La Flamme Rouge off topic discussion

CramCycle · 18-06-2018 2:52pm

colm18 wrote: »

Ugh, now I've infected this thread with horsiness.

Neigh bother, the mane point is there is a thread for all that mucking (ab)out

magicbastarder · 18-06-2018 3:06pm

guys, can we rein in the horse puns?

wanderer 22 · 18-06-2018 3:13pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

guys, can we rein in the horse puns?

You could shout yourself hoarse, they won't listen.

Lusk_Doyle · 18-06-2018 3:16pm

A rolling horse gathers no moss?

RobFowl · 18-06-2018 3:29pm

Neigh point is asking people to rein it in, its just something we are going to be saddled with

eeeee · 18-06-2018 3:41pm

Woah woah woah calm down on the equi puns there, you can lead a horse to water...

buffalo · 18-06-2018 4:04pm

RobFowl wrote: »

Neigh point is asking people to rein it in, its just something we are going to be saddled with

Aye, they've got the bit between their teeth alright.

secman · 18-06-2018 4:38pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

But that's something that you must pack/unpack each time so I wouldn't consider it 'emergency' money but just ordinary money that you'd take on any ride.

BTW - I'd never go out for a ride without a credit card either. You never know when you'd have to buy a tyre, chain etc. or get a taxi home if the team car isn't available.

There's a €20 note in each zippy bag with each helmet, phone is the only "packing" Donal. See I tend not to stop anyways barring an Emergency , must check those notes in case they are £20 punts

Lusk_Doyle · 18-06-2018 5:02pm

WTF! We are actually debating how the location of money on/in your bike determines if it is for emergency or casual use?

secman · 18-06-2018 5:35pm

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

WTF! We are actually debating how the location of money on/in your bike determines if it is for emergency or casual use?

Where do you keep your regular spin money and your emergency money and your critical event money...

eeeee · 18-06-2018 6:58pm

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

WTF! We are actually debating how the location of money on/in your bike determines if it is for emergency or casual use?

These are the important issues of our times.

I never thought of an emergency tenner in the bars. Good tip. I'll pop one in there the next time I have a spare one. My bar ends have commitment issues though. I need to get my jam on.

Boscoirl · 18-06-2018 7:13pm

I keep €3000 in the downtube in case I have to buy a new bike

eeeee · 18-06-2018 7:49pm

Boscoirl wrote: »

I keep €3000 in the downtube in case I have to buy a new bike

*Follows Boscoirl home*

RobFowl · 18-06-2018 8:24pm

secman wrote: »

Where do you keep your regular spin money and your emergency money and your critical event money...

In his wallet beside the turbo trainer or else in his running shorts

Wishbone Ash · 18-06-2018 8:38pm

nee wrote: »

.... My bar ends have commitment issues though. I need to get my jam on.

I use these on my bikes - they tighten up with a hex key and you can match the colour to the bike. They have never come loose and seem to last forever. €4 a pair.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/lifeline-alloy-screw-in-bar-end-plugs/rp-prod155567

eeeee · 18-06-2018 8:57pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I use these on my bikes - they tighten up with a hex key and you can match the colour to the bike. They have never come loose and seem to last forever. €4 a pair.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/lifeline-alloy-screw-in-bar-end-plugs/rp-prod155567

Oh! They look the business. The thoughts of paying €4 for bar ends though.

But then again one of my bikes is completely missing bar ends, my pursuit bars have only 3, and the road bike has one.
It may be time to do something about it!

Fighting Tao · 18-06-2018 9:09pm

nee wrote: »

Oh! They look the business. The thoughts of paying €4 for bar ends though.

But then again one of my bikes is completely missing bar ends, my pursuit bars have only 3, and the road bike has one.
It may be time to do something about it!

Only available in orange! Will they match the bike?

eeeee · 18-06-2018 9:11pm

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Only available in orange! Will they match the bike?

They will not! No bar ends for me!

LollipopJimmy · 18-06-2018 9:28pm

I got Sram bar ends in the colour of the bike, big 'S' on them too - Scott bike so I'm doubly pleased. I am also now realising I have android pay on my feckin phone. I set it up ages ago but have yet to actually use it

tomasrojo · 18-06-2018 9:33pm

Rechuchote wrote: »

Mine's in my puncture kit (which reminds me, is there anywhere you can buy tubes of glue without buying the whole kit?)

