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magicbastarder · 31-03-2018 11:37AM

i just don't like the look of those rear derailleurs - it's SRAM red, yeah? it looks like it should be attached to a terminator's shoulder.

Lumen · 31-03-2018 11:43AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

i just don't like the look of those rear derailleurs - it's SRAM red, yeah? it looks like it should be attached to a terminator's shoulder.

Ugh, you're right. I just had to wipe puke off my keyboard.

Torres09 · 19-04-2018 05:15PM

This.........

https://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/bmw-cruise-bike/15234301

Boscoirl · 19-04-2018 05:33PM

Torres09 wrote: »

This.........

https://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/bmw-cruise-bike/15234301

I really like how understated the hydraulic disc brakes are!

magicbastarder · 19-04-2018 05:51PM

stab proof tyres. a solution to a problem i didn't know existed.

Alek · 19-04-2018 09:28PM

stab proof tyres. a solution to a problem i didn't know existed.

Clearly you never owned a BMW.

magicbastarder · 19-04-2018 09:31PM

well, i had to replace all four tyres on the car a few years ago after driving over thumbtacks thrown in the road as a halloween prank.

Alek · 19-04-2018 09:35PM

Seriously? Regular thumbtacks? I thought you need sidewall damage to bin a car's tyre...?

magicbastarder · 19-04-2018 09:41PM

the guys in atlas in drumcondra (the only tyre place open on a sunday on the northside, fact fans) pulled over 20 thumbtacks out of the tyres. two things - if the puncture is close enough to the sidewall (i think within 10% of the tyre's width), they don't like/support repairing it. three of the tyres had such punctures. secondly - repairing two dozen punctures would not have left me with a lot of confidence in the tyres. thankfully, the tyres weren't new - all four at least 75% of their way through their lifespan - so it made no sense to repair tyres which were beginning to show their age anyway,

magicbastarder · 19-04-2018 09:42PM

also, i wouldn't mind, i'd already spent €180 that morning (on a whole lamb). expensive day. the tyres added €350 to the day.

Eamonnator · 19-04-2018 10:28PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

also, i wouldn't mind, i'd already spent €180 that morning (on a whole lamb). expensive day. the tyres added €350 to the day.

I like lambs, but I'd never eat a whole one

recedite · 23-04-2018 04:48PM

Eamonnator wrote: »

I like lambs, but I'd never eat a whole one

What, even after doing the Wicklow 200?

recedite · 23-04-2018 04:50PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

stab proof tyres. a solution to a problem i didn't know existed.

Its in Blanchardstown.

Hungrycol · 24-04-2018 05:11PM

Torres09 wrote: »

This.........

https://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/bmw-cruise-bike/15234301

Clearly he posted the wrong picture to the ad. He must have more than one white bike.

Thargor · 30-05-2018 09:58PM

30-05-2018 11:53PM

I like my recessed cleats and that is giving me ideas :pac:

I'm more horrified by how far back they are.

recedite · 02-06-2018 12:20PM

Try explaining those shoes at airport security when the x-ray alarm goes off!

cython · 11-06-2018 08:50AM

Observed today.

11-06-2018 10:00AM

Did a double take there , those aren't just the wrong way up their back to front so gears and breaks are reversed too. Likely a lazy way for someone not used to the Irl/Uk way of gearing and breaking to change them around and save redoing the cables and shifters.

cython · 11-06-2018 12:12PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Did a double take there , those aren't just the wrong way up their back to front so gears and breaks are reversed too. Likely a lazy way for someone not used to the Irl/Uk way of gearing and breaking to change them around and save redoing the cables and shifters.

I can't fathom what he was doing, other than trying to get a sit up and beg feel from his handlebars. I kind of take your point RE the braking and avoiding redoing the cables, but the gear levers are aligned the same way pretty much universally (i.e. left side for front mech, right for rear), so this just puts them backwards!

Lumen · 11-06-2018 12:19PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Likely a lazy way for someone not used to the Irl/Uk way of gearing and breaking to change them around and save redoing the cables and shifters.

That would like someone driving a hire car using an elaborate system of mirrors to make driving on the opposite side of the road "easier".