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  • 12-03-2014 8:46pm
    #1
    thinks too much
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭


    A few of us from the club went down to do the Sean Kelly Tour of Waterford route and while descending after Mama Road climb and traveling about 60 kmph a sheep ran across the road into my path. I landed head first and to be honest I still don;t know how I was not killed. I broke my clavicle and have cuts and grazes. helmet is a write off but definitely saved me.


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    #2
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,047 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I'm glad ewe are OK and hope that you wool be more careful descending in future.


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    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    I'm glad ewe are OK and hope that you wool be more careful descending in future.

    Those are some baaaaaaad puns.


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    Westwood
    Registered Users Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Westwood


    And the sheep?


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    #5
    whupdedo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    P M me your address and I'll send you a medal


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    #6
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,868 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Ewe already know what a baaaahhhd crash i had in my last race. Helmet saved me from being completely fleeced.


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    #7
    AmberGold
    Registered Users Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭AmberGold


    Long running post on this exact topic last year threw up a raft of crap from the anti helmet brigade.

    Let's not go there again cause we all know helmets don't save lives :)


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    #8
    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Jesus wept. So many woolly puns...........
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    furiousox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,940 ✭✭✭furiousox


    I'd say the sheep also has cuts, and grazes.

    CPL 593H



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    #10
    drogdub
    Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭drogdub


    From photos taken in your cycle thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89416501&postcount=2754
    is that them? Look at the waiting for their next victim.

    Get well soon though


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    #11
    ChainWhip
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭ChainWhip


    furiousox wrote: »
    I'd say the sheep also has cuts, and grazes.

    Ah for flock's sake....


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    #12
    NBar
    Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭NBar


    Lucky lucky, speedy recovery...was having this discussion earlier today to a teenager who didn't want to wear his bike helmet, needeless to say the bike went back into the garage, no lid no cycle


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,222 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    AmberGold wrote: »
    Long running post on this exact topic last year threw up a raft of crap from the anti helmet brigade.

    Let's not go there again cause we all know helmets don't save lives :)

    Agree, the last thing we need is people trying to pull the wool over our eyes!*





    * runs away sheepishly..


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    #14
    detones
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭detones


    I came on here hoping to read a well thought out articulate thread on the merits of wearing a helmet but instead all I find is a raft of childish sheep puns.

    Thanks for mutton.


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    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    detones wrote: »
    I came on here hoping to read a well thought out articulate thread on the merits of wearing a helmet but instead all I find is a raft of childish sheep puns.

    Thanks for mutton.

    No need to lambaste us.


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    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Lumen wrote: »
    I'm glad ewe are OK and hope that you wool be more careful descending in future.

    Lumen your post is so good it's been 'Thank'ed by a Raam


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    #17
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    This topic has been rammed down our throats time and time again. Its a load of tripe.


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    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    I am surprised, it could have been a lot worse, a few cuts & grazes & a broken bone, no one had the decency to ask how the sheep was?


    hopefully roasted with some root veg & mint!


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    Crippens1
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Crippens1


    I'm getting the flock out of here!


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    #20
    thinks too much
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭thinks too much


    1899937_10152089942193558_1867000841_n.jpg

    Looks like I came out best. Although she seems to have some real good Health Insurance. Lets hope She does not try to make a claim against me.


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    #21
    Slo_Rida
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Slo_Rida


    thinks too much wrote: »
    https://scontent-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1899937_10152089942193558_1867000841_n.jpg

    Looks like I came out best. Although she seems to have some real good Health Insurance. Lets hope She does not try to make a claim against me.

    If anyone knows how to get the picture to show on the thread without having to click on link feel free to change.

    Amazing, the shear audacity of her.


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    #22
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Ovis-ly ewe wool recover. Were the sheep's kin nearby?


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    #23
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Bones and flesh will mend on a far more important note how is the bike
    and please stop with the puns it is very sore falling of a bike suf fulk up and stop making fun of him how would ewe like it


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    #24
    thinks too much
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭thinks too much


    derealbadger wrote: »
    Bones and flesh will mend on a far more important note how is the bike
    and please stop with the puns it is very sore falling of a bike suf fulk up and stop making fun of him how would ewe like it

    Bike is ok thank the lord. but if the wife asks then its in bits and will have to be replaced by a new one.


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    #25
    Keep_Her_Lit
    Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Keep_Her_Lit


    One should always invest in good quality safety equipment ... don't be a sheepskate.


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    #26
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    NBar wrote: »
    Lucky lucky, speedy recovery...was having this discussion earlier today to a teenager who didn't want to wear his bike helmet, needeless to say the bike went back into the garage, no lid no cycle

    The teenager is more likely to die from the results of obesity (from not cycling) than a head injury (from cycling without a helmet).


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    #27
    Keep_Her_Lit
    Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Keep_Her_Lit


    "OP, next time we will be ready for you"

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    #28
    bedirect
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭bedirect


    good advice being given here


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    #29
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Keep_Her_Lit wrote: »
    One should always invest in good quality safety equipment ... don't be a sheepskate.

    I like to ride without a helmet, get some sheep thrills.


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    #30
    lismore7
    Registered Users Posts: 259 ✭✭lismore7


    It happened on the Sean Kelly tour route? that's down in the "Blaaaaaa" country....


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    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    buffalo wrote: »
    I like to ride without a helmet, get some sheep thrills.

    Careful now! I wouldn't tell your other half that's why you go cycling in the Wicklow mountains, there's a few possible interpretations to that sentence ;)


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