La Flamme Rouge off topic discussion

Macy0161 · 08-10-2018 8:56am

First commute on 32mm Vittoria Randoneur Pro II's this morning on the commuter/ winter bike. Obviously dry, and too early to tell puncture resistance, but quite impressed on first ride as a compromise between performance and a bit of beefed up protection. That's going from 25mm GP 4 Seasons.

I didn't feel the GP4 Seasons would be robust enough for the winter commutes on the N11, but the joy would've been sucked out of weekend winter spins putting on the marathon plus which are on the beater, so hoping these will do the job. My only concern is not much clearance on my defy with mudguards.

Fighting Tao · 08-10-2018 12:38pm

Warning: Not cycling related and complimenting the RSA!

I know the RSA gets slated around here (I’m guilty of that too) but credit where credit is due. Their Check It Fits service for children’s car seats really is excellent.

Raymzor · 08-10-2018 6:23pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone watch Paris Tours today? No spoilers but what a course that was to watch them ride on. Lot of criticism about it, those where not gravel sectors like you see in Strada Bianchi

I think theres a place in the sport for this course this time of year though.

I was surprised Terpstra didn’t chase Andersen when he jumped! The Scottish commentator was stunned also!

tomasrojo · 08-10-2018 7:22pm

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Warning: Not cycling related and complimenting the RSA!

I know the RSA gets slated around here (I’m guilty of that too) but credit where credit is due. Their Check It Fits service for children’s car seats really is excellent.

Probably worthwhile too, as I think most of them are installed incorrectly. At least, a survey in the USA found that.

It goes to show the RSA can excel, if it's a subject they care about.

manafana · 08-10-2018 7:39pm

Raymzor wrote: »

I was surprised Terpstra didn’t chase Andersen when he jumped! The Scottish commentator was stunned also!

terpstra is a tempermental guy, was not happy with young ag2r ride sitting on so would rather do him over than chance a win himself, he gave out about the new parcours afterwards

retalivity · 08-10-2018 9:50pm

My strava appears to have been hacked in the last 24 hours by someone posting pornlinks in the bio and possible comments. Anyone else ever have that happen to them?? Dont remember ever having similar hacked before

magicbastarder · 08-10-2018 10:18pm

were you able to get back in to it? have not heard of that before now.

retalivity · 08-10-2018 10:20pm

yeah, my login was the exact same, opened it up on the home computer and the details were all changed. was pretty strange

CramCycle · 08-10-2018 10:42pm

Absolute genius. To partner, flatmate, friends, whoever, "I swear I wasn't posting porn links, I mean look, i even went onto boards to ask is it a common occurrence." :pac:

Fighting Tao · 08-10-2018 10:54pm

tomasrojo wrote: »

Probably worthwhile too, as I think most of them are installed incorrectly. At least, a survey in the USA found that.

It goes to show the RSA can excel, if it's a subject they care about.

The RSA state that 4 out of 5 children’s car seats are fitted incorrectly.

For us it was peace of mind. I had the seat fitted but the wee fellas head kept falling forward when he fell asleep. It was a combination of seat brand and back seat angle. The guy checked it fitted correctly and then produced a padded piece of an old seat to put behind the baby’s back under the seat cover and it worked perfectly to get his head to naturally fall backwards.

LollipopJimmy · 08-10-2018 10:58pm

CramCycle wrote: »

Absolute genius. To partner, flatmate, friends, whoever, "I swear I wasn't posting porn links, I mean look, i even went onto boards to ask is it a common occurrence." :pac:

And we failed him...

Friendship among Women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship among Men:
A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.

Now, THAT'S friendship!

RobertFoster · 08-10-2018 11:12pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

And we failed him...

Oh, on Strava? Yeah there's always seems to be someone posting about riding over Sally Gap from different directions. Definite hacking going on.

Rechuchote · 09-10-2018 8:01am

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

And we failed him...

Friendship among Women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship among Men:
A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.

Now, THAT'S friendship!

Is it, now?

LollipopJimmy · 09-10-2018 8:08am

Well..

Rechuchote wrote: »

Is it, now?

magicbastarder · 09-10-2018 8:15am

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

Hurrache · 09-10-2018 9:54am

Hi-vis would have allowed him to be seen easier and avoided such a near miss
https://www.facebook.com/itsgoneviralofficial/videos/195368818030755/UzpfSTEzODQ0ODU0MTQyMzoxMDE1Njk5ODg5MDk1MTQyNA/?sk=h_chr

cdaly_ · 09-10-2018 10:40am

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

Was it just as you passed each one 'cos that would be confirmation that the sun shines out of your ass...

tomasrojo · 09-10-2018 8:10pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

Were you heading west? I guess north?

magicbastarder · 09-10-2018 9:33pm

neither - outbound, so south east.

tomasrojo · 09-10-2018 9:50pm

I had a crazed vision of you heading west, keeping pace with the rising sun. I think that would require you to travel about 1800km/h though.

magicbastarder · 09-10-2018 10:10pm

i've only ever managed that downhill with a tailwind. and accounting for the rotational speed of the earth's surface. and for the motion of the earth around the sun.

