Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

Squidgy Black

Bit tongue in cheek, but does anyone know of any part-time job opening for a student?

Rogue-Trooper

_Tyrrell_ wrote: »

Bit tongue in cheek, but does anyone know of any part-time job opening for a student?

Have you tried Paypal................?

I'll get me coat.......

:pac:

Squidgy Black

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

Have you tried Paypal................?

I'll get me coat.......

:pac:

I could do an inside operation job, and secretly destroy the company from the inside.

After we get the order done of course. If we get it done.

AstraMonti

At last.. http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/groupsetdetail/item_power-unit-eps-v2-record_catid_19.jsp
now i just need 2500 euro

Zyzz

When you bust your ass on a segment..get second place to this..

Does me tits in.

rollingscone

So my park tool track pump doesn't work with long valves for deep section tubes...ok.

buffalo

Zyzz wrote: »

When you bust your ass on a segment..get second place to this..

Does me tits in.

I get the impression he does all his spins on a TT bike, and actively segment-hunts.

There's more to cycling than Strava.

rollingscone

rollingscone wrote: »

So my park tool track pump doesn't work with long valves for deep section tubes...ok.

Actually it turns out it just doesn't work. Busted a gasket somewhere.

Zyzz

Really want to try a TT bike..for those that have one/used one, did you notice an increase in speed and power?

buffalo wrote: »

I get the impression he does all his spins on a TT bike, and actively segment-hunts.

There's more to cycling than Strava.

How dare you.

(just kidding..sort of..my cycling life would be meaningless without strava..)

rollingscone

There's always commuter racing.

I rediscovered last night how cycling in rush hour through south Dublin, it's like having a really unpleasant personal trainer.

Captain Havoc

Zyzz

Wow.

Harrybelafonte

So, not really one for confrontation I often marvel at all the YouTube videos and stories on here about people lecturing cyclists who break the law or having a dig at what they feel is unbecoming behaviour on a bike.

For a few years I've noticed two guys who cycle on my road on the footpath and because it's a long-term thing it irritates me more and more. One speeds along shopping bag hanging off one handlebar, other hand to ear with a phone. Can't confront him without throwing myself in front of his wheels to get his attention.

The other guy is a big lad, really big (fat) lad who seems to basically sit on the bike instead of walking, slowly turning his legs like a sloth on a bike. He's slow enough to say something to, right? He usually has someone with him too so they block the path and refuse to move. Pr**ks. So maybe I'll start with some evil eye kinda stuff, a macho glare at the lardy guy.

Then I hear about the shooting of someone on a bike on Glasnevin Avenue. Thought I recognised the bike. Sounds like the guy. Weird. Then I hear about Walrus and Moonface. Sounds more and more like my target for derision. Then I hear he's been a drug dealer in the area for thirty years and has a reputation for violent action. Slashed his own brother outside a Garda station in Ballymun, attacked anti-drugs protestors in their homes with petrol bombs etc. threatened his wife with a knife.

My first thoughts of confronting a cyclist were my last.

rollingscone

I'm seriously considering Carbon Forks as an upgrade to my aluminium Scott 509 frame.

The Internet (or ntrntz for you vowel hating kids) doesn't seem to want to tell me what I need to factor in terms of getting ones that fit, aside from the steerer tube diameter.

Do I need to measure the height of the current steerer tube plus spacers to find one that fits, or is it par for the course to get one longer and get it cut down?

Hoping to go second hand because I'm poor and if I do get a full time job next year I might wait until I can afford a whole new bike rather than my old plan of rebuilding the current one on a new frame.

The goal of the upgrade is comfort, not weight weeneying.

Every day I'm a born again beginner.

slap/dash

rollingscone wrote: »

There's always commuter racing.

I rediscovered last night how cycling in rush hour through south Dublin, it's like having a really unpleasant personal trainer.

Yeah, that's why I seldom make it over to Wicklow. Tallaght/jobs town are really unpleasant to navigate thru

Unrelated note; you weren't on the north circular around 10am yesterday?

rollingscone

slap/dash wrote: »

Yeah, that's why I seldom make it over to Wicklow. Tallaght/jobs town are really unpleasant to navigate thru

Unrelated note; you weren't on the north circular around 10am yesterday?

