Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

tomasrojo

RobFowl wrote: »

Saw this cool quote from John Lennon

“As a kid I had a dream — I wanted to own my own #bicycle. When I got the #bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.”

Think this was it:


It's the bike you see in a few photos of him about that age. A Raleigh from what I recall, and on the overwhelming balance of probability for an English boy immediately post-WWII.

Raam

koutoubia wrote: »

And what moniker were you posting under ten years ago?

El Tonto!

manafana

Hate to hear people stop riding because of kids, have others on here managed to handle having young children while still getting out once week just assume it takes planning and depends on parenting styles i assume?

dahat

manafana wrote: »

Hate to hear people stop riding because of kids, have others on her managed to handle having young children while still getting out once week just assume it takes planning and on parenting styles i assume?

Agreed, while circumstances can change significantly with kids (I have 2), a person always needs time to reflect and clear the head, the weekly bike spin can help someone in so many ways.

manafana

dahat wrote: »

Agreed, while circumstances can change significantly with kids (I have 2), a person always needs time to reflect and clear the head, the weekly bike spin can help someone in so many ways.

Yeah i find it easier to understand when it becomes three as one parent runs out of hands

Beasty

Raam wrote: »

El Tonto!

So whatever happened to your Kingdom?

CrowdedHouse

Next round of the arms race begins - Campag 12 speed Super/Record.

Just need a moderate lotto win I suppose

http://hub.chainreactioncycles.com/latest-news/campagnolo-reveal-worlds-first-12-speed-road-groupset/

magicbastarder

good god that's an ugly RD.

Alek

That dude should get a lotto ticket NOW

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ivtime/permalink/847461915448883/

RobFowl

magicbastarder wrote: »

good god that's an ugly RD.

I like it, whole grouppo looks good too..

12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well

CramCycle

manafana wrote: »

Hate to hear people stop riding because of kids, have others on here managed to handle having young children while still getting out once week just assume it takes planning and depends on parenting styles i assume?

Depends on both parents to be honest. I could get out for either Saturday or Sunday morning spins but really just don't want to. I knowpeople who get up at 4 in the morning and get back for 8 so they don't feel they have unfairly loaded the other parent. The truth is, bar work, if one parent wants to get out for a few hours on one day of the weekend, the only thing stopping them is the other parent or guilt at leaving the other parent, or more importantly losing time you won't get back.

This said, only 3 more years till he will be able to go out for track, then all my problems are solved.

Long story short, if you want to get out, you'll get out, if you don't, you won't. Don't blame the kids or your partner.

Alek wrote: »

That dude should get a lotto ticket NOW

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ivtime/permalink/847461915448883/

I'd buy a new pair of pants first.

tomasrojo

CramCycle wrote: »

I'd buy a new pair of pants first.

His friends seem to have learned how to swear from children's television.

Beasty

RobFowl wrote: »

12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well

Also sounds very "imperial" - much better than the prior decimalisation adopted:)

CramCycle

If car adverts were honest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr5ORr7AYCg

cdaly_

RobFowl wrote: »

I like it, whole grouppo looks good too..

12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well

I like how the shifters can shift up three speeds in one go. It's as if there were too many gears back there and we might want to skip one or two...

Fighting Tao

RobFowl wrote: »

I like it, whole grouppo looks good too..

12 a much more even and rounder looking number than 11 as well

But it’s not a prime number!

Weepsie

Fighting Tao wrote: »

But it’s not a prime number!

Nor a palindrome. The next possible palindromic prime number of cogs is 101, and that's at least a decade away.

magicbastarder

i'm sure someone has to have posted that 'five blades!' onion article in relation to this before.

magicbastarder

Weepsie wrote: »

Nor a palindrome. The next possible palindromic prime number of cogs is 101, and that's at least a decade away.

there are eight possible palindromic numbers before we hit 101; starting at 22...

CramCycle

magicbastarder wrote: »

there are eight possible palindromic numbers before we hit 101; starting at 22...

Not a prime though

magicbastarder

arse, i missed that bit.

RobertFoster

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'm sure someone has to have posted that 'five blades!' onion article in relation to this before.

I was thinking about that. I was also thinking the next iteration will have to be two extra gears, or some way to get around superstitions.

Weepsie

RobertFoster wrote: »

I was thinking about that. I was also thinking the next iteration will have to be two extra gears, or some way to get around superstitions.

There's already a 1x13 that's been done albeit not commercially, and Shimano patented a 14 cog set up nearly 20 years ago.

CramCycle

Wait till they bring out a CVTinternal hub gear that uses how much effort you are putting into spinning to decide what gear you need to be in. Probably need a powermeter built in in some way.

magicbastarder

I've been predicting a combination of electronic gearing, power meters, HR monitors, and GPS data along with training plans where your bike will select the right great for you based on what your aim is, whether you're coming to a hill, and will shout at you to pick up the pace when necessary. Or else call the ambulance on you and lead it to your exact location when you collapse from exhaustion.

Beasty

CramCycle wrote: »

Not a prime though

But 10 wasn't either - nor 9 or 8. Do you really want to go to 13?

