Jaysus cycling! (6 Viewers)

[therealjohnny]

citysickness, formerly of this parish, is still in possession of a 1980s peugeot BMX in startlingly good nick.

Nice. My brother had one of those. Probably landfill now.

 

[Unknown Convict]

Nice. My brother had one of those. Probably landfill now.

or a 'fleece'. amazing what they can turn into fleeces these days.

 

[pete]

citysickness, formerly of this parish, is still in possession of a 1980s peugeot BMX in startlingly good nick.

@CitySickness formerly?

 

[magicbastarder]

indeed:

boards.ie - View Single Post - your first bike

 

[magicbastarder]

changed gear and brake cables during the week. cycling up howth hill from the village is not a good time to remember 'oh yeah, i should have spent some time adjusting the gears again'.

 

[magicbastarder]

Cyclist dies following collision with truck - Independent.ie

that's the fourth cyclist killed in two weeks.

 

[Jerry Twig]

The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare'


The helmet/high-vis argument again

This is my view of it (i.e. that Dublin is the only place I've seen where cyclists are expected to be luminous, and therefore the problem) but I'm sure I was dismissed for it here. ho-hum

 

[rettucs]

Cyclist dies following collision with truck - Independent.ie

that's the fourth cyclist killed in two weeks.

drove by the scene yesterday evening a few hours after it happened. The truck was still there at that point and the road was still closed off. It's a dead straight, reasonably wide road. Dunno how the hell this could have happened. Grim.

 

[therealjohnny]

Recently unearthed relic. This was a"tank" attachment that fit on the crossbar on the Schwinn I inherited from my sister. The sticker was my addition.

 

[magicbastarder]

This is my view of it (i.e. that Dublin is the only place I've seen where cyclists are expected to be luminous, and therefore the problem) but I'm sure I was dismissed for it here. ho-hum

you can be guaranteed that the reaction from the RSA to the latest spike in deaths will be even more hi-vis.

though to be fair to them, the head of the RSA warned the FF transport spokesman that 'we are not living in a police state' when he called for mandatory hi-vis for pedestrians.

 

[Jerry Twig]

you can be guaranteed that the reaction from the RSA to the latest spike in deaths will be even more hi-vis.

though to be fair to them, the head of the RSA warned the FF transport spokesman that 'we are not living in a police state' when he called for mandatory hi-vis for pedestrians.

The proper response would be to insist on wider, demarcated bike lanes and educating drivers that roads are to be shared and that they're the only ones capable of killing people.

 

[ann post]

I got a dawes galaxy yesterday for my endless touring round mountains and things and for going to work. Should be down to just driving 3 days a week soon enough.

Its wonderful.

 

[mark]

Oh! I got a new bike this week too! My old bike was bought in a pinch years ago. it's seriously heavy and had way to much stuff - integrated dynamo, 28 million gears, air cushioned front forks - but it was all they had in terms of large hybrids, I needed a bike asap, and that was the only shop my work would deal with.

Anyway, got a new lad this week. Tokyobike CS. Super light, super fast, super white! I'm calling it Gerry McInerney. It'll dull up soon enough I reckon, but I'm just enjoying the lack of weight right now. It also matches my kitchen!

 

[chris d]

If we get the new gaff in Whitehall I'll be cycling up the Drumcondra road every evening. Will have to get a replacement back wheel for the old Marin hardtail. It's been up in the roof space for the last few years rotting away.

Damn, I miss that bike now I've been googling pictures of it.

 

[therealjohnny]

This morning a cyclist obviously thought the slip road wasn't wide enough to accommodate a bike and a car so decided to cycle in the middle of the road. I gave him such a frowning when he eventually allowed me to overtake him. That loud rev I did to signal my irritation as I passed is something he won't forget in a long time.

 

[magicbastarder]

Anyway, got a new lad this week. Tokyobike CS. Super light, super fast, super white! I'm calling it Gerry McInerney. It'll dull up soon enough I reckon, but I'm just enjoying the lack of weight right now. It also matches my kitchen!

i'm trying to figure out if that's an enormous frame or are the wheels relatively small?

 

[magicbastarder]

This morning a cyclist obviously thought the slip road wasn't wide enough to accommodate a bike and a car so decided to cycle in the middle of the road.

proper order.

 

[therealjohnny]

proper order.

Nah, fuck him and his type, and his children's children.

It's not a wide road, but it's wide enough.

 

[Unknown Convict]

if drivers are supposed to leave 1m when overtaking cyclists in a 50k zone, should cyclists not do the same when undertaking cars in slow moving traffic? i.e. if the gap is insufficient, don't squeeze past and bang my bonnet. cuts both ways, no?

 

[Space]

Be considerate to other road users is the rule, banging on your bonnet is not considerate so you are correct they were out of line. Unless of course you'd blocked a bit of a cycle lane...