I think you can get tubes of solution easily enough, but they're usually too big to fit into a standard puncture repair kit case. I use the big tube anyway, as it fits into my slightly larger than usual repair kit.

I find if you enclose the solution tube in a plastic sleeve and keep it firmly closed with an elastic band, the solution doesn't dry out.

Rechuchote wrote: »

And while I'm at it, if anyone wants those long strips of patch stuff that can be cut to shape, the shop in Donnybrook beside the traffic lights has some - someone asked them to get it and then never came back for it.

Yeah, I like that stuff. I got a long roll of it in Bee Cycles. Has lasted me years so far. Still loads of it left.

tomasrojo · 18-06-2018 9:35pm

nee wrote: »

Oh! They look the business. The thoughts of paying €4 for bar ends though.

But then again one of my bikes is completely missing bar ends, my pursuit bars have only 3, and the road bike has one.
It may be time to do something about it!

If you wrap the threads of the bar-end plugs with electrical tape before inserting, they usually stay in place, I find.

Raam · 18-06-2018 9:45pm

Screw in bar ends? Wrapping them in electrical tape?
Won't someone think of the needless extra weight?!
Wrap your bars properly and you won't need these fudges.

eeeee · 18-06-2018 9:51pm

Raam wrote: »

Screw in bar ends? Wrapping them in electrical tape?
Won't someone think of the needless extra weight?!
Wrap your bars properly and you won't need these fudges.

I didn't even bother trying to put bar ends in the new bars :pac:

I will (have to) before I race it though.

loyatemu · 18-06-2018 10:11pm

Bar ends are a safety feature, or so I was told when I rocked up to a club ride with one missing, followed by various anecdotes of people who had become gruesomely impaled on their bars. For the sake of €4 I bought some of the screw-in ones (also, they're shiny).

Rechuchote · 18-06-2018 10:17pm

tomasrojo wrote: »

I find if you enclose the solution tube in a plastic sleeve and keep it firmly closed with an elastic band, the solution doesn't dry out.

Thanks, good tip. I ordered a big can of glue that was supposed to have been here, via ParcelMotel, a week ago but no sign of it. But then Royal Mail seems pretty inefficient.

Rechuchote · 18-06-2018 10:23pm

loyatemu wrote: »

Bar ends are a safety feature, or so I was told when I rocked up to a club ride with one missing, followed by various anecdotes of people who had become gruesomely impaled on their bars. For the sake of €4 I bought some of the screw-in ones (also, they're shiny).

Much better with these - I can never understand why they are a feature missing from the Tour de France

eeeee · 18-06-2018 10:51pm

Aw now I'd love tassels. I haven't a flat bar bike.
Some day.

Heard the goring stories, I'll have it safely stopped up before inflicting myself in a bunch!

P_1 · 18-06-2018 10:58pm

After a very short but fun friendship, I've managed to lose my bollock back light, it fell victim to the awful N11 cycle lane surface. If anyone found it, treat it well

magicbastarder · 18-06-2018 10:58pm

could you hammer in a couple of champagne corks?

18-06-2018 11:06pm

Specialised make kids bikes? I did not know this. Might be the only way our house ever has one. Saw a fella out on a classic black with white lettering Sworks the other night. What do those go for new 4k-8k for just the frame? Had a strong urge to tell my little girl who was in the back to "get him with the door love" :pac:

Wishbone Ash · 19-06-2018 12:08am

nee wrote: »

Aw now I'd love tassels! ....

Brings back memories of cycling in the 1980's with a leather jacket with tassels along the sleeves and across the back. Thought I was as cool as Tony Iommi.

LollipopJimmy · 19-06-2018 7:42am

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Brings back memories of cycling in the 1980's with a leather jacket with tassels along the sleeves and across the back. Thought I was as cool as Tony Iommi.

Would that make you Paranoid now?

P_1 · 19-06-2018 7:49am

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Brings back memories of cycling in the 1980's with a leather jacket with tassels along the sleeves and across the back. Thought I was as cool as Tony Iommi.

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Would that make you Paranoid now?

