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Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    AstraMonti wrote: »

    Is there a bike in that photo?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,180 ✭✭✭✭Lumen




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭AstraMonti


    Lumen wrote: »
    Why does that LPG tanker have floodlights mounted above the hatch?

    It's Wall-E!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,180 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    AstraMonti wrote: »
    It's Wall-E!

    Looks more like Number 5 from Short Circuit to me. Easy to get them confused.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Bloody hell, the guy we had to deal with marshalling the ladies' league in Sandyford tonight. Swerved around a marshall with an outstretched hand indicating for him to stop, clipping the marshall's fingers with his mirror, and then stopped the car in the middle of the junction so he could get out and give out that the marshall had hit his car! :eek: Luckily no crashes or injuries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    buffalo wrote: »
    Bloody hell, the guy we had to deal with marshalling the ladies' league in Sandyford tonight. Swerved around a marshall with an outstretched hand indicating for him to stop, clipping the marshall's fingers with his mirror, and then stopped the car in the middle of the junction so he could get out and give out that the marshall had hit his car! :eek: Luckily no crashes or injuries.

    Hope he didn't have a hurley in the boot of his car.

    Tasteless comment, sorry


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    In the vets race on Sunday we had someone overtaking (at high speed)the bunch on the inside - basically using the hard shoulder and then swerving back into the road to overtake a couple of guys who were a bit further up the road on the hard shoulder. It was the finishing straight (penultimate lap), and there was plenty of room to get past on the outside (although he would have had to cross the unbroken white line). It would have been very easy for any of the riders hearing him coming from behind to move left in the expectation of giving him room to then find themselves directly in his path

    Unfortunately I think we are 1 digit short of a full reg number


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Beasty wrote: »
    In the vets race on Sunday we had someone overtaking (at high speed)the bunch on the inside - basically using the hard shoulder and then swerving back into the road to overtake a couple of guys who were a bit further up the road on the hard shoulder. It was the finishing straight (penultimate lap), and there was plenty of room to get past on the outside (although he would have had to cross the unbroken white line). It would have been very easy for any of the riders hearing him coming from behind to move left in the expectation of giving him room to then find themselves directly in his path

    Two years back a similar thing happened to me. Heading up a one way street, where a car behind me decided that undertaking me by mounting the footpath was preferable to either (a) overtaking me with the oceans of space available or (b) waiting till we travelled to the t-junction about 50 meters up the road.
    He clipped me and sent me across the road.

    I had a full reg, car make etc and it occurred around the corner from Pearse St garda station. The gardai could not have been more unhelpful. They said that without evidence there was nothing they could do and the on street cameras in the area only showed me passing followed by a car - they were not pointed in the direction of the incident. I kept chasing up when I was told in no uncertain terms by the sergeant that the individual came from an "undesirable" neighbourhood and it would be best if it was forgotten about as nothing could be proven.


    Best of luck with the reg - hopefully you will meet a garda that is more diligent.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Best of luck with the reg - hopefully you will meet a garda that is more diligent.

    The IVCA has a fair quota of Garda and ex Garda and they are "on the case"!!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Beasty wrote: »
    Unfortunately I think we are 1 digit short of a full reg number


    I've heard that said as well but surprised you announced it in public!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    I just heard back from a Garda about a Trafficwatch case I reported last year. Car pulled out from a side road in front of me, which forced me to swerve around him. I gave out to him as I overtook on the outside, and pulled in ahead of him. He overtook me further down the road, and then pulled in close to the kerb and braked. Not coming to a complete stop, but enough to get the message across. Unfortunately it seems I didn't get the right reg, and nothing can be done. She said she tried a few other close reg numbers, but nothing matched.

    Have to give Crumlin DO a ring later, follow up on another case from last June. This one at least I know I have the right reg, and it was far more blatantly aggressive.

    The Gardaí have always been helpful in my experience. Though I'm pretty sure one pulled out across me on Merrion Square yesterday before driving into the Taoiseach's office.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Doctor Bob


    How long does it usually take to hear back on a case reported to Trafficwatch?

