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eeeee · 12-11-2020 11:14pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://twitter.com/declanlong/status/1326495961451999234

People are good

13-11-2020 12:09am

Catching up on the track euro's here, yay track but some of the big hitters not there and we haven't sent a team. Fun fact we had planed to go as part of a trip home as herself is from near by, as in about 5km of the velodrome

eeeee · 13-11-2020 12:13am

Deleted User wrote: »

Catching up on the track euro's here, yay track but some of the big hitters not there and we haven't sent a team. Fun fact we had planed to go as part of a trip home as herself is from near by, as in about 5km of the velodrome

You know what you're gonna have to do next time ye're home!

13-11-2020 12:31am

eeeee wrote: »

You know what you're gonna have to do next time ye're home!

Herself is still shocked a velodrome ended up there and not if you get me.

EDIT: I should elaborate on that , the site itself has history with cycling but was developed as a multi-purpose/sport venue back around the time of them joining the EU with the funding they got etc. see concert hall first and sports second. So she's surprised the velodrome actually is what would be considered a proper velodrome for big meet 6 day standards which is not what we are getting here is it?

eeeee · 13-11-2020 1:17am

Deleted User wrote: »

Herself is still shocked a velodrome ended up there and not if you get me.

EDIT: I should elaborate on that , the site itself has history with cycling but was developed as a multi-purpose/sport venue back around the time of them joining the EU with the funding they got etc. see concert hall first and sports second. So she's surprised the velodrome actually is what would be considered a proper velodrome for big meet 6 day standards which is not what we are getting here is it?

What country is it? If it's outside Warsaw I have ridden in it!

13-11-2020 1:26am

eeeee wrote: »

What country is it? If it's outside Warsaw I have ridden in it!

Plovdiv in Bulgaria.

eeeee · 13-11-2020 1:35am

Deleted User wrote: »

Plovdiv in Bulgaria.

Ah haven't been there. But ye're lucky to be so near an indoor (when ye get back to your partners homeplace). It's the most fun!

magicbastarder · 13-11-2020 6:21pm

https://twitter.com/BHollingsworth/status/1323546592465555456

eeeee · 13-11-2020 7:37pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://twitter.com/BHollingsworth/status/1323546592465555456

I was gonna post about that last week.
It makes absolutely 0 sense to me. When joining from the previous path, you have to cross the ped bit, then crosses again here, for no discernible reason. It doesn't make sense coming on or off it either. The mind boggles.

magicbastarder · 13-11-2020 7:51pm

i'd say what simply happened is that the chap painting it started at one end, got bored, and started again at the far end. thinking 'the cycle path is on the right so that'll be fine'.

CramCycle · 13-11-2020 9:18pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

It's more that instead of using them for their specific purpose, people are wearing them in supermarkets, coffee shops, on the school run etc. It's the sort of suburban middle class equivalent of the pajamas wearers in the city center.

I seen my first one out in the wild today as I took a detour around by Dalkey, guy with a bike and one of those, obviously after getting in from the harbour.

On a related note to the few posts before this, my first experience of the bike path near Blackrock and heading down to Dun Laoghaire and I have to say, it, as far as bike paths in Ireland go, this is very, very good. Amazing improvement over what went before.

tomasrojo · 13-11-2020 9:41pm

This is a good idea. That corner of Fade St. is a bike-mangling black spot.
https://twitter.com/IBIKEDublin/status/1327285832030576640

LollipopJimmy · 13-11-2020 11:19pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'd say what simply happened is that the chap painting it started at one end, got bored, and started again at the far end. thinking 'the cycle path is on the right so that'll be fine'.

I ****ing love chicanes... on race tracks. This however makes no sense

magicbastarder · 15-11-2020 12:25pm

someone here was looking at buying a tandem a couple of years ago, IIRC? wonder if they got one.
this looks reasonable enough, you'd pay a *hell* of a lot more than that for the frame new.

https://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/handmade-dawes-tandem-bike/21871870

silverharp · 15-11-2020 1:52pm

Anyone care to pick a side on this one, I veer more to the cyclist being in the wrong

https://twitter.com/UnbalancedMemes/status/1327928746070990849

CramCycle · 15-11-2020 1:55pm

silverharp wrote: »

Anyone care to pick a side on this one, I veer more to the cyclist being in the wrong

https://twitter.com/UnbalancedMemes/status/1327928746070990849

They are both morons and in the wrong for a variety of reasons

LollipopJimmy · 15-11-2020 1:59pm

CramCycle wrote: »

They are both morons and in the wrong for a variety of reasons

I wouldnt have put myself in that position on my bike or my motorcycle. Pair of them in it however that was poor judgement and riding from the motorcyclist. I'm 10months riding and wouldnt ride that badly

magicbastarder · 15-11-2020 2:31pm

cyclist blasted straight through a red at first and then makes the 'i'm a vehicle' claim. that motorcyclist is better off the road though.