LollipopJimmy · 09-10-2018 11:31pm

Magicbastarder doesn't do push ups, he does 'earth downs'

Macy0161 · 10-10-2018 7:59am

cdaly_ wrote: »

Was it just as you passed each one 'cos that would be confirmation that the sun shines out of your ass...

I was going with it being a cheap chinese CREE light messing with the sensors myself...

magicbastarder · 10-10-2018 11:46am

someone has half-inched geraint thomas's TdF trophy:

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/tour-france-trophy-stolen/

magicbastarder · 10-10-2018 5:18pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather odd experience cycling to work on the rock road this morning. cycling along, and the lights started to switch off (a little earlier than i'd have expected, it was still dark). but they were switching off just as i reached each one. happened about eight times at a very rough guess.

another minor glitch in the matrix today. a few hundred metres from the office, i told another cyclist that his forks were on backwards - 'bloody hell, it was like this when i got it'; and the next bike i passed, about half a kilometre later - forks also on backwards.

brownian · 10-10-2018 6:16pm

VW 1 wrote: »

Looking for some pointers for a new set of lights coming into winter again, my back one has given up and my front one has a lifetime of an hour or so, which means daily recharging for the commute.

Specifications/requirements; USB rechargeable, decent battery lifetime (ie. 2 hours or more in the highest mode), for use only on lit streets in Dublin and a budget of around 100 for the two.

Is this realistic? I've checked online and with the plethora of options, not sure which is best to go with.

TIA.

For me, the challenge is always getting a rear light that is really bright enough for people to take notice of. There are loads of bright, decent, front lights (Fenix are rather nice). I must have tried one of most rear lights out there. The Bontrager Flare seems to be about the best; that, or the Exposure Tracer (tho mine died after only one year of use, and didn't have the widest-visible-beam). Lunar have a couple of reasonable ones too.

Anyway, I'd get a decent rear light first, and spend the change on a front one.

bp_me · 10-10-2018 6:35pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

another minor glitch in the matrix today. a few hundred metres from the office, i told another cyclist that his forks were on backwards - 'bloody hell, it was like this when i got it'; and the next bike i passed, about half a kilometre later - forks also on backwards.

Had this happen to a work colleague who bought a bike online. They never realised they were supposed to turn the wheel back around during assembly (Im guessing they got something in the CRC big box for them to make that mistake).

tomasrojo · 10-10-2018 7:24pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

another minor glitch in the matrix today. a few hundred metres from the office, i told another cyclist that his forks were on backwards - 'bloody hell, it was like this when i got it'; and the next bike i passed, about half a kilometre later - forks also on backwards.

I saw a kid cycling with the fork on backwards earlier in the year. I tried to explain to his mother before the light changed and I had to head off in the other direction. I think she thought I was criticising something or other.

VW 1 · 10-10-2018 7:25pm

brownian wrote: »

For me, the challenge is always getting a rear light that is really bright enough for people to take notice of. There are loads of bright, decent, front lights (Fenix are rather nice). I must have tried one of most rear lights out there. The Bontrager Flare seems to be about the best; that, or the Exposure Tracer (tho mine died after only one year of use, and didn't have the widest-visible-beam). Lunar have a couple of reasonable ones too.

Anyway, I'd get a decent rear light first, and spend the change on a front one.

I ended up picking up the pair in aldi, two for forty quid and enough life in them to get me there and back to work twice, without recharging.

Wishbone Ash · 10-10-2018 7:33pm

brownian wrote: »

For me, the challenge is always getting a rear light that is really bright enough for people to take notice of. There are loads of bright, decent, front lights (Fenix are rather nice). I must have tried one of most rear lights out there. The Bontrager Flare seems to be about the best; that, or the Exposure Tracer (tho mine died after only one year of use, and didn't have the widest-visible-beam). Lunar have a couple of reasonable ones too.

Anyway, I'd get a decent rear light first, and spend the change on a front one.

I have a couple of these bad boys - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/lezyne-strip-drive-pro-300l-rear-light/rp-prod163283 - very bright on the highest setting and on the lower settings will run for about 18 hours.

tomasrojo · 10-10-2018 7:39pm

For rear lights, I've grown to like a standard Dutch-style reflector with light built in, and a Lunar R2 mounted just below it, both set to steady. It gives you something like a big, red light, a bit like a motorbike.

mloc123 · 10-10-2018 8:32pm

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/cateye-rapid-mini-rear-light/rp-prod162706

Using this for a couple of years and find it very bright, charge it every few days

CrowdedHouse · 10-10-2018 9:52pm

:D

https://twitter.com/sticky_bottle/status/1050126330883387393

Harrybelafonte · 11-10-2018 8:43am

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I have a couple of these bad boys - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/lezyne-strip-drive-pro-300l-rear-light/rp-prod163283 - very bright on the highest setting and on the lower settings will run for about 18 hours.