    I reported a driver on the 1st of December, and said I'd be willing to make a statement etc., but haven't heard anything since. Given the approach of christmas and holiday priorities, I didn't expect an overnight turnaround, but it's been over 4 months now. Would the Guards usually let you know it's been dealt with, even if they'd just paid the driver a visit to soften his cough?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    I got helped ditch-wards a couple of years ago near Balbriggan by a clown in a BMW X5 going for a gap to undertake a tractor that I was already occupying.

    Reported it to the Guards, and I was lucky enough to have a witness. The Guards were great and they did me the courtesy of being honest and up front about what they could and could not do.

    Anyway, upshot was he got a visit from a couple of Traffic Corps Guards who had a chat with him.

    EDIT: @docotorbob - they called me after to let me know what had happened. It also happened very quickly, less than a week from being reported to him getting a visit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Doctor Bob wrote: »
    How long does it usually take to hear back on a case reported to Trafficwatch?

    I reported a driver on the 1st of December, and said I'd be willing to make a statement etc., but haven't heard anything since. Given the approach of christmas and holiday priorities, I didn't expect an overnight turnaround, but it's been over 4 months now. Would the Guards usually let you know it's been dealt with, even if they'd just paid the driver a visit to soften his cough?

    In the first case, it was January 2011 when it happened/reported, March 2011 when I was asked to make a statement. I didn't hear anything before I went away (Sept-Feb), so I've been trying to follow up since I got back. I'm not sure if they weren't going to bother telling me because nothing happened, or if they'd been trying to get in touch while I was away (possible, but I had the phone with me).

    In the second case, happened June 2011, got a call from Tallaght in August that they'd sent it on to Crumlin to deal with it. Again, heard nothing while I was away. Appears to have fallen through the cracks after the referral between stations. So it's always worth giving a call to the station, see what the story is.

    If you call Trafficwatch again, give them the details, they'll be able to tell you the name and station of the Garda assigned to deal with the case. Getting a hold of the individual can be tough, due to their unsociable hours and workload, but just keep trying.

    edit: in short, about 3/4 months after the incident. But just give them a polite inquiring call.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Doctor Bob wrote: »
    How long does it usually take to hear back on a case reported to Trafficwatch?

    I reported a driver on the 1st of December, and said I'd be willing to make a statement etc., but haven't heard anything since. Given the approach of christmas and holiday priorities, I didn't expect an overnight turnaround, but it's been over 4 months now. Would the Guards usually let you know it's been dealt with, even if they'd just paid the driver a visit to soften his cough?

    Was wondering the same, had some guy try to have me rear end him before speeding off about 8 weeks ago. Normally I'd just think he was a dick and not worry about it, this time I had my wife, toddler and two dogs in the car. Same as youself, said I'd make a statement to a garda, never heard back yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Yi Harr


    Doctor Bob wrote: »
    How long does it usually take to hear back on a case reported to Trafficwatch?

    Would the Guards usually let you know it's been dealt with, even if they'd just paid the driver a visit to soften his cough?

    It took them well over a month (had almost forgotten about it) to get back to me about an extremely aggressive driver I reported. I got a phone call asking whether I wanted to press charges or just give him a warning.

    I decided to go the warning route which resulted in a talking to from the Traffic Corp. and a record that he had been previously reported.

    I got a phone call after the Traffic Corp. had paid him a visit to let me know they he had been given a stern talking to.

    Perhaps ring Traffic Watch back and ask them what progress has been made on your case?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    In another lesson to try follow up after a couple of months if you haven't heard anything, I was just on to Crumlin there. It appears that some particular period has lapsed, and they're not sure if anything can be done about the June 2011 case. But they're looking into it and getting back to me. I was talking to a wonderfully helpful woman in the office there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Rofo


    My one experience with TrafficWatch was positive. Coming back from a club spin on the Firhouse Rd, this husband and wife team of loons opened the passenger door as they overtook and started wailing about us being 2 abreast. They barely missed the front of the group with the door as they passed. He was still screaming and making to get out of the car when we caught up to them at the next lights. Called Trafficwatch when I got home and got a call from the guards a week later who spent 10 minutes going over everything and said they would be calling them to explain the rules of the road.

