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They don't even pay road tax Joe. **Off topic thread**

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  • #5952
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    seamus wrote: »
    To be fair, I'm a hairy, hairy man. I don't need my legs covered until we're touching zero degrees in the morning.

    That's not to say my legs are warm, they just don't feel cold.

    On reflection (this morning) maybe we should harness their DNA :D

    Anyways...

    Has anyone received a bike from Canyon recently? And if so, did it come in a "Dark" bike guard box or was it more of a bike guard "cardboard" cardboard box With Canyon on one side and Red writing on the other?

    Long shot but I thought this was a good place to ask!

    Dark

    Cardboard


  • #5953
    jinkypolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭jinkypolly


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    On reflection (this morning) maybe we should harness their DNA :D

    Anyways...

    Has anyone received a bike from Canyon recently? And if so, did it come in a "Dark" bike guard box or was it more of a bike guard "cardboard" cardboard box With Canyon on one side and Red writing on the other?

    Long shot but I thought this was a good place to ask!

    Dark

    Cardboard

    I got one last December and it came in the dark bikeguard box.


  • #5954
    Hail 2 Da Thief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Thief


    Sweet Jesus


  • #5955
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Hail 2 Da Thief wrote: »
    Sweet Jesus
    Looks heavy, and not very aero :p

    There should be an international rating system for engineers. On a scale of Australia to the Netherlands, how cycle-friendly are your plans?


  • #5956
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    The daily telegraph don't seem too taken with cyclists.


  • #5957
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    Looks heavy, and not very aero :p

    There should be an international rating system for engineers. On a scale of Australia to the Netherlands, how cycle-friendly are your plans?

    nevermind the somewhat anti cycling description for two of the three pictures


  • #5958
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Sydney, not surprised really. Given the success of Australian cyclists, the attitude in that country to cyclists is bizarre.


  • #5959
    lgk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭lgk


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Has anyone received a bike from Canyon recently? And if so, did it come in a "Dark" bike guard box or was it more of a bike guard "cardboard" cardboard box With Canyon on one side and Red writing on the other?

    Long shot but I thought this was a good place to ask!

    Dark

    Cardboard

    Got the cardboard one a couple of weeks back. Not sure there's a lot of difference between the two, but I still have a ~2 year old dark one in the attic I could compare it to...


  • #5960
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    Sydney, not surprised really. Given the success of Australian cyclists, the attitude in that country to cyclists is bizarre.

    Spain had great success in sport cycling, Australia has had success, the UK is very successful right now, Ireland had two very successful cyclists in the eighties.

    It doesn't seem to feed into everyday cycling at all.


  • #5961
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Quick one, is the EuroCycles / Eurobaby on South William Street under a different name now or has it closed down?


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  • #5962
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    Sydney, not surprised really. Given the success of Australian cyclists, the attitude in that country to cyclists is bizarre.

    in Oz seems to be city to city some worse than others, sydney is not a place for bikes im told. But the helmet law rules out casual bike use.


  • #5963
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    This seems like a good initiative: The Travel With Care campaign
    The Travel With Care campaign is aimed at humanizing people on bikes and encouraging better behavior among drivers and bike riders. We want to inspire the general public to see every bike rider as a neighbor, friend or family member—just a normal person who chooses to bike. In addition to humanizing bicyclists, the campaign’s message is built around bettering behavior by both people in cars and on bikes by asking them to travel with care and to “melt icy relations on the road.”

    I like this picture, don't mess with him, he's armed - not the impression the picture is trying to convey, perhaps :) :

    TravelWithCare_Biju_Web450.jpg


  • #5964
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Time to crash CI's site! https://cyclingireland.azolve.com/portal/Login.aspx

    Who's going to get #1 in each cat?!


  • #5965
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    jinkypolly wrote: »
    I got one last December and it came in the dark bikeguard box.
    lgk wrote: »
    Got the cardboard one a couple of weeks back. Not sure there's a lot of difference between the two, but I still have a ~2 year old dark one in the attic I could compare it to...

    Thanks for the replies and the kind offer to compare them. It's grand, I managed to compare them today when leaving the cardboard one into storage.

    The dark one seemed much better than the cardboard one. It's also fatter and not as tall versus the cardboard one being taller and skinnier.

