Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

le petit braquet · 09-08-2012 8:16pm

James Dyson (the vacuum cleaner guy) on allowing engineers more freedom in the design of bikes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/9462533/London-2012-Olympics-engineers-should-be-given-free-rein-to-produce-more-radical-bikes-says-James-Dyson.html

Etc · 09-08-2012 8:41pm

It's a great gold medal win, let's not turn it into 46 years of "they think it's all over, it is now"

CramCycle · 09-08-2012 10:22pm

Watched it in work today, popped down to the canteen which stayed open till just before it started (usually closes at 4). There was only 10 people there and just as the fight started , there was a swarm and 75% of everyone in the building was there.

A few used it as an excuse to leave the building early but in general it was great to feel that spirit that has been lacking in work for a long time, passion, people were commentating, laughing, worried, unsure and not afraid to show it, sounds overly sentimental but a big thank you to Katie, your hard work made alot of people happy and for that alone it was worth it.

le petit braquet · 10-08-2012 9:21am

In a small indication of how popular cycling has become with the British public, my wife couldn't get me an Olympic cycling tshirt at the souvenir shop at the athletics complex on Wednesday. She said that cycling appeared to be the most sold out of all the sports there.

ednwireland · 10-08-2012 9:31am

le petit braquet wrote: »

In a small indication of how popular cycling has become with the British public, my wife couldn't get me an Olympic cycling tshirt at the souvenir shop at the athletics complex on Wednesday. She said that cycling appeared to be the most sold out of all the sports there.

i managed to get an XL one ( the L was a better fit but there were none left on thursday)

RobFowl · 10-08-2012 10:38am

ednwireland wrote: »

i managed to get an XL one ( the L was a better fit but there were none left on thursday)

GB shirt will go down well on the road on Donegal

ednwireland · 10-08-2012 11:06am

RobFowl wrote: »

GB shirt will go down well on the road on Donegal

just got team gb shorts delivered from littlewoods ireland (go figure) but not cycling and you wouldnt know without close looking.

i'm assuming he means the event specific t shirts which were only available at the venue (all the other team gb stuff was available when i was there - didnt buy any )

i'm even getting to like the freaky wenlock mascot as well, i wanted one of these but they didnt seem to make them

seamus · 10-08-2012 1:38pm

Got an email from Team Sky with this picture in it.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a little bit creepy looking?

RobertFoster · 10-08-2012 1:46pm

seamus wrote: »

Am I the only one who thinks this is a little bit creepy looking?

A little bit creepy alright. It doesn't help that they're all the same height, and their mouths, noses, and eyes are all in a straight line. Probably individual shots stitched together using their features as scale rather than their true sizes.

Lumen · 10-08-2012 1:48pm

Eh, there's a couple of dudes missing from that Sky pic.

Probably no one famous.

le petit braquet · 10-08-2012 1:58pm

seamus wrote: »

Am I the only one who thinks this is a little bit creepy looking?

Stepford Wives Husbands!

Wait until they start producing Wiggins clones

daragh_ · 10-08-2012 2:10pm

seamus wrote: »

Got an email from Team Sky with this picture in it.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a little bit creepy looking?

What are they doing with their hands?

Jawgap · 10-08-2012 2:29pm

It looks like I fail to meet the standard for awesome.........

ednwireland · 10-08-2012 2:48pm

whats special purpose pointing to !

CramCycle · 10-08-2012 2:58pm

ednwireland wrote: »

whats special purpose pointing to !

I thought it was the saddle, now well, I realise, very odd, I'll take the less disturbing possibility and suggest it is meant for the padding on the cross bar which has the special purpose of padding your gentleman parts should you slip in a sprint.

hardCopy · 10-08-2012 3:11pm

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Beeped at this morning by a taxi driver for staying on the road instead of stopping the bike, lifting it onto a onpath cycle lane for 15 metres and stopping it again to take it down back onto the road. There are little 'speed islands' on the road which cars really need to slow down to navigate and I can navigate much quicker so he got antsy with me for staying on the road instead of getting up on a badly maintained footpath/cycle lane that has a bus stop on it when I travel on that road quicker than he can.

Done the same thing every day for 5 years and first time anyone has beeped at me. I saw red. Really need to calm my temper.

Had one of those on the Ring of Kerry last weekend, cycling two abreast, nothing coming the other way and some fat pr1ck decides to blast his horn rather than overtake us. I half turned and shrugged my shoulders. He beeped again and pulled up right beside me with his window down, at this point I lost the plot and before he could say anything I stuck my face right up to the open window and let loose a demonic roar of "Fvck You" in my thickest Dublin accent.

His poor wife was only about six inches away. Neither of them said a thing and they just sped away.

I don't like playing the crazy cyclist but some people only understand aggression.

awec · 10-08-2012 3:14pm

CramCycle wrote: »

I thought it was the saddle, now well, I realise, very odd, I'll take the less disturbing possibility and suggest it is meant for the padding on the cross bar which has the special purpose of padding your gentleman parts should you slip in a sprint.

