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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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  • #62
    Doctor Bob
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    YNWA and we will see :cool:

    I was reading a book last year (Simon Critchley's Memory Theatre) and he used the YNWA acronym a few times. Not being particularly sporty, I deduced that it must stand for You 'N' Whose Army, which in hindsight is kind of ironic. The penny dropped a while later.

    On the subject of acronyms:
    magicbastarder wrote: »
    so matt stephens is leaving GCN and they've mentioned looking for a replacement for him.
    maybe we should nominate a boardsie and petition GCN to take him or her.

    Every time I see GCN on the Cycling Forum, I immediately think it stands for Gay Community News, a publication I often see in cafes around town, which carries those three letters prominently on its cover. This makes reading the forum ever so slightly more amusing.
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  • #63
    magicbastarder
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    was similar for me; i'm of a vintage where GCN was relatively well known in dublin.
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  • #64
    buffalo
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    I present a thesis: **** bike stands encourage **** bike locking

    Exhibit A from Ballsbridge last Friday:

    BZnOnUB.jpg
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  • #65
    [Deleted User]
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    Late title proposal:

    Floyd's Mennonite Mansion
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  • #66
    RobertFoster
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    buffalo wrote: »
    I present a thesis: **** bike stands encourage **** bike locking

    Exhibit A from Ballsbridge last Friday:

    https://i.imgur.com/BZnOnUB.jpg
    There's one of those stands at my local Aldi. I've never seen a bike locked to it, people choosing to leave their bikes at the trolley bay instead. It's only about 1m long and I think freestanding, completely useless.
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  • #67
    tomasrojo
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    The wheelbender racks are just about usable for a quick stop if you have a security skewer on the front wheel. Very few bikes do, and quick stops aren't necessarily what you want a bike rack for.
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  • #68
    Idleater
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    tomasrojo wrote: »
    The wheelbender racks are just about usable for a quick stop...

    Sometimes they are positioned so badly you can lock the frame nicely by going alongside the tall rack. Granted, this is annoying to other hypothetical users.

    The racks where I work are elevated so the wherlbenderdness is even greater. That said, my chain can go through the rack frame and both wheels ensuring a secure bike but probably buckled wheel.
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  • #69
    tomasrojo
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    Yeah, they're really awful. And, as you say, they usually end up with one bike hogging at least two spots, in order to make the bike reasonably hard to steal.
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  • #70
    eeeee
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    Footpad is running in Punchestown right now.
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  • #71
    eeeee
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    And Footpad wins by a mile!
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  • #72
    Beasty
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    This thread is getting way too continental with all this fancy French terminology. I'm going to be a bit rebellious here...

    foot, inch, mile, lbs:P
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  • #73
    Fighting Tao
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    Beasty wrote: »
    This thread is getting way too continental with all this fancy French terminology. I'm going to be a bit rebellious here...

    foot, inch, mile, lbs:P

    Feck off with your backward ways :p
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #74
    Beasty
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    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    Feck off with your backward ways :p
    You guys are wearing blinkers - look across the Irish Sea and you can visualise Britain rising again. You'll all be begging to come back into the EmpireCommonwealth post Brexit:pac:
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  • #75
    Fighting Tao
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    Beasty wrote: »
    You guys are wearing blinkers - look across the Irish Sea and you can visualise Britain rising again. You'll all be begging to come back into the EmpireCommonwealth post Brexit:pac:

    Sure if you love it so much, you know where you can cycle to....Norn Iron :p
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  • #76
    Beasty
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    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    Sure if you love it so much, you know where you can cycle to....Norn Iron :p
    Did I ever tell you about my last cycle up North? Think there's a thread about it around here somewhere. Had an accident, don't you know....
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  • #77
    Fighting Tao
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Did I ever tell you about my last cycle up North? Think there's a thread about it around here somewhere. Had an accident, don't you know....

    Sure you might as well tell everyone for the 751st time. Some people may have forgotten.
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  • #78
    magicbastarder
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    Beasty wrote: »
    foot, inch, mile, lbs:P
    utterly random aside; last night i learned that the L in lb (for pound) is the same L as in £ (it's just a fancy L)
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  • #79
    P_1
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    Spending a few days in westport. Must say I'm loving the bikea sculptures that are put beside each bank of Sheffield stands
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  • #80
    Beasty
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    utterly random aside; last night i learned that the L in lb (for pound) is the same L as in £ (it's just a fancy L)

    Jeez didn't you know? - Lsd = Pounds shillings and pence (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds came later)
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #81
    Alek
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    Try this, cat owners

    https://vimeo.com/220441294
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  • #82
    Hurrache
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    There's actually a thing called bikejoring in which people race each other using dogs tethered to their MTBs. My dog would be a mangled mess within 10 metres of the start.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-41420058/bikejor-the-people-who-race-their-bikes-with-dogs

    It's gaining popularity in the UK but it's pretty big in Europe and the US with European and World championships.
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  • #83
    Thud
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    Alek wrote: »
    Try this, cat owners

    https://vimeo.com/220441294

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG9ZBm_KCPs


    mind you wouldn't try it with our cat, would get shredded
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  • #84
    cjt156
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    Alek wrote: »
    Try this, cat owners

    https://vimeo.com/220441294

    Saw someone doing that with their terrier up around Tibradden last week; dog was loving it!
    The stroll up to Fairy Castle was enough for my old lab.
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  • #85
    Rogue-Trooper
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    Coming home from work yesterday evening I was cutting through a residential street and had to cycle past some teenagers playing football on the road. As I passed by, I saw the lad with the ball taking aim at me out of the corner of my eye and I took the ball full-force to the side of the head. Managed to stay upright and, once the initial surprise had worn off, I couldn't decide if I was angry or really impressed that he managed to hit a moving target with such precision! Somebody needs to sign this kid up immediately! :pac:
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  • #86
    Fighting Tao
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    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    Coming home from work yesterday evening I was cutting through a residential street and had to cycle past some teenagers playing football on the road. As I passed by, I saw the lad with the ball taking aim at me out of the corner of my eye and I took the ball full-force to the side of the head. Managed to stay upright and, once the initial surprise had worn off, I couldn't decide if I was angry or really impressed that he managed to hit a moving target with such precision! Somebody needs to sign this kid up immediately! :pac:

    He be a one trick pony and that's why he's not signed up already.
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  • #87
    ED E
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    Anyone link their Google Fit and Stava profiles? If so is duplication still an issue?
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  • #88
    [Deleted User]
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    I've been watching Tour de Romandie on Eurosport this week , much better weather than recent times, last year they had some horrible days. Stunning looking place to ride a bike in and VERY nice looking road surface.

    Another place to add to the list of places I'd like to ride my bike.
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  • #89
    Lusk_Doyle
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    ED E wrote: »
    Anyone link their Google Fit and Stava profiles? If so is duplication still an issue?

    My friend did. I pointed the issue out to her a while back. I have not noticed any duplications for a long time since so it may have been addressed. Or she unlinked them!
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #90
    Lusk_Doyle
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    Beasty wrote: »
    This thread is getting way too continental with all this fancy French terminology. I'm going to be a bit rebellious here...

    foot, inch, mile, lbs:P

    Local Bike Shop is not an acceptable unit of measurement.
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  • #91
    LollipopJimmy
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    Went up the right hand side of the church on Howth Head today.. halfway up my Garmin powered off, I'd stopped it when I got off to pee and never restarted, so on up to the summit, back down to the bottom and back up again. I need to stop being a slave to Strava
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