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

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Don't know. Just reaponding to Doctor Bob, who said it was female specific. I struggle to see what it has that makes it so.

I guess cos the article says this...

The finished product is radical for yet another reason. It’s a sport-altering design that was built 100 percent from the ground up for female racers — with the women’s team getting unprecedented financial and technical support. If male pursuit riders ever end up on bikes like this, they’ll be following the women’s lead.

I reckon that just means it was made for a team which happens to be female rather than a bike which is specifically for a female.

It's not urgent, with all the hours of daylight we have now, but by autumn I want to put my standard bike lights onto the family bakfiets. The lights that come with the bakfiets are ok-ish, but I might as well put on my Cateye HL EL520 and Smart Lunar R2. I've figured out how to do the latter, but the handlebars are obscured by the rain hood and there are no convenient mount points at the front that are also protected by the mudguards.

I was thinking of screwing a mount point into the wood of the box.

Something like Lumen had on the stem here:


But with a flat screw plate rather than a ring at the end.

Anyone know anything?

We had our balcony sliding door bashed in last night and our management company's preferred repair service are Monday to Saturday

Anyone recommend an emergency glass repair service in Dublin CC/8?

Thanks, OldBean. (I feel I should have an RAF moustache saying that.)

I think I'll have to mount the light on the wooden box. The rain hood goes way up, and the heads of the kids would obscure the light anyway. I might find something in a hardware store. Just need a bar or cylinder to strap the standard Cateye HL mount onto.

There's no front rack, but that would be a really neat, cheap way to mount a light on a front rack.

So what's the status with disc brake bikes? Are you allowed to race them in Ireland?

Jawgap wrote: »

Record number of cyclists commute into Dublin

I'm eagerly anticipating the drive-time radio shows' hot take on this.

RobFowl wrote: »

Not in RR or TT's but yes in cross and MTB.

Do you know if the rules originate from UCI or is it more of a local thing?

IAM cycling team to cease at the end of the season.
https://twitter.com/IAM_Cycling/status/734689013492240384?s=09

ThisRegard wrote: »

Monday - Friday, George Hook. Although he surprised me one evening when he read out a text from someone he says is a regular contributor on this. They were complaining about having just saw a lady cycling while wearing high heels, the texter was dumbfounded at her stupidity. George brought them down to earth by saying he doesn't see that as a problem while cycling a bike.

But he returned to his old trollng ways the next day .

Maybe it was these shoes:

https://totalwomenscycling.com/commuting/high-heeled-cycling-shoes-bringing-sexy-back-recipe-disaster-32335/#VroQqZzrEjb3Rm7U.97

Discussion of cycling in Dublin, and the country more generally, on www.newstalk.com at the moment.

magicbastarder wrote: »

well, it could be argued that the climate *is* getting wetter - but it's the cyclists who are helping ameliorate this.

It's probably one of the cheaper ways to get us closer to meeting our COP21 obligations on greenhouse-gas reduction. Because we're going to miss them by a country mile at current rates.

(Even if you regard climate change as a fiction, the fines that will be imposed if we don't meet COP21 are real enough, and ongoing.)