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  • #2552
    [Deleted User]
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    Jesus what did I just read. Ouch!!!!!

    I do however love the English's use of the word 'foof' for describing that particular part of their body.
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  • #2553
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Nice piece about cycling in Eritrea - some great pics

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47709673
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  • #2554
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    All new cars could be fitted with special devices from 2022 to automatically make them keep to the speed limit after new EU rules were provisionally agreed.

    ...

    Road safety charity Brake described it as a “landmark day for road safety,” but the AA said the “best speed limiter is the driver’s right foot”.

    ...

    “Dodgem cars are all fitted with speed limiters but they still seem to crash.”


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/all-new-cars-could-be-fitted-with-speed-limiters-under-eu-plans-1.3840046
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  • #2555
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    buffalo wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/all-new-cars-could-be-fitted-with-speed-limiters-under-eu-plans-1.3840046

    People have demonstrated that they can’t be trusted to self regulate their speed. No one can honestly say that they have never broken the speed limit.
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  • #2556
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I had to stop reading as my eyes were watering!

    I presume the old Brooks B17 wouldn't cut the mustard there!

    Whatever about Foof, I've never heard it called The Mustard before :D
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  • #2557
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Christ the stuff you find online while waiting for the baby to wake up and remember she's still got half a boppy to go
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIJWzOdnTWY


    I never knew this race existed, more info here http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/archive-footage-of-the-1936-dublin-drogheda-dublin-race-video/

    My brain has kicked into if the race was run today what route would it take. I came across some aerial photography from the time from the defence forces which led me down this rabbit hole and roads that exist now just weren't there back then.

    Does anyone have link with more history of the race ?
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  • #2558
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Story in the Irish Times this morning: Cairn gets go-ahead for 107 Dublin apartments instead of 22 house

    Existing residents of earlier phases of the development not happy:
    Residents were particularly concerned that, at less than one per unit, the number of parking spaces suggested the entire scheme might be sold to an investor as build-to-rent.

    You want more traffic? Ummm, OK....
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  • #2559
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Surely this is excellent news for Dublin and the area?
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  • #2560
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    I don't understand why so many parking spaces are expected in Dublin developments these days. There should be very few provided to encourage people to use sustainable transport.
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  • #2561
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,090 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Deleted User wrote: »
    ...I never knew this race existed, more info here http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/archive-footage-of-the-1936-dublin-drogheda-dublin-race-video/....?
    There's a longer version of that footage around somewhere. It shows them going out through Balbriggan, Gormanston etc.
    The narrator describes the competitors setting on from Nelson’s Pillar (or Neilson’s Pillar as he calls it) and as can be seen, it was a handicapped race back then also. The race in the film is named Dublin-Drogheda, but it’s not clear as to whether this was a mistake or if it did actually finish in Drogheda at the time, rather than returning to Dublin.
    The link describes it as Dublin-Drogheda-Dublin but in the other footage I've seen, they are clearly finishing at Shop Street in Drogheda and the cup is presented by the Mayor of Drogheda.
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  • #2562
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Christ the stuff you find online while waiting for the baby to wake up and remember she's still got half a boppy to go
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIJWzOdnTWY


    I never knew this race existed, more info here http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/archive-footage-of-the-1936-dublin-drogheda-dublin-race-video/

    My brain has kicked into if the race was run today what route would it take. I came across some aerial photography from the time from the defence forces which led me down this rabbit hole and roads that exist now just weren't there back then.

    Does anyone have link with more history of the race ?

    I was 3rd in Dublin-Drogheda-Dublin on Patrick's Day in 1992 or 1993. The race was always on Patrick's Day and held in the morning.
    I was a vet and I was in the limit group. We weren't caught. Two juniors slipped away at Kilmoone X and they stayed away. I won sprint for 3rd. At that time, The race started on the North Road, Finglas(N2) It went through Ashbourne to Kilmoone X and turned right towards Duleek, then it turned right at the top of Plattin hill, right again and left at bottom of Plattin onto Kilmoone. The race finished at a pub on the N2 north of Finglas (it might have been the Brock Inn)
    Before my time racing, the race used come into Drogheda and turn at Marion Park.
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  • #2563
    NamelessPhil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    I was just thinking about that race as I passed the Brock Inn on the way home after a 200km Audax a couple of weeks ago.