    I was asking as I was wondering if mine came in the cardboard version as it is an "outlet" bike and ex demo or was it Canyon's new "Bike Guard" box.

    Not sure if it is a "new" box they are using or if "new" bikes still come in the dark one. The "outlet" bike had the rear wheel attached, whereas a "new" one doesn't, if I recall correctly.

    Wasn't over the moon to see that the rear DR had hit off the side of the box and made a dent but it seems OK. Won't know till I finish assembling the damn thing.

    Anyways, I'm delirah with the new bike :D

    Thanks again!


  • #5966
    Puggy
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭Puggy


    ED E wrote: »
    Quick one, is the EuroCycles / Eurobaby on South William Street under a different name now or has it closed down?

    It's a different shop, and a better one, in my humble opinion.


  • #5967
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    buffalo wrote: »
    Time to crash CI's site! https://cyclingireland.azolve.com/portal/Login.aspx

    Who's going to get #1 in each cat?!

    Jeez I thought renewal isn't until January? Feic it it's not like mine will be getting exercised until then anyway!

    Looking at it there's a 50% student discount on a full license which makes it the same price bar €2.50 as a track/LC one. This would mean road racing is an option. Hmmmmmn…..


  • #5968
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    gadetra wrote: »
    Jeez I thought renewal isn't until January? Feic it it's not like mine will be getting exercised until then anyway!

    Looking at it there's a 50% student discount on a full license which makes it the same price bar €2.50 as a track/LC one. This would mean road racing is an option. Hmmmmmn…..

    Bloody Stoodents....


  • #5969
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Being someone that aspires to own a BMC in the future..

    HBp10bS.jpg


  • #5970
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,206 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Zyzz wrote: »
    Being someone that aspires to own a BMC in the future..

    HBp10b_S.jpg

    I've always thought that my seat tube was missing a quick release skewer.


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  • #5971
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,380 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    So now the Boards cycling forum has shown it's powers when it came up with the "anti-McQuaid brigade", who's up for the "Let's splatter Blatter" campaign?


  • #5972
    SomeFool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    328135.jpg

    From this thread in the tri forum, might be worth changing the tape after a winters turboing!


  • #5973
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    Looks heavy, and not very aero :p

    There should be an international rating system for engineers. On a scale of Australia to the Netherlands, how cycle-friendly are your plans?
    it's rare that you're presented with something so sublimely moronic that it borders on art. Of course, you wouldn't expect much from an Australian designer--indeed the very term "Australian designer" holds about as much promise as "kosher wine" or "triathlete bike-handling skills." Still, there's an odd elegance to the underlying concept here, which is basically this:
    Let's turn people's heads into cars.
    http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.ie/2014/11/smart-hat-dumb-idea.html

    He hopes it's a hoax.


  • #5974
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    I heard someone from daft.ie being interviewed on RTE Radio One this morning, he was talking about how much the selling price of a house is influenced by its proximity to a school. He referred to "walking distance" and "200m" in the same sentence. I thought I must have misheard him but he went on to say something to the effect that 500m is beyond walking distance. Jaysus.


  • #5975
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    doozerie wrote: »
    I heard someone from daft.ie being interviewed on RTE Radio One this morning, he was talking about how much the selling price of a house is influenced by its proximity to a school. He referred to "walking distance" and "200m" in the same sentence. I thought I must have misheard him but he went on to say something to the effect that 500m is beyond walking distance. Jaysus.

    Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time.

    stevenwright.jpeg


  • #5976
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    We walked 2km each way to school in the pissing f'kin rain this morning.

    I'd rather they did something on the avg increase of 25% in rental prices than moan about buying prices. I've two friends who are basically homeless now because of rent increases and dodgy landlords refusing Rent Allowance.


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  • #5977
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    We walked 2km each way to school in the pissing f'kin rain this morning.

    I'd rather they did something on the avg increase of 25% in rental prices than moan about buying prices. I've two friends who are basically homeless now because of rent increases and dodgy landlords refusing Rent Allowance.

    always found rent allowance thing funny , surely a good tenant far more important.


  • #5978
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Winter jersey and long bib arrived today from Aliexpress. I'm fkn astounded at the quality. It's going to be hard to justify spending multiples of the price buying locally, or anywhere in Europe for that matter.

