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

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  • #9802
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Saw this cool quote from John Lennon

    “As a kid I had a dream — I wanted to own my own #bicycle. When I got the #bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.”

    Think this was it:
    9b03553d38193be6631d4664dad14059.jpg

    It's the bike you see in a few photos of him about that age. A Raleigh from what I recall, and on the overwhelming balance of probability for an English boy immediately post-WWII.


  • #9803
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    koutoubia wrote: »
    And what moniker were you posting under ten years ago?

    El Tonto!


  • #9804
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    Hate to hear people stop riding because of kids, have others on here managed to handle having young children while still getting out once week just assume it takes planning and depends on parenting styles i assume?


  • #9805
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,846 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    manafana wrote: »
    Hate to hear people stop riding because of kids, have others on her managed to handle having young children while still getting out once week just assume it takes planning and on parenting styles i assume?

    Agreed, while circumstances can change significantly with kids (I have 2), a person always needs time to reflect and clear the head, the weekly bike spin can help someone in so many ways.


  • #9806
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    dahat wrote: »
    Agreed, while circumstances can change significantly with kids (I have 2), a person always needs time to reflect and clear the head, the weekly bike spin can help someone in so many ways.

    Yeah i find it easier to understand when it becomes three as one parent runs out of hands :)


  • #9807
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Raam wrote: »
    El Tonto!
    So whatever happened to your Kingdom?


  • #9808
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,877 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Next round of the arms race begins - Campag 12 speed Super/Record.

    Just need a moderate lotto win I suppose

    http://hub.chainreactioncycles.com/latest-news/campagnolo-reveal-worlds-first-12-speed-road-groupset/

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • #9809
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    good god that's an ugly RD.


  • #9810
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    That dude should get a lotto ticket NOW

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/ivtime/permalink/847461915448883/


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  • #9811
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    good god that's an ugly RD.

    I like it, whole grouppo looks good too..

    12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well ;)


  • #9812
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    manafana wrote: »
    Hate to hear people stop riding because of kids, have others on here managed to handle having young children while still getting out once week just assume it takes planning and depends on parenting styles i assume?
    Depends on both parents to be honest. I could get out for either Saturday or Sunday morning spins but really just don't want to. I knowpeople who get up at 4 in the morning and get back for 8 so they don't feel they have unfairly loaded the other parent. The truth is, bar work, if one parent wants to get out for a few hours on one day of the weekend, the only thing stopping them is the other parent or guilt at leaving the other parent, or more importantly losing time you won't get back.

    This said, only 3 more years till he will be able to go out for track, then all my problems are solved.

    Long story short, if you want to get out, you'll get out, if you don't, you won't. Don't blame the kids or your partner.
    Alek wrote: »
    That dude should get a lotto ticket NOW

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/ivtime/permalink/847461915448883/

    I'd buy a new pair of pants first.


  • #9813
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I'd buy a new pair of pants first.

    His friends seem to have learned how to swear from children's television.


  • #9814
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    RobFowl wrote: »

    12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well ;)
    Also sounds very "imperial" - much better than the prior decimalisation adopted:)


  • #9815
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    If car adverts were honest:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr5ORr7AYCg


  • #9816
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    RobFowl wrote: »
    I like it, whole grouppo looks good too..

    12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well ;)

    I like how the shifters can shift up three speeds in one go. It's as if there were too many gears back there and we might want to skip one or two...


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  • #9817
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    RobFowl wrote: »
    I like it, whole grouppo looks good too..

    12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well ;)

    But it’s not a prime number!


  • #9818
    Weepsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,869 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    But it’s not a prime number!

    Nor a palindrome. The next possible palindromic prime number of cogs is 101, and that's at least a decade away.


  • #9819
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i'm sure someone has to have posted that 'five blades!' onion article in relation to this before.


  • #9820
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Nor a palindrome. The next possible palindromic prime number of cogs is 101, and that's at least a decade away.
    there are eight possible palindromic numbers before we hit 101; starting at 22...


  • #9821
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    there are eight possible palindromic numbers before we hit 101; starting at 22...

    Not a prime though


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  • #9822
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    arse, i missed that bit.


  • #9823
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i'm sure someone has to have posted that 'five blades!' onion article in relation to this before.
    I was thinking about that. I was also thinking the next iteration will have to be two extra gears, or some way to get around superstitions.


  • #9824
    Weepsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,869 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    I was thinking about that. I was also thinking the next iteration will have to be two extra gears, or some way to get around superstitions.

    There's already a 1x13 that's been done albeit not commercially, and Shimano patented a 14 cog set up nearly 20 years ago.


  • #9825
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Wait till they bring out a CVTinternal hub gear that uses how much effort you are putting into spinning to decide what gear you need to be in. Probably need a powermeter built in in some way.


  • #9826
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    I've been predicting a combination of electronic gearing, power meters, HR monitors, and GPS data along with training plans where your bike will select the right great for you based on what your aim is, whether you're coming to a hill, and will shout at you to pick up the pace when necessary. Or else call the ambulance on you and lead it to your exact location when you collapse from exhaustion.


  • #9827
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Not a prime though

    But 10 wasn't either - nor 9 or 8. Do you really want to go to 13?


