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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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    #2132
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Willy measuring :rolleyes:

    Where's the segment? I'd like to measure too :pac:


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    #2133
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,421 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    alas, it's just an inconequential little laneway out near kilsallaghan in north county dublin.

    fact fans - the rural electrification scheme which began in 1946, to bring electricity to the rural areas of the country, began in kilsallaghan. apparently the very first pole erected for the scheme can still be found in a field there, but i don't know where that is.


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    #2134
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,297 ✭✭✭secman


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Willy measuring :rolleyes:

    Where's the segment? I'd like to measure too :pac:

    Glebe road East.... I believe it to be 1km long..


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    #2135
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Willy measuring :rolleyes:
    magicbastarder wrote: »
    apparently the very first pole erected
    secman wrote: »
    I believe it to be 1km long..
    I am skeptical........
    Its always shorter than you think, but longer when your describing it, your never the first there, and unless you measure it side by side at the same time, its not really a fair comparison.

    Strava segments :eek:


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    #2136
    Thud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭Thud


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Willy measuring :rolleyes:

    Where's the segment? I'd like to measure too :pac:
    secman wrote: »
    Glebe road East.... I believe it to be 1km long..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ1xHmQgXDM


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    #2137
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭manafana


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Surprisingly only one call from a delivery driver! But lots of VRU's and tweets from cyclists/pedestrians and Ciaran Ferrie

    Ciara is quiet balanced so wouldnt expect she'd let a show over run with cylists hate like others on that channel.


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    #2138
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,242 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    alas, it's just an inconequential little laneway out near kilsallaghan in north county dublin.

    fact fans - the rural electrification scheme which began in 1946, to bring electricity to the rural areas of the country, began in kilsallaghan. apparently the very first pole erected for the scheme can still be found in a field there, but i don't know where that is.

    And here it is:

    https://esbarchives.ie/2016/02/12/this-months-photo-theme-the-early-days-of-rural-electrification-1946-49/#jp-carousel-234


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    #2139
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Shane Ross is hiring someone for his constituency office. Anyone fancy getting paid to try and badger him about cycling?

    https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1052485030/


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    #2140
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,987 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    And here it is:

    https://esbarchives.ie/2016/02/12/this-months-photo-theme-the-early-days-of-rural-electrification-1946-49/#jp-carousel-234
    That's disappointing. I thought you were posting a pic of the pole in Kilsallaghan that you took yesterday.

    (I always thought Oldtown, Co Dublin was the first area to be covered under the rural electrification scheme :confused:).


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    #2141
    magicbastarder
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    obvious question: how did they get electricity to that pole in the first place?


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    #2142
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Cycling Ireland looking for a new CEO

    https://www.jobs.ie/ApplyForJob.aspx?Id=1774178


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    #2143
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,987 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Cycling Ireland looking for a new CEO

    https://www.jobs.ie/ApplyForJob.aspx?Id=1774178
    What's the company bike like?


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    #2144
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    What's the company bike like?

    Probably something from Halfords, salary is low enough for CEO but then again I can't imagine the role is massively stressful


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    #2145
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    obvious question: how did they get electricity to that pole in the first place?

    It comes with the pole, Dev and you would not have gotten along at all, next question.


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    #2146
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,242 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    That's disappointing. I thought you were posting a pic of the pole in Kilsallaghan that you took yesterday.

    (I always thought Oldtown, Co Dublin was the first area to be covered under the rural electrification scheme :confused:).


    the Pole is in Kilsallaghan...but I think the wires carrying the electricity went to Oldtown. Oldtown was the first village with an Electric street light (Outside of Dublin)

    EDIT: According to Wikipedia: "Oldtown was the first town in the State to benefit from the Rural Electrification Scheme, run by the Electricity Supply Board from 1946 to 1979. The first electricity pole was ceremoniously erected in November, 1946 at Kilsallaghan, and the first switch-on, was in Oldtown itself, in January 1947. The 50th anniversary of the event was commemorated in the village, by the ESB hosting a dinner, to which families living in the area since 1946, were invited."