    Of course I may be back giving out about them in a fortnight but by the looks of them now I'd be very surprised. Roll on Sunday morning. I'll be cycling slow, posing. :D


  • #5979
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    manafana wrote: »
    always found rent allowance thing funny , surely a good tenant far more important.

    For most landlords I have had the misfortune of coming across, an easy buck is priority. Accepting rent Allowance means registering so liable for tax. I've come across two types in Dublin:

    1. The aul lad/wan from the country who made a few bucks and had someone in their ear about the killing they'd make in Dublin renting to students. No business knowledge, no people skills, every penny counts. They'll charge the same or more than the house down the road cos they believe that's the going rate, but the house down road is insulated or has bigger rooms or just better condition. Then someone sees their ad and recognises that their rental is better so they go higher and so on and so on. Same BS you see book sellers try on with Amazon. Prices are pulled from thin air.

    2. People who made a bit of money in the boom, watched too many property shows, figured they'd make a buck when going was good. Sure it's money for nothing. They've been brought to the brink and have been desperate for some kind of rent increase so they an afford the mortgages on their multiple properties so they'll screw as much out of it as they can.

    A bit ranty but I view most landlords in the same little Venn diagram as I do most taxi drivers... ignorant chancers.


  • #5980
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Daroxtar wrote: »
    Winter jersey and long bib arrived today from Aliexpress. I'm fkn astounded at the quality. It's going to be hard to justify spending multiples of the price buying locally, or anywhere in Europe for that matter.

    Of course I may be back giving out about them in a fortnight but by the looks of them now I'd be very surprised. Roll on Sunday morning. I'll be cycling slow, posing. :D

    How long did delivery take?


  • #5981
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    How long did delivery take?

    4 weeks to the day.


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  • #5982
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    We walked 2km each way to school in the pissing f'kin rain this morning.

    I'd rather they did something on the avg increase of 25% in rental prices than moan about buying prices. I've two friends who are basically homeless now because of rent increases and dodgy landlords refusing Rent Allowance.

    I accept that there are dodgy landlords per se, however many landlords may refuse rent allowance because it is too low. Landlords are investors - the idea being you attempt to maximise a sustainable rerun on capital.
    Forgetting some of these lessons is what has led to the current state of the property market.
    The reality is that dusting the boom the provision of social housing lagged what it should have merely to keep up with it's already under provided nature. That is the responsibility of the state, IMHO, not landlords.

    Also rental prices are going up because of supply v demand - but they have fallen significantly in the past also. In many parts of the country rents are still below 2007 levels - this is still the case in some parts of Dublin. Guess what the rental market works - the price responds to supply and demand imbalances.


  • #5983
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    doozerie wrote: »
    I thought I must have misheard him but he went on to say something to the effect that 500m is beyond walking distance. Jaysus.

    When I moved to a house that was twenty minutes' walk to my father's house, he opined that such a walk would only be practical in the summer. I suppose at least he regarded it as walkable at all.


  • #5984
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    When I moved to a house that was twenty minutes' walk to my father's house, he opined that such a walk would only be practical in the summer. I suppose at least he regarded it as walkable at all.

    My local train station is exactly 700m from my house. About a 10 minute walk at a reasonable pace. The number of my neighbours that drive there and pay to park for the day is astonishing.


  • #5985
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    ROK ON wrote: »
    I accept that there are dodgy landlords per se, however many landlords may refuse rent allowance because it is too low. Landlords are investors - the idea being you attempt to maximise a sustainable rerun on capital.
    Forgetting some of these lessons is what has led to the current state of the property market.
    The reality is that dusting the boom the provision of social housing lagged what it should have merely to keep up with it's already under provided nature. That is the responsibility of the state, IMHO, not landlords.

    Also rental prices are going up because of supply v demand - but they have fallen significantly in the past also. In many parts of the country rents are still below 2007 levels - this is still the case in some parts of Dublin. Guess what the rental market works - the price responds to supply and demand imbalances.

    I don't need a patronising "explanation" as to why rents have increased, I know why they have, though it's my own fault for referring to an ambiguous "they", I meant the current government.

    I'd challenge you on a few more oversimplifications there but my brain is too small.

    (Did you actually use "per se" unironically?)


  • #5986
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    I don't need a patronising "explanation" as to why rents have increased, I know why they have, though it's my own fault for referring to an ambiguous "they", I meant the current government.

    I'd challenge you on a few more oversimplifications there but my brain is too small.