magicbastarder · 15-11-2020 2:56pm

i wonder will people start approaching the gardai in greater numbers now, asking for this:

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1327673306779095041

magicbastarder · 15-11-2020 2:58pm

https://twitter.com/colmanos/status/1327960496557973508

NamelessPhil · 15-11-2020 7:29pm

The Doc on One on RTE Radio 1 is worth a listen today. https://www.rte.ie/culture/2020/1112/1177752-documentary-on-one-a-photograph-a-bicycle-and-bloody-sunday/

CormacH94 · 15-11-2020 7:36pm

Any tips as how to plan a training season without knowing dates for racing? C.I. has nothing on their calendar due to COVID - will there even be any racing next year?

Was hoping to start on the 1st of december (3 months base - 2 months build) but is there any point if we keep going into level 5 lockdowns?

Eamonnator · 15-11-2020 7:52pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

cyclist blasted straight through a red at first and then makes the 'i'm a vehicle' claim. that motorcyclist is better off the road though.

I don't think that gives the motorcyclist the right to dispense instant justice.

magicbastarder · 15-11-2020 9:47pm

oh, i didn't intend to suggest that.

Wildly Boaring · 15-11-2020 10:09pm

silverharp wrote: »

Anyone care to pick a side on this one, I veer more to the cyclist being in the wrong

2 wrongs don't make a right.
If the incident happened where the cyclist broke the red they'd be wrong. It didn't.

When the cyclist is turning right.
The motorbike has undertaken another road user.
He has done so at speed and dangerously.
The cyclist hasn't indicated or checked prior to manouvers. In the circumstances this is careless but not dangerous (to others).
95% of blame on motorbike

Eamonnator · 15-11-2020 10:23pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

oh, i didn't intend to suggest that.

And I think, I may have been a bit eager to misinterpret your post, sorry.

magicbastarder · 16-11-2020 12:11am

i watched the video and at first assumed the cyclist running the red was why the guy on the motorbike gunned it away from the light to remonstrate with him. but the cyclist had brought a knife to a gunfight.

RobertFoster · 16-11-2020 1:18am

I was driving on a straight stretch after dark this evening and noticed blinky red lights on the opposite side of the road. My initial thought was someone salmoning in the hard shoulder, but when I passed it turned out the cyclist was coming towards me. White blinky on the rear too, so I assume it was a mix up... I can't think of why it'd be on purpose

Fighting Tao · 16-11-2020 7:52am

RobertFoster wrote: »

I was driving on a straight stretch after dark this evening and noticed blinky red lights on the opposite side of the road. My initial thought was someone salmoning in the hard shoulder, but when I passed it turned out the cyclist was coming towards me. White blinky on the rear too, so I assume it was a mix up... I can't think of why it'd be on purpose

I see that all the time in Dublin. Sometimes it is red on both front and back. I don’t understand it.

ED E · 16-11-2020 7:57am

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I see that all the time in Dublin. Sometimes it is red on both front and back. I don’t understand it.

Load of complete morons that don't understand the colour chosen has meaning. Sometimes you wonder how they remember to breathe...

Fighting Tao · 16-11-2020 8:08am

ED E wrote: »

Load of complete morons that don't understand the colour chosen has meaning. Sometimes you wonder how they remember to breathe...

That’s a bit harsh on Dubs. They are quite a diverse race in general

magicbastarder · 16-11-2020 10:38am

have several times recently seen completely unlit cyclists on completely unlit roads.
one i first copped when i saw his friend first, they'd made the wise decision that the chap with the light would cycle on the inside and the chap without one would cycle on the outside.

LollipopJimmy · 16-11-2020 10:51am

magicbastarder wrote: »

have several times recently seen completely unlit cyclists on completely unlit roads.
one i first copped when i saw his friend first, they'd made the wise decision that the chap with the light would cycle on the inside and the chap without one would cycle on the outside.

I mentioned tge above on twitter and got abused by various cycle campaigners. The attitude was that if I saw them then whats the danger. Suffering jaysis like.

magicbastarder · 16-11-2020 10:56am

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I mentioned tge above on twitter and got abused by various cycle campaigners. The attitude was that if I saw them then whats the danger. Suffering jaysis like.

yeah, that comeback is somewhat tiresome.

another example was one i very possibly would not have seen because my headlights were pointed in the wrong direction - it was at a T junction where i was approaching from 6 o clock and turning right, and the cyclist was coming from the right - it was the light of a car behind the cyclist which illuminated him, which was how i copped him.

