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Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

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  • #1082
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    lennymc wrote: »
    i leave this thread for a day and come back to find out that I'm entered in a slow race down a lane up the wall against rollingscone and gadetra on boat anchors.
    You only have to beat Lusk_Doyle over one lap of the track. gadetra will be sorting out his hire bike for him (it will probably be green though) ;).


  • #1083
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭manafana


    rollingscone wrote: »
    Swisstop Greens would stop you in Noah's flood.

    this is true, until you put 10k on them :D

    **** myself in downpour other day need changing now


  • #1084
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭manafana


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Moved into new apartment this week, which has transplanted my OH a distance away from her job that she's not used to having been able to walk for the last 5+ years.

    She drives and was stuck in traffic for the guts of an hour while I (twice as far to travel) got in in 25 mins.

    Have to gently persuade her to bike it as I think as we've reached our limit, if not past it, for car capacity in Dublin. Need to encourage carpooling at the very least if people need to drive.

    whatever we do its got to encourage making alternative methods easier than just keep encouraging driving in city centre which is just too popular right nw, love see few more college green style bans.

    Speed of some of cars in city as well is scary, speed limits just not been adhered too


  • #1085
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,387 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Beasty wrote: »
    You only have to beat Lusk_Doyle over one lap of the track. gadetra will be sorting out his hire bike for him (it will probably be green though) ;).

    That is no competition. Everyone knows Lusk_Doyle can't turn left.

    2014-12-derek-zoolander12.0.jpeg


  • #1086
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Why cycling is pleasant in Japan:

    https://medium.com/cycling-japan/what-makes-japan-a-great-cycling-nation-5217f260497c


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  • #1087
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    RobFowl wrote: »
    A poster called el tonto took on the mighty Mockler007 in a race across Dubin and lost (both the race and the fashion contest...)

    IMG_0027.JPG

    Ha ha! Check out Santa Fred on the back right!


  • #1088
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    gadetra wrote: »
    Yes.

    If you put a Christmas jersey on them. On the 1st of July. He's not a well man...

    And a LOT more girth...


  • #1089
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    lennymc wrote: »
    That is no competition. Everyone knows Lusk_Doyle can't turn left.

    2014-12-derek-zoolander12.0.jpeg

    Tracks are more of gradual bends as opposed to turns so your luck has run out my cuddly friend!


  • #1090
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Who's the poster who keeps complaining when StickyBottle rerun their feature articles?

    http://cyclocosm.tumblr.com/post/132546138132/direct-mail-is-always-so-interesting-to-mewhy

    tumblr_nxax83TLRy1qbw072o1_1280.png


  • #1091
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    buffalo wrote: »
    Who's the poster who keeps complaining when StickyBottle rerun their feature articles?

    http://cyclocosm.tumblr.com/post/132546138132/direct-mail-is-always-so-interesting-to-mewhy

    tumblr_nxax83TLRy1qbw072o1_1280.png

    You've read it three times? Has any of it stuck yet or do you need another go?


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  • #1092
    Darkglasses
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    You've read it three times? Has any of it stuck yet or do you need another go?

    It's a screenshot from Cosmo Catalano's page.


  • #1093
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    It's a screenshot from Cosmo Catalano's page.

    I know but where's the joke then in that scenario?


  • #1094
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Hey those of you who (like me) take the Clontarf road/track.

    I seen a cyclist on what I can only describe as a modern day penny farting (farthing?) bike heading north on Clontarf this afternoon.. I was on my motorbike so I was going too fast to take in much detail or ask the rider about it.

    The wheel was (I'm guessing) about 4ft in circumference, I can't remember a second wheel and the rider had small straight bars.

    Has anyone seen it, or knows what kind of bike it likely is?.


  • #1095
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Sasha Round Laser wrote: »
    Hey those of you who (like me) take the Clontarf road/track.

    I seen a cyclist on what I can only describe as a modern day penny farting (farthing?) bike heading north on Clontarf this afternoon.. I was on my motorbike so I was going too fast to take in much detail or ask the rider about it.

    The wheel was (I'm guessing) about 4ft in circumference, I can't remember a second wheel and the rider had small straight bars.

    Has anyone seen it, or knows what kind of bike it likely is?.