Not I.

wanderer 22

NIco riding in red, Liverpool v Utd, Dublin v Kerry and I'm buying a new bike..what a Sunday :cool:

bcmf

I know its the cycling forum but Holy fook what a game.- Dublin v Kerry

NeedMoreGears

Incredible game - 6 goals! Great open football.

RobFowl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Lb3kFwJRQ

Zyzz

Hey all, has anyone ever returned anything to Wiggle? Need to send an item back and I'm not too sure what I'm doing

I see an Irish return address and a UK..but the Irish one says they only send the items back once a week?

ROK ON

I have spent the past two days moving house.
I am shattered. Sore in places that I dint even know I had places. I have never felt like this after a cycle. Lifting stuff is hard work.

rollingscone

ROK ON wrote: »

I have spent the past two days moving house.
I am shattered. Sore in places that I dint even know I had places. I have never felt like this after a cycle. Lifting stuff is hard work.

I bought a kindle after carrying five crates of books up the stairs in a new house, moving makes you consider new things.

manwithaplan

bcmf wrote: »

I know its the cycling forum but Holy fook what a game.- Dublin v Kerry

Was there with the young lad - best game I have ever attended and the atmosphere was seriously intense. I should have worn my HR monitor. I hugged my Kerry wife when I got home. My less tactful son did a victory dance around his mother.

The bonus prize is that I now won't be doing the Leinster RR champs on the 22nd. Time to get fat!

buffalo

Zyzz wrote: »

Hey all, has anyone ever returned anything to Wiggle? Need to send an item back and I'm not too sure what I'm doing

I see an Irish return address and a UK..but the Irish one says they only send the items back once a week?

Send it the Irish address, make sure to include the returns form.

Zyzz

buffalo wrote: »

Send it the Irish address, make sure to include the returns form.

Is it possible to drop it over to them? Or do I need to pay An Post to send it to them or is that taken from the wiggle charge?

buffalo

Zyzz wrote: »

Is it possible to drop it over to them? Or do I need to pay An Post to send it to them or is that taken from the wiggle charge?

I don't know if it's possible to call in, but the idea is that you only have to pay An Post for national postage to send it to the Irish returns depot, rather than the international postage. Whether Wiggle ultimately pay for it is up to them, and where the fault/cause for return is.

Zyzz

buffalo wrote: »

I don't know if it's possible to call in, but the idea is that you only have to pay An Post for national postage to send it to the Irish returns depot, rather than the international postage. Whether Wiggle ultimately pay for it is up to them, and where the fault/cause for return is.

Ok great! Looks to be around 7 quid to get it sent there, not the cheapest return in the world!

Squidgy Black

Zyzz wrote: »

Ok great! Looks to be around 7 quid to get it sent there, not the cheapest return in the world!

Normally you're refunded the postage costs if the fault with the product isn't your fault etc, otherwise you have to eat the costs.

Zyzz

_Tyrrell_ wrote: »

Normally you're refunded the postage costs if the fault with the product isn't your fault etc, otherwise you have to eat the costs.

Ay I understand! Bought some clothes for my papa but they're too small so I have to send em back. Ill end up paying through the chamois :pac:

Captain Havoc

Driving back from a sportive listening to Jim O'Neill is one of life's simpler pleasures.

colm_gti

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Driving back from a sportive listening to Jim O'Neill is one of life's simpler pleasures.

Must have been some sportive if you're only driving home at half 11! :pac:

daragh_

Folks up North. Came across this Interweb Pundit on Twitter last night. Some interesting opinions on Cycling. Health Warning - your blood will boil.

Hmmzis

daragh_ wrote: »

Folks up North. Came across this Interweb Pundit on Twitter last night. Some interesting opinions on Cycling. Health Warning - your blood will boil.

He just looks like another knacker with issues trying to get some attention.

Squidgy Black

Hmmzis wrote: »

He just looks like another knacker with issues trying to get some attention.

Yeah that's exactly the case. He's just a hopped up little juice head who wants more space on the road so he can blast through on his motorbikes.

