La Flamme Rouge off topic discussion

magicbastarder · 13-01-2020 11:48pm

RobertFoster wrote: »

Not sure about compatibility with 5800 or your pm. A quick search brings up needing to use the 4700 FD no matter what because of cable tension.

and the 5800 is 11 speed, 4700 is ten speed, so shifters wouldn't match cassette/RD.

CramCycle · 14-01-2020 12:19am

Is Conor Dunne getting a job with them? I seen him linking to them on Twitter or Instagram,

14-01-2020 12:22am

CramCycle wrote: »

Is Conor Dunne getting a job with them? I seen him linking to them on Twitter or Instagram,

Yeah he's been on a couple of times now, both in disguise and as himself.

Weepsie · 14-01-2020 12:58pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

and the 5800 is 11 speed, 4700 is ten speed, so shifters wouldn't match cassette/RD.

He just wanted to use the chainset though. The 5800 chainset will work fine with the Tiagra. I've done it on several bikes.

Alternatively,just have mismatched crankarms as it will also be fine on it to put the Stages onto a Tiagra crankset.

dahat · 14-01-2020 1:40pm

Thanks for the replies on the 4700 query.

As i'll be replacing the whole GS issues around rd etc aren't relevant. The bike is old and a 4700 gs makes sense cash wise for the purpose of the bike. The comments here are positive for 4700 but online reviews are iffy on the brakes so i may at the time source new 5800 or above brakes.

Wishbone Ash · 14-01-2020 3:31pm

dahat wrote: »

.... is getting battered especially the shifters.....

I would have thought the shifters would be the last to go. I got 63,000kms out of a pair of shifters on one of my bikes. They'd probably last a good while longer but the frame cracked so I retired it.

eeeee · 14-01-2020 3:51pm

Interesting one on the advantages and disadvantages of shared spaces.

dahat · 14-01-2020 3:55pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I would have thought the shifters would be the last to go. I got 63,000kms out of a pair of shifters on one of my bikes. They'd probably last a good while longer but the frame cracked so I retired it.

They would have done a fair amount of mileage, bike is easily 5-6 years old. 'll get the rest of turbo season out of them but would like to have them replaced by next turbo season.

Weepsie · 14-01-2020 11:56pm

Why I'm watching it , I'm not sure. But 2009 winner of the Shay Elliot memorial, Matt Cronshaw is a contestant on Great Pottery Throwdown

Effects · 14-01-2020 11:57pm

Came out of the off licence in fairview this evening, noticed a woman close by getting off her bike.
Went off to unlock my own bike and started to cycle off, noticed the woman wasn't there anymore. Figured she went into a doorway where the bike was left.
Dodgy looking bloke eyes it up in passing so I turned around and went up on the path.
The guy turned back, started handling the bike to size it up. At this point I noticed she didn't have it locked.
The guy turned around and noticed me, asked if it was my bike. Not a very smart question, as I was on my bike, but I replied that it was my friend's bike.
He said he thought it was a nice bike, and was going to take it as he thought nobody owned it.
He acted like it was kind of a funny situation, rather than just opportunistic thieving.
After he left I waited a few minutes, but she didn't come back and I had to head on.

magicbastarder · 15-01-2020 12:15am

Weepsie wrote: »

Why I'm watching it , I'm not sure. But 2009 winner of the Shay Elliot memorial, Matt Cronshaw is a contestant on Great Pottery Throwdown

my wife watches it because the big burly judge cries all the time, and it's endearing.

15-01-2020 12:23am

Weepsie wrote: »

Why I'm watching it , I'm not sure. But 2009 winner of the Shay Elliot memorial, Matt Cronshaw is a contestant on Great Pottery Throwdown

Not the same without Sara Cox

magicbastarder · 15-01-2020 12:30am

i never knew she'd participated in the shay elliot.

eeeee · 15-01-2020 12:52am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not the same without Sara Cox

Agreed! She's great.
This one seems a lot meaner, I don't like that.
I have to commend Keith's commitment to hair gel.
Bake Off is gone mean and uber competitive too, I've stopped watching it.

Thank flip for the Sewing Bee, that's just lovely.

Harrybelafonte · 15-01-2020 9:54am

eeeee wrote: »

Agreed! She's great.
This one seems a lot meaner, I don't like that.
I have to commend Keith's commitment to hair gel.
Bake Off is gone mean and uber competitive too, I've stopped watching it.

Thank flip for the Sewing Bee, that's just lovely.

