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    #2312
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the better the news, the more he pays.


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    #2313
    Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 3,179 ✭✭✭Junior


    http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2019/Bicycle-Bank-Robber-Tom-Justice/

    Well worth a few minutes of your time to read


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    #2314
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the news is a few days old, but i only heard about this last night:

    Decathlon launches new high-end bike brand, Van Rysel
    https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/5924/decathlon-launches-new-high-end-bike-brand-van-rysel


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    #2315
    [Deleted User]
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    One the colour schemes belongs in the images of ugly thread, the blue/black and black/white schemes are lovely though.

    Was eyeing up one of the new lower end models a few weeks ago Triban RC520 I think, in navy blue also easy on the eyes.


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    #2316
    [Deleted User]
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    Catching up on racing on eurosport this evening, track and road. Mikel Landa crashed and broke a collar bone in the racing in Mallorca today, ****ty start to the season after a ****ty end to last season for him.


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    #2317
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Pretty accurate


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    #2318
    [Deleted User]
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    God those Peleton ads are bloody annoying. My partner is always saying I should go to spin class while she's in the gym but my experience of a half hour on a borrowed turbo last year made me aware that being on a stationary bike is not at all fun for me, but at least with that you don't have some arsehole telling you you smashed it. Is that what a spin class is like? The Peleton ad? I'd fall of the bloody bike laughing :D


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    #2319
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Deleted User wrote: »
    God those Peleton ads are bloody annoying. My partner is always saying I should go to spin class while she's in the gym but my experience of a half hour on a borrowed turbo last year made me aware that being on a stationary bike is not at all fun for me, but at least with that you don't have some arsehole telling you you smashed it. Is that what a spin class is like? The Peleton ad? I'd fall of the bloody bike laughing :D

    Wait til SoulCycle really hits here


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    #2320
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    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Wait til SoulCycle really hits here

    Had to look them up as I'd not heard of it.

    From their site, this does not sound like a bike "ride" :p
    The Class
    Your time to clip in, connect and let go.
    In a dim, candlelit room led by inspiring instructors, you surrender to the beat of the music and get lost in the energy of the room. You move, you ride, and you push towards the finish line - together.


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    #2321
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Had to look them up as I'd not heard of it.

    From their site, this does not sound like a bike "ride" :p

    <insert **** gesture gif here>


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    #2322
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Nice piece on Conor Dunne and Warbasse's NoGo Tour: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/nogo-tour-get-cycling-mojo-back-team-folds-406564#3FRQimOAPDg13Vir.99


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    #2323
    buffalo
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    Only noticed this on-ramp to the cycle lane in the Phoenix Park this morning: https://goo.gl/maps/DoPKiaoY3Tm

    I have a positive vibe about infrastructure for once! :D


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    #2324
    Fighting Tao
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    buffalo wrote: »
    Only noticed this on-ramp to the cycle lane in the Phoenix Park this morning: https://goo.gl/maps/DoPKiaoY3Tm

    I have a positive vibe about infrastructure for once! :D

    I presume it’s usually blocked by cars parked up.


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    #2325
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    I presume it’s usually blocked by cars parked up.

    oh. Yeah, that's actually probably true. :(


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    #2326
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,828 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    buffalo wrote: »
    oh. Yeah, that's actually probably true. :(

    Also, given the pathway between the cycletrack and footpath, I presume it was put there for the benefit of people walking from their cars to the footpath.

    Edit: there is also a dead rodent in that streetview link!


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    #2327
    [Deleted User]
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    How about those bad ass joggers https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2019/0205/1027627-jogger-mountain-lion-attack/ :eek:


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    #2328
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    I really want a set of Cosmic Carbones, they just look so good and I think they'll suit my LOOK.

    Aggghhh so many wants but I decided not to buy anything until after April, this fight is costing a fair whack between training, extra training and even have to have an MRI to be cleared by SafeMMA


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    #2329
    daragh_
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    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    ...have an MRI to be cleared by SafeMMA

    :eek:

    Do you have one after as well?


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    #2330
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    daragh_ wrote: »
    :eek:

    Do you have one after as well?

    I won't be needing one :pac::pac:


    :o


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    #2331
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    This is a new one, I was only using the bus lane so I could get to see the nurses on strike.
    Footage of Mr Healy-Rae’s Skoda shows him travelling along the Naas Road towards the city. It was filmed by a passenger travelling in a taxi this morning.

    Mr Healy-Rae said he was travelling to the Coombe Hospital when he was filmed.

    He said he left Kerry at 4.50am this morning, before nurses took to picket lines at 8am.

    "This morning I was in a bad predicament. I wanted to go to the nurses this morning but I couldn’t because when I left Kerry there were no nurses on strike in Kerry," he told Independent.ie after seeing the footage.

    "I wanted to call to a hospital to meet nurses, which I did at the Coombe.

    "At that time I was looking for a place to pull in my car, within walking distance of the Coombe. I wanted to be able to jump out of the car and go to the nurses so that I would be able to meet people with Kerry connections working as nurses and midwives at the Coombe."

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-wanted-to-be-able-to-jump-out-of-the-car-and-go-to-the-nurses-michael-healy-rae-defends-driving-in-bus-lane-37784658.html


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    #2332
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Hurrache wrote: »
    This is a new one, I was only using the bus lane so I could get to see the nurses on strike.


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-wanted-to-be-able-to-jump-out-of-the-car-and-go-to-the-nurses-michael-healy-rae-defends-driving-in-bus-lane-37784658.html

    It's usually Danny causing silly headlines, this fella seems far more shred. Still, funny to see excuses and no apology


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    #2333
    magicbastarder
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    he's quite a distance from the coombe there. he must like walking a lot.


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    #2334
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    he's quite a distance from the coombe there. he must like walking a lot.

    All he was doing was his best.. So were the rest of the poor feckers sitting in traffic trying to get to work


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    #2335
    Fighting Tao
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    Wow. I didn’t realise there are no hospitals the whole way from Kerry to Dublin.


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    #2336
    secman
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    Saw Danny just before Christmas in his Skoda estate, , his name all over the car, wearing the cap in the car, zooming up the bus lane, on the section of road from long mile road to Crumlin hospital, he flew past the hospital as no nurses on strike back then, probably zoomed down the bus lane to the coombe hospital too. Arrogance of him , as its SO obviously him, he's splattered all over the car !


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    #2337
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    I don't mind TD's using the bus lane.


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    #2338
    rubadub
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    Hungrycol wrote: »
    I don't mind TD's using the bus lane.

    I do mind TDs breaking the law and coming up with comical "good deed" excuses.

    Reminds me of myself going into work late and taking the piss saying I was on the way in and happened upon a burning orphanage and had to help put it out after rescuing all the kids.

    He should give himself ample time to arrive to work on time.


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    #2339
    magicbastarder
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    Hungrycol wrote: »
    I don't mind TD's using the bus lane.
    that's a weird one. why not?


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    #2340
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,227 ✭✭✭secman


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    I don't mind TD's using the bus lane.

    Sure whilst we are at it , no way should they be subject to drink driving laws and let's throw in no speed limits too :) after all they are a superior species to us mere mortals !


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    #2341
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    that's a weird one. why not?

    Well Taxi Drivers have always been allowed :pac:


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