How different are both settings brightness-wise to get such a substantial difference in running time?

Boscoirl · 11-10-2018 8:46am

https://twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/1050169156685815808?s=21

Wishbone Ash · 11-10-2018 1:36pm

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

How different are both settings brightness-wise to get such a substantial difference in running time?

There are 11 settings which is a bit much in my opinion but I only use 2 of them - day time flash mode which is the brightest, and the lowest one which is a running sequence up and down through the 5 LEDs.

The running sequence is perfectly adequate and some club mates have remarked on how good it is (thinking that it's at maximum setting). It has never run out on this setting even on very long rides.

But to answer your question, at night the difference is very noticeable. On the brightest setting, on an unlit area, the whole road behind glows red whereas on the lowest setting, when you look down, the light can only be seen reflecting off the brake assembly or mudguard.

magicbastarder · 11-10-2018 4:38pm

https://twitter.com/tweetymike/status/1050271589504290821

CramCycle · 11-10-2018 5:28pm

That happened to me oat the yellow house Rathfarnham. Wearing one green Hulk sock and one red Iron Man sock. Courier beside me was staring at my socks so intently he didn't notice his light going green. I had to shout over to him.

Daroxtar · 11-10-2018 6:57pm

Days spent looking for one of my arm warmers, eventually gave up and bought a new pair today. Wife arrives home and asks me why one of my cycling socks is in her sock drawer......

Raam · 11-10-2018 9:50pm

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/11/roger-gilles-women-on-the-move-bicycle-racing-1890s

About women bike racing in the late 1800s

11-10-2018 11:06pm

Good read indeed.

magicbastarder · 12-10-2018 10:36am

so the charleton report managed to fit in a dig about policing of cycle lanes.

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/parking-cycle-lanes-dublin/

Hurrache · 12-10-2018 10:38am

Caught that yesterday. Apparently someone said that Charleton cycles in the city regularly but I don't know how true that is.

Edit, should have actually read the story before commenting, he said it himself.

Raam · 12-10-2018 6:52pm

LollipopJimmy · 15-10-2018 11:01am

Just to follow on from the crash I had, the bike is in having an assessment and some of you know how well I maintain the bike and the value I put on how it looks, that stuff is important to me. Anyway, my left lever is cracked and gouged and that will definitely need replacing but my rear derailleur also has road rub now, it's still perfectly functional but just marked, am I being a complete dick by looking to have this replaced also?

My pedal also took a slap but I had intended on replacing these anyway, well moving them over to the beater so I'm not too bothered about them but the levers and mech only went onto the bike in around June/July

Edit: The mark definitely came from the crash even though opposite sides of the bike, I went over the handlebars and left lever hit the ground the the the bike turned over

Rechuchote · 15-10-2018 11:03am

Yowch, you ok, Lollipop man?

LollipopJimmy · 15-10-2018 11:08am

Rechuchote wrote: »

Yowch, you ok, Lollipop man?

Ah I'm fine, I only got a bit of road rash, I'm just rather annoyed that my minter than mint bike is now no longer the way I like it to be

Luxman · 15-10-2018 1:50pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Just to follow on from the crash I had, the bike is in having an assessment and some of you know how well I maintain the bike and the value I put on how it looks, that stuff is important to me. Anyway, my left lever is cracked and gouged and that will definitely need replacing but my rear derailleur also has road rub now, it's still perfectly functional but just marked, am I being a complete dick by looking to have this replaced also?

My pedal also took a slap but I had intended on replacing these anyway, well moving them over to the beater so I'm not too bothered about them but the levers and mech only went onto the bike in around June/July

Edit: The mark definitely came from the crash even though opposite sides of the bike, I went over the handlebars and left lever hit the ground the the the bike turned over

I have the same type of OCD, if its a Di2 derailleur (I know mine is 170 quid new) I'd be inclined to not replace it, but if its a non di2 then its what 50 or 60 quid? Its a quandary alright but there is far worse stuff being claimed for

LollipopJimmy · 15-10-2018 1:58pm

Luxman wrote: »

I have the same type of OCD, if its a Di2 derailleur (I know mine is 170 quid new) I'd be inclined to not replace it, but if its a non di2 then its what 50 or 60 quid? Its a quandary alright but there is far worse stuff being claimed for

Yep Di2, R8050 and about €170, it's only a few months old. I am loathe to claim for unnecessary items alright. I also landed on my phone and I'll be claiming for that alright. Less than a year old Galaxy S8+, it's glass on the back which is now smashed and splinters keep going into my fingers

magicbastarder · 16-10-2018 12:39pm

the headline on the daily mail front page is about calls to the gardai to not place speed camera vans near graveyards the day of a funeral.
apparently, it's unfair to target the grieving, and irony is dead.

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