Wildly Boaring · 16-11-2020 11:15am

I was out for a run last night and despite run vest, armband and flashing lights (red) front and back
Several drivers thought the necessary action is to light em up like you're lamping

Have to admit though I find drivers better by night for passing, biking and running.

magicbastarder · 16-11-2020 11:44am

https://twitter.com/clicky_here/status/1328027318460289025

LollipopJimmy · 16-11-2020 12:21pm

Looks decent there, good width. The single lane tracks that are kerb protected are usually filled with debris, the contra flow from the quays to busaras being one of the worst, looks like its never been swept. At least the road sweepers can get into these wider tracks. That is if the bould Gemma lets them, herself and her crew have been chasing road sweepers accusing them of emitting 5G, I wish I was joking.

CramCycle · 16-11-2020 12:22pm

RobertFoster wrote: »

I was driving on a straight stretch after dark this evening and noticed blinky red lights on the opposite side of the road. My initial thought was someone salmoning in the hard shoulder, but when I passed it turned out the cyclist was coming towards me. White blinky on the rear too, so I assume it was a mix up... I can't think of why it'd be on purpose

I see that on the commute albeit rare, white front and back, or just a white on the back. Its weird. I wonder have any of them ever realised why reversing lights are white?

MojoMaker · 16-11-2020 1:27pm

Frustrating alright. I'd argue any light is better than no light, but yeah two reds is dodgy, much more misleading than two whites.

With usable lights front and rear from €5-€10 I don't understand it at all. I think it has to be laziness.

manafana · 16-11-2020 1:32pm

MojoMaker wrote: »

Frustrating alright. I'd argue any light is better than no light, but yeah two reds is dodgy, much more misleading than two whites.

With usable lights front and rear from €5-€10 I don't understand it at all. I think it has to be laziness.

Odd time a light will die on me mind, but if i had to have one its the rear light, but yeah so many decent cheap rechargeable lights now

magicbastarder · 16-11-2020 2:09pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuaUok-wTY

TL;DW - a locksmith challenges the youtuber 'the lock picking lawyer' to pick a kryptonite lock faster than it too to grind it.

Eamonnator · 16-11-2020 2:44pm

^^^^^^^
That was really impressive.
What was not so impressive was the way the lock picker used the stanley knife, apparently after previously cutting his finger.

rubadub · 16-11-2020 3:09pm

eeeee wrote: »

I was gonna post about that last week.
It makes absolutely 0 sense to me. When joining from the previous path, you have to cross the ped bit, then crosses again here, for no discernible reason. It doesn't make sense coming on or off it either. The mind boggles.

Some said it was so pedestrians would have a green area beside them.

eeeee · 16-11-2020 3:28pm

rubadub wrote: »

Some said it was so pedestrians would have a green area beside them.

I see. Why not make it that side the whole way then?
We may never know!

loyatemu · 16-11-2020 3:43pm

rubadub wrote: »

Some said it was so pedestrians would have a green area beside them.

sounds like the same sort of brainwave that has the cycle lanes on Greystones seafront painted so you're cycling on the right (see here). Apparently so cyclists aren't cycling against the flow of the adjacent road right beside any traffic. But the cycle lane is segregated and cycling on the right goes against virtually every other piece of road and cycling infrastructure in the country.

Wishbone Ash · 16-11-2020 4:15pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

..TL;DW - a locksmith challenges the youtuber 'the lock picking lawyer' to pick a kryptonite lock faster than it too to grind it.

The most puzzling part of that is why anyone would go to the expense of calling out a locksmith to open bicycle lock. The call out charge would be more than the value of the lock, and, if he had a spare key at home, it would probably be cheaper to call a taxi and retrieve the spare key.

I think it's a set up.

Wishbone Ash · 16-11-2020 4:19pm

loyatemu wrote: »

...Apparently so cyclists aren't cycling against the flow of the adjacent road right beside any traffic...

Perhaps it to avoid cyclists being inconvenienced by headlights coming against them as those dipped headlights would be pointed towards the cycle track.

tomasrojo · 16-11-2020 6:44pm

I've seen a few of the lock-picking lawyer's videos before. He seems genuinely to be extremely good at picking locks.

He said he favoured the Kryptonite Series 4 chain himself, even though he can pick it in a very short space of time, because almost nobody tries to pick disk detainer locks.

LollipopJimmy · 16-11-2020 6:48pm

Jaysis, I lock my motorbike with a Kryptonite Evolution around an Oxford motorbike chain and a New York fahgettaboudit around the front wheel. May have to add to that.

tomasrojo · 16-11-2020 6:57pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Jaysis, I lock my motorbike with a Kryptonite Evolution around an Oxford motorbike chain and a New York fahgettaboudit around the front wheel. May have to add to that.

My understanding is that the LPL had that tool he uses in the video specially made, so they're not common, and using it out in the field isn't nearly as easy as using at a table. Brute-force attacks are many times more common, and the LPL, AFAIR, said that they're what you should be worried about, not people picking -- unless you're using a lower-standard lock that uses wafer tumblers or pin tumblers.

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