I thought you were only meant to wear tassles when you rode your white horse Mr Crowley

Lusk_Doyle · 19-06-2018 8:13am

P_1 wrote: »

After a very short but fun friendship, I've managed to lose my bollock back light, it fell victim to the awful N11 cycle lane surface. If anyone found it, treat it well

Why did you have lights on your bollock?

CramCycle · 19-06-2018 8:55am

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Why did you have lights on your bollock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Z6Y0YNQGg

eeeee · 19-06-2018 9:22pm

Had a lovely experience with Dublin Bus today. Was pedalling home about 15 mins ago down the Rock road. There was a number 7 bus ahead of me. I was tipping along the Merrion Road out of town. The bus had stopped at the bus stop ahead, then as i was coming up to it the indicator came on. It was 50-50 whether I'd make it by without slowing the bus down so I stopped in behind it. The driver pulled out and gave me the hazards of thanks. Aw thought I, maybe it was for someone else (there was no one else on either side of the road but still) or something, but still what a nice driver.
So I ended up passing the bus 4 more times as it was stopped at stops, and the last time just on the Rock Road by Blackrock college. Again it was 50-50 whether I'd make it out or not so I stopped in behind it and the driver gave me the hazards of thanks again! How nice! And all the times they passed me they gave me lots of room too.
What an awesome driver!

tomasrojo · 19-06-2018 10:44pm

I've mostly pretty positive experience of Dublin Bus drivers. Generally appreciative of you stopping to let them make a manoeuvre and such like.

cdaly_ · 20-06-2018 10:06am

nee wrote: »

Oh! They look the business. The thoughts of paying €4 for bar ends though.

But then again one of my bikes is completely missing bar ends, my pursuit bars have only 3, and the road bike has one.
It may be time to do something about it!

€4 for bar ends! Mine cost €85...

Rechuchote · 20-06-2018 12:49pm

nee wrote: »

Had a lovely experience with Dublin Bus today. Was pedalling home about 15 mins ago down the Rock road. There was a number 7 bus ahead of me. I was tipping along the Merrion Road out of town. The bus had stopped at the bus stop ahead, then as i was coming up to it the indicator came on. It was 50-50 whether I'd make it by without slowing the bus down so I stopped in behind it. The driver pulled out and gave me the hazards of thanks. Aw thought I, maybe it was for someone else (there was no one else on either side of the road but still) or something, but still what a nice driver.
So I ended up passing the bus 4 more times as it was stopped at stops, and the last time just on the Rock Road by Blackrock college. Again it was 50-50 whether I'd make it out or not so I stopped in behind it and the driver gave me the hazards of thanks again! How nice! And all the times they passed me they gave me lots of room too.
What an awesome driver!

The one time it might be worth filling out "our online report form".

But maybe you don't want to get the driver into trouble!

CramCycle · 20-06-2018 12:55pm

Had to head up the embankment this morning out of Tallaght, I'd say nearly 40 trucks passed me over the few km. Every single one of them gave at least 2m, coming to bends where there was no shoulder space they held back.

It was a really nice experience, except for the silver bus that skimmed me on a corner and I had to touch the side to stop myself being pushed off the road.

Managed to glance behind after to see the look of horror on the lorry drivers face as he thought he was about to be calling the gardai, not an ambulance.

LollipopJimmy · 20-06-2018 12:55pm

Positive feedback is always nice, be nice if DB passed it on to him but a post in their FB page might be better.
I worked in an energy company and was in the office late one night, recruitment is my gig but I had worked across various parts of this company and one of the agents came to me with an issue which I managed to resolve for the customer, meant me staying a lot later and having a back and forth with the previous supplier (issue with a prepaid meter) The next day we got a mail to the complaints inbox titled 'This is not a complaint' which sang my praises and it went as far as the commercial director who gave me a gift card. So don't think positive feedback won't be appreciated.

20-06-2018 1:00pm

Nice piece on TV3 news there about the Big Ride For Africa down in Castlemartin. Not an event or charity I was aware of. Sean Kelly was there on his bike too lending his support.

