La Flamme Rouge off topic discussion

magicbastarder · 18-07-2019 10:57am

so it doesn't have its own monitoring capability? it just pulls in the readings from nearby ones?

LollipopJimmy · 18-07-2019 11:01am

robyntmorton wrote: »

Random musings on commutes:
Why do these gym goers hate leg day? For a cyclist every day is leg day.
Theres someone riding my wheel and not taking their turn. Is the etiquette to speed up and drop them, or not show weakness by slowing down?
Why do I go faster on days that I feel worse?

Let's be honest, sometimes I have too much time to think!

- If you don't struggle to get off the toilet after leg day then you're doing it wrong. Tbh I've given up on conventional gym work myself and am fully focused on fighting.

- Speed up and drop them, never show a chink in the armour, if they keep up with you call them out for being a lazy git and tell them to take a turn.

- It's a mental thing, free your mind and your legs will follow

Rechuchote · 18-07-2019 11:01am

magicbastarder wrote: »

so it doesn't have its own monitoring capability? it just pulls in the readings from nearby ones?

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Raam · 19-07-2019 7:11pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Thinking of selling my Look and buying something else, purely because I have an option on something a bit special.

I've no idea what the Look is worth though.

Look 765 Frameset (2016 but not much use until this year) - one decal on the chainstay has a mark other than that it could genuinely pass as brand new - Medium

Ultegra R8000 Di2 complete GS including D-fly wireless unit and charger

Look Keo blade 2 pedals

Ritchey bars and stem

Would come with these wheels https://www.bikeinn.com/bike/mavic-ksyrium-exalith-pair/136237370/p (All black spokes, no yellow so slightly older version but still in excellent condition)

Fizik saddle

Everything on the bike is as it should be, Jagwire brake cables, brand new exalith pads, new BB gone on with the cranks, kmc-sl gold chain

This bike is minded like a baby

Any help with a valuation would be appreciated

You crazy! That bike is beautiful.

LollipopJimmy · 20-07-2019 2:02pm

Raam wrote: »

You crazy! That bike is beautiful.

I know but have a line on a Ridley with Bora Ultra wheels and Super Record EPS.

magicbastarder · 20-07-2019 8:24pm

get with the times, daddio. 'super records' are called 'CDs'.

eeeee · 21-07-2019 9:45am

Can you even imagine something like that even being suggested here?

Rechuchote · 21-07-2019 10:52am

Maybe one day, if we vote in the right councillors, and go and talk to people on the routes where pedestrian cycling infrastructure may be built, telling them about the joys of kids being able to play in the street, old ladies being able to sit and have a goss with their shopping bags, bees and butterflies returning to the hedges and similar unremembered joys.

eeeee · 21-07-2019 4:13pm

God there's nothing like the thwomp of a disc.
Heading to training today, and it sounded like thunder all the way over and back :pac:

21-07-2019 11:03pm

Left my bike leaning against a wall out back on friday evening just after the down pours when I was moving stuff around in the shed and forgot about it but remembered before bed. Went to wheel it in and felt something wet on my hand ..... covered in slugs :mad:

eeeee · 21-07-2019 11:04pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Left my bike leaning against a wall out back on friday evening just after the down pours when I was moving stuff around in the shed and forgot about it but remembered before bed. Went to wheel it in and felt something wet on my hand ..... covered in slugs :mad:

Ew

21-07-2019 11:10pm

nee wrote: »

Ew

It was unreal, not just in our garden, I had the dog out for a walk earlier in the evening the f'n things were all over the footpaths after that downpour.

eeeee · 21-07-2019 11:41pm

Deleted User wrote: »

It was unreal, not just in our garden, I had the dog out for a walk earlier in the evening the f'n things were all over the footpaths after that downpour.

Eeewwww!
Poor slugs, if they weren't so slimy #sluglove
Standing on one or grabbing one by accident on something though *boak*

Alek · 22-07-2019 12:07am

Eeewwww!
Poor slugs, if they weren't so slimy #sluglove
Standing on one or grabbing one by accident on something though *boak*

You know they're quite attracted to beer. One night we had a BBQ in our garden, a few of us stayed later and had a chat after the lights were gone, sipping from the bottle from time to time.... One of the lads suddenly started choking... should I say more?