    (Did you actually use "per se" unironically?)
    anyway dont renters make up the difference between the allowance and actual rent? obviously there is a ceiling as to what they can rent and get from the allowance


  • #5987
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭manafana


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    My local train station is exactly 700m from my house. About a 10 minute walk at a reasonable pace. The number of my neighbours that drive there and pay to park for the day is astonishing.

    insane really isnt it, im probably 1km away from Luas, 10mins or less and a great walk before heading into work does me world of good


  • #5988
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    manafana wrote: »
    anyway dont renters make up the difference between the allowance and actual rent? obviously there is a ceiling as to what they can rent and get from the allowance

    Colleague's landlord increased the rent by €150 when they applied for Rent Allowance.


  • #5989
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Ordered a new light from CRC at 2pm yesterday, arrived at 9 this morning..must have got priority delivery by mistake :-P


  • #5990
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    colm18 wrote: »
    Ordered a new light from CRC at 2pm yesterday, arrived at 9 this morning..must have got priority delivery by mistake :-P
    They are on the ball at the moment. They sent my order postage paid with a tracked delivery reference by AnPost next day with email confirmation. Very fast service.


  • #5991
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


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  • #5992
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Yep ordered tyre levers and arrived one working day later.
    Planet X on the other hand....Ordered a load of kit a while back and they made a balls of printing the Parcel Motel address. Fair play to Parcel Motel people for their help. Ordered some stuff last Friday using my home address and still waiting. Good job their kit is decent enough.


  • #5993
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Ordered a load of kit a while back and they made a balls of printing the Parcel Motel address.

    Standard.

    Every single time I've ordered something there were issues with delivery - either the above, or stuff has never left the warehouse (even though marked as shipped) or took super long time to arrive (not their fault, I know). Either way every time I order something I need to call their support - on the other hand fair play to the guys on the phone, always very helpful.


  • #5994
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,560 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    My local train station is exactly 700m from my house. About a 10 minute walk at a reasonable pace. The number of my neighbours that drive there and pay to park for the day is astonishing.
    i'm always amused at the number of people who get on the luas in stephen's green and get off it at harcourt street; weather does not seem to be an important factor.


  • #5995
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    Ordered my altura jacket today. Early Christmas present to myself after getting ****ing drowned yesterday on my spin. I know it won't protect me from that level of rain but it might help some.


  • #5996
    lgk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭lgk


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Not sure if it is a "new" box they are using or if "new" bikes still come in the dark one. The "outlet" bike had the rear wheel attached, whereas a "new" one doesn't, if I recall correctly.

    Mine was a new (non-outlet) bike, and the brown box was billed as a 'Bike Guard'.


  • #5997
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    Over the next few days/weeks I am going to have to say goodbye to my Canyon Ultimate AL 9.0 Di2

    I'm quite upset :( as I love that bleedin' bike.

    It's known to me as the "Beast of Ballycullen" or "Shergar's Ghost" (There could be a crossover of Black Beauty here as I have no idea what Shergar looked like)

    Rather than sell it, I think I'll give it to my younger brother, who managed to buy himself a rather nice bike earlier this year but didn't know, until I told him, that is was a full on racing bike with Campy Veloce 53/39 &11/25

    Considering he lives in a part of the country that is like riding a roller coaster, I think he will appreciate it more than anyone I could sell it too.

    #le sigh

    It's lucky I like beans on toast.


  • #5998
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,380 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Helmet posts moved to helmet thread


  • #5999
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Over the next few days/weeks I am going to have to say goodbye to my Canyon Ultimate AL 9.0 Di2

    I'm quite upset :( as I love that bleedin' bike.

    It's known to me as the "Beast of Ballycullen" or "Shergar's Ghost" (There could be a crossover of Black Beauty here as I have no idea what Shergar looked like)

    Rather than sell it, I think I'll give it to my younger brother, who managed to buy himself a rather nice bike earlier this year but didn't know, until I told him, that is was a full on racing bike with Campy Veloce 53/39 &11/25

    Considering he lives in a part of the country that is like riding a roller coaster, I think he will appreciate it more than anyone I could sell it too.

    #le sigh

    It's lucky I like beans on toast.

    Why??


  • #6000
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Zyzz wrote: »
    Why??
    I was just about to ask the same!


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  • #6001
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


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