CramCycle · 20-06-2018 1:36pm

On a slightly less positive note, I fell off my bike today. I decided to use the bike lane instead of the road. The drop of rain obviously made things a bit slippy but coming to a weird junction at a roundabout, which gave no clear way for a bike to continue, I slowed, almost to a stop when the wheel went from under me. A little scraped but fine but I did lay there for about a minute as I tensed up and it was a bit sore, as I struggled to get up, and my bike lay in a heap beside me one thing struck me. Not one person stopped, or even slowed.

When I commute home, if I see a motorist with a flat or engine trouble, I'll pull over to see do they need a hand, same with people who have flats, most times they don't (although on a few occasions i have given cars a push wearing cleats which is more annoying than you might think).

What is wrong with people, who sees a person lying on the road with a vehicle beside them that doesn't look like it was placed there gently and just drives around them.

While are economy maybe improving, the part of us that seems to be referred to as civilised seems to be getting slowly further away.

tomasrojo · 20-06-2018 2:14pm

Yeah, I helped an Australian woman in a rental car change a flat last week. Nobody else seemed to be stopping.

Actually, it was a bit unfortunate, because she'd pulled in on the Drummartin Link Road, and was blocking the ramp onto the cycle track at the T-junction with the Kilmacud Luas stop. A passing cyclist turned around to give her the stink eye, made a hames of mounting the ramp, and hit the ground. So I helped her fix up her bike too.

EDIT: And a few weeks before that, I helped a woman whose car was emitting a stink of burning plastic and not moving get off the Goatstown Road. Again, I was the only person who stopped to help, but when I started pushing the car, another guy leapt out of a car to push too. Maybe people just can't see that much of what's going on around them when they're in a car.

tomasrojo · 20-06-2018 2:21pm

Now I think about it, I slipped on painted road markings one frosty day (you know the way they're the last bit of the road to thaw; well, I wasn't sufficiently aware of it at the time), and was lying on the road, and people just drove around me until I got up. But then a passing DCU student on a bike stopped to see if I was ok. But he was in my class!

eeeee · 20-06-2018 2:35pm

CramCycle wrote: »

<snip>
ot one person stopped, or even slowed.
<snip>

tomasrojo wrote: »

Now I think about it, I slipped on painted road markings one frosty day (you know the way they're the last bit of the road to thaw; well, I wasn't sufficiently aware of it at the time), and was lying on the road, and people just drove around me until I got up. But then a passing DCU student on a bike stopped to see if I was ok. But he was in my class!

This makes me really sad. Hope you're ok Cram.

I was on crutches for a year and a half once. I was on Henry street on the run up to Christmas. I collapsed, and no one stopped to help. When I opened my eyes people were stepping over me and my crutches. It took me ages to clamber up.

I always stop when I see someone down, struggling or walking with a bike. Stopped for one woman last week but her hangar was broken, nothing I could do for that sadly, but everyone else was just pedalling by her. Made me a bit sad.

I helped another guy who struggled with English get his chain back on a couple of Christmases ago in front of the Shelbourne one evening. It was dark, cold, raining. He had the bike upside down and was fiddling goodo with it. I popped the chain back on her him (it was wedged a bit). He said 'Thank you. But you are woman?' ! :rolleyes:
There are at least those of us who do stop. There is good in the world. Isn't there?!!!

CramCycle · 20-06-2018 2:40pm

nee wrote: »

I was on Henry street on the run up to Christmas. I collapsed, and no one stopped to help. When I opened my eyes people were stepping over me and my crutches. It took me ages to clamber up.

Well you certainly beat me on the "how sh1tty can the general population be to another person" competition.

magicbastarder · 20-06-2018 2:48pm

on the converse, my sister's sister in law had an epileptic fit on henry street recently. half a dozen people stopped to help, one woman specifically said she stopped so her handbag would not get stolen!

ED E · 20-06-2018 3:26pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

on the converse, my sister's sister in law had an epileptic fit on henry street recently. half a dozen people stopped to help, one woman specifically said she stopped so her handbag would not get stolen!

Pedestrians are people you silly, cyclists aren't human.

eeeee · 20-06-2018 3:42pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

on the converse, my sister's sister in law had an epileptic fit on henry street recently. half a dozen people stopped to help, one woman specifically said she stopped so her handbag would not get stolen!

Faith in humanity restored!

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