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ED E · 09-01-2019 1:00am

Bike: Standing height
Horse: Twice standing height?

Your distance to fall is what matters unless you hit something like a wall.

Lumen · 09-01-2019 8:21am

ED E wrote: »

Bike: Standing height
Horse: Twice standing height?

Your distance to fall is what matters unless you hit something like a wall.

Also, bikes mostly lowside whereas horses tend to highside except when felled by musket fire.

eeeee · 09-01-2019 9:21am

Yep you're up much higher, hence I was wondering what the mechanism is for the cycling one to inflate.
You can fall off a house any number of ways. I can't remember falling off backwards, I had more of a talent for heading out the side door: D

magicbastarder · 09-01-2019 9:42am

i once saw my wife ejected off the front of a horse. i think it's what they call a dirty stop - brakes went full on and the horse dropped his head.

Peter T · 10-01-2019 8:55am

nee wrote: »

I wonder what the mechanism for inflation is on the bike version?

More than likely an accelerometer picking up the sudden jerk or movement

magicbastarder · 10-01-2019 10:02am

expect a rush of people heading out to try to claim the KOM/QOM:

World’s steepest street: Welsh town challenges New Zealand for Guinness World Record
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/10/worlds-steepest-street-welsh-town-challenges-new-zealand-for-guinness-world-record

10-01-2019 10:17am

36% gradient :eek:

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and then ouch on the way back up lol.

EDIT: They say it takes 10 minutes to walk up it , 350 meters. Or 7 if you're a local.

magicbastarder · 10-01-2019 10:20am

not so much wheeeeeeee as baldwin street:
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8601134,-4.1075119,3a,75y,213.91h,78.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4l9c_IpW-SwibYTFEiJ4JA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

baldwin street is straight, at least.

Mc Love · 10-01-2019 4:15pm

And I thought St. Patricks Hill was steep - apparently only 23% gradient!

Wishbone Ash · 10-01-2019 7:30pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

expect a rush of people heading out to try to claim the KOM/QOM:...

The current KOM holder averaged 16.9km/h on it! :eek::eek:

(2 Boardsies on the list

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silverharp · 10-01-2019 9:40pm

saw the weirdest contraption the other day, guy on a stand up tricycle , 2 tiny back wheels and a front wheel about half the size of a standard bike wheel, may have had a chain, not 100% sure but had pedals. guessing exercise as opposed to getting from a to b. what was it and why?

magicbastarder · 10-01-2019 10:22pm

there was an electric scooter locked in the bike cage in work today. that's a first for our building.

10-01-2019 11:33pm

Are the electric scooters considered a scourge in the US? I recall a recent episode of South Park featuring them and it seemed like it was the case.

magicbastarder · 11-01-2019 11:44am

there's been a change to the traffic lights on a junction near me, and i suspect it's specific to that junction, but i wonder if it's something which DCC are going to do to more junctions.

it's where ballymun road and glasnevin avenue/collins avenue meet; for example, if you were heading north on ballymun road, you would be faced with this (old image):
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.388883,-6.2650032,3a,73.7y,12.53h,89.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFp3aU_tAlhbFfJiKOhIKwQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

however, now the general green light has been replaced with a straight on only green light. it will piss off some motorists no doubt, as you now cannot (well should not) take a right until you get the explicit right turn signal, whereas before you could take a right on the general green, if the oncoming lanes were clear. there have been a few crashes at that junction, i suspect caused when people queuing to take the right from both directions had their line of sight blocked by the cars in the opposite queue - but went for it anyway.
will be interesting to see if a similar change is made elsewhere, i can think of a couple of junctions that would benefit cyclists if this was done.

VW 1 · 11-01-2019 12:19pm

The first few days caused a lot of traffic backup for those waiting on the filter, but they obviously adjusted them to leave the filter on longer to reduce queueing times.

They also seem to have made adjustments to the length of green time going west to east onto collins avenue,which has made a big difference in time spent queueing to cross ballymun road.

Its a nightmare of a junction whichever way you take it, for cars breaking red lights. Often see 3/4/5 cars break the light only to sit in traffic or block the junction.

magicbastarder · 11-01-2019 12:23pm

they had originally been planning to run the metro at road level through that junction. the current plan is for it to be tunnelled there. 'current' used advisedly. as is the word 'plan'.

Mc Love · 11-01-2019 1:11pm

Ciara Kelly (Newstalk) discussing the blocking of cycle lanes in Dublin now

LollipopJimmy · 11-01-2019 1:33pm

Mc Love wrote: »

Ciara Kelly (Newstalk) discussing the blocking of cycle lanes in Dublin now

Anything interesting?

CramCycle · 11-01-2019 2:01pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

not so much wheeeeeeee as baldwin street:
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8601134,-4.1075119,3a,75y,213.91h,78.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4l9c_IpW-SwibYTFEiJ4JA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

baldwin street is straight, at least.

Baldwin street just doesn't look that bad to me, the Dying Cow looks worse.

Tempted to go for the Harlech one the next time I am in Wales, just to see. I remember a few 30% climbs the last time I was in Scotland and they slow you down, I am certain there are one or two more than 35% as one you cold not even sit on the bike as you simply flip backwards, walking was difficult.

Mc Love · 11-01-2019 2:03pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Anything interesting?

Surprisingly only one call from a delivery driver! But lots of VRU's and tweets from cyclists/pedestrians and Ciaran Ferrie

magicbastarder · 12-01-2019 7:46pm

https://twitter.com/cosaingalway/status/1084031452403195904

will be interesting to see what the story behind this is.

12-01-2019 8:57pm

There needs to be a serious discussion had about red lights in this country for all road users, but especially cars etc. it's far to common to see what was in that video at junctions up and down the country every day.

Cameras are the only way to go imo. The only way to change peoples behaviour is if they think there is a risk of being caught.

marvin80 · 12-01-2019 9:12pm

I'm doing a poster for a charity cycle and want to include a nice visual with details of the climbs. Restricted for space so what do people like to see when it comes to climbs?

1.) Length
2.) Total Elevation
3.) Average gradient
4.) Maximum gradient

magicbastarder · 13-01-2019 3:27pm

anyone else had issues with strava this morning?

Boscoirl · 13-01-2019 3:32pm

Yup, uploaded my ride but couldn’t edit it. Kept timing out in the app. Eventually was able to edit it on the website

Veloviewer wasn’t able to access it and haven’t got a mail to say relive has uploaded.

magicbastarder · 13-01-2019 3:34pm

didn't transfer across from garmin to strava for me, i just had to export it from garmin connect and import it to strava.

secman · 13-01-2019 3:39pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

anyone else had issues with strava this morning?

Yep, kept getting "data sync problem " message, I even deleted the app and reloaded it. Jeez I even sent an email to broadband provider complaining, as it happened last weekend too , oops !

ED E · 13-01-2019 5:12pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

anyone else had issues with strava this morning?

This page may be of use to you
http://status.strava.com/

Investigating Strava degraded performance
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring site performance.
Jan 13, 06:37 PST

Investigating - Our engineers are aware of degraded performance of Strava.com and are investigating.
Jan 13, 05:35 PST

Wishbone Ash · 13-01-2019 7:36pm

Just came in from work to learn that I've was relieved of a KOM this morning! :eek:

Well done magicbastarder - you have it back now but the gauntlet has been thrown down!

(mmmm........nice north westerly blowing I see......)

magicbastarder · 13-01-2019 7:41pm

heh. i decided that if i wanted it back, today was the day...

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