    Before making the call to Trafficwatch it helps to check the reg on www.motorcheck.ie to verify you've got a match to the make and colour and gives you the opportunity to check a couple of alternatives if you think you might be a digit out.

    Wish I'd got the reg of the old dear who tried her best to kill me on Sunday, 1km into my ride on Sandyford Roundabout...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Rofo wrote: »
    Before making the call to Trafficwatch it helps to check the reg on www.motorcheck.ie to verify you've got a match to the make and colour and gives you the opportunity to check a couple of alternatives if you think you might be a digit out.

    In my case, the wrong reg corresponded to the same model of car, and one in the area too. Bad luck or bad eyesight on my part.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Rofo


    buffalo wrote: »
    In my case, the wrong reg corresponded to the same model of car, and one in the area too. Bad luck or bad eyesight on my part.

    That is unlucky. The chances of that happening must be quite low


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Doctor Bob


    Thanks all.

    I gave precise details and had a phone pic of the car, including the reg (after blowing his horn aggressively and passing within inches of my handlebars on a winding residential road in Sandymount, he helpfully stopped on a roundabout a couple of hundred metres further on to let his passenger out of the car, then reversed on the roundabout when he saw me taking the photo).

    I'll give a follow-up call and see if there's been any progress.

    Cheers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    buffalo wrote: »
    In my case, the wrong reg corresponded to the same model of car, and one in the area too. Bad luck or bad eyesight on my part.
    Rofo wrote: »
    That is unlucky. The chances of that happening must be quite low

    Chances are pretty high for a january registration. Basically, when you go to buy your new 12-G car and order it in December, the dealer will head in to register a batch of cars and will likely end up with a set of sequential registration numbers for their batch of cars.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    After competing in the Tommy Sheehan Memorial race in Carrick last w/end, and it's a circuit with alot of climbing, I noticed alot of different climbing styles, especially on the 2nd lap, ie. legs & body are tired and you're using all kinds of methods to 'get up that hill' ! One cyclist had a Pantani style, in the drops, slightly out of the saddle and pushing/mashing a big gear, sadly he didn't have the speed of the 'master' !

    So I used the search function (as you do) to check out other threads about climbing style, as surely it's been discussed before, and it brought up some interesting results :
    there's the 'low gearing challenge', but I don't think the challenge took place !
    crank length: 1 & 2;
    & 'to sit or stand up'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,180 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Paging Sr Assumpta....Sr Assumpta to the Camper Van.

    http://road.cc/content/news/52205-canyon-proud-their-new-ct-scanner-their-what


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,121 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Lumen wrote: »
    Paging Sr Assumpta....Sr Assumpta to the Camper Van.

    http://road.cc/content/news/52205-canyon-proud-their-new-ct-scanner-their-what

    I spent about five minutes scratching my head, trying to work out the Father Ted reference.

    Then I realised it wasn't there.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I hope it's ok to ask this here.

    Can anyone PM me and recommend a bookkeeper based in Dublin? I just want to sort out my tax returns for my self-employed work last year. (2011 was my first year self-employed so I'm not sure of the ropes yet. My finances aren't complicated though.)

    I looked around the other forums, but I didn't see any institutions or names coming up, probably because it constitutes advertising? Anyway, I'm sure there are some self-employed people here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭furiousox


    CPL 593H



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    Lumen wrote: »
    Paging Sr Assumpta....Sr Assumpta to the Camper Van.

    http://road.cc/content/news/52205-canyon-proud-their-new-ct-scanner-their-what


    meh.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    Because I can......

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Colmhayden76


    Collected my new Cento Uno this morning. To anyone I might have met in the phoenix park at about 10 am sorry about the big cheesy grin you might have seen on my face! :D

    On another note why when you say i'm passing on the left do walkers on the cycle path in the park jump onto the verge on both sides and leave you to go up the middle? Is this some sort of ritual up there as here in culchie land where I live the cycle paths are used by motorists as a sort of " sure thats some where to squeeze the car into to turn left at the roundybout yoke up ahead"
    I had forgotton how hard cycling in Dublin can be!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Looks sore :eek:
    Because I can......

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    This was sorer / more sore; apparently...
    6948322754_44cf1796e9.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,180 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    On another note why when you say i'm passing on the left do walkers on the cycle path in the park jump onto the verge on both sides and leave you to go up the middle?