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    #2147
    RobFowl
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    the Pole is in Kilsallaghan...but I think the wires carrying the electricity went to Oldtown. Oldtown was the first village with an Electric street light (Outside of Dublin)


    Pity that was as advanced as they got there, terrible backwater full of bumpkins ...


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    #2148
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,242 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Pity that was as advanced as they got there, terrible backwater full of bumpkins ...


    So true...we hope to get a phone line next year! :)


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    #2149
    magicbastarder
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    they should erect a statue to phil lynott there. no harm in creating an urban (well, rural) myth.


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    #2150
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Anybody recommend the best place to pick up a secondhand frameset?

    I'm hoping to come across something nice for around €1k-€1500. I have a full groupset, wheels, nice handlebars and everything needed apart from the frameset.


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    #2151
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,987 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Pity that was as advanced as they got there, terrible backwater full of bumpkins ...
    ....and they famously decided to build a handball alley to a different size than was used everywhere else. :D


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    #2152
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Anybody recommend the best place to pick up a secondhand frameset?

    I'm hoping to come across something nice for around €1k-€1500. I have a full groupset, wheels, nice handlebars and everything needed apart from the frameset.

    For that price range would you not be looking for something new?

    Salden.nl have some tasty wilier framesets in that price range.

    If you're using discs, biketart have a Genesis zero frameset for under that too.


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    #2153
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Weepsie wrote: »
    For that price range would you not be looking for something new?

    Salden.nl have some tasty wilier framesets in that price range.

    If you're using discs, biketart have a Genesis zero frameset for under that too.

    Just had a look on Salden, I didn't know that site at all thanks!

    I'm going rim brake, I already have wheels and groupset


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    #2154
    cdaly_
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    Consider a disc capable frame anyway in case you want to change later?


    Assuming, of course, that it will take rim brakes also.


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    #2155
    magicbastarder
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    it's OK folks, i've made the decision for him.

    https://www.saldenbikes.com/battaglin-marosticana-frameset-191313.html


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    #2156
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,242 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Consider a disc capable frame anyway in case you want to change later?


    Assuming, of course, that it will take rim brakes also.

    Is there such a frameset?


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    #2157
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Consider a disc capable frame anyway in case you want to change later?


    Assuming, of course, that it will take rim brakes also.

    That would mean changing wheels, brakes and levers, I can't see that happening anytime soon.
    magicbastarder wrote: »
    it's OK folks, i've made the decision for him.

    https://www.saldenbikes.com/battaglin-marosticana-frameset-191313.html

    Darn, not Di2 compatible


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    #2158
    koutoubia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,271 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Anybody recommend the best place to pick up a secondhand frameset?

    I'm hoping to come across something nice for around €1k-€1500. I have a full groupset, wheels, nice handlebars and everything needed apart from the frameset.

    cossiels on adverts has some super ex pro from pro conti teams.
    https://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/belgian-champions-ckt-uci-approved-carbon-di2/17084671

    Post a comment on what you are looking for and he will come back to you.


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    #2159
    [Deleted User]
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    Not really one for the near misses thread http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/video-cyclists-crash-distracted-driver/

    Outcome could have been so much worse.


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    #2160
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,242 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not really one for the near misses thread http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/video-cyclists-crash-distracted-driver/

    Outcome could have been so much worse.

    Well he did avoid hitting the car that the videographer was sitting in!


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    #2161
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    I just don’t understand some people. I live on a street that is closed to cars at one end. However the road has bike access from the same end. I turn in and there is a guy in a small black car making a hames of parking with his tail to the footpath to my right. I stop well back and wait. There was another big space where he could have parallel parked on the opposite. Anyways after about 4 minutes of patiently waiting he just stops and completely blocks the road. Since he wasn’t moving I did something I wouldn’t normally do and went between parallel parked cars on my left and about 25 metres on the footpath until I got to the carparkngate which I was entering. He started shouting ‘thanks for nothing’ angrily repeatedly at me. I have no idea why he was so angry at me waiting patiently for him. I’m confused. I’d suspect that he is still trying to park even though it’s now 20 minutes later.


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