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nice looking bike though - very 'sit up and beg' which is much more common on the continent than here.

i've often thought of sending fake warnings to accounts like that.

it was a bargain, only €120, they were €600+ new. great nick too.

that (and a similar one) are for chucking in the boot of the car to have when we're out west or wherever on hols. first destination is clare island in july.

so i bought another bike. there are now eight bikes in the garage, but only two of us in the house.

yeah, i actually have the email address of the lad mark up there; i've gotten a few bits of kit from them before.

getting back to this - none of you pricks happen to have a deore DX rear derailleur gathering dust, do you? i replaced the cassette and chain; the chain was well worn so i replaced the cassette too. minor issue was that the rear hub is not original, it's an 8 speed; so i had to play with some...

(cough) it's not 'good pedalling form', it's la souplesse.

the way car safety has been going (though this effect has levelled off a lot, i suspect), it's now *more* dangerous to hit another car in your say 20 year old car than when it was new. because if you hit a newer car, it'll carve its way much further into your car than another 20 year old car would.

i live near this junction, and there was yet another cyclist taken off his bike a few weeks ago. any of the incidents i've seen there (well, i saw the aftermath, not the actual incidents) have been motorists coming out of the side road and clipping a cyclist who's on the main road. no issue with...

Massive drop in drink driving and huge improvements in car safety are usually cited as the main reasons for the drop.

Not even close, tbf. I think at one point about 50 years ago we came close to two deaths per day. It's about a third of that now.

yeah, i've seen videos that the benefits are not quite as people claim. one of the claims is that you are able to pull up on the upstroke, which you can't do on 'normal' pedals and you get to use some extra muscles doing so. i'm just so used to clip'less' pedals that normal ones feel a bit strange.

from what i've seen, how difficult hills are is calculated by raising the slope by a factor of 2.5. e.g. doubling the slope increases difficulty by a factor of more than 5.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/02/19/cyclist-killed-in-dublin-is-second-member-of-ucd-cycling-club-to-die-on-roads-in-a-year/ can you imagine having two members of your club killed in less than a year?

unfortunately: "It's been awesome ripping up the trails with our customers around the world. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to ship orders outside of the UK."

i was referring to you ascribing responsibility to the car, but not the motorist. there's a certain cohort which has a big issue with that.

if i was wearing a proper cycling campaigner hat, i'd correct you on your mistake regarding agency in the comment on responsibilty...

One thing you learn while cycling is that it's often safest to position yourself so as you 'deliberately' block cars. Usually referred to as taking primary position or taking the lane. If you cycle in the gutter, motorists will pass you with no regard for you. If you take primary position, you...