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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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    #10022
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119261100#Comment_119261100

    Thanks for that.

    No availability for my dates.



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    #10023
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,844 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119270081#Comment_119270081

    Nothing worse. Then there's the question of do you unsheath said feet in work.

    I keep spare shoes and socks in work for that very purpose. And put wet ones in the furthest bathroom to dry out. Putting on wet cycling shoes and kit to cycle home in is grim enough, never mind having to sit on a train in it!



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    #10024
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119270729#Comment_119270729

    Always have spare stuff in work, and a dryer that I use on occasion alongside a colleague who rides quite a bit. Just annoyed I didn't bring a towel. Train is quiet for the first half of my journey and even just wrapping my feet to take most of the water out would have been useful. Also, this feels like the coldest June I ever remember. I'd be over the moon with this weather in Autumn through to late spring but at this time of year.



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    #10025
    magicbastarder
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    popped out on the bike to go pick the car up from a service, was in civvies. approaching a junction, i was on the main road and there were cars coming from a minor road on the left; however traffic was slow moving so i was keeping my eyes open.

    anyway, a lad pulled out onto the road (without looking) after seeing a gap and i called out 'hello hello' in a loudish but not unfriendly voice, which he heard and stopped, so i slipped by. at next set of lights, he pulled up alongside me and said 'sorry about that'.

    'ah, not to worry'

    'i'm a cyclist too actually'

    (slight pause)

    'but i wear a helmet and a hi-vis jacket'



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    #10026
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119271118#Comment_119271118

    He's a word beginning with C alright but it ain't cyclist I am thinking of.



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    #10027
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i didn't engage except for a disinterested 'grand so' but cycled away thinking i could have said 'what use would a hi-vis jacket have been, since you weren't looking?'



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    #10028
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,175 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    "I'm a driver too actually"

    (slight pause)

    "But I wear fishnets and high heels"



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    #10029
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i am putting this here, rather than opting for the 'images of ugly' or 'images of beauty' thread. i suspect that design at the seatstay/top tube/down tube junction is simply a 'make something that just looks different' brief for the designers.

    https://racing.trekbikes.com/stories/equipment/meet-the-new-trek-madone




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    #10030
    [Deleted User]
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    Lad passed me the other day on the current Madone in the Trek team colours with Ultegra and I thought wow that looks great in the flesh. This one does not and my untrained eye has questions about that seat post design. Also the front mech is fugly as sin!!!!!!



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    #10031
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    was chatting to a lad earlier on a madone too. not a bad looking bike, but we were swapping front and back into the headwind from sutton back to fairview, and he was fresher than me and it damn near killed me in the end trying to maintain pace when out front. stupid macho pride. i guess that shouldn't colour my opinion of the madone.



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    #10032
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119273738#Comment_119273738

    Wasn't an Asian lad in distinctive blue kit was he?



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    #10033
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    nope. irish chap from marino.



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    #10034
    [Deleted User]
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    Reason I ask is there is a group of lads based around Drogheda/Balbriggan and surrounds I've met a few times over the last few years both in their group and solo who's bikes you'd drool over. Best of Trek, Bianchi and Spesh to name but some.



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    #10035
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,844 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119273625#Comment_119273625

    why???!

    That seatpost/ seatstay situation is so unnecessary.

    Plus seems to limit fitting options.

    Otherwise it looks standard aero bikeish. I like the current madone in the flesh.



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    #10036
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 25,726 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119273844#Comment_119273844

    The seat stay is apparently about airflow. Who knows if it's actually true though.



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    #10037
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,844 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Figured it was some sort of aero situation. I'm getting more used to it now.

    It does seem inconvenient fit wise though



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    #10038
    [Deleted User]
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    Inconvenient ??? Should be sold with a hacksaw and a link for a replacement seat post for when you sell it on. Unless the seat post is shorter than I imagine in which case I have more questions.



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    #10039
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Front page story in the local newspaper: council withdraws school warden (lollipop wo/man) because of the behaviour of motorists.

    Bowing to motordom, leaving the kids to fend for themselves or walk a longer route to/from school.



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    #10040
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    do lollipop people have any statutory standing? i.e. is it an offence to fail to stop for one?



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    #10041
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭buffalo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274585#Comment_119274585

    I believe so - Gardai, school wardens, construction workers, livestock handlers and... I think there was one more from my theory test a decade or so ago.



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    #10042
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274585#Comment_119274585

    Under Section 96 of the Road Traffic Act 1961, you are guilty of an offence if you fail to stop a vehicle or animal (or to remain stopped) when a school traffic warden holds up their stop sign.



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    #10043
    magicbastarder
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    cheers, probably should have known that...



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    #10044
    buffalo
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274590#Comment_119274590

    I appear to have added construction workers from my imagination. Gardaí, schools wardens and people in charge of animals are the three with authority to stop traffic. I don't know if that includes people walking their dogs.



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    #10045
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,889 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    quite apart from that, what sort of lowlife wouldn't stop?

    I must lead a very sheltered life, I've never seen anyone give the wardens around here any grief whatsoever...



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    #10046
    magicbastarder
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274726#Comment_119274726

    i think if a construction company has been given the licence to operate a stop/go system for works, you're legally obliged to obey their directions?



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    #10047
    wheelo01
    Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭wheelo01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274880#Comment_119274880

    I doubt very much they apply for all the times they operate them, if any. There would be shed loads of applications otherwise, no?



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    #10048
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Happens a lot. Lollipop person outside my old place and another in Shankill were constantly skimmed by motorists. Some motorists would beep at them or nudge through while they were standing there. In reality, much like reporting a close pass, I'd say they have just given up when nothing changes.



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    #10049
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,844 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    The lollipop person near me was permanently pissed off, I used to wonder at why until car after car after car went through both them and the red light they stood at.

    I always thought it was mad that you'd need a lollipop person at traffic lights, but then that's the horrible reality we live in now.



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    #10050
    magicbastarder
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    you'd just need an undercover garda with one waiting hidden, nearby on a motorbike, to put the fear of god in people. do it once every few months and motorists would smarten up real quick.



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    #10051
    magicbastarder
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    https://twitter.com/RotharPhibsboro/status/1542823247175106561


    ..



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