Jaysus cycling! (16 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

As mentioned, I was out for the first time in eight months on the good bike yesterday. At the back of the airport, I was overtaken by a 40 foot artic, on a blind bend, into oncoming traffic. I shot my hand out as a warning to the artic driver - being further left in the road, I saw the oncoming car sooner. He didn't brake - he accelerated.

 

[ann post]

I was alluding to it on instgram, but last week some lad
follows me into the bus lane because he wanted it for a shortcut
tailgates me and blows the horn
I know the shortcut, it's about 150M all told
I slow down because i do that when i know someone behind me is thinking about killing me, i want the safety of slowness
guy cuts into the other lane (solid white line crossing) to pass me but ends up stuck straddling it, more horn blowing etc.
gets to end of shortcut, stops car mid junction leaving daughter in passenger seat to run towards me shouting at me
there were people around all over so I just kept saying 'road rage' louder and louder as he got closer till everyone was looking at him and that and me being a fair bit bigger than him slowed him down.
retreats to his car.
this guy was on a school run like.

 

[Deadmanposting]

this guy was on a school run like.

Kids ruin everything, man

 

[magicbastarder]

the legislation governing e-scooters still hasn't been delivered, but IIRC scooters will be exempt from regulation and treated like bikes if they're not able to exceed 25km/h under their own steam.

this is coming into effect next week. scooters limited to 20km/h AFAIK.

 

[magicbastarder]

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[ann post]

Very much being the fairweather but i went all in cycling to work for the past two weeks and it's a great buzz.
The weather will change at some point obvs.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Very much being the fairweather but i went all in cycling to work for the past two weeks and it's a great buzz.
The weather will change at some point obvs.

Ah there's nothing like it, really

WHat is the distance like?

 

[ann post]

Ah there's nothing like it, really

WHat is the distance like?

It's about 30 all in, which is plenty for me.

 

[Deadmanposting]

It's about 30 all in, which is plenty for me.

30k?
That is a decent go
10 miles each way

 

[ann post]

30k?
That is a decent go
10 miles each way

No it's 30km get away with those barleycorns. It's 10 one way and 20 home because get the train.

 

[Deadmanposting]

No it's 30km get away with those barleycorns. It's 10 one way and 20 home because get the train.

30k is basically 20 miles
I speak both

 

[ann post]

30k is basically 20 miles
I speak both

No 20 Miles is basically 30km.

The imperial system was so chaotic and involved so many slightly different inches across the globe that it was standardised to a metric value, it had no defined intrinsic value that could be relied upon, so although the word mile predates kilometres, the esablished value of metric measurements is the entire basis for the current imperial system.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Imperial measurements are in a different league.

 

[Deadmanposting]

No 20 Miles is basically 30km.

The imperial system was so chaotic and involved so many slightly different inches across the globe that it was standardised to a metric value, it had no defined intrinsic value that could be relied upon, so although the word mile predates kilometres, the esablished value of metric measurements is the entire basis for the current imperial system.

I'm just used to what I grew up with. I'm old.
MPG makes sense to me. Like MPH does. I have to convert for the other.
Same with lbs.
I'd be happy to lose this imperial Imperial system given its history, but it's took/taken/tooken


Godo going on the bike either way. Fair play.

You know rain is only water, right?
:-D

 

[seanc]

Surely all you bicycle nuts know about imperial because of legacy standards?

What diameter are your tires like?

 

[Deadmanposting]

Surely all you bicycle nuts know about imperial because of legacy standards?

What diameter are your tires like?

27" x 1 1/4"

Everyone knows that

I think it's 700mm in euros

 

[ann post]

Surely all you bicycle nuts know about imperial because of legacy standards?

What diameter are your tires like?

The legacy stds are still based on metric values all told, it's just placating the brits that it's written in stupid.

Anywhoo It wasn't me who started the unit conversion conversation here - but it seems the inch sizes are bullshit in any case

 

[Deadmanposting]

Anywhoo It wasn't me who started the unit conversion conversation here

Whaaatverrrrrr

Happy 30 to you

 

[seanc]

The legacy stds are still based on metric values all told, it's just placating the brits that it's written in stupid.

Anywhoo It wasn't me who started the unit conversion conversation here - but it seems the inch sizes are bullshit in any case

I'm quiet aware of that, but would you not say "twenty two inch wheel" or whatever as shorthand.

No one has ever asked me to get a length of 45mm x 19mm timber like.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I'm quiet aware of that, but would you not say "twenty two inch wheel" or whatever as shorthand.

No one has ever asked me to get a length of 45mm x 19mm timber like.

Ah even my ol' fella made the switch for lumber and glass and stuff
Glass thicknesses may have been in mm long before because they can dice up the mm so finely
"4 mil clear" etc
Most of the conversations I hear in Dublin Builders Providers are in mils and metres
But that's anecdotal