LollipopJimmy · 22-07-2019 9:11am

Deleted User wrote: »

Left my bike leaning against a wall out back on friday evening just after the down pours when I was moving stuff around in the shed and forgot about it but remembered before bed. Went to wheel it in and felt something wet on my hand ..... covered in slugs :mad:

Don't worry, the weight of the slugs will be negligible

Boscoirl · 22-07-2019 9:34am

I’d just get a new bike

NamelessPhil · 22-07-2019 12:09pm

There's plenty of minced slug stuck to my bike after the Celtic Knot 1000.

Last night I saw a hedgehog eating roadkill in the middle of the road.

Alek · 22-07-2019 12:14pm

There's plenty of minced slug stuck to my bike after the Celtic Knot 1000.

Yesterday I've reached for my under-the-downtube bottle and .. yeah... good there was a protective cap on the nozzle.

Last night I saw a hedgehog eating roadkill in the middle of the road.

Poor chaps, you are what you eat, they say... I guess its the same story with badgers, seen at least 4 killed this weekend.

Weepsie · 22-07-2019 2:09pm

I've seen an unsettling amount of dead seagulls around Dublin 9/11/15. Not the usual bird I'd see squished on a road side.

Also, whatever about slugs. I've stored all.my bikes and bits at parents (unfortunately in shed) as I'm waiting on keys to new house. There's already one mahoosive spider lurking close to my good bike.

It might be the most reasonable excuse for a new bike if you ask me

Lusk_Doyle · 22-07-2019 5:10pm

Alek wrote: »

under-the-downtube bottle

???

Edit: Just googled it. I never knew about them!

magicbastarder · 22-07-2019 5:47pm

In kinsale for a few days. Amazing how choked with cars it is.

eeeee · 22-07-2019 7:59pm

Alek wrote: »

You know they're quite attracted to beer. One night we had a BBQ in our garden, a few of us stayed later and had a chat after the lights were gone, sipping from the bottle from time to time.... One of the lads suddenly started choking... should I say more?

NamelessPhil wrote: »

There's plenty of minced slug stuck to my bike after the Celtic Knot 1000.

Last night I saw a hedgehog eating roadkill in the middle of the road.

magicbastarder · 23-07-2019 11:06pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

In kinsale for a few days. Amazing how choked with cars it is.

This is a weird town. In a way, great fun for a cyclist, loads of short 100 or 200m sharp climbs, lots of up and down. But nothing gets in the way of cars here. Tiny narrow streets where cars are abandoned everywhere, the sort of streets where elsewhere pedestrianisation is a given, but here if you walk where you think you should, you'll find an SUV up your arse in short order. It is *so* much more pleasant to walk around after dark when the cars have largely gone to sleep.

cdaly_ · 24-07-2019 9:12am

magicbastarder wrote: »

This is a weird town. In a way, great fun for a cyclist, loads of short 100 or 200m sharp climbs, lots of up and down. But nothing gets in the way of cars here. Tiny narrow streets where cars are abandoned everywhere, the sort of streets where elsewhere pedestrianisation is a given, but here if you walk where you think you should, you'll find an SUV up your arse in short order. It is *so* much more pleasant to walk around after dark when the cars have largely gone to sleep.

I was in Carrick-on-Suir recently and it was horrible. Tiny little streets choked with cars. Sean Kelly Square, named in honour of a cyclist is just a car park. There's room for dedicated parking on the outskirts and the whole town centre would take 15 min to cross on foot. The place would be so much nicer that way...

Weepsie · 24-07-2019 9:14am

Carrick-on-Suir is a bit of a dump IMO. It's in dire need of rejuvination of some sort. One of the most miserable places I've visited in Ireland in the last number of years

Mickiemcfist · 24-07-2019 9:22am

Got a puncture on the commute home last night & another one on the way in this morning, haven't had a puncture in months! Gonna need to pick up more tubes.

Alek · 24-07-2019 9:26am

One of the most miserable places I've visited in Ireland in the last number of years

Longford.

Weepsie · 24-07-2019 9:50am

Alek wrote: »

Longford.

Funny that, as I would have said Granard after stopping there on a cross country cycle. Another forgotten place I think

Mickiemcfist · 24-07-2019 9:52am

Weepsie wrote: »

Funny that, as I would have said Granard after stopping there on a cross country cycle. Another forgotten place I think

I find those places kind of nice in a nostalgic way, Naas depresses the hell out of me as it purely exists for people to be able commute to Dublin.

cdaly_ · 24-07-2019 10:27am

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

Got a puncture on the commute home last night & another one on the way in this morning, haven't had a puncture in months! Gonna need to pick up more tubes.