Junior Bake Off with Harry Hill is good.

magicbastarder · 15-01-2020 9:56am

not cycling, but this is a hell of an activity.
elevation is 2.5 times an everest; and check out the difference between average and max speed.

https://www.strava.com/activities/2133695655

buffalo · 15-01-2020 10:03am

magicbastarder wrote: »

not cycling, but this is a hell of an activity.
elevation is 2.5 times an everest; and check out the difference between average and max speed.

https://www.strava.com/activities/2133695655

Was he getting a ski lift back up though?

magicbastarder · 15-01-2020 10:33am

https://www.kilianjornet.cat/en/blog/how-many-meters-of-elevation-gain-can-i-do-in-24-hours

Weepsie · 15-01-2020 3:18pm

Mooc on Urban planning for the Bicycle

https://www.coursera.org/learn/unraveling-the-cycling-city

buffalo · 16-01-2020 8:40am

After listening to a radio report on the incident where the homeless man in a tent was 'moved' was by a JCB, I was wondering if someone had parked a car in the same spot, what would they have done?

My gut tells me they would've hired a crane to gently lift it out onto the back of a tow truck, or onto the side of the road.

And I wondered how society came to value a tool of transport more than someone's temporary home (while noting they can be one and the same for some unlucky souls these days).

LollipopJimmy · 16-01-2020 9:16am

buffalo wrote: »

After listening to a radio report on the incident where the homeless man in a tent was 'moved' was by a JCB, I was wondering if someone had parked a car in the same spot, what would they have done?

My gut tells me they would've hired a crane to gently lift it out onto the back of a tow truck, or onto the side of the road.

And I wondered how society came to value a tool of transport more than someone's temporary home (while noting they can be one and the same for some unlucky souls these days).

This morning on newstalk?

Seth Brundle · 16-01-2020 12:27pm

https://twitter.com/aaroadwash/status/1216824362789195776

16-01-2020 12:42pm

We've had a fox prowling our estate in recent times. I was putting the bins out a few weeks back before bed and he was checking me out from my neighbours gate. Thank fook I'd not let the dog out with me like I sometimes would :eek:

I've seen him a couple of times since. Is it typically a bad sign to see them in an urban or residential area? Or is it just they think they can get easy food?

Seth Brundle · 16-01-2020 12:46pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've seen him a couple of times since. Is it typically a bad sign to see them in an urban or residential area? Or is it just they think they can get easy food?

Apparently more live in urban areas than rural areas nowadays because we throw away so much food.

CramCycle · 16-01-2020 12:49pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I've seen him a couple of times since. Is it typically a bad sign to see them in an urban or residential area? Or is it just they think they can get easy food?

No harm for us, bad for them, apparently obesity and type 2 Diabetes is on the rise in the urban fox population with their life expectancy in turn reduced

Harrybelafonte · 16-01-2020 1:10pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Apparently more live in urban areas than rural areas nowadays because we throw away so much food.

This isn't true. In Ireland, we have no clear idea of how many foxes live here as they've never been counted. In the UK, maybe 13% of the population live in urban areas. They're less shy of humans and seen more often, when in urban areas.

Mange is still the biggest killer (and they're still hunted by a certain type), so I still wouldn't get too close to them. They're still a wild animal.

NamelessPhil · 16-01-2020 1:21pm

We have suburban foxes in my estate and surrounding parks. I counted 6 within 500m one morning last year.

My cats lie in wait for them and chase them out of our back garden. The cats then come back looking very smug. Apparently a healthy cat is no match for an urban fox.

Chips Lovell · 16-01-2020 1:28pm

We've a good few in my area. One was actually living in our back garden before we moved in (house had been vacant for a while). He seemed to move on once we moved in but he'd still visit the garden regularly. They're harmless for the most part, as long as your bins are inaccessible. Occasionally you'd find bones and other stuff that he'd obviously dragged in. Only time I ran him was when I caught him rooting around in my potatoes one morning.

I think he was killed last week. There was a dead fox on the road around 100m away from the house. Since foxes are territorial, I'm assuming he was our lad.

LollipopJimmy · 16-01-2020 1:33pm

NamelessPhil wrote: »

We have suburban foxes in my estate and surrounding parks. I counted 6 within 500m one morning last year.

My cats lie in wait for them and chase them out of our back garden. The cats then come back looking very smug. Apparently a healthy cat is no match for an urban fox.

Just saw your achievement, amazing work well done! Also, why do you bother with a house given you're clearly never in it!

Mefistofelino · 16-01-2020 1:51pm

Was woken a couple of weeks ago by the sound of an apparent murder attempt outside the house. Turned out to be two foxes screaming at each other.

magicbastarder · 16-01-2020 1:55pm

we used to have foxes regularly in the back garden, but we've not seen any in months. i suspect they were based in a nearby garden which has been cleared - my wife once saw three cubs playing on the flat roof of a shed behind us, overseen by their mother.

they drive the chickens bonkers when they do come into the garden though. as did the hedgehogs too, to be fair. chickens are dumb.

