La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

tomasrojo

CramCycle wrote: »

One of the first things I learned in national school was how awesome the triangle is. Why would anyone want to get rid of one of the most naturally strong and robust shapes is beyond me.

I guess the spur that holds the rear wheel would have to be very strong. It's certainly very thick.

The design does have six or so hinges to translate the legs' arcing motion into a circular motion, so I presume they would require a bit of maintenance themselves.

Why is arcing your legs up and down better anyway? I don't really find their explanation all that satisfactory.

dastardly00

MediaMan wrote: »

Not a fan of hashtags, but sometimes one comes along that's so appropriate...

Nevermind the hastag... You have 42 tabs open in Firefox???

CramCycle

tomasrojo wrote: »

Why is arcing your legs up and down better anyway? I don't really find their explanation all that satisfactory.

My limited knowledge of sports physiology tells me it is BS. Like comparing a 100m sprinter to a marathon runner and then telling the marathon runner if they ran and tained like the sprinter, they would be faster.

dastardly00 wrote: »

Nevermind the hastag... You have 42 tabs open in Firefox???

Co worker came into me the other day wondering why his laptop was so slow as it was only new. He had 5 Chromes open, each with so many tags that you could not read even the first letter. he explained that some were personal, some were social and others were work. When we went through them, he had forgotten half of them were open and most were playing videos on loop

buffalo

magicbastarder wrote: »

not what i was expecting to see in halfords:

Which branch!?

magicbastarder

Airside in swords.
Re the spec, the only thing I can remember is that I think the Rd is alivio.

magicbastarder

ryan tubridy is wittering away on the radio at the moment, and is saying the sun are reporting that an post is doing away with bicycles in the next year and moving towards motoring solutions (including electric vans), partly due to the increasing number of packages they have to deliver, which bike mounted postmen have trouble with.

LollipopJimmy

magicbastarder wrote: »

ryan tubridy is wittering away on the radio at the moment, and is saying the sun are reporting that an post is doing away with bicycles in the next year and moving towards motoring solutions (including electric vans), partly due to the increasing number of packages they have to deliver, which bike mounted postmen have trouble with.

I'd say the numbers on bikes at the moment is quite low. Our fella used to be on a bike now he's in his own car

rubadub

CramCycle wrote: »

My limited knowledge of sports physiology tells me it is BS. Like comparing a 100m sprinter to a marathon runner and then telling the marathon runner if they ran and tained like the sprinter, they would be faster.

I wondered if there was any type of human powered vehicle which would be really fast but require a lot of energy to be expended. So like a sprint the race would only last 10seconds.

maybe something like those handcars on railway tracks. Geared up in such a way that it is like doing a load of really heavy deadlifts, leaving the person utterly exhausted after 10seconds.

Or it could be powered by both arms and legs, like some sort of leg press machine which has handles too.

I also wondered if they would be allowed have an oddball new style of bike in cycling races, or are the mechanics of it defined. Like could you turn up on that "nubike" in a proper race. And have there been any totally new things in any races in the past which never caught on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_transport

magicbastarder

CramCycle wrote: »

One of the first things I learned in national school was how awesome the triangle is.

a young cramcycle:

CramCycle

magicbastarder wrote: »

a young cramcycle:

My bowtie was red but other than that it is shockingly similar to what I looked like.

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rubadub wrote: »

I wondered if there was any type of human powered vehicle which would be really fast but require a lot of energy to be expended. So like a sprint the race would only last 10seconds.

maybe something like those handcars on railway tracks. Geared up in such a way that it is like doing a load of really heavy deadlifts, leaving the person utterly exhausted after 10seconds.

Or it could be powered by both arms and legs, like some sort of leg press machine which has handles too.

I also wondered if they would be allowed have an oddball new style of bike in cycling races, or are the mechanics of it defined. Like could you turn up on that "nubike" in a proper race. And have there been any totally new things in any races in the past which never caught on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_transport

The 200m in the track sprint qualifiers at world cup/olympic level are just under or on 10 secs, that'd batter anyone!

tomasrojo

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I'd say the numbers on bikes at the moment is quite low. Our fella used to be on a bike now he's in his own car

I see An Post staff on delivery bikes every day on my commute. Balally-Goatstown-Ballsbridge-City Centre.