    Bloody attention seeker. Can't they just ride around in pink and white lycra with sparkling white shoes on 7,000 Euro bikes like the rest of us?


  • #1096
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    There is some lad who rides a uni-cycle with a large wheel along that stretch.


  • #1097
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    North side of the Sam Beckett bridge there's an on-path cycle track that is absolutely covered in glass. I've dodged my way through it for the last number of days, but finally today it got me with a catastrophic puncture. Lost all air in about 4 seconds I'd say. :mad:

    I finally gave up on the Vittoria Rubino Pro, I got max 3000km out of it, and had a number of punctures in the last month. So that's a non-runner imo, preferred the GP4000II 100 times more. I've just put on a Schwalbe Marathon plus, so lets hope that gets me through the winter.


  • #1098
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    How does so much glass get broken? I've never seen anyone actually doing it. If it happens at Hallowe'en, is it… the Good People?


  • #1099
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    That stretch is not great on warm either when the locals have their beach parties and swim in the canal. The place gets littered with rubbish and glass on the bike path. It then gets cleaned in the evening by the corporation and it all starts over again the next day.


    On a side note, I'd like to know who had the great idea of allowing buses stop opposite the Convention Centre and dump passengers onto the bike lane.


  • #1100
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    North side of the Sam Beckett bridge there's an on-path cycle track that is absolutely covered in glass.
    Weepsie wrote: »
    I work beside there and know that path. It was the same last year after Halloween & mid term and I got loads of punctures. Under the rail bridge can be dodgy too. Ive changed my route ever so slightly since
    Qualitymark wrote: »
    How does so much glass get broken? I've never seen anyone actually doing it. If it happens at Hallowe'en, is it… the Good People?

    I use that route daily - I usually come at it from the Sherrif St bridge direction and turn left onto it. There is regularly broken glass just where you come off the road onto the cycle path and it's always just at that spot which makes me suspect that it's deliberate.

    I'll keep a look out for beer-drinkin', cycle-hatin' locals.......


  • #1101
    Alanstrainor
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    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    I use that route daily - I usually come at it from the Sherrif St bridge direction and turn left onto it. There is regularly broken glass just where you come off the road onto the cycle path and it's always just at that spot which makes me suspect that it's deliberate.

    I'll keep a look out for beer-drinkin', cycle-hatin' locals.......

    That's the route I took when I got the puncture. I can avoid the cycle track on the way to Sheriff street, but it's not so easy on the way back.


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  • #1102
    traprunner
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    Anyone notice 'no bikes' sprayed on the bike track where it starts coming off Guild St., onto Seville Place?


  • #1103
    drogdub
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    Eurosport 2 are showing this year's Amstel, Fleche Wallonne and LBL back to back from 6-9 tonight. That's this evening viewing sorted


  • #1104
    bazermc
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    drogdub wrote: »
    Eurosport 2 are showing this year's Amstel, Fleche Wallonne and LBL back to back from 6-9 tonight. That's this evening viewing sorted

    It's even better when you can't remember who won


  • #1105
    The tax man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭The tax man


    bazermc wrote: »
    It's even better when you can't remember who won

    Just as well it isn't 2011 then.


  • #1106
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    The next solution to homelessness?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11974662/Tiny-bike-towed-caravans-could-transform-cycling-holidays.html


  • #1107
    Beasty
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    The next solution to homelessness?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11974662/Tiny-bike-towed-caravans-could-transform-cycling-holidays.html
    probably not the chosen accommodation for those who prefer the finer things in life
    That's me out then .....


  • #1108
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Well, I really meant that this would be the next solution offered to homeless families sleeping on the streets; offered by champagne-swilling foie-gras-belching politicians as they lounge on their silken sheets in their penthouse hideaways looking down on the mean streets.


  • #1109
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Well, I really meant that this would be the next solution offered to homeless families sleeping on the streets; offered by champagne-swilling foie-gras-belching politicians as they lounge on their silken sheets in their penthouse hideaways looking down on the mean streets.

    I would have lived in one during college, would have been great, other than it would have been nicked.


  • #1110
    bazermc
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    The tax man wrote: »
    Just as well it isn't 2011 then.

    I don't get it. I don't remember this year never mind 6 years ago


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  • #1111
    Beasty
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    bazermc wrote: »
    I don't remember .... 6 years ago
    When was that?


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