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

LollipopJimmy

Got myself a new bike mechanic, it's a chap I've known for many many years through a past life but for handiness I'd been using the LBS where I bought the bike who subsequently annoyed the piss out of me with his antics... Anyway, turns out my new headset (8 weeks on the bike) had little to ne grease on it, steerer was not on correctly. New BB (2 weeks on the bike) while fitted ok the cranks were loose. Front wheel that had just been straightened was square also dished. The rear mech was loose, which he had also removed as the hanger needed to be replaced. Essentially nearly every job I paid him to do was done wrong/badly. My rear axel is destroyed with worn cones due to them being left loose.
What makes it worse was I liked the chap and had routinely dropped in for a cuppa on a Saturday morning. Now I just want to beat him to death with a torque wrench, which is ironic because it seems he clearly doesn't know how to use one.
On the plus side the new mechanic knows me well and knows te standards I expect plus he's a proper enthusiast himself so all is well again.
Sorry for the rant but I'm super annoyed!

Luxman

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Got myself a new bike mechanic, it's a chap I've known for many many years through a past life but for handiness I'd been using the LBS where I bought the bike who subsequently annoyed the piss out of me with his antics... Anyway, turns out my new headset (8 weeks on the bike) had little to ne grease on it, steerer was not on correctly. New BB (2 weeks on the bike) while fitted ok the cranks were loose. Front wheel that had just been straightened was square also dished. The rear mech was loose, which he had also removed as the hanger needed to be replaced. Essentially nearly every job I paid him to do was done wrong/badly. My rear axel is destroyed with worn cones due to them being left loose.
What makes it worse was I liked the chap and had routinely dropped in for a cuppa on a Saturday morning. Now I just want to beat him to death with a torque wrench, which is ironic because it seems he clearly doesn't know how to use one.
On the plus side the new mechanic knows me well and knows te standards I expect plus he's a proper enthusiast himself so all is well again.
Sorry for the rant but I'm super annoyed!

Now go ride it like you stole it. Makes it all better

LollipopJimmy

Luxman wrote: »

Now go ride it like you stole it. Makes it all better

Getting on it in a few

Alek

Pepijn89 wrote: »

I knew a butcher with last name Baker. His shop's sign was "Baker, your butcher".

Imagine the opposite: "Butcher your baker"

tomasrojo

Lumen wrote: »

The term "push bicycle" differentiates one's superior modern two-wheeled laufmaschine from the rather old-fashioned four-wheeled celerifere.

It's not so much push-bicycle as push-bicyle.

If anyone gets on one of these radio shows, they should constantly refer to them as "safety bicycles", and prognosticate on the wisdom of sharing lanes with omnibuses and taximeter cabriolets.

LollipopJimmy

Couple of examples. Note the mark on the stem as to where it was originally. The new headset was a different fitment and he thought this would be ok... The top bolt on the stem was doing nothing

manafana

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

.....and virtually devoid of any spectators!

you obviously arn't watching that much of it, in the country yeah not so many fansv but plenty support in places in urban areas, not near the crowds we don't see at Qatar etc.

Although the number of people crossing in front of the race is quiet something never seen so many.

Lusk_Doyle

crosstownk wrote: »

It's a phrase used by people who encounter a 2% gradient and decide to get off the bike and push...........

Koutoubia....

lennymc

Spent most of the evening in the gutter in mondello, savage cross wind.

buffalo

Pepijn89

Beat me to it buffalo! The '80s bike doesn't look too bad I think :P

koutoubia

lennymc wrote: »

Spent most of the evening in the gutter in mondello, savage cross wind.

Stage 3 of Tour of Turkey.
Lotto Sudal team show the rest how to put it in the gutter.
Class act.

tomasrojo

Planet Money podcast:

In this episode, we consider a world where everybody cheats, and where you can't win unless you game the regulators: Professional cycling.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/27/475929464/episode-417-lance-armstrong-and-the-business-of-doping?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=planetmoney

(Repeat from 2012, but might have novel angle. Very good podcast in general.)