Mind you, I think phasing out of bikes did happen in the UK, though IIRC the postal unions objected. Again, from memory, management said it was for safety reasons, and when challenged couldn't come up with any convincing evidence that they were dangerous.

Our lad rocks up to the estate in a van and takes the bike out of the van

They ain't great bikes for even 2-3% hill for some of them, I usually have to walk to town on a Monday for a few things and can keep pace with one postman up the hill, another I meet sometimes walks it with his bike, and one older fella takes that hill like a boss!!!! Has to be a "cyclist" given hios pace and positioning on the road.

Are they Vitus bikes? Vaguely recall someone here mentioning that.

Hurrache

So I had a mad dream last night in which I got a new job as an undercover parking enforcement officer. My job was to cycle around the city all day ticketing motorists and cars for infringements from a cyclists point of view. I had to sneak home at one point to switch from my MTB to hybrid as my MTB was too ungainly in city traffic.

secman

Hurrache wrote: »

So I had a mad dream last night in which I got a new job as an undercover parking enforcement officer. My job was to cycle around the city all day ticketing motorists and cars for infringements from a cyclists point of view. I had to sneak home at one point to switch from my MTB to hybrid as my MTB was too ungainly in city traffic.

Stay off the cheese after 9pm

Not sure if this was posted http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/missing-man-cyclists-dylan-keogh/

It's a piece about a man who went missing in Dublin over a week ago while out on his bike, gardai appealing for information.

CrowdedHouse

Just in case you might come across a stray pannier

https://twitter.com/Sweeney_Peter/status/1087819444968194049

tomasrojo

European Parliament won't require pedelec users to have insurance:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/01/22/eu-electric-bike-riders-will-not-need-compulsory-insurance-decides-european-parliament/#15009d046e6f

magicbastarder

dear santa, what i want for christmas is a little radar device on the back of my vehicle (be it a bike or a car) which indicates how many seconds gap the vehicle behind me, is travelling. it could flash green if over 3 seconds, amber if between 2 and three seconds, and red if it's under two seconds.

buffalo

tomasrojo wrote: »

European Parliament won't require pedelec users to have insurance:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/01/22/eu-electric-bike-riders-will-not-need-compulsory-insurance-decides-european-parliament/#15009d046e6f

My reading of that article says that nothing has been decided about fully electric powered bikes and scooters, right? Only power-assist models.

Peter T

tomasrojo wrote: »

European Parliament won't require pedelec users to have insurance:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/01/22/eu-electric-bike-riders-will-not-need-compulsory-insurance-decides-european-parliament/#15009d046e6f

Our crowd will still find a way to let the insurance cowboys run riot with them :pac:

Macy0161

magicbastarder wrote: »

dear santa, what i want for christmas is a little radar device on the back of my vehicle (be it a bike or a car) which indicates how many seconds gap the vehicle behind me, is travelling. it could flash green if over 3 seconds, amber if between 2 and three seconds, and red if it's under two seconds.

Garmin varia radar yolk? The TrainerRoad podcast are always recommending it.

buffalo

Varadkar asks Ministers to stop criticising Shane Ross

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/varadkar-asks-ministers-to-stop-criticising-shane-ross-1.3767195

Leave Shane alone!

Statler

buffalo wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/varadkar-asks-ministers-to-stop-criticising-shane-ross-1.3767195

Leave Shane alone!

Interesting quote in that article: 'Mr Ross is also said to have told the meeting that the Attorney General’s advice was “not sacroscanct”'

He obviously doesn't apply the same logic to the AG's advice on minimum passing distances...

Connor Dunne racing on Zwift later

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/conor-dunne-israel-cycling-academy-zwift/

Harrybelafonte

Have witnessed two cyclists and a motorcyclist slide out on sharp corners in last five days. Is it the tarmac being used or were these individuals unskilled on bikes?

Peter T

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Have witnessed two cyclists and a motorcyclist slide out on sharp corners in last five days. Is it the tarmac being used or were these individuals unskilled on bikes?

Where are you based ? it could be after gritting the roads

Harrybelafonte

Clanbrassil/South circular was two of them and the Outboud corner from Hart’s onto Botanic. A sharp 90 degree turn.

Fighting Tao

Diesel on the road?

Harrybelafonte

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Diesel on the road?

No, cos I came through the Botanic Road one. I overtook the guy about 30 seconds before, came through the corner and then heard the clatter as he fell and slid. There was no diesel there, but it’s a new surface.