I had the misfortune of crushing my testicles multiple times on my bike as a young boy. Thankfully this hasn't happened in years.

Still, would rather crush them than cycle a bike with a bit of pipe insulation wrapped around her.

Lusk Doyle · 10-08-2012 3:16pm

Lumen wrote: »

Eh, there's a couple of dudes missing from that Sky pic.

Probably no one famous.

Not the vuelta line up no?

Lumen · 10-08-2012 3:26pm

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Not the vuelta line up no?

Is this a table quiz? Where's my pint?

Unattributed image fail!

Mycroft H · 10-08-2012 6:49pm

Jawgap wrote: »

It looks like I fail to meet the standard for awesome.........

Someone reads reddit :P

Jawgap · 10-08-2012 8:05pm

BX 19 wrote: »

Someone reads reddit :P

No "Two Wheels Better":pac:

tomasrojo · 11-08-2012 12:50am

On Conan the other night:

HIPSTER COPS? and would you respect them?

RobertFoster · 12-08-2012 9:17am

seamus wrote: »

Got an email from Team Sky with this picture in it.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a little bit creepy looking?

Sky Sports are in on the act now:

Darkglasses · 12-08-2012 4:40pm

Just bought a copy of Mel Allwood's Bike Maintenance book, it's absolutely fantastic. Covers every possible job with good pictures and directions.

furiousox · 12-08-2012 7:21pm

My back's been at me since tuesday.
Was hoping to get out for a spin this morning but my back was almost completely seized up.
Through the day I've had difene tablets, difene gel, solpadeine, solpadol, 2 espressos and a glass of bulmers.
Dark Side Of The Moon is a really really good album.

decdon · 12-08-2012 8:22pm

hardCopy wrote: »

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Beeped at this morning by a taxi driver for staying on the road instead of stopping the bike, lifting it onto a onpath cycle lane for 15 metres and stopping it again to take it down back onto the road. There are little 'speed islands' on the road which cars really need to slow down to navigate and I can navigate much quicker so he got antsy with me for staying on the road instead of getting up on a badly maintained footpath/cycle lane that has a bus stop on it when I travel on that road quicker than he can.

Done the same thing every day for 5 years and first time anyone has beeped at me. I saw red. Really need to calm my temper.

Had one of those on the Ring of Kerry last weekend, cycling two abreast, nothing coming the other way and some fat pr1ck decides to blast his horn rather than overtake us. I half turned and shrugged my shoulders. He beeped again and pulled up right beside me with his window down, at this point I lost the plot and before he could say anything I stuck my face right up to the open window and let loose a demonic roar of "Fvck You" in my thickest Dublin accent.

His poor wife was only about six inches away. Neither of them said a thing and they just sped away.

I don't like playing the crazy cyclist but some people only understand aggression.

a few of us from the club did the ROK a short while back. same thing but this time, the wife in the car passing us by, had the full extent of her arm out the window giving us the finger. how sweet was it when one of the lads at the front saw what was coming behind and gave her a good dash of the water bottle in the window...... needless to say we all had a good chuckle for the next few kms .

bcmf · 12-08-2012 9:47pm

I am making it official!
Ed Sheeran is SHIIIIITE.

oflahero · 12-08-2012 11:29pm

bcmf wrote: »

I am making it official!
Ed Sheeran is SHIIIIITE.

From Sickipedia: "For those who missed Ed Sheeran on last nights Brits, worry not: there is a squashed fox on the A470 just outside Cardiff."

AstraMonti · 13-08-2012 8:02am

x-all-the-things-meme-generator-carbon-fiber-all-the-things-4fb993.jpg

buffalo · 13-08-2012 8:13am

Bloody came off my bike this morning. Had just come through a junction where the rear wheel spun out, but no bother, then down the ramp into the basement carpark. Sharp right at the bottom, realised too late the brakes weren't doing enough to slow me down. Eejit. I must've been down that ramp a thousand times. ugh. Only a spot of road rash, nothing major thankfully.

AstraMonti · 13-08-2012 8:55am

Is the bike alright? That's the important bit.

buffalo · 13-08-2012 9:10am

AstraMonti wrote: »

Is the bike alright? That's the important bit.

heh. That bike was never alright.

It was the commuter, so I'm already blaming the fact that I'm used to cornering like mad on the road bike with no problems. Whereas the commuter doesn't brake well in the wet, and the tyres aren't as grippy. But it'd take being run over by a tank to do any damage to it.

seamus · 13-08-2012 9:20am

Stuck a HRM on last week for the commute to get an idea of how hard I was/n't working on the way in and out and discovered that I was barely touching 100bpm on the way into work and 120 on the way home. The start of my "putting in any kind of effort" zone is 140, so I lamentably stuck an 8spd cassette onto the singlespeed commuter over the weekend. Which turned out to actually be quite enjoyable, even with that ****ty weather.

