La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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magicbastarder

that's a tyred old joke.

LollipopJimmy

magicbastarder wrote: »

that's a tyred old joke.

Certainly recycled

Had the CX on here earlier and the girls were watching it with me, won't mention results but the amount of bike changes going on was unreal. At one point they cut to a shot of the queue for the station to power hose them. She didn't actually say anything but the look of disgust on my eldest's face seeing bikes get power hosed was priceless

She did ask me ages ago why we don't just use the "car washer" for the bikes so I told her.

LollipopJimmy

Sold my Cosmic wheels because I had a set of Campag Boras coming at a price, the seller has discovered a crack in carbon of the rear so now I'm snookered. I have a set of Ksyriums but they're on my gfs bike right now. Relayed my tale of woe to my LBS who is now hooking me up with a set of Boras and tyres at cost.

MojoMaker

They deserve a mention on here for that I think.

LollipopJimmy

MojoMaker wrote: »

They deserve a mention on here for that I think.

Shaka Bikes on Amiens Street. Still a tidy sum but beats paying retail. I've saved a fortune with working from home and a few other things and I'd wanted these wheels so feck it.

wheelo01

Any Cofficianados on here?
I don't like coffee, I don't have a Nespresso machine, but are these any good to anyone, I have 20 of thes, if anyone would like them. Best before is 21 October 2020
Collection in Drimnagh, Phibsboro, City Centre.

LollipopJimmy

They'll be fine for a long while yet too.

manafana

got a bean to cup espresso machine changed my life after using pods, really good for gardening too

ednwireland

manafana wrote: »

got a bean to cup espresso machine changed my life after using pods, really good for gardening too

have a sage machine at work . it's very good

magicbastarder

wheelo01 wrote: »

Any Cofficianados on here?

heh, you'd need a non-cofficionado to be interested!
there's not enough work involved in using them for a cofficionado.

magicbastarder

Probably no surprise to many here.

https://twitter.com/RachelAldred/status/1338766239754285056

Wildly Boaring

I'd rather no "cycle lane" to a painted line in the range of every car door, full of potholes, manholes and bus stops.

Had a car pull in on me yesterday to pass inside a right turning vehicle. The white line did nothing believe it or not.

Weepsie

Hartstown Huntstown area has got a load of all new protected bike lanes in the last few weeks. They are mostly good I think

Wishbone Ash

Temperature Query - How accurate is the weather app details which are automatically listed with a Strava activity after uploading?

There always seems to be a huge discrepency between the temperature my Garmin gives for the ride and that given by the app (or whatever it's called). Garmin is always several degrees lower.

crosstownk

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Temperature Query - How accurate is the weather app details which are automatically listed with a Strava activity after uploading?

There always seems to be a huge discrepency between the temperature my Garmin gives for the ride and that given by the app (or whatever it's called). Garmin is always several degrees lower.

I think the Garmin temperature reflects the 'real feel' rather than the true ambient. It's out there in the open subjected to wind chill so I suspect that that affects it.

magicbastarder

i watched this video, and thought, 'oh, i wonder if that's a popular segment on strava'.

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

https://www.strava.com/segments/10538282

tomasrojo

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I'd rather no "cycle lane" to a painted line in the range of every car door, full of potholes, manholes and bus stops.

Had a car pull in on me yesterday to pass inside a right turning vehicle. The white line did nothing believe it or not.

Yeah, when you're in on-road cycle tracks with no kerb, you really have to be alert to cars well in front of you stopping to wait to turn right, as it means someone much closer to you might be about to swerve hard left to go round on the inside.

This example could scarcely be better set up to induce sudden alarming inside passes over the cycle track:



The right-turn lane is a lane in the same sense that the workspace between the seventh and eighth floor of the Mertin-Flemmer building in Being John Malkovich was a floor.

Wishbone Ash

magicbastarder wrote: »

i watched this video, and thought, 'oh, i wonder if that's a popular segment on strava'....

Reminds me a bit of a proposed new road in Swords. They put in the lighting but for some reason, the project was shelved and, for many years, a line of functioning street lights just ran through a field. (A pedestrian path was eventually routed along the lights).

Weepsie

There's a small section of road with overpass near coolqauy. always perplexed me

Boscoirl

The new lane on the M7 from the M9 Junction to Naas is the same

RobertFoster

Weepsie wrote: »

There's a small section of road with overpass near coolqauy. always perplexed me

That was built for Thornton Hall, a proposed prison, but plans were scrapped.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/thornton-hall-prison-site-that-cost-state-51m-offered-for-housing-1.3756763

magicbastarder

It's used occasionally for film shoots too. That road is accessed from near the coolquay lodge.

Large bottle small glass

Roads which used to go somewhere but have been abandoned/severly neglected are way more interesting to ride.

They need to swap out that Google car for a jeep/unimog

https://www.strava.com/segments/14456821

Dropped pin
Near Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9pHiimKxKfhW6wtK8

Waterford
Co. Waterford
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gDxuGqJzuCeSNp7r7

Dropped pin
Near Glenpatrick, Co. Waterford
https://maps.app.goo.gl/B1bt1Kz6cV1nNmq28

Captain Havoc

Kilkenny
https://goo.gl/maps/2pTTpcToN1au89YF9

CramCycle

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Kilkenny
https://goo.gl/maps/2pTTpcToN1au89YF9

A few cones, a bit of barrier tape and you could have a nice crit race going on there for your local club league.

magicbastarder

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/53.4620867,-6.3536265/53.4707216,-6.3423834/@53.4666575,-6.3524019,1883m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e2

that's the one near coolquay. just about 1.5km long.

Mercian Pro

magicbastarder wrote: »

i watched this video, and thought, 'oh, i wonder if that's a popular segment on Strava.

https://www.strava.com/segments/10538282

You probably cycle over the Irish equivalent regularly enough. The link road from the Slane Road near Coolquay to what was to have been Thornton Hall Super-Prison runs under the R130 at one point. Not sure about access or Strava segments but the road itself is fully serviced!

Too late, should have hit refresh first!

Wishbone Ash

Weepsie wrote: »

There's a small section of road with overpass near coolqauy. always perplexed me

It floods quite deeply whenever there is prolonged heavy rain. That would have been interesting if the prison had opened. Nobody would get in or out!