And tyres perhaps?

Also, repair your tubes and reuse them...

manafana · 24-07-2019 11:17am

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

I find those places kind of nice in a nostalgic way, Naas depresses the hell out of me as it purely exists for people to be able commute to Dublin.

its ok for that to be case, works ok for Utrecht, problem is reliance on car to do so, imagine Naas as proper hub to dublin with fast connections to city, would work just fine then

silverharp · 24-07-2019 11:28am

I found this interesting, the altitude challenge.

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/pakistani-cyclists-all-set-for-tour-de-khunjerab-2019-on-roof-of-the-world-1.64711290

Islamabad: One of the world’s highest altitude cycling competitions will take place in Pakistan from June 27 to June 30.

More than 70 Pakistani and international cyclists are set to take part in the Tour de Khunjerab 2019 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

“This is the biggest cycling event [and it is] being held on the roof of the world. The cyclists will begin the race at about 4,500 feet [1,400 metres] in Gilgit and conclude at a record high altitude of 15,500 feet [5,000 metres] above sea level,” Gilgit division commissioner Usman Ahmad said at a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday.

During the grand tour, the cyclists will cover a distance of nearly 280km, pedalling past Pakistan’s most scenic mountains such as Golden Peak, Lady Finger, Rakaposhi and other mountains.

In the first leg of the race, they will cover nearly 68km starting from Gilgit (altitude, 1,500m) and ending at Ghulmat (2,000m) in Nagar Valley.

The second 35km stage from Ghulmat and finish in Duikar (2,900m) will test the individual strength of the participants. On the third day, cyclists will pedal 92km from Aliabad (2,200m) to Sost (2,800m) in Gojal, Upper Hunza.

The final day of the event will include an 84-km ride from Sost to Khunjerab (4,700m).

The race will culminate at Khunjerab Pass (4,700m), the highest paved international border between Pakistan and China at an altitude of 5,000 metres, which is considered to be the toughest stage. The event will include elevation gain from 850 to 2,000 metres.

“The highest road altitude ever reached in Tour de France is 2,802 metres whereas the Tour de Khunjerab’s final stage starts at 2,800 metres and finishes at 4,700 metres which is a big achievement,” said Pakistan Cycling Federation vice-president Haroon General.

CramCycle · 24-07-2019 11:36am

Alek wrote: »

Longford.

Town

Weepsie wrote: »

Funny that, as I would have said Granard after stopping there on a cross country cycle. Another forgotten place I think

Decided as a community they wanted to be forgotten. Was once one of the busiest market towns in Ireland, then decided that progress was not for them. I lived right beside it, if not for Pat the Baker's it would be a desolate wasteland by now.

Weepsie · 24-07-2019 11:44am

I also stopped in Athboy on that cycle that took in Granard. That was not much better, particularly as Trim wasn't much of a push further and would've been a much nicer place to stop. I'd do my route again, but I'd stop elsewhere

Alek · 24-07-2019 12:06pm

Athy was also quite sad; very grey, ran down and not-positively-busy at the same time when I was there.

Chips Lovell · 24-07-2019 12:09pm

Weepsie wrote: »

Funny that, as I would have said Granard after stopping there on a cross country cycle. Another forgotten place I think

I spent a few years telling anyone who listened that Granard was, without b out, the most depressing town in Ireland. Then karma struck and my car broke down on the way back from a wedding. Was stranding there for an entire afternoon.

Alek wrote: »

Athy was also quite sad; very grey, ran down and not-positively-busy at the same time when I was there.

Athy is the neck tattoo capital of Ireland.

manafana · 24-07-2019 12:10pm

Weepsie wrote: »

I also stopped in Athboy on that cycle that took in Granard. That was not much better, particularly as Trim wasn't much of a push further and would've been a much nicer place to stop. I'd do my route again, but I'd stop elsewhere

Think we have seen that a town that makes the change from status quo can thrive, otherwise you do end up a forgotten country town with nothing to ever attract an outsider to live their, some of wicklow towns are thriving in my opinion, Kilcoole for example, but still could do alot more.

LollipopJimmy · 24-07-2019 12:13pm

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Athy is the neck tattoo capital of Ireland.

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Alek · 24-07-2019 12:23pm

Also: Milford, co. Donegal.

I was just passing, stopped to check the route and the look from a few chaps standing in front of the central bookies convinced me I'll be chased by a white van, hit, abducted and slaughtered in a short order. The avg speed getting out of there was pretty good.