Mefistofelino · 16-01-2020 1:57pm

Saw a great definition of a fox last week: "Dog hardware, cat software"

Weepsie · 16-01-2020 5:00pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

we used to have foxes regularly in the back garden, but we've not seen any in months. i suspect they were based in a nearby garden which has been cleared - my wife once saw three cubs playing on the flat roof of a shed behind us, overseen by their mother.

they drive the chickens bonkers when they do come into the garden though. as did the hedgehogs too, to be fair. chickens are dumb.

There's at least one living in our neighbours garden so they haven't gone far.

eeeee · 16-01-2020 9:47pm

I see loads of them. Love them.
I couldn't believe how brave urban foxes were when I moved up from home!

No healthy fox wanders around in the day time though, something wrong there.

They don't wreck as much havoc in Dublin than they do in the country, I've come into a field of ewes with their stomachs ripped out and half eaten lambs scattered around.
They're not so cute and cuddly.
If there's a load of them around, all the ground laying birds are wiped out.
I do love them, but they are vermin, and numbers have to be controlled in certain situations.

That said you need them around for balance, rabbits and rats and all that.

Didn't know about urban foxes diabetes, that's sad

buffalo · 17-01-2020 9:27am

I see them all the time on the commute, here's one on the Dublin quays from last week. Have nearly run one or two over as they often bolt from cover straight across the road.

Wishbone Ash · 17-01-2020 12:39pm

buffalo wrote: »

After listening to a radio report on the incident where the homeless man in a tent was 'moved' was by a JCB, I was wondering if someone had parked a car in the same spot, what would they have done?...

Awful incident but the continued reports that a JCB/digger/forklift/teleporter etc. was used are totally inaccurate. It was a tipper truck with a 'grab' on an extending jib which was used. Those other vehicles wouldn't have been able to access the area. (The tent had collapsed which is why I assume they thought it was unoccupied).

LollipopJimmy · 17-01-2020 12:58pm

The person in the tent had been served an 'eviction notice' in the days previous.

Lifting occupied tents with a grab has been done before. One might think that it's a tactic of the workers to get the occupants out without a row.

I spoke in the media about this in recent days - I do a fair bit of work with the folk liv9ng in these tents.

18-01-2020 1:00am

Stage 3 of Women's Tour Down Under live here from about 1am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlRWeo8pOOo

Should be the decisive stage.

GCN have been great of late for coverage of races Eurosport don't pick up in the CX season and now the road races it seems.

dahat · 18-01-2020 2:05pm

Nationwide frost & ice warning for tomorrow, 9pm to 11am.

Not good news at all as I just can't face hours on turbo at weekends.

18-01-2020 2:54pm

I didn't chance the bike this morning, even now the place hasn't fully thawed.

Large bottle small glass · 18-01-2020 5:00pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I didn't chance the bike this morning, even now the place hasn't fully thawed.

Charlie Kelly, Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze & Tom Ritchey came up with a solution for that nearly 50 years ago

EDIT: To be fair the Marin county lads were a bit late to the party despite their legacy

https://www.rsf.org.uk/about-us/history-and-beginnings.html

Wishbone Ash · 18-01-2020 5:22pm

dahat wrote: »

Nationwide frost & ice warning for tomorrow, 9pm to 11am.

Not good news at all as I just can't face hours on turbo at weekends.

Does your day end at 11am?

LollipopJimmy · 18-01-2020 6:56pm

I was out last night so left the bike in work. I wonder if its thinking about me too

magicbastarder · 18-01-2020 7:10pm

i was up the wicklow mountains today (not on the bike) and there was a good amount of ice. -2 driving through roundwood just after 9.

marvin80 · 18-01-2020 8:50pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Does your day end at 11am?

Probably won't get a chance to thaw out properly between 11 and 4 so I don't think it's worth the risk.

Where's the sense taking the risk, having a tumble and been injured for a few weeks?

dahat · 18-01-2020 9:45pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Does your day end at 11am?

Nope! Hard to know how road conditions will be like so yes I'm holding back till 10am. Once I'm back for 4pm I'm good.

dahat · 18-01-2020 9:47pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I was out last night so left the bike in work. I wonder if its thinking about me too

Would you be the jealous type it let someone else ride it?

dahat · 18-01-2020 9:48pm

dahat wrote: »

Nope! Hard to know how road conditions will be like so yes I'm holding back till 10am. Once I'm back for 4pm I'm good.

Valid point, refers back to wrecked shoulder in 2017.

LollipopJimmy · 18-01-2020 9:50pm

dahat wrote: »

Would you be the jealous type it let someone else ride it?

I dont mind sharing

Weepsie · 18-01-2020 11:41pm

marvin80 wrote: »

Probably won't get a chance to thaw out properly between 11 and 4 so I don't think it's worth the risk.

Where's the sense taking the risk, having a tumble and been injured for a few weeks?

I'm digging these out tonight https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/ie/en/schwalbe-winter-spike-road-tyre-k-guard/rp-prod118113

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