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

NamelessPhil

Ryath wrote: »

Never seen those ones but have got these from M&S a few times

Those look identical, thanks for the tip!

I also have an excellent recipe for chocolate cheesecake brownies, maybe I should go and find the food and drink forum instead.

tomasrojo

All PIIGS final perhaps?

ROK ON

Was in a shop and on the radio was Sidewalking by The Jesus & Mary Chain.
I haven't heard that song in over 20 years, used to love that band.
Class tune. Need to get out my old record collection to ensure that that length of time does not pass again before I hear some of my favourite bands.

AstraMonti

Was anyone watching the Wimbledon game? Unbelievable!

manafana

AstraMonti wrote: »

Was anyone watching the Wimbledon game? Unbelievable!

yeah caught end after the football served it out well, everyone set for the tour this saturday have had few bets and done up a nice preview which hopefully will have the right pointers.

Captain Havoc

Even though John Lennon was shot a month after I was born, I have a huge love of the Beatles. I remember I saw Paul McCartney walking along the road in Geneva and I could do nothing but stare with my mouth wide open. I've since had to meet many famous people through work but seeing Sir Paul. The Bealtes are in my opinion the greatest of all time, there's 13 albums of quality there. A lot of bands have produced better albums but only one or two, I think the Beatles produced 13 albums of quality, they didn't have a bad album.
Here's a much overplayed song but in HQ

AstraMonti

http://www.veloderoute.com/information/5612/cannondale-les-nouveautes-2013



655gr frame :O DO WANT! I accept paypal donations, thanks!

manafana

have to say iv already taken to new look boards.

dastardly00

Just in case anyone didn't see the post in the cycling bargain alerts thread, Lidl bike stands go on sale on Monday July 2nd
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79450625&postcount=805

manafana

might be of interest to those who like a punt on cycling

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5vRi1j1m7swTjFmUkwwTjF5TFk

preview i did up, bets at end pick and choose anything might fancy

dastardly00

manafana wrote: »

might be of interest to those who like a punt on cycling

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5vRi1j1m7swTjFmUkwwTjF5TFk

preview i did up, bets at end pick and choose anything might fancy

Some nice work there manafana, perhaps you should post it in the Tour de France general thread too?

Jawgap

AstraMonti wrote: »

http://www.veloderoute.com/information/5612/cannondale-les-nouveautes-2013



655gr frame :O DO WANT! I accept paypal donations, thanks!

Nice - it even stands without any visible means of support:)

As for money.....

According to the World Health Organization, the going price for the seller of a kidney is around $5,000. The broker who purchases the kidney then goes on to sell it to wealthy transplant patients for prices between $100,000 to $200,000.

......just sayin'

doozerie

While commuting recently I was loudly called "a skinny f'ckin pr1ck" by a car driver who, ironically, was the physical embodiment of the answer to the question "Who ate all the pies?". He'd been driving in the cycle lane in order to undertake a line of stopped traffic, and seemed to take offence at me shaking my head at his actions.

The tone of his voice, and the slight frothing at the mouth as he yelled the phrase, suggested that he didn't mean it as a compliment. Which got me wondering about when "skinny" became a term of abuse. Variations on "you're fat!" have been used as a mindless form of abuse for as long as I can remember, but "you're skinny!" is a supposed insult I've not encountered before. Have we as a species come up with a new insult? Is there no limit to the abilities of the human race?

...oh, and I'm not skinny, I'm just small-boned, okay!

Lumen

@doozerie, tbh "scrawny" is a better term of abuse.

The obvious retort is "I dowan ree-member YOUR MA complainen laaaaas noi".

doozerie

I suspect he ate his ma, I think he was eyeing me up as a between-meals light snack. I fled before he brought out the Chantilly (low-cal, naturally).

colm_gti

Can anyone offer any opinions on this bike as a potential commuter bike? Looking to pick up something half decent, but reasonably priced for the 10km round trip, and don't fancy locking my decent bike outside college.

Lusk Doyle

colm_gti wrote: »

Can anyone offer any opinions on this bike as a potential commuter bike? Looking to pick up something half decent, but reasonably priced for the 10km round trip, and don't fancy locking my decent bike outside college.

It's got wheels and looks like it works. Simple.

Beasty

Just to be clear - the closing of this thread was nothing to do with me !!!

I hope the Captain will be along in due course to provide an explanation - my guess is he wants to direct a bit more traffic towards the Tour de Kilkenny thread...

Captain Havoc

Beasty wrote: »

Just to be clear - the closing of this thread was nothing to do with me !!!

I hope the Captain will be along in due course to provide an explanation - my guess is he wants to direct a bit more traffic towards the Tour de Kilkenny thread...

Are you suggesting that I would deliberately close threads so all we had to talk about was Ireland's most awesome cycling event: the Tour de Kilkenny? I would never do that :rolleyes:

Sorry for locking the campervan everyone, I closed the wrong thread.

Tour de Kilkenny, do it

Beasty

Phew!! he's re-opened it - I don't know how you all coped for 51 minutes on a Friday afternoon without your Camper Van fix ...;)

doozerie

Beasty wrote:

Phew!! he's re-opened it - I don't know how you all coped for 51 minutes on a Friday afternoon without your Camper Van fix ...

The national employee productivity graph shows a significant positive spike coinciding with this 51-minute period. Employers across the country have reset their productivity expectations accordingly. Curse you, curse you all!...

ROK ON

Lumen wrote: »

@doozerie, tbh "scrawny" is a better term of abuse.