LollipopJimmy

Feck sake... cycled to the gym this morning at 6.30, realised then I'd no wallet, grand I'll have to nip home and get it after my workout and then switch to the car because I won't have time to get home and then back on to work on the bike because it's the wrong direction.
No wallet at home either, it was on my desk :mad:

Rogue-Trooper

Fian

Dublin bus driver charged with careless driving causing death of cyclist.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/dublin-bus-driver-charged-over-cyclist-s-death-1.2628117

smacl

Strange looking bendy bike, seems to solve a problem that doesn't exist;

https://www.facebook.com/ecovolis/videos/1205497879470106/

Rogue-Trooper

smacl wrote: »

Strange looking bendy bike, seems to solve a problem that doesn't exist;

https://www.facebook.com/ecovolis/videos/1205497879470106/

Weird. Looks like it was devised by a skier or ice skater!

Harrybelafonte

Dopes who ride single speed bikes with no back brake.

crosstownk

I've been invited to three separate communions on different weekends in May. It's gonna cost me money to to not cycle.

Lusk_Doyle

crosstownk wrote: »

I've been invited to three separate communions on different weekends in May. It's gonna cost me money to to not cycle.

Don't go so!

traprunner

crosstownk wrote: »

I've been invited to three separate communions on different weekends in May. It's gonna cost me money to to not cycle.

Head out on the bike instead.

LollipopJimmy

These Communions get very expensive. Somebody also needs to tell me I'm too old to be out all night. Going to need a few hours sleep then plan on doing 100km this afternoon

smacl

crosstownk wrote: »

I've been invited to three separate communions on different weekends in May. It's gonna cost me money to to not cycle.

Never been to one. Thank God for atheism

CramCycle

smacl wrote: »

Never been to one. Thank God for atheism

The last one I went too I protested that it was silly of me to go as I didn't believe. The irony that after upsetting most of my family by pointing out that the father of the child was not only an athiest but one of those annoying ones who ram down their lack of belief and points out the stupidity of religion to everyone who will listen was the most upset by my not going.

I caved, went, was the only one who knew the words, the father missed most of it because he was watching the Leinster game on his phone. The Godmother was too busy taking selfies of herself.

It is the last one I ever went to or will go to.

Don't go, if you have no interest you are only insulting the priest and those who are interested.

Rogue-Trooper

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Somebody also needs to tell me I'm too old to be out all night. Going to need a few hours sleep then plan on doing 100km this afternoon

Maybe you should put a bed in that shed of yours (or leave a spare key under a flower pot)!!

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

went for a few pints last night and even though a little bit tired and emotional this morning after locking myself out of the house at 3am when letting the dog do his business and having to resort to sleeping in the shed until my neighbor with the spare key woke up

Still laughing at that post!!

LollipopJimmy

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

Still laughing at that post!!

I slept on a sun lounger using an old curtain as a blanket! It really wasn't nice. Climbing over the wall with a 35kg dog on my shoulder wasn't easy either

Fian

Forty (40!!) stone guy cycling across USA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/fashion/fat-guy-across-america-eric-hites.html?WT.mc_id=2016-KWP-INTL_AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&kwp_0=104582&kwp_4=584266&kwp_1=305544&_r=1

manafana

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I slept on a sun lounger using an old curtain as a blanket! It really wasn't nice. Climbing over the wall with a 35kg dog on my shoulder wasn't easy either

hang on why are you climbing walls with a dog?

LollipopJimmy

manafana wrote: »

hang on why are you climbing walls with a dog?

It's in the 'today I did something to my bike thread' I'd had a couple of pints, arrived home and got into bed. 3am or so the dog barks so I got up, got dressed and brought him out to do his business (he's old and on new medication which is messing with his bowels). Door closed behind me and I ended up locked out of the house. So had to climb over the back wall with said dog, I had to kip in the shed