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

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    #2162
    Lumen
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    bazermc wrote: »
    Are GP 4000s ll any good for all year training, so wet roads. Exactly the crappy weather we have had the last few months.
    Yes. I use them year round.


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    #2163
    CramCycle
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    Lumen wrote: »
    Yes. I use them year round.

    Same here


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    #2164
    bazermc
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    CramCycle wrote: »
    Same here

    Sound. I'll give them a lash so.


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    #2165
    Qualitymark
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    Whereas in 1903 Irish cyclists apparently wrapped a piece of string around and around the tyre and through the spokes as anti-slip protection. Hardy men. And women.


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    #2166
    Wishbone Ash
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Whereas in 1903 Irish cyclists apparently wrapped a piece of string around and around the tyre and through the spokes as anti-slip protection. Hardy men. And women.
    That wouldn't allow the brakes to work! :confused:


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    #2167
    Alek
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    That wouldn't allow the brakes to work!

    In 1903 they were all riding fixies :P





    ... with drum / coaster brakes I presume.


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    #2168
    RobFowl
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    Not a happy camper


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    #2169
    rollingscone
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Not a happy camper

    Tell us Rob.

    What made you so unhappy in 1903?


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    #2170
    RobFowl
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    rollingscone wrote: »
    Tell us Rob.

    What made you so unhappy in 1903?

    Just not a happy camper


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    #2171
    traprunner
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    Some wind out there.


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    #2172
    RobertFoster
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Just not a happy camper
    Just think, this thread has been open for 5 months (153 days). At the current rate of ~14 posts per day, it's set to close around August 14, 2017 (560 days time). We've passed the 20% mark!


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    #2173
    Alek
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    I am not a happy camper. Third chest infection in 2 months, off the bike for the next 2 weeks this time... :mad::(:mad::(

    (and I can't help eating like I was still burning 1000kcal a day extra....:eek:)


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    #2174
    Qualitymark
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    Alek wrote: »
    In 1903 they were all riding fixies :P





    ... with drum / coaster brakes I presume.

    No brakes; you stood on the pedals to stop.

    The second photo I was going to upload - an RIC man on his Ordinary - had an interesting thing: he was holding the handlebars with his palms facing upwards, rather than knuckle-upwards. Was/is that the normal method?


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    #2175
    Alek
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    No brakes; you stood on the pedals to stop.

    Fixed gear bikes (fixies) then. Bloody proto-hipsters.


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    #2176
    Alek
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    No brakes; you stood on the pedals to stop.

    Fixed gear bikes (fixies) then. Bloody proto-hipsters.


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    #2177
    Qualitymark
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    Alek wrote: »
    I am not a happy camper. Third chest infection in 2 months, off the bike for the next 2 weeks this time... :mad::(:mad::(

    (and I can't help eating like I was still burning 1000kcal a day extra....:eek:)

    Time to emigrate to France, or Spain, or… anywhere with a warm dry climate.


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    #2178
    RobFowl
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Time to emigrate to France, or Spain, or… anywhere with a warm dry climate.

    Could we just relocate en masses to maybe the south of Spain?
    Or else Catalonia wants independence, we could do a straight swap? (leave our politicians behind though)


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    #2179
    Alek
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    I don't really believe in the climate thing, as I'm usually 100% fine for the rest of the year here, and I'm out in the elements daily... As a matter of fact I used to suffer heavy asthma in my youth, which did not return when I moved to Ireland over 15 years ago... until the kids appeared. Little plague bearers*...



    * (C) rollingscone


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    #2180
    ThisRegard
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    Alek wrote: »
    Little plague bearers*...



    * (C) rollingscone

    And then some. Since mine came along, end of November/start of December I absorb whatever diseases they bring home from school and pre-school.

    In fact my two only went back to school this morning after being home sick with me minding them for a week and a half with a virus. At the moment both are probably getting the shakes from Calpol and Neurofen withdrawal.

    Whereas I'm in a very much celebratory mood with normality returning to my life again.


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    #2181
    tomasrojo
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    Yeah, my two were out for most of last week. The classrooms were over half-empty at one stage.

    The braking mechanisms in the early twentieth century: was something like this not the standard brake?

    avon-cycle-brakes.jpg

    Or was that not until the thirties or so?

    (Sorry for biggish image. Can't upload images, so had to hotlink that.)


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    #2182
    rollingscone
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    Alek wrote: »
    I don't really believe in the climate thing, as I'm usually 100% fine for the rest of the year here, and I'm out in the elements daily... As a matter of fact I used to suffer heavy asthma in my youth, which did not return when I moved to Ireland over 15 years ago... until the kids appeared. Little plague bearers*...



    * (C) rollingscone

    Mrs Rollingscone tried to blame my moderate-severe pneumonia (tm) on cycling* but thankfully the consultant at the Mater was quite adamant that it was viral and probably acquired on a wimp list day.








    *In her defence it was a pretty scary experience where they thought it was something much worse and rushed me into isolation: Being able to blame it on something as controllable as choosing when to cycle probably had a lot of appeal.


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    #2183
    eeeee
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    Alek wrote: »
    I am not a happy camper. Third chest infection in 2 months, off the bike for the next 2 weeks this time... :mad::(:mad::(

    (and I can't help eating like I was still burning 1000kcal a day extra....:eek:)

    Can I join you in the unhappy camper? Got a kidney infection just before Christmas. It's still here :mad:

    I've decided that being on the bike is better, fitness makes everything work better!


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    #2184
    Alek
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    Got a kidney infection just before Christmas. It's still here

    Ouch.
    I've decided that being on the bike is better, fitness makes everything work better!

    That was my decision with the first infection - feck it, I am going to ride through it! Needless to say I failed and most likely contributed to the second one that followed. Not taking my chances this time, hello Dublin Bus.
    Can I join you in the unhappy camper?

    As much as I symphatise with a fellow hurting person, if you can cycle, please stay away from my depression cave.

    :pac:


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    #2185
    CramCycle
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    Alek wrote: »
    That was my decision with the first infection - feck it, I am going to ride through it! Needless to say I failed and most likely contributed to the second one that followed. Not taking my chances this time, hello Dublin Bus.

    The innocence that you believe using DB will not rapidly lead to a viral/bacterial spike in your day to day life.


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    #2186
    Alek
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    Used to commute in DBs for years and - I guess miraculously - avoided most of the airborne, foodborne or sexually transmitted bugs.


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    #2187
    eeeee
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    Alek wrote: »
    As much as I symphatise with a fellow hurting person, if you can cycle, please stay away from my depression cave.

    :pac:

    *does laps of Alex's depression cave*


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    #2188
    CramCycle
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    Alek wrote: »
    Used to commute in DBs for years and - I guess miraculously - avoided most of the airborne, foodborne or sexually transmitted bugs.

    I never caught anything myself but from the way some people go on to me, I must be quite resilient, as apparently to use DB in the winter on a busy route is to invite death


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    #2189
    Alek
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    .


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    #2190
    Alek
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    to use DB in the winter on a busy route is to invite death

    ...or worse. I.e. slow torture of getting stranded between two stops on George Street for 35 minutes. Fact!
    *does laps of Alex's depression cave*

    pure cruelty.


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    #2191
    tomasrojo
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    Alek wrote: »
    Used to commute in DBs for years and - I guess miraculously - avoided most of the airborne, foodborne or sexually transmitted bugs.

    I think that's just the Nitelink services.


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