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

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    #7172
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    I think it's the house in Bluebell:]

    That's the one. 'She's' bluer now, but still magnificent.
    ETA is that add still live? I'd LOVE to see the inside of it...


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    #7173
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Ghandhi (right) is in Kingswood.

    10364009_10153020616931115_7512347186731944151_n.jpg?oh=3e1a36f96eec759a5b39c9275cbf2176&oe=5A06B066


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    #7174
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,618 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    nee wrote: »
    Really? A half hour cycle is nothing, and I'm not a distance person.
    my LBS is about a 5 minute cycle away, with two others a similar distance.
    i'm not disputing that this place may only be half an hour away on the bike, but i wouldn't call that 'local'. especially since you'd probably have ten or more other bike shops nearer than that, i.e. more local.

    anyway, hardly worth arguing over. even though i'm contradicting that by continuing it...


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    #7175
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    my LBS is about a 5 minute cycle away, with two others a similar distance.
    i'm not disputing that this place may only be half an hour away on the bike, but i wouldn't call that 'local'. especially since you'd probably have ten or more other bike shops nearer than that, i.e. more local.

    anyway, hardly worth arguing over. even though i'm contradicting that by continuing it...

    Just because it's not local to you doesn't mean it's not a lbs :)


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    #7176
    tomasrojo
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    nee wrote: »
    Bee Cycles have them

    Ah good! I asked him before and he didn't but I guess he's got them since. Great, very happy to give Dara the custom.


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    #7177
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,618 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    are the company mentioned - Specialized Bicycle Components Ire Ltd - a subsidiary or a franchise, i wonder?


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    #7178
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    https://futurism.com/this-vertical-transportation-concept-lets-you-pedal-your-way-up-a-building/



    I wonder if I could record it on Strava though?


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    #7179
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,618 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    that's a weird solution to the issue of 'stairs'.


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    #7180
    ThisRegard
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    my LBS is about a 5 minute cycle away, with two others a similar distance.
    i'm not disputing that this place may only be half an hour away on the bike, but i wouldn't call that 'local'. especially since you'd probably have ten or more other bike shops nearer than that, i.e. more local.

    anyway, hardly worth arguing over. even though i'm contradicting that by continuing it...

    Local is surely relative to where you live. None of your locals are probably local to me, and vice versa


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    #7181
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Ghandhi (right) is in Kingswood.

    10364009_10153020616931115_7512347186731944151_n.jpg?oh=3e1a36f96eec759a5b39c9275cbf2176&oe=5A06B066

    That's not Ghandi, its that other hero of the working classes Alf Garnett ;)

    Warren-Mitchell_3500789b.jpg


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    #7182
    ford2600
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    nee wrote: »
    On the N7 you have the added benefit of the terrible/brilliant mother Teresa on the way out and back. Makes me laugh every time!

    Once had to drive a man, who's house was named after an Italian man with a hole in his hands and a liking for caustic soda, to a hospice and back. After that experience I wouldn't be looking to enter any such house if occupied! First/second class relics, miracles etc etc and a pure showman when he reached the hospice.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055816943

    Good chat there on Hitchen's treatment of her. Book & documentary title are pretty harsh!

    Your pretty well travelled when you've gone through the airport named after her


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    #7183
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭buffalo


    nee wrote: »
    That's the one. 'She's' bluer now, but still magnificent.
    ETA is that add still live? I'd LOVE to see the inside of it...

    I have never noticed that house! For anyone else who's similarly curious...

    https://goo.gl/maps/eBUjBqtpbLk


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    #7184
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    buffalo wrote: »
    I have never noticed that house! For anyone else who's similarly curious...

    https://goo.gl/maps/eBUjBqtpbLk

    There's some quality mural action on the side too


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    #7185
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,192 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    buffalo wrote: »
    I have never noticed that house! For anyone else who's similarly curious...

    https://goo.gl/maps/eBUjBqtpbLk
    Blessed Phil Lynott used to smile upon travellers between Balbriggan and Naul until he was removed a while back. The road hasn't been the same since.

    https://goo.gl/maps/7g7fKKaFcc12


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    #7186
    Beasty
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    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Ghandhi (right) is in Kingswood.
    Always thought the guy on the left was a bit o a midget, and if Gandhi dwarfs him I think my point is proven.....



