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

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    #7652
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    well, one of the shifters is the brake - so i assume you mean removing the smaller lever?
    Yes, the small levers.

    Will the brake levers work perfectly as brake levers without using their shifting component, and with the other levers removed?


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    #7653
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,940 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Maybe not but the treatment of Conor by the Irish media has been atrocious.
    I thought he was very well treated considering the set up. Most seemed to be quite positive he would last a few rounds and had a potential to win which most pro commentators did not feel was likely.
    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Does anyone know if the gear shifting component of a STI shifter works completely independently of the braking component?

    That is, can I remove the shifters and still have the brakes?
    Could you just remove the gear cable would be simpler.


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    #7654
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    CramCycle wrote: »
    ...Could you just remove the gear cable would be simpler.
    I could but I thought they might look odd on a fixed gear. (It's a pair of 9 sp Dura Ace shifters that I have gathering dust so I was thinking of utilising them).


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    #7655
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,849 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Well, joggers should definitely stay out of the cycle lanes, so the Taoiseach is certainly setting a bad example here! :rolleyes:



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    #7656
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,940 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I could but I thought they might look odd on a fixed gear. (It's a pair of 9 sp Dura Ace shifters that I have gathering dust so I was thinking of utilising them).
    This way if ypu ever need them you can reuse them again. Just connect the brake cable agus sin e.


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    #7657
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,192 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Well, joggers should definitely stay out of the cycle lanes, so the Taoiseach is certainly setting a bad example here! :rolleyes:
    At least he's going contraflow and is without earphones...


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    #7658
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,084 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Ad on my FB feed.

    WTF.

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    #7659
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,512 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Well, joggers should definitely stay out of the cycle lanes, so the Taoiseach is certainly setting a bad example here! :rolleyes:

    Looks like he's in a closed road run/race to be honest. Nothing to see here I'd say.

    He did help get a lovely bit of cycle way on the Royal Canal, but only in his constituency, and only in his locality too when....that bothers me


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    #7660
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    is it just me, or has anyone else started receiving kudos from people they've no connection to, on strava?
    got one today from a chap in Rio. not that i would usually disavow praise, but i was wondering what it was about my spin through ardcath and the naul which stood out for someone in brazil.


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    #7661
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    is it just me, or has anyone else started receiving kudos from people they've no connection to, on strava?
    got one today from a chap in Rio. not that i would usually disavow praise, but i was wondering what it was about my spin through ardcath and the naul which stood out for someone in brazil.
    Get them all the time. I think they are hoping you will follow them and return the kudos.

    (Is the chap from Rio the one who is usually top the Boards.ie leaderboard and is a member of dozens of |\strava clubs?)


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    #7662
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    actually, i've just noticed it's rio de janeiro, italy:

    https://www.strava.com/athletes/22059850


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    #7663
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    actually, i've just noticed it's rio de janeiro, italy:

    https://www.strava.com/athletes/22059850
    He's in the boards.ie Strava club and following almost 3000 others. Probably has set up some sort of automated system for giving kudos to thousands.


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    #7664
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,512 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    He gave me some too for a 6 am commute from a friend's house to my apartment that was about 5 km. Now the streets were lined with mobs of McGregor fans, so maybe I deserved it, but was damn strange when I had also just upload my hilly 105 km cycle at the same timme.


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    #7665
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Just see he gave me kudos also - must have done everyone in the club.


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    #7666
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,940 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    must have done everyone in the club.

    That guy, we all know that guy, every club has one ;)


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    #7667
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Watching Home of the Year last night, there was an aluminium-sided north Dublin house with a huge room set up as a cycling workshop. Beautiful house!

    https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/home-of-the-year-30003316/10768415/


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    #7668
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Watching Home of the Year last night, there was an aluminium-sided north Dublin house with a huge room set up as a cycling workshop. Beautiful house!

    https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/home-of-the-year-30003316/10768415/

    Can't believe that the carbon one didn't win it.


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    #7669
    koutoubia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Just see he gave me kudos also - must have done everyone in the club.
    He didnt give me kudos ...fooker


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    #7670
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    Kudos has lost its currency. A spin into work, nipping down the shops for milk or some such..and some saddo is bound to give you the thumbs up.

    Why would you want them anyway? Unless you place well in a race or finish a tough brevet in good time...all the rest is a bit of an embarrassment.

    Hard men ? Needy big girls blouses is more like it. Get out and get some validation the old fashioned way - on the podium/ finishers list. ;)


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    #7671
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭buffalo


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    Hard men ? Needy big girls blouses is more like it. Get out and get some validation the old fashioned way - on the podium/ finishers list. ;)

    Do you mean a Strava KOM podium? :D


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    #7672
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    Unless you place well in a race or finish a tough brevet in good time...all the rest is a bit of an embarrassment.

    Pff. Races.

    What's your hurry?


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    #7673
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    buffalo wrote: »
    Do you mean a Strava KOM podium? :D

    The stickybottle/ gale force wind assisted Strava KOM podium ;)


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    #7674
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Pff. Races.

    What's your hurry?

    I'm slowly dying, every second that passes brings me closer to the grave.


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    #7675
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Pff. Races.

    What's your hurry?

    If you're not chasing KOMs are you even cycling? :pac:


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    #7676
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,849 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Mamils beware!

    http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/chris-hoy-middle-aged-men-lycra-mamils/


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    #7677
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I don't know what's more ridiculous.

    A middle aged man, who frequently wears lycra, cautioning other middle-aged men not to wear lycra?

    Or middle-aged men getting so upset about this middle-aged man's comments that he had to publicly apologise for them?


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    #7678
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    The stickybottle/ gale force wind assisted Strava KOM podium ;)

    They are the best ones - also known as Beasty specials! I got one by 5 mins over a 19km segment recently. Mine forever unless a pro peleton comes through!


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    #7679
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Or middle-aged men getting so upset about this middle-aged man's comments that he had to publicly apologise for them?

    I think he's apologising purely out of commercial self-interest.


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    #7680
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    or he made the initial comments out of commercial self interest too.

    i did not know he sold gear until this. goal achieved.


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    #7681
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,943 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Fecking catastrophic failure on my track pump tonight, the black rubber on the main tube has turned all white and powdery and it just blew apart on me, I couldnt believe it, its only 3 years old aswell. Anyone know when they'll be in Lidl or Aldi or seen any bargains lately?


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