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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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  • #2612
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Weepsie wrote: »
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/exclusive-risk-of-legal-challenge-leads-uci-to-expand-worldtour-to-20-teams/

    Dimension Data for the second time in a few years seem to have the UCI changing rules to keep them in the World Tour. That their parent company have partnership with the ASO is definitely not a conflict of interests.

    Money talks.

    Although in my case, the only thing it ever says to me is "bye bye Eamonn"
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  • #2613
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    cycling home this evening, passed a guy in a leather biker jacket and black jeans cycling through fairview and up the malahide road without a care in the world, in the pissing rain and wind, with a handlebar mounted speaker blaring out what sounded like industrial metal as he went along.
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  • #2614
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    they've put armadillos in here, to protect the cycle lane between the entry and exit points of this yard. great job, lads, it's one of the dirtiest cycle lanes i know of, but they've addressed an issue which has never actually manifested itself, that i can remember.

    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3478772,-6.2271453,3a,75y,97.06h,82.31t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sVlLz4Nc9GplO5SbaHioPHQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DVlLz4Nc9GplO5SbaHioPHQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D85.59376%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100


    They're in since Sat/Sun. Won't last the month IMO.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2615
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Weepsie wrote: »
    New SRAM Force.

    This is the "affordable" version with a RRP of €1450 for the cheapest version

    https://rouleur.cc/editorial/desire-sram-force-etap-axs/

    Looks pretty amazing to be fair. I really prefer the look of rim brakes but will convert in time
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2616
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    Weepsie wrote: »
    New SRAM Force.

    This is the "affordable" version with a RRP of €1450 for the cheapest version

    https://rouleur.cc/editorial/desire-sram-force-etap-axs/

    Why implement wireless on a groupset? It's an solution looking for a problem. The shifters or gears don't move from the bars/frame. All you're adding is the requirement to have distributed batteries. All downside, no upside.
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  • #2617
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Diarmuid wrote: »
    Why implement wireless on a groupset? It's an solution looking for a problem. The shifters or gears don't move from the bars/frame. All you're adding is the requirement to have distributed batteries. All downside, no upside.


    No cables, man, NO CABLES!
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2618
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Weighed in and should be in the cage around 9ish.

    I'm sure you're all a bag of nerves waiting to hear how I got on!
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2619
    Torres09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Torres09


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Weighed in and should be in the cage around 9ish.

    I'm sure you're all a bag of nerves waiting to hear how I got on!

    Good luck Jimmy rather you than me...
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2620
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Decision loss...
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2621
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    silver wheels on a bike with a black groupset. yea or nay?
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


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  • #2622
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    murica fcuk yeah

    https://twitter.com/dongho_chang/status/1114234493412319232
    Post edited by magicbastarder on

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  • #2623
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    silver wheels on a bike with a black groupset. yea or nay?

    No from me. However, I don't like silver wheels in general
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2624
    Miklos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Miklos


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    silver wheels on a bike with a black groupset. yea or nay?

    It’s a yes from me!

    Can’t figure out why that’s coming out upside down...
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2625
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Australians always did have funny tastes though.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2626
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    if there's anyone else like me (god help you) who's interested in townland names you wouldn't know about were it not for the segment names on strava, it's well worth checking out logainm.ie - for example, i'm often pass through a place called mallahow (oldtown to naul road, it's the first of the three sisters)
    it turns out the literal translation as bearla is 'hilltop cave' or 'hilltop souterrain'.
    i've checked the map on archaeology.ie and i'm not 100% certain if any of the features listed there (mainly ring ditches, seemingly), might be the one which led to the townland name.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2627
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,400 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    if there's anyone else like me (god help you) who's interested in townland names you wouldn't know about were it not for the segment names on strava, it's well worth checking out logainm.ie - for example, i'm often pass through a place called mallahow (oldtown to naul road, it's the first of the three sisters)
    it turns out the literal translation as bearla is 'hilltop cave' or 'hilltop souterrain'.
    i've checked the map on archaeology.ie and i'm not 100% certain if any of the features listed there (mainly ring ditches, seemingly), might be the one which led to the townland name.

    Would it be named after the Tomb at Fourknocks?

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/FourKnocks+Tomb/@53.5910486,-6.3338557,15.75z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48673e75f91de56d:0x8e2973bb8e292029!8m2!3d53.5965657!4d-6.3264915
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  • #2628
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    fourknocks is quite a distance away, it's a couple of hills over, about 4km as the crow files, roughly, from what i can see.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2629
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    if there's anyone else like me (god help you) who's interested in townland names you wouldn't know about were it not for the segment names on strava, it's well worth checking out logainm.ie - for example, i'm often pass through a place called mallahow (oldtown to naul road, it's the first of the three sisters)
    it turns out the literal translation as bearla is 'hilltop cave' or 'hilltop souterrain'.
    i've checked the map on archaeology.ie and i'm not 100% certain if any of the features listed there (mainly ring ditches, seemingly), might be the one which led to the townland name.

    There's a place called Yellow Walls on the road from Hollystown to Kilbride which will be familiar with a few cyclists who do that route the weekend. As far as I know there's nowhere in the actual area that uses that name but it comes up on google maps when flagging the weather etc for the location you're in etc.

    There's no walls around there, let alone yellow ones, so that's one I've always wondered about.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2630
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    there's also a yellow walls road in malahide. i've wondered where the name comes from.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2631
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    though i guess this might help: https://oldyellowwalls.org/why-yellow-walls/
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


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  • #2632
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    though i guess this might help: https://oldyellowwalls.org/why-yellow-walls/

    That's pretty interesting, cheers.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2633
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Best news I've heard all day!
    A long-awaited contra-flow cycle route on Lombard Street East, linking the junction of Pearse Street and Westland Row to the quays is set to be built.

    The project will include 2 metre wide one-way segregated cycle lane heading south-north from the junction of Pearse Street to City Quay.

    https://irishcycle.com/2019/04/08/contra-flow-cycle-lane-to-be-built-between-westland-row-and-the-quays/
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2634
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/1115240958864572419
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2635
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/1115240958864572419

    I cycled out that way earlier today, would have been just my luck to get a smack of a JCB
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2636
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    not enough hi-vis on the bridge.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2637
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Scroll down and a new type of victim blaming happening. Blaming Irish Rail and just about stopping short of blaming the bridge. It's not as it's a new bridge. It's nearly 130 years old.

    https://twitter.com/aidanbreen/status/1115253369860501509

    Another prime example of why having a PhD does not necessarily make you intelligent.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2638
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Yeah. He's not letting it go either. Some of his recommendations are just a bit like solutions that are looking for problems.

    I did laugh at his, Railway bridges are not the hill I thought I would die on comment.
    He just doesn't get that the problem is the driver, and most of his solutions do not over come this.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2639
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I did laugh at his, Railway bridges are not the hill I thought I would die on comment.
    or this one?
    https://twitter.com/aidanbreen/status/1115264826945806337

    physician, heal thyself.
    his twitter bio is toe curling.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2640
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    His website is better, he reviews products he makes himself. He has to be a character actor, it's just too much too believe. I can't wait for the TV show, hopefully C4 or the BBC pick it up after RTE turn it down.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


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  • #2641
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,168 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Everybody is using that "Hill to die on" phrase these days, I cringe when I hear it.

    Tbh if a bridge is getting struck repeatedly maybe they could put signs or chains or something at the same height on the approach roads that will make a lot of noise when struck without doing any damage? Or some kind of laser that sets off lights and sirens when something too tall is approaching? Im not a city planner but Im sure its been solved in other countries before now.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


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