    :pac:


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    #7187
    buffalo
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Always thought the guy on the left was a bit o a midget, and if Gandhi dwarfs him I think my point is proven.....



    :pac:

    At least that midget doesn't crash while raci- oh wait.


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    #7188
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Great radio doc on RTE earlier about Stephen Roche's Triple Crown, featuring a few local voices: The Orwell Wheeler


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    #7189
    ednwireland
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    buffalo wrote: »
    Great radio doc on RTE earlier about Stephen Roche's Triple Crown, featuring a few local voices: The Orwell Wheeler

    thanks just found the download
    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2017/0706/888312-the-orwell-wheeler/


    oops just realised you had the link there couldn't see it on the tablet.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #7190
    magicbastarder
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    is chucote on hols? not much from her in the last ten days.


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    #7191
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    In for MRI on my shoulders last night, given ear plugs and headphones to cut out some of the noise of the machine. First time listening to Radio Nova in a couple of decades and what's the first song to come up but this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olDLxq6quOw


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    #7192
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    I drove from Baggot St to Blackhorse along the canal late enough last night, I passed 7 cyclists with no lights or reflective gear and most in dark clothes. And these were only the ones going the same direction as me. It actually angered me


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    #7193
    Rogue-Trooper
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    smacl wrote: »
    In for MRI on my shoulders last night, given ear plugs and headphones to cut out some of the noise of the machine.

    I had to have an MRI on my head last week. I'm not particularly claustrophobic but I have to say I was on the ragged edge of freaking out when I was in the machine for the first few minutes. I just shut my eyes and imagined I was on the bike and managed to calm myself enough to get through it. :o

    BTW, they gave me ear plugs but no headphones! Private healthcare me arse! :rolleyes:


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    #7194
    ThisRegard
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    Anyone familiar with this guy on the N11? Text says the M11 but it doesn't look like the M11 to me, unless they moved the bike elsewhere before taking the photo.

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/887207464172744705


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    #7195
    Tenzor07
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Anyone familiar with this guy on the N11? Text says the M11 but it doesn't look like the M11 to me, unless they moved the bike elsewhere before taking the photo.

    Yea i'd say they pulled over the motorbiker from the motorway onto the old N11...


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    #7196
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Yea i'd say they pulled over the motorbiker from the motorway onto the old N11...

    It looks like just past Bray where it flicks between the N11 and M11. I have seen a few of those around. I presume it would have been dangerous to stop him on the M11 due to speed etc. There was a shiny red version of one of those type of bikes on the bike path, going against the flow of traffic the other day.


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    #7197
    seamus
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    I'm glad they've finally pulled one of these for no insurance. Might start putting to bed the myth of them being legal.


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    #7198
    Effects
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    seamus wrote: »
    I'm glad they've finally pulled one of these for no insurance. Might start putting to bed the myth of them being legal.

    The people who ride them are not the kind of people who follow the Gardaí on Twitter.


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    #7199
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Effects wrote: »
    The people who ride them are not the kind of people who follow the Gardaí on Twitter.
    No, but the media might pick it up. There are also plenty of people on Twitter saying they'd seen these around but didn't know if they were illegal.


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    #7200
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Lots of them for sale in the various Facebook groups, being sold as 'no need for tax, insurance etc etc'


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    #7201
    Effects
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    seamus wrote: »
    No, but the media might pick it up. There are also plenty of people on Twitter saying they'd seen these around but didn't know if they were illegal.

    The tweet was a bit vague saying to stick to the mountain and not the motorway. Should have said motorway and public roads.


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