  • #9828
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    I've been predicting a combination of electronic gearing, power meters, HR monitors, and GPS data along with training plans where your bike will select the right great for you based on what your aim is, whether you're coming to a hill, and will shout at you to pick up the pace when necessary. Or else call the ambulance on you and lead it to your exact location when you collapse from exhaustion.
    To complete the setup maybe a robot to do the riding. No need for ambulances, and hopefully more mechanics around, putting paramedics out of a job.


  • #9829
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Beasty wrote: »
    So whatever happened to your Kingdom?

    I got bored with it.


  • #9830
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    So whatever happened to your Kingdom?

    What in the name of Jebus...???


  • #9831
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    there are eight possible palindromic numbers before we hit 101; starting at 22...

    Already taken


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  • #9832
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    What in the name of Jebus...???
    He used to be quite ambitious....

    compared himself with Springsteen at one stage

    ....seems to have reverted now though

    Don't ask him about his jelly habit though


  • #9833
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    #newbikeexcuses

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  • #9834
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


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  • #9835
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,248 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    buffalo wrote: »
    #newbikeexcuses

    The state of the cassette, that's enough of an excuse.

    I was stripping down one of the kids bikes over the weekend taking advantage of the relatively decent weather. Was about to do it on the deck before I realised I'd drop every nut and bolt down between the gaps.

    Once the bike was stripped I moved the bike stand over to the decking. A bolt instantly popped out of it and down the bloody deck. Can't even see it to fish it out with a magnet on a string. At least it doesn't seem essential, nor was it part of a bike.


  • #9836
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Less that 200 posts to go.....


    How about "When are we getting 13?"


  • #9837
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    buffalo wrote: »
    #newbikeexcuses

    How'd ya manage that?


  • #9838
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i'm not quite sure of the purpose of this type of sign; you could take it to suggest that if you want to get to ballymun on a bike, you head straight on, instead of taking a different route another mode of transport would imply. however, where the sign is, it's pointing up the main road to ballymun - ballymun road - and there's no other route you'd take regardless of mode of transport.

    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3784568,-6.2672912,3a,75y,16.66h,88.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swm9XPO5D0ARdUoSxkkJvEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


  • #9839
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i'm not quite sure of the purpose of this type of sign; you could take it to suggest that if you want to get to ballymun on a bike, you head straight on, instead of taking a different route another mode of transport would imply. however, where the sign is, it's pointing up the main road to ballymun - ballymun road - and there's no other route you'd take regardless of mode of transport.

    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3784568,-6.2672912,3a,75y,16.66h,88.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swm9XPO5D0ARdUoSxkkJvEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
    It's one of a series of signs, just letting those following them know they're still on the right track (like temporary follow diversion signs).

    Here's the first on Botanic Rd, telling cyclists to keep left rather than head up Mobhi Rd. if they want Ballymun. I suppose it's an easier route than having to tackle crossing two lanes at Mobhi Rd. > Griffith Ave > Ballymun Rd.

    It's odd the planners want cyclists to avoid one section of Mobhi Rd. by going around by the Botanic Gardens and then right onto Mobhi Dr and then going contra flow on the path from there. What you do from Homefarm Rd. is up to you though!


  • #9840
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    ah, that makes a bit more sense. i'd not spotted that sign on botanic road.


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  • #9841
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i'm not quite sure of the purpose of this type of sign;

    That's what I always wonder passing this: https://goo.gl/maps/MgVP5K4sKr92


  • #9842
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    This is one from Blanchardstown is one of my favourites. I don't think it's even a statutory sign.


  • #9843
    Ryath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ryath


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=447828&d=1523376135

    Bloody cyclists all over the road!

    This popped up on facebook as a someone I knew shared it and signed it. Australia has to be the most anti cycling country in the world.
    Also on petition is to ban cyclists from roads with a speed limit above 80km/h
    https://www.change.org/p/compulsory-single-file-for-cyclists

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  • #9844
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Baron de Charlus wrote: »
    This is one from Blanchardstown is one of my favourites. I don't think it's even a statutory sign.
    this is clearly what is being referred to:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqgVLr6b9Rk


  • #9845
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Ryath wrote: »
    Bloody cyclists all over the road!
    my father in law shared that on facebook. i had a good old go at the premise of it. including the astonishing rank hypocrisy that they are claiming that cyclists cycling two abreast is unfair on motorists trying to drive two abreast.


  • #9846
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    That's not real life representation. You'd never get that many cyclists in blue kit together with motorists in blue cars.


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  • #9847
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Some cyclists are also missing legs.


  • #9848
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    I'd be more concerned about the floating jerseys tbh


  • #9849
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    ED E wrote: »
    How'd ya manage that?

    I couldn't tell you tbh, I've been riding on it for 2-3 weeks. Possibly hit a pothole with fully load panniers from the weekly shop. I'm only wee myself, so I don't think it was my fault! :D


  • #9850
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    buffalo wrote: »
    I couldn't tell you tbh, I've been riding on it for 2-3 weeks. Possibly hit a pothole with fully load panniers from the weekly shop. I'm only wee myself, so I don't think it was my fault! :D

    Sure ya weren't Danny McAskilling off rooftop? :D


  • #9851
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,248 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Ashbourne Gardai had a bike stamping day last week, and I see this initiative in Dublin City Centre now. Although the cynic would say the initiative should be in preventing bikes being stolen.

    Bit of an odd partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons, unless they're eyeing up potential customers.

    https://twitter.com/gardainfo/status/984331222951317504


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