    I rode it in my first year racing in UCD back in 1995. The women's race went from the gun. I got dropped on the way into Duleek and found my own way back to the pub. I was an awful racer but I'm good at distance.
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  • #2564
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,090 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    More kindness from strangers tonight!

    My crank became loose on the way home from work tonight on an unlit section of the R127. I walked a few hundred metres to the nearest street light to fix it. While doing so a motorist who had passed, turned back and offered me a lift. I didn't need it but really appreciate the offer.
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  • #2565
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    One of these days someone will stop and offer you sweets to get in their car WA will you resist then ??? :D
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  • #2566
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    That's, last 'official' training session done for the fight. I'm the lightest and fittest I've ever been and ready for the cage door to be locked behind me.

    The fun part? Next week is 'rest' and light cardio, things I'm used to and I'm off from Tuesday so some cycling is in order then at the weekend I shall be having a victory pint!
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  • #2567
    Puggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭Puggy


    Wishbone Ash, Next ones gonna be a serial killer...
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  • #2568
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,090 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Puggy wrote: »
    Wishbone Ash, Next ones gonna be a serial killer...
    Yea, probably at the back end of a mountain in Wicklow! :eek:
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2569
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Barrow way, CX bike, yay or nay?
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2570
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Clocks going forward tonight, yay for evening spins!!!!!
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2571
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    ED E: yay.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


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  • #2572
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    ED E wrote: »
    Barrow way, CX bike, yay or nay?

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057967507/1/#post109784237
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2573
    Rechuchote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    • Eamonnator, what is a boppy?
    • +1 for apartments and houses being built; personally I'd knock most of those gigantic 19th-century Church Triumphant churches (keeping the frontage of any pretty ones) and build high-rise (with lots of secure bicycle parking) on the sites.
    • I've just realised to my horror :eek: that my favourite recreational/calming cycle, along the Dodder from Ringsend to Rathmines, follows the exact route of Cromwell's lieutenant Michael Jones's crowd of murderers as they invaded Dublin. Arr. Bad blood will out.
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  • #2574
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Rechuchote wrote: »
    • Eamonnator, what is a boppy?
    • +1 for apartments and houses being built; personally I'd knock most of those gigantic 19th-century Church Triumphant churches (keeping the frontage of any pretty ones) and build high-rise (with lots of secure bicycle parking) on the sites.
    • I've just realised to my horror :eek: that my favourite recreational/calming cycle, along the Dodder from Ringsend to Rathmines, follows the exact route of Cromwell's lieutenant Michael Jones's crowd of murderers as they invaded Dublin. Arr. Bad blood will out.

    I have no idea.
    Maybe slang for something, bottle perhaps!
    Not a word, Ive ever used.
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  • #2575
    Rechuchote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    Oh, sorry, it was Enfilade. Enfilade, what's a boppy?
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2576
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Its parent talk to a child for a bottle.
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  • #2577
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Its parent talk to a child for a bottle.

    As a parent of two and grandparent of two, I'm delighted to say that I have never uttered the word boppy
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  • #2578
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah thats what the eldest calls the baby's bottle.

    I've an entire baby related vocabulary, but you'll be relieved to know a bike is still called a bike :D
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  • #2579
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,321 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    my niece and nephews were brought up with it known as a 'bopsy'.
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  • #2580
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,977 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    I've heard them referred to as 'bawbee' :D
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  • #2581
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    As a parent of two and grandparent of two, I'm delighted to say that I have never uttered the word boppy

    Neither have I but I have heard it uttered. We won't go into the apparent buzzkill I am for pointing out how stupid it sounds to others in my life.
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