La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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The wheelbender racks are just about usable for a quick stop if you have a security skewer on the front wheel. Very few bikes do, and quick stops aren't necessarily what you want a bike rack for.

Yeah, they're really awful. And, as you say, they usually end up with one bike hogging at least two spots, in order to make the bike reasonably hard to steal.

Beasty wrote: »

This thread is getting way too continental with all this fancy French terminology. I'm going to be a bit rebellious here...

foot, inch, mile, lbs:P

Feck off with your backward ways

Beasty wrote: »

You guys are wearing blinkers - look across the Irish Sea and you can visualise Britain rising again. You'll all be begging to come back into the EmpireCommonwealth post Brexit:pac:

Sure if you love it so much, you know where you can cycle to....Norn Iron

Beasty wrote: »

Did I ever tell you about my last cycle up North? Think there's a thread about it around here somewhere. Had an accident, don't you know....

Sure you might as well tell everyone for the 751st time. Some people may have forgotten.

Spending a few days in westport. Must say I'm loving the bikea sculptures that are put beside each bank of Sheffield stands

There's actually a thing called bikejoring in which people race each other using dogs tethered to their MTBs. My dog would be a mangled mess within 10 metres of the start.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-41420058/bikejor-the-people-who-race-their-bikes-with-dogs

It's gaining popularity in the UK but it's pretty big in Europe and the US with European and World championships.

Alek wrote: »

Try this, cat owners

https://vimeo.com/220441294

Saw someone doing that with their terrier up around Tibradden last week; dog was loving it!
The stroll up to Fairy Castle was enough for my old lab.

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

Coming home from work yesterday evening I was cutting through a residential street and had to cycle past some teenagers playing football on the road. As I passed by, I saw the lad with the ball taking aim at me out of the corner of my eye and I took the ball full-force to the side of the head. Managed to stay upright and, once the initial surprise had worn off, I couldn't decide if I was angry or really impressed that he managed to hit a moving target with such precision! Somebody needs to sign this kid up immediately! :pac:

He be a one trick pony and that's why he's not signed up already.

Beasty wrote: »

This thread is getting way too continental with all this fancy French terminology. I'm going to be a bit rebellious here...

foot, inch, mile, lbs:P

Local Bike Shop is not an acceptable unit of measurement.

This morning I was cycling down Leopardstown Road. As I got to Torquay Road there was a pedestrian right ahead of me, and since the cycling and footpath basically merge into one and he/she would be right in my way I gave a quick glance behind me to see that there was no immediate traffic coming along and hopped onto the road.

It's a bit tricky to rejoin the cycle path at that point (and it's an awful cycle path anyway) so I decided to remain on the road until the next traffic light, an entire 140 meters according to Google maps.

Before I quite got there the road traffic just managed to catch up with me, though there was plenty of room for them to go past, and there was a red light at the next junction ahead of us anyway. Nevertheless a truck hooted at me as he passed, and so did the driver of the next car, and when I caught up with them 20 seconds later when they were sitting at said red light he shouted "arsehole" at the top of his voice at me.

Delightful.

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

Nevertheless a truck hooted at me as he passed, and so did the driver of the next car, and when I caught up with them 20 seconds later when they were sitting at said red light he shouted "arsehole" at the top of his voice at me.

Projection.

magicbastarder wrote: »

you were headed towards or away from the N11?
i only very rarely use the cycle path on that road. it's probably got every classic design mistake going, plus a few of its own.

Away from the N11, therefore approaching Torquay Road junction coming downhill. I could have hit the breaks sharpish to avoid the pedestrian or hop onto the road, which seemed the safer option in those particular circumstances. However, I figured explaining that to either of the 2 individuals who had hooted at me wasn't going to work ...

Oh, and yes, the design of that particular cycle path really beggars belief.