The obvious retort is "I dowan ree-member YOUR MA complainen laaaaas noi".

For an English bloke, you really do have the Dublin phonetics down to a fine art. Chapeau, or as they say in Fingalis, nice wan buuuuud.

lennymc

ROK ON wrote: »

For an English bloke, you really do have the Dublin phonetics down to a fine art. Chapeau, or as they say in Fingalis, nice wan buuuuud.

an wats rong wit peepel frum fingalis?

doozerie

lennymc wrote: »

an wats rong wit peepel frum fingalis?

Many's the people that have asked that very question.

Chips Lovell

Zabriskie's bike

AstraMonti

The new Look looks great. Heavy though for today's standards.

AIR-AUSSIE

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Zabriskie's bike

Was looking at them photos earlier. That mechanical to hydraulic converter thing under the handlebars looks interesting?

linky

Darkglasses

Come on Eurosport, don't you dare over-run the Athletics over the start of the TDF. You're killing me.

daragh_

Strava seems to be having some issues. Getting a duplicate file error message. Is it just me?

In other news manhole covers and metal surfaces are lethal today. Saw someone go down on a track on our club spin this morning. I nearly lost it myself on the way home. Front wheel slipped on one of those big rectangular covers. Just managed to straighten up. eek

Dermot Illogical

daragh_ wrote: »

Strava seems to be having some issues. Getting a duplicate file error message. Is it just me?

They use Amazon Web Services which are having issues due to power cuts resulting from a storm in the US. Netflix and other services also disrupted.

tomasrojo

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Here's a much overplayed song but in HQ

Where the bass goes for a Bach-like walkabout in the bridge is perfectly judged. Sublime.

Also, contains a very deeply buried obscenity at 2:59 or so (very slightly after the "Oh!" in the backing vocal). Not so sublime, but sort of interesting, given how much airplay it has received and how seldom it's noticed.

AstraMonti

Lol the banana holder.

Lumen

Skirt friendly, aluminium tourer and commuter

Mycroft H

Lumen wrote: »

Skirt friendly, aluminium tourer and commuter

Why ?

Jawgap

BX 19 wrote: »

Why ?

You must wear a skirt on your tourer:)

niceonetom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-Q6xt0psg

I have no idea.

Lumen

niceonetom wrote: »

I have no idea.

Jens on sexual harrassment.

AstraMonti

BMC's gift to Big George... http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/pro-bike-george-hincapies-gentlemans-round-bmc-teammachine-slr01--34436/

buffalo

ffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk you Garmin!

Four stages raced. How many actually recorded properly? A single ****ing stage.

Crow92

Anyone know who/what race/leisure event went through dublin city today? Load of road bikes and lycra with a gardai van taking the front.

Chips Lovell

Had a somewhat hair raising experience coming down Stocking Lane today. Had to haul on the brakes big time when I came around a corner to find a car driving on the wrong side of the road, across a solid white line, trying to overtake a van on a step section of the hill. Clown.

doozerie

I was climbing up out of Glenasmole today, on a climb that is not easy (Strava segment for it is Friarstown to Killakee Road) but I saw in the distance what looked like a bike with a child trailer attached heading up the climb too. Not towing a trailer myself I thought I'd catch up with him/her quickly enough, but it took me longer than I expected. The rider spoke with a foreign accent that I couldn't place, he was riding a Boardman mountain bike and he had his 2.5yr old son in the trailer. He was motoring, he was chirpy, and he managed to comfortably maintain a conversation while moving. Up to that point I thought I'd put in a reasonable ride but I found myself having to reconsider my definition of "reasonable" in the circumstances. I tow my 3yr old in a trailer occasionally but never up anything notable - that guy rode with trailer up a long climb that hits over 10% at several points (hits almost 15% a few times too if Strava is to be believed), and he seemed to do so comfortably. That's impressive! He said he is getting in training for a family cycling holiday to the hilly parts of Tuscany. I felt lazy all of a sudden.

Captain Havoc

I saw someone cycle into the drive-thru of Supermacs today and order, I thought it was odd.

t'bear

tricky downing that food without a pitstop! :-) Ketchup everywhere

cdaly_

Idleater wrote: »

Reminds me of a video installation where one viewer was edited out of the room as they walked around.

The W5 in Belfast has an installation like that. You only show up if you stay still...

Idleater

cdaly_ wrote: »

Idleater wrote: »

Reminds me of a video installation where one viewer was edited out of the room as they walked around.

The W5 in Belfast has an installation like that. You only show up if you stay still...

That could have been it all right.

doozerie

While heading over Scalp earlier, enroute to Enniskerry, I passed a guy cycling a unicycle. It had what appeared to be an MTB wheel, with a tyre that looked the best part of 2" wide. He was doing a good job too, I'd love to know how far he'd travelled and was planning to travel - Scalp isn't quite the middle of nowhere but it's also not exactly on your typical jaunt-to-the-shops route.

mel.b

Does anyone else think the yellowey-green on the shorts of the Liquigas-cannondale team is not the best choice of colour and design location:eek:

NamelessPhil

I was just thinking today that it gave an interesting codpiece effect.:(

doozerie

Was in my back garden a few minutes ago and was attacked by a gang of midges. They looked a lot like the gang of midges that attacked me while cycling along Cruagh Road on Thursday night. Clearly the survivors followed me home. Beware, the dumbest insects in creation (why do you crawl into my eyes, you know you'll die in there right, having achieved no greater a feat in life than seriously f'ckin annoying me?) are getting organised. Be afraid, be very afraid.