The ironic thing is, the majority of road users probably have the same disgust for him on the road as he seems to have for cyclists.

buffalo

_Tyrrell_ wrote: »

Yeah that's exactly the case. He's just a hopped up little juice head who wants more space on the road so he can blast through on his motorbikes.

tbh, if I saw a lad coming down the road on motorbikes, I'd give him plenty of room.

Zyzz

If anyone is looking to hit a good time on the coast cycle lane over to Howth today is the day, huge wind blowing that direction! :pac:

doozerie

Is it just me or do these O.Symetric rings look like a spiky headed smiley/creepy person wearing an unfeasibly large spiky helmet?:



...maybe I just need a little lie down.

NeedMoreGears

Zyzz wrote: »

If anyone is looking to hit a good time on the coast cycle lane over to Howth today is the day, huge wind blowing that direction! :pac:

It wasn't that much fun on the way in - but the way home looks promising

Rogue-Trooper

NeedMoreGears wrote: »

It wasn't that much fun on the way in - but the way home looks promising

Agreed. However, how much do you want to bet that the wind will do an about-turn just before you leave? Always seems to be the way on that stretch!

I often get head-winds each way but can't remember ever getting a tail-wind both ways..............:(

Rua_ri

I had my funniest commuter race on Friday evening.
Funny for a few reasons.

1. I didn't know I was in a race.
2. It did involve 2 cyclists and 2 bikes but neither of us were cycling them.
3. I didn't win and was happy not too.

It happened as we were going through the turn stiles in Heuston, I was through first and he came through after me, 20 meters or so behind me. He proceeded to go on the outside of me and everyone else on the platform at quicker than walking pace and then cut in quickly when he saw an empty bike rack. Another commuter had to slow down and walk go around him just to let him in.
He won what he must have thought was the only available bike rack. Pity as the carriage behind had 2 free bike rack spaces.

If you are a reader of this forum, I would like to ask were you on a strava segment?

rollingscone

I'm still a nervous wreck descending. Crawled my way down Kilakee Rd/Stocking Lane this evening.

On the upside, I'm starting to pick apart some of my anxiety, for instance I realised I'm perfectly happy to do the same speeds and descents in Urban areas, despite the increased risk factor. And I'm not freaked out by descending when I can see where the road levels out/turns up.

Apparently my caveman brain just doesn't like descents that don't appear to end. Probably something to do with my previous accident being a fall.

doozerie

rollingscone wrote: »

Apparently my caveman brain just doesn't like descents that don't appear to end. Probably something to do with my previous accident being a fall.

Sounds like a rational approach to descending so it'll probably help to feed your brain with all available information to take away some of the uncertainly and therefore the fear. It can be very easy to focus on nothing but the fear generated by all the "what if's?" that can arise during a descent and in that situation you quickly lose track of many/all of the visible cues that help you to descend safely. This article has a lot of useful info in it to help keep you focus on what you really need to in order to remain calm and in control while descending.

Zyzz

Try descending with an experienced descender scone

Following lines and at a fairly decent speed will build your confidence!

Squidgy Black

Just had to set up a new router, with the instructions all in German. Impossibru.

Tar.Aldarion

after being in amsterdam, cycling in dublin is depressing! Like a pauper.

hardCopy

rollingscone wrote: »

Hey this is a perfectly normal spare room right?

Looks like mine anyway.

I think I need a new bike. We currently have three in the spare room and one in the carpark. Two of them belong to herself and one we are selling for her sister.

I only have ONE solitary bike!

Harrybelafonte

Need quick confirmation guys. Would the M8 version of these: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/brand-x-self-extracting-square-taper-crank-bolts/rp-prod1201 fit the Sugino Rd2 cranks?

Squidgy Black

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Need quick confirmation guys. Would the M8 version of these: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/brand-x-self-extracting-square-taper-crank-bolts/rp-prod1201 fit the Sugino Rd2 cranks?

Yeah they take M8 bolts. Have a pair here to confirm the size.

Darkglasses

Huzzah! My CRC parcel has finally arrived, about ten working days since I ordered it. They used a private courier rather than An Post, which has completed all 5 of my previous deliveries from them within 3 days.