. Until now. I'm going to pretend I don't know that now :pac:
    With summer comes the shouts from cars and vans :rolleyes:


  • #8836
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    As a lad I was very slight 9.5st 5'7 and used have long blonde flowing locks, used to get a great kick when a car or van passed and you'd see them check the rear view and the horror to realise it was a lad on the bike , was icing on the cake if you got a shout or a whistle before they realised :D


  • #8837
    Kav0777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Kav0777


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Yeah, it's interesting that. I've commented to various people and had responses varying from "Oh sorry" to "What the fsck business of yours is it".

    It's astonishing the number of people who have rear lights that are on but:
    • too dim
    • pointing the wrong way
    • obscured by rear rack/panier/clothing

    My own personal favourite is seeing people with red lights on the front and white lights on the back.

    "eh, 'scuse me... your lights are on the wrong way around..."

    *Looks at me like i'm speaking martian*

    "...the red light goes on the back?.... like the cars?"

    "oh!"


  • #8838
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,092 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Mind your own business or tell them...
    Whatever about strangers but my pet hate - the club member who comes out for one or two club rides in the year and proceeds to gives out tit bits of advice as he does the rounds on the roll overs. Sometimes it even extends to telling others what they should be eating at the coffee stop. Feck off!


  • #8839
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,352 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i once passed a woman while climbing a hill near the naul, and she passed some comment about her being so slow, or making her look bad, or something similar - in good humour, anyway.
    i didn't point out to her that she was climbing a steep hill on the big chainring and thus making heavy weather of it, not sure if i would in the same situation again - not to someone i don't know who was being friendly.


  • #8840
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Weepsie wrote: »
    I told someone last week their rear tyre was flat (car) the passenger gave a wave of thanks and driver a look of dismay at the bad luck.

    Then I pointed to front wheel too and they both looked rather downtrodden....

    Me being a bit if a sh1t at times will often look at a drivers front wheel when stopped at a red, make a confused looking face and then shake the head just to wind them up. I like to amuse myself


  • #8841
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    VW 1 wrote: »
    Similarly, I told a lady yesterday as I pulled up beside her at a red light that her jacket (a long coat with a split in the back) was covering her rear light and as such it was ineffective.

    She looked at me like I was on another planet!
    I do this sometimes, on the grounds that they've bothered to put on a light, so they'd probably like it to be visible.

    Seems reasonable to tell someone if they're doing their knees in. I've told a few people their saddles were too low, but only extreme examples, cycling like Groucho Marx used to walk.


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  • #8842
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    nee wrote: »
    It's a tough one. There's a woman who races on the road and her saddle is way too high, she's rocking all over the place. I really, really want to say it to her but I assume she's comfy at it as it's the second year I've seen her at it. Plus I'm no expert, different strokes and all that. I do wince when I see it though.

    I've been in the cavalcade with a seasoned mechanic and bike seller. From his diagnoses, it seemed like every second or third rider we passed had the saddle at the wrong height, wrong sized frame, handlebars too far forward, etc...


  • #8843
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    buffalo wrote: »
    I've been in the cavalcade with a seasoned mechanic and bike seller. From his diagnoses, it seemed like every second or third rider we passed had the saddle at the wrong height, wrong sized frame, handlebars too far forward, etc...

    I'd say nearly everyone has something wrong with their position if you're going by The book. This woman is extreme though. I like to be in front of her cos of the rocking. I haven't the energy to wince in sympathy and die mid race :D


  • #8844
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    If I took the time to tell every cyclist I meet about what they are doing wrong... I'd never get to where I want to go.


  • #8845
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Some people are doing things "wrong" perfectly aware of what they're doing (no lights at night, for example). But there are a few people doing something that can be changed slightly much to their betterment. There are a lot fewer of them.


  • #8846
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    the club member who comes out for one or two club rides in the year and proceeds to gives out tit bits of advice as he does the rounds on the roll overs!

    My response once, "hi I'm Xxxxxxxx, my bike has been in the club longer than you" :-)


  • #8847
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,352 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    subscriber only - it's about the demise of city centre shops, many suffering from online competition.

    but i had not known that mcdonald's cycles in dublin city centre was shutting up shop.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/the-economy-may-be-booming-but-irish-shops-are-dying-1.3402094


  • #8848
    py
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭py


    I briefly remember someone recommending a person who was good at sewing/repairing cycling gear, can anyone remember their name?


  • #8849
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    py wrote: »
    I briefly remember someone recommending a person who was good at sewing/repairing cycling gear, can anyone remember their name?
    The resident seamster Gadetra posted about the difficulty of doing this.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057183476


  • #8850
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    py wrote: »
    I briefly remember someone recommending a person who was good at sewing/repairing cycling gear, can anyone remember their name?

    Repairs can be done, and aren't that stressful but I'd always say you can't guarantee repairs on lycra. That said they can be absolutely fine depends on where it is and the type of fabric it is - not all kit is created equal :D
    Recommendation wise I am a seamster* (but don't work in it anymore) so I haven't tried places out, and have been disappointed when I have but I need a job doing and had no time last year and used Fitz alterations there between Jervis street and Capel street and was actually happy with what they did. It wasn't lycra though so I don't know what their work on that would be like.

    Also kudos to lumen for the ungendered job title :D

    *it's like bikes, you end up with several sewing machines. I have cut down to three now. What's kind of nice is that me,my mother, grandmother and great grandmother have/had singer sewing machines from each of our respective eras. They're beautiful things, and utterly similar in lots of ways (electricity and tables notwithstanding!). And as long as they're serviced they go as well the day they were made as several decades Oh maybe near a hundred years in the case of my great grandmothers one- on. I can and do use the same bobbins and bits in my machine that my great grandmother used in hers. I think cycling could really do with this kind of compatability.


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  • #8851
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,352 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    plus, they're pedal operated too! well, some of them.


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