Though I'd never done 50km/h on that bike before this morning, which was a little unsettling.

I would have just put a smaller cog on the back, but that would have killed me for the homeward commute. It's only a 50m climb over 3km, but not to be sniffed at when you've got a headwind and tired legs. 3 gears would be more than enough, but 8spd was the smallest road cassette I could find. MTB cassettes have a stupidly large range.

oflahero · 13-08-2012 10:01am

buffalo wrote: »

But it'd take being run over by a tank to do any damage to it.

That applies to your road bike as well...

ROK ON · 13-08-2012 11:24am

My 3 year old daughter has some really impressive looking road rash on her back and arm following a play accident with her older sister.

When I was dressing and cleaning the wounds she was remarkably stoical, fair play to her. If it was my I would have been screaming like a three year old girl.

buffalo · 13-08-2012 12:21pm

oflahero wrote: »

That applies to your road bike as well...

I cleaned it you know!

TdF over, Olympics over... how long 'til the Vuelta? This Saturday? Sweet!

colm_gti · 13-08-2012 1:47pm

Looks like me and strava are on a break for the next few weeks, my 4 month old bryton rider 35 just self destructed, piece of sh*te, should have just bought an edge 500...

AstraMonti · 13-08-2012 1:59pm

Mycroft H · 13-08-2012 2:00pm

colm_gti wrote: »

Looks like me and strava are on a break for the next few weeks, my 4 month old bryton rider 35 just self destructed, piece of sh*te, should have just bought an edge 500...

Warranty? Refund?

colm_gti · 13-08-2012 3:22pm

BX 19 wrote: »

colm_gti wrote: »

Looks like me and strava are on a break for the next few weeks, my 4 month old bryton rider 35 just self destructed, piece of sh*te, should have just bought an edge 500...

Warranty? Refund?

I'll get either a credit note or refund, but how long it'll take to process I don't know.

Khannie · 13-08-2012 7:58pm

Not worth its own thread....

Heading to France at the weekend and we'll have 3 bikes hanging off the back of the car (saloon). Do I need one of those trailer board thingies with the reg + lights on it, or would I be OK with just an extra reg, cable tied to the last bike?

Raam · 13-08-2012 8:02pm

Khannie wrote: »

Not worth its own thread....

Heading to France at the weekend and we'll have 3 bikes hanging off the back of the car (saloon). Do I need one of those trailer board thingies with the reg + lights on it, or would I be OK with just an extra reg, cable tied to the last bike?

We got fined in Italy for not having a reflective yokey stuck to the bikes on the rear carrier and also for having the reg covered.

Lusk Doyle · 13-08-2012 8:08pm

Raam wrote: »

We got fined in Italy for not having a reflective yokey stuck to the bikes on the rear carrier and also for having the reg covered.

You must not have had the obligatory moustache and must not have been able to speak bopiddy boupie also!

Dermot Illogical · 13-08-2012 8:32pm

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

You must not have had the obligatory moustache

That rule only applies to the women, silly.

cdaly_ · 13-08-2012 9:08pm

Khannie wrote: »

Not worth its own thread....

Heading to France at the weekend and we'll have 3 bikes hanging off the back of the car (saloon). Do I need one of those trailer board thingies with the reg + lights on it, or would I be OK with just an extra reg, cable tied to the last bike?

Raam wrote: »

We got fined in Italy for not having a reflective yokey stuck to the bikes on the rear carrier and also for having the reg covered.

We got done for hidden number plate and for obscured lights. The Gendarmes are much stricter than the Gardai.

At minimum a number plate on the back but be certain that your lights/indicators are well visible. If you already have a tow hitch and socket, get the trailer board. If not, see can you mount the rack high enough that the lights are not obstructed. Might be worth taking off a wheel or two and hanging them in the middle of the rack to make the lights more visible.

I don't travel abroad without the full trailer bar these days.

Khannie · 13-08-2012 9:15pm

Sound. Thanks.

Raam · 13-08-2012 9:20pm

He was also gonna do us for having the indicators obscured. I guess he felt that he had annoyed us enough though. Pesky Carabinieri.

Jawgap · 13-08-2012 9:48pm

Khannie wrote: »

Not worth its own thread....

Heading to France at the weekend and we'll have 3 bikes hanging off the back of the car (saloon). Do I need one of those trailer board thingies with the reg + lights on it, or would I be OK with just an extra reg, cable tied to the last bike?

Definitely need the board thingy - also don't forget your breathalyser kit - you can get them in the AA Shop

Kintarō Hattori · 14-08-2012 12:21am

Got off the train after coming home, walked out and towards the bike only to see a fellow cyclist with his hands held to his head in despair. Thieves had nicked both his wheels and left the frame locked to the stand.

If you leave your bike at any train station folks, remember to secure the wheels to the stand also.

AstraMonti · 14-08-2012 7:46am

Not that I have anything against religion... :rolleyes:

Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

Comments