    Just shout "bike!" as pleasantly as you can manage and let them decide where to go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Sr. Assumpta


    That brings to an end my small repertoire of horrible hand X-rays.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Oooohhh, those sort of things are fun to reduce btw :o

    This was sorer / more sore; apparently...
    6948322754_44cf1796e9.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,523 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    after 2 weeks or crapness and bike being stripped to replace lots of bits I can finally get back on the road for some much needed cycling, this is tomorrow in Palmerston North
    http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1100162

    Can't wait to get to the 93km mark :D:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,523 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    altough I love living in NZ there's still the odd time that something makes so pissed off it's like being at home again

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/6777006/Police-to-take-hard-line-on-hard-hats
    Stupid laws and stupider enforcement, it's not even a law to wear them on the coastal path :mad::rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    altough I love living in NZ there's still the odd time that something makes so pissed off it's like being at home again

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/6777006/Police-to-take-hard-line-on-hard-hats
    Stupid laws and stupider enforcement, it's not even a law to wear them on the coastal path :mad::rolleyes:

    If I were attacked by a rampaging bear, I would probably develop a strong fear of bears and spend a lot of time warning neighbours not to leave their bins open because it might attract the bears and that if they encountered one, more than likely they would get mauled and probably killed too.

    He had a nasty crash, it doesn't mean that everyone cruising down that path will suffer the same should they come off. We don't even know any details of his crash, perhaps he was mauled by a bear?

    Australia and NZ have a long way to go, all this paranoia about cycling helmets is painful. I've had to explain to parents that we can't fit Nutcase helmets on toddlers because their neck muscles aren't strong enough to cope with the 300+ g weight of it. They don't care about the necks, they care about the heads and they buy the helmets regardless.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    Australia and NZ have a long way to go, all this paranoia about cycling helmets is painful. I've had to explain to parents that we can't fit Nutcase helmets on toddlers because their neck muscles aren't strong enough to cope with the 300+ g weight of it. They don't care about the necks, they care about the heads and they buy the helmets regardless.

    Sell them some neck braces too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Sell them some neck braces too.

    Toddler exoskeleton. Don't you love your child?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,180 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    For wattage nerds needing some perspective...

    https://twitter.com/#!/GeraintThomas86/status/116811786166079488

    "Just done my 5minute power efforts on the turbo with Jez. Had him by 3w, 580 pretty happy with that..."

    He's about 71kg, so that's over 8W/kg for 5 minutes. Fffffff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I hope it's ok to ask this here.

    Can anyone PM me and recommend a bookkeeper based in Dublin? I just want to sort out my tax returns for my self-employed work last year. (2011 was my first year self-employed so I'm not sure of the ropes yet. My finances aren't complicated though.)

    I looked around the other forums, but I didn't see any institutions or names coming up, probably because it constitutes advertising? Anyway, I'm sure there are some self-employed people here!

    Try the Taxation forum:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1208


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Cycling
    In many countries, the oul' most commonly used vehicle for road transport is a feckin' utility bicycle, bejaysus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Hungrycol wrote: »

    Thanks; sorted now, thanks to kind PM from a regular.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Rofo


    Genius! It's different each time you re-load the page :D

    "In many countries, the most commonly used vehicle for road transport is an oul' utility bicycle. These have frames with relaxed geometry, protectin' the oul' rider from shocks of the bleedin' road and easin' steerin' at low speeds. Would ye believe this ****e?I][URL="http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Wikipedia:Citation_needed"][COLOR=#0066cc]citation needed[/COLOR][/URL][/I"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Rofo wrote: »
    Genius! It's different each time you re-load the page :D

    "In many countries, the most commonly used vehicle for road transport is an oul' utility bicycle. These have frames with relaxed geometry, protectin' the oul' rider from shocks of the bleedin' road and easin' steerin' at low speeds. Would ye believe this ****e?I][URL="http://mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=Wikipedia:Citation_needed"][COLOR=#0066cc]citation needed[/COLOR][/URL][/I"
    Police officer on a feckin' bicycle in El Salvador. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan.
    .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    On Exchequer Street just now.

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