Beasty

magicbastarder wrote: »

I've been predicting a combination of electronic gearing, power meters, HR monitors, and GPS data along with training plans where your bike will select the right great for you based on what your aim is, whether you're coming to a hill, and will shout at you to pick up the pace when necessary. Or else call the ambulance on you and lead it to your exact location when you collapse from exhaustion.

To complete the setup maybe a robot to do the riding. No need for ambulances, and hopefully more mechanics around, putting paramedics out of a job.

Raam

Beasty wrote: »

So whatever happened to your Kingdom?

I got bored with it.

Lusk_Doyle

Beasty wrote: »

So whatever happened to your Kingdom?

What in the name of Jebus...???

Eamonnator

magicbastarder wrote: »

there are eight possible palindromic numbers before we hit 101; starting at 22...

Already taken

Beasty

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

What in the name of Jebus...???

He used to be quite ambitious....

compared himself with Springsteen at one stage

....seems to have reverted now though

Don't ask him about his jelly habit though

buffalo

#newbikeexcuses

Alek

Hurrache

buffalo wrote: »

#newbikeexcuses

The state of the cassette, that's enough of an excuse.

I was stripping down one of the kids bikes over the weekend taking advantage of the relatively decent weather. Was about to do it on the deck before I realised I'd drop every nut and bolt down between the gaps.

Once the bike was stripped I moved the bike stand over to the decking. A bolt instantly popped out of it and down the bloody deck. Can't even see it to fish it out with a magnet on a string. At least it doesn't seem essential, nor was it part of a bike.

RobFowl

Less that 200 posts to go.....


How about "When are we getting 13?"

ED E

buffalo wrote: »

#newbikeexcuses

How'd ya manage that?

magicbastarder

i'm not quite sure of the purpose of this type of sign; you could take it to suggest that if you want to get to ballymun on a bike, you head straight on, instead of taking a different route another mode of transport would imply. however, where the sign is, it's pointing up the main road to ballymun - ballymun road - and there's no other route you'd take regardless of mode of transport.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3784568,-6.2672912,3a,75y,16.66h,88.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swm9XPO5D0ARdUoSxkkJvEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

RobertFoster

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'm not quite sure of the purpose of this type of sign; you could take it to suggest that if you want to get to ballymun on a bike, you head straight on, instead of taking a different route another mode of transport would imply. however, where the sign is, it's pointing up the main road to ballymun - ballymun road - and there's no other route you'd take regardless of mode of transport.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3784568,-6.2672912,3a,75y,16.66h,88.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swm9XPO5D0ARdUoSxkkJvEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It's one of a series of signs, just letting those following them know they're still on the right track (like temporary follow diversion signs).

Here's the first on Botanic Rd, telling cyclists to keep left rather than head up Mobhi Rd. if they want Ballymun. I suppose it's an easier route than having to tackle crossing two lanes at Mobhi Rd. > Griffith Ave > Ballymun Rd.

It's odd the planners want cyclists to avoid one section of Mobhi Rd. by going around by the Botanic Gardens and then right onto Mobhi Dr and then going contra flow on the path from there. What you do from Homefarm Rd. is up to you though!

magicbastarder

ah, that makes a bit more sense. i'd not spotted that sign on botanic road.

buffalo

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'm not quite sure of the purpose of this type of sign;

That's what I always wonder passing this: https://goo.gl/maps/MgVP5K4sKr92

Chips Lovell

This is one from Blanchardstown is one of my favourites. I don't think it's even a statutory sign.

Ryath

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=447828&d=1523376135

Bloody cyclists all over the road!

This popped up on facebook as a someone I knew shared it and signed it. Australia has to be the most anti cycling country in the world.
Also on petition is to ban cyclists from roads with a speed limit above 80km/h
https://www.change.org/p/compulsory-single-file-for-cyclists

magicbastarder

Baron de Charlus wrote: »

This is one from Blanchardstown is one of my favourites. I don't think it's even a statutory sign.

this is clearly what is being referred to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqgVLr6b9Rk

magicbastarder

Ryath wrote: »

Bloody cyclists all over the road!

my father in law shared that on facebook. i had a good old go at the premise of it. including the astonishing rank hypocrisy that they are claiming that cyclists cycling two abreast is unfair on motorists trying to drive two abreast.

Lusk_Doyle

That's not real life representation. You'd never get that many cyclists in blue kit together with motorists in blue cars.

Fighting Tao

Some cyclists are also missing legs.

P_1

I'd be more concerned about the floating jerseys tbh

buffalo

ED E wrote: »

How'd ya manage that?

I couldn't tell you tbh, I've been riding on it for 2-3 weeks. Possibly hit a pothole with fully load panniers from the weekly shop. I'm only wee myself, so I don't think it was my fault!

ED E

buffalo wrote: »

I couldn't tell you tbh, I've been riding on it for 2-3 weeks. Possibly hit a pothole with fully load panniers from the weekly shop. I'm only wee myself, so I don't think it was my fault!

Sure ya weren't Danny McAskilling off rooftop?

Hurrache

Ashbourne Gardai had a bike stamping day last week, and I see this initiative in Dublin City Centre now. Although the cynic would say the initiative should be in preventing bikes being stolen.

Bit of an odd partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons, unless they're eyeing up potential customers.

https://twitter.com/gardainfo/status/984331222951317504