Jaysus cycling! (2 Viewers)

[classic seanc]

Actually do people use the DTO Journey planner?
http://www.dto-journeyplanner.ie/dtojp/jsp/content/start.do

I wonder if its accurate over longer distances? My current commute is nearlyt 25 mins and the journey planner makes it 29 or so...

I use the gmap pedometer.
DTO says my journey is about 8km, google say 11.5km. I'd trust google because you get to do your route from your exact starting point to your exact finishing point.
Also, it's easier to use gmaps if you're the sort of guy who wants to pick your own particular route (E.G. DTO insists I should go home via O'Connell st., but I know that the traffic there would slow me down loads).

reckon it would make a nice sturdy fixie. there was a guy talking about doing a build-yourself-a-fixie workshop in seomra spraoi sometime. if i see him i'll ask him when and if he's still doing it.

That'd be cool if it happened yeah. I'd defo be into the idea. Didn't someone mention doing a bike workshop there before?

 

[nofunchee]

That'd be cool if it happened yeah. I'd defo be into the idea. Didn't someone mention doing a bike workshop there before?

yeah, there's been two or three i think. there's a bike parts swap shop on in seomra spraoi this saturday at around 4pm i think, if that interests you. the fixie guy will be there. good chance to ask people repair and other bike related questions too. loads of couriers i'd say too so loads of fixies present. you can induldge in some fixie porn.

 

[classic seanc]

I might go.
Or I might not.
They'll all laugh at me.

 

[classic seanc]

YIKES!! Spraoi dudes, get that spam off yee're comments page!

 

[flashback]

Here, Sean, I am sure you are right about needing a new chain ring etc, but just so you know, you said that "some of the teeth are worn down to nubs", this might not actually be what it looks like.
Shimano, and a few people, purposely make one or two teeth on the chainwheel very small, or not there at all, this is to help the front mech change gear more smoothly.
You can normally tell you need a new chainring / crankset by seeing if the teeth are sharkfinned, (thats what we used to call it)

You can see below, see the way that it slopes gradually up, and then very steeply down like a shark fin?

Also notice the missing teeth, to help shifting.

Pity I cant help more. I wouldn't mind doing a bike maintenance session. Ah well.

 

[nofunchee]

yeah, there's been two or three i think. there's a bike parts swap shop on in seomra spraoi this saturday at around 4pm i think, if that interests you. the fixie guy will be there. good chance to ask people repair and other bike related questions too. loads of couriers i'd say too so loads of fixies present. you can induldge in some fixie porn.

apologies, it's actually 1pm to 5pm:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=101307323&blogID=332089950

 

[Lili Marlene]

Throw all your skinny jeans away indie boi, they’ll be no use to you when you truly become thunder thighed.

hey I never saw that, i'm glad to say I have never worn a pair of skinny jeans in my life

 

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[rettucs]

The Cyclists

ha ha, brilliant.

I know I posted this before, but check out this video of seanc on his cool purple bike. I never get tired of watching it.

[video=google;-8506523396454200788]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8506523396454200788[/video]

 

[classic seanc]

hey I never saw that, i'm glad to say I have never worn a pair of skinny jeans in my life

How are your leg muskles these days anyway?

 

[classic seanc]

ha ha, brilliant.

I know I posted this before, but check out this video of seanc on his cool purple bike. I never get tired of watching it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8506523396454200788

Bah!! I saw that before.But the video I saw had Welcome to The Jungle playing.

 

[rettucs]

Bah!! I saw that before.But the video I saw had Welcome to The Jungle playing.

yeah, but its not right to be listening to music when cycling.

anyway, sorry for wasting your time

 

[classic seanc]

I'm not in that video. I was there at the start for a second but then my gears slipped and everyone shot off ahead of me through a red light. Then later they laughed at me on the internet. I went home and listened to Purple Rain on repeat for days, crying and squeezing my arse boils.

I was so distraught that I nearly unrolled my legs of my pants for good.

 

[rettucs]

you know they have a new warning sign on the streets of manhattan now. Basically its to warn people to 'beware the purple bike'. It looks like this

 

[rettucs]

oh, and since this is my 2,000th post, I'd like for it to be in the cycling thread

 

[magicbastarder]

I use the gmap pedometer.
DTO says my journey is about 8km, google say 11.5km. I'd trust google because you get to do your route from your exact starting point to your exact finishing point.
Also, it's easier to use gmaps if you're the sort of guy who wants to pick your own particular route (E.G. DTO insists I should go home via O'Connell st., but I know that the traffic there would slow me down loads).

i find the route planner built natively into google maps better, but it seems to only follow routes cars can drive.

 

[quasiquasi]

Some amoral degenerate stole my bike this evening, so no cycling for a while. Bah.

 

[rettucs]

Some amoral degenerate stole my bike this evening, so no cycling for a while. Bah.

ah bollix, no way. Where'd this happen?

 

[quasiquasi]

ah bollix, no way. Where'd this happen?

In Cambridge, outside a pub where I was at an Asobi Seksu gig. Usually I take two locks when I'm going to leave my bike anywhere dubious, but yesterday I left the heavy D-lock at home. Felt fucking miserable on the walk home, thought every cyclist that passed me was riding mine. The amount of bike theft is almost the worst thing about living here, almost everyone I know has had one stolen at some point.

Great concert, though.

 

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3 Rock 1992:

http://www.seantravers.com/seansstuff/movies/mtb/clunker_day_small.mov

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