Weepsie · 24-07-2019 2:32pm

manafana wrote: »

Think we have seen that a town that makes the change from status quo can thrive, otherwise you do end up a forgotten country town with nothing to ever attract an outsider to live their, some of wicklow towns are thriving in my opinion, Kilcoole for example, but still could do alot more.

I'd agree. I'd say lots in Wicklow are, Arklow might be the exception. It's not terrible or anything, but I always feel like it's really falling short of its potential. gorey isn't too far away and its bustling when I'm there. Arklow is just going through the motions

Miklos · 24-07-2019 5:08pm

Weepsie wrote: »

I'd agree. I'd say lots in Wicklow are, Arklow might be the exception. It's not terrible or anything, but I always feel like it's really falling short of its potential. gorey isn't too far away and its bustling when I'm there. Arklow is just going through the motions

Arklow's a great spot now if you want vape refills or a tattoo.

Lusk_Doyle · 24-07-2019 6:13pm

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Was stranded there for an entire afternoon.

Jesus, how ever did you survive an ENTIRE afternoon!

eeeee · 24-07-2019 9:43pm

Alek wrote: »

Longford.

I'm from Longford (not the town) and I completely agree it's an absolute kip. It has lots of good ingredients, that are unfortunately baked into a pie of absolute shyte. Or, more accurately, just left in a bowl to congeal and rot by themselves. Beautiful country though.

Weepsie wrote: »

Funny that, as I would have said Granard after stopping there on a cross country cycle. Another forgotten place I think

Oh god Granard is where hope goes to die. Grim.

Large bottle small glass · 24-07-2019 10:04pm

Alek wrote: »

Also: Milford, co. Donegal.

I was just passing, stopped to check the route and the look from a few chaps standing in front of the central bookies convinced me I'll be chased by a white van, hit, abducted and slaughtered in a short order. The avg speed getting out of there was pretty good.

Very unfair to judge a town on basis of a few bookie customers! They are going to look like an unhappy bunch of lads whether they are in Westport or Carrick.

Rumour has it they were appalled by your sock height and mismatch of components on your steed!

Carrick has a brilliant location, but he town seems to have its back to the rive and mountains.

Alek · 24-07-2019 10:17pm

Very unfair to judge a town on basis of a few bookie customers!

I was only joking, nothing against Milford, I did not even have a chance to look around

Rumour has it they were appalled by your sock height and mismatch of components on your steed!

Not surprising at all!

Mickiemcfist · 25-07-2019 9:15am

Out of sheer frustration at my 3 punctures in 2 weeks, I've invested in Schwalbe marathon plus for the rear wheel, hopefully they're as bomb-proof as online reviews would have me believe!

dahat · 25-07-2019 11:44am

Off to Killarney for 2 days this weekend and bringing the bike as i've never been round there on a bike with an agreement to be gone early and not gone "all day"!!!!

The route below i took off a Strava profile and fits my time free 3-4 hrs very early morning. Is it a good route for a spin?

Killarney

Weather looks good for am Saturday so plan to depart @ 6am.

Plastik · 25-07-2019 1:10pm

It's ok - but Kenmare back to Killarney is a pain in the arse. Two very busy roads, and plenty of close passing between Kenmare and the N22.

When you come out of the Black Valley up to the Molls Gap road turn right (instead of left for Molls Gap) and then turn right again after about 10km to go over Ballaghbeama and loop around the Reeks through Glencar. Or don't take the climb out of the valley and continue straight. You'll eventually come out on the Sneem/Molls road again, turn right and right again.

A bit more elevation, but much more scenic, and infinitely less traffic.

dahat · 25-07-2019 1:43pm

Is the surface okay?

dahat · 26-07-2019 7:54am

Plastik wrote: »

It's ok - but Kenmare back to Killarney is a pain in the arse. Two very busy roads, and plenty of close passing between Kenmare and the N22.

When you come out of the Black Valley up to the Molls Gap road turn right (instead of left for Molls Gap) and then turn right again after about 10km to go over Ballaghbeama and loop around the Reeks through Glencar. Or don't take the climb out of the valley and continue straight. You'll eventually come out on the Sneem/Molls road again, turn right and right again.

A bit more elevation, but much more scenic, and infinitely less traffic.

Killarney 3+ hrs

Any better? Been crusing strava like a wierdo for routes. 3hrs is my threshold really as much a si'd like to be gone longer!

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