La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

CramCycle

For those who want the cheap laugh:

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

buffalo

CramCycle wrote: »

For those who want the cheap laugh:

Interesting to hear all the passing cars - nobody stopped to check if you were okay?

Hope you heal fast!

Idleater

buffalo wrote: »

Interesting to hear all the passing cars - nobody stopped to check if you were okay?

Thoughts and prayers

magicbastarder

i was even wincing at the damage the shifter was clearly taking there.

CramCycle

buffalo wrote: »

Interesting to hear all the passing cars - nobody stopped to check if you were okay?

Hope you heal fast!

There was a DNG driver across the road who looked at me and then continued walking to hang up the sign. Never shouted over, never called, which I thought was weird. I wasn't down for long so I can excuse the passers by but the driver was parked and facing me as I crashed, he slowed to look but never actually stopped what he was at. I thought a normal human reaction would be to call out or call over.

Seth Brundle

CramCycle wrote: »

There was a DNG driver across the road who looked at me and then continued walking to hang up the sign. Never shouted over, never called, which I thought was weird. I wasn't down for long so I can excuse the passers by but the driver was parked and facing me as I crashed, he slowed to look but never actually stopped what he was at. I thought a normal human reaction would be to call out or call over.

Seems strange.
Might he have been thinking that it could turn into an insurance scam or something?

Hope you and the bike are ok now.

Seth Brundle

I'm liking this idea...

https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1331000672066678784

MojoMaker

Ouch - heal quickly dude.

Were you crossing a white line when it went? Some obstruction (couldn't make it out) pushing you out to the centre line?

CramCycle

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Seems strange.
Might he have been thinking that it could turn into an insurance scam or something?

Hope you and the bike are ok now.

I once fell a few years ago and while lying on the road, a van pulled up behind me, tutted (I had not yet got up), and then drove around me. I was down for a minute or so which is a long time until an elderly man came over to help. It would have been a stretch IMO to think it could possibly be a scam but I think its just some people are either unable to process what to do (freeze up, which is possibly what happened here) or are just a bit d1ckish.

MojoMaker wrote: »

Ouch - heal quickly dude.

Were you crossing a white line when it went? Some obstruction (couldn't make it out) pushing you out to the centre line?

Its a single lane that only broadens out at the junction but alas no, the wheel went before I got to the white line, the road was just greasy after a few dry days, should have slowed with the back brake, or pulled the front one a little less hard.

tomasrojo

Cargo bikes seem to be a very viable delivery method:

https://twitter.com/AsEasyAsRiding/status/1331281558104313859

I assume to some extent van and lorry drivers compensate for the parking disadvantage by parking on pedestrian and cycling infrastructure though.

Interesting points that vans are limited by the number of drops they can do in a day, so can't capitalise fully on higher load capacity.

Couple of enterprising fellas I've seen around Drogheda are doing deliveries on e-bikes with trailers I assume for local businesses for online orders. Saw one taking out shoeboxes to bring into a house.

It's gas the wide births they get as drivers assume they have kids in the trailer

meercat

No cheap laughs cramcycle,just winces.something similar happened me recently and I think any cyclist that ever happened to would be glad to hear you got away with road rash and bruising. Greasy roads can just bite you.

Seth Brundle

Looks like fun although you'd want to be sure of the surface underneath...

https://twitter.com/cyclegaz/status/1331538123717636096

LollipopJimmy

CramCycle wrote: »

There was a DNG driver across the road who looked at me and then continued walking to hang up the sign. Never shouted over, never called, which I thought was weird. I wasn't down for long so I can excuse the passers by but the driver was parked and facing me as I crashed, he slowed to look but never actually stopped what he was at. I thought a normal human reaction would be to call out or call over.

How are you today after it all?

seamus

tomasrojo wrote: »

Interesting points that vans are limited by the number of drops they can do in a day, so can't capitalise fully on higher load capacity.

I hadn't really thought of that. My working from home spot here has me looking out the front, so I'm seeing delivery vans coming and going all day long. Most of the them are Ford transit sized, and when they open the doors they're stacked high with boxes, usually Amazon. But not big ones. Ones about the size of a football.

If you think about how many of them could fit in a transit, there is no way in hell they could actually deliver a stuffed-full vanload in a single day. That'd be 100 drops.

I'm sure modern delivery systems maximise routes and all that, but even there's no way in hell a single van could make a delivery every 4 minutes on average.

As a result you end up sending out big vans a fraction full.

CramCycle

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

How are you today after it all?

Didn't sleep great, wound is weeping and sticking to everything. On top of that I had to go for a covid test as i developed wheeziness and a cough not long after. It is just a cold, as I haven't been closer than 2m to anyone bar my family for weeks and I recall getting similar last year but nonetheless, better to play it safe. family have excommunicated me to the front of the house. Sly comments about finally being at home and managing to do even less being thrown around the place :pac:

seamus wrote: »

I hadn't really thought of that. My working from home spot here has me looking out the front, so I'm seeing delivery vans coming and going all day long. Most of the them are Ford transit sized, and when they open the doors they're stacked high with boxes, usually Amazon. But not big ones. Ones about the size of a football.

If you think about how many of them could fit in a transit, there is no way in hell they could actually deliver a stuffed-full vanload in a single day. That'd be 100 drops.

I'm sure modern delivery systems maximise routes and all that, but even there's no way in hell a single van could make a delivery every 4 minutes on average.

As a result you end up sending out big vans a fraction full.

I have met a few who finish their drops at the weekends. One guy meets people at the petrol station at the Y in Rathmines, he knows people are desperate so he rings them all while sitting there saying he is passing through if they want to grab them in the next 30 minutes as he won't be coming through for a proper delivery for a few days, clears most of the van very quickly, kind of like a mobile parcel motel.

Fighting Tao

seamus wrote: »

I hadn't really thought of that. My working from home spot here has me looking out the front, so I'm seeing delivery vans coming and going all day long. Most of the them are Ford transit sized, and when they open the doors they're stacked high with boxes, usually Amazon. But not big ones. Ones about the size of a football.

If you think about how many of them could fit in a transit, there is no way in hell they could actually deliver a stuffed-full vanload in a single day. That'd be 100 drops.

I'm sure modern delivery systems maximise routes and all that, but even there's no way in hell a single van could make a delivery every 4 minutes on average.

As a result you end up sending out big vans a fraction full.

You must live next door to me!

We get at least 4 Amazon vans a day. Usually 3 together in the morning, and 1-2 in the evening. An Post usually have between 1 and 3 vans each morning. All other delivery companies stop by during the day. The best is DPD. That driver maximises his efficiency. He pulls up into one location and phones everyone unless the door to their block is beside him. He then hands out parcels like sweets. None of this run to one door with a parcel or two, the next door with another, etc.

magicbastarder

https://twitter.com/damienslash/status/1328684545860907008

tomasrojo

This potential bridge over the Corrib was discussed here before. Seems to be finally happening:
https://twitter.com/GalwayCycling/status/1331943989260537857

Seth Brundle

I've just fallen in love with a trailer...

https://twitter.com/urbanthoughts11/status/1312487232238882817

tomasrojo

SCOTUS justice Gorsuch:
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1332001831355084801

magicbastarder

so back to the county limit from tuesday morning, if i heard the news right?

LollipopJimmy

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Myself and a mate ordered it but chose whiskey instead of the oysters, we're going to get the oysters elsewhere, just one or two

Best 70quid I've ever spent

Weepsie

Attachment not found.Got married yesterday. Myn now wife got me these cufflinks

The outerrings rotate and all

NamelessPhil

Congratulations! May ye have a long and happy marriage.

magicbastarder

Are they ten speed or eleven speed?

cletus

Congrats Weepsie. Hope ye have a long and happy life together

LollipopJimmy

cletus wrote: »

Congrats Weepsie. Hope ye have a long and happy life together

Decent cufflinks tend to last years.



Congrats Weepsie

Mercian Pro

Congrats Weepsie. Looks like they're triples. Isn't there a rule against that?

magicbastarder wrote: »

so back to the county limit from tuesday morning, if i heard the news right?

For some odd reason I thought there'd be a new thread about this with people setting out their plans for new routes and breaking free from the red circle. Not a mention until your post popped up mb. Surely it will make a difference or am I being particularly naive (and cynical!)

cletus

Mercian Pro wrote: »

Congrats Weepsie. Looks like they're triples. Isn't there a rule against that?



For some odd reason I thought there'd be a new thread about this with people setting out their plans for new routes and breaking free from the red circle. Not a mention until your post popped up mb. Surely it will make a difference or am I being particularly naive (and cynical!)

I just figured people were sick to death of talking about lockdown.