Jaysus cycling! (6 Viewers)

[Space]

I honestly thought it was some render i was looking at (because that's what construction looks like now).
I saw another pic today and the purple yaris is real, and some legend is driving it to work there.

@Reets perhaps?

 

[Reets]

apparently there's a thread on reddit (so caveat emptor) where it's been claimed that most of the cost of that bike shelter was actually resurfacing the car park.

The back over there is resurfaced but I think that was done a few years ago. Pre covid maybe.
Also I’m not fancy enough to drive there, you need to be working in the place 20+ years to maybe get a space, or be a politician.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

lads - is it possible to get a dynamo bike light set anywhere?

 

[magicbastarder]

i suspect not - you can get dynamo hubs, which are a different beast altogether. dynamo bike lights were never much cop.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i suspect not - you can get dynamo hubs, which are a different beast altogether. dynamo bike lights were never much cop.

I have happy memories of the simplicity of the old fashioned ones...
probably not really based in reality -
Probably just need to get one of them USB charging sets..

 

[magicbastarder]

yeah, USB lights have become so cheap and reliable that a dynamo is effectively redundant.
those dynamo hubs i mentioned are usually bought by bike tourers or audaxers who need to keep lights/phones etc. charged when they might not get to a mains supply regularly.

 

[ann post]

USB lights so far

Knog blinder rear is going a fair few years, though the larger front ones i had didn't do long at all.
cateye volt 500 front light - doing great after 3 years
infini lava usb front light - about 2 years - switch on this has never been that convincing and will be how it fails.
various generic ebay usb rears lights have failed over time

just bought a bush and muller 2c carrier light but it's not fitted yet. will see in 6 months if it's any good.

 

[magicbastarder]

i was chatting to a chap last night who took up cycling aged 69; by the time he'd hit 71, he'd cycled from dublin to his home town in one day, 240km, and two years after that he cycled the entire wild atlantic way for charity.

 

[Space]

i was chatting to a chap last night who took up cycling aged 69; by the time he'd hit 71, he'd cycled from dublin to his home town in one day, 240km, and two years after that he cycled the entire wild atlantic way for charity.

Show off

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i was chatting to a chap last night who took up cycling aged 69; by the time he'd hit 71, he'd cycled from dublin to his home town in one day, 240km, and two years after that he cycled the entire wild atlantic way for charity.

presumably he was retired at that stage?

 

[pete]

www.paywallskip.com/article?url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/cycling/2024/10/19/the-trials-of-stephen-roche-there-are-things-ive-done-the-last-few-years-im-not-proud-of/

 

[JohnnyRaz]

C’mere - this is probably just me being a prick - but I wanted to get the input of the cycle heads on thumped on this. (IMHO) well meaning but ultimately counter productive bit of cycle infrastructure (or cycle washing one might term it).

This road leads past two schools. They have put a cycle lane on one side (ya!) compacting both lanes of traffic, so there is now considerably less space for cyclists on the other side. To top it off the opposite side is not double yellow lined, so pricks park there, increasing difficulties for cyclists in the old system, but now meaning cars can’t get past when there’s traffic congestion.


So while the cycle path offers protection for people heading south, cyclists heading north have to content with less space, and even more angry drivers.

Am I just being a dickhead here

 

[magicbastarder]

Is the lane provided going uphill? I've seen that, they're more likely to put in a cycle lane on the uphill side, because cyclists will be moving more slowly there, presumably.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Is the lane provided going uphill? I've seen that, they're more likely to put in a cycle lane on the uphill side, because cyclists will be moving more slowly there, presumably.

No downhill!

 

[pete]

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a quick scan of his twitter leads me to think fuck him

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I was on a Dublin Bike last night and finally had the old wheel caught in the Luas tracks moment. Went chin first into the pavement, luckily no serious damage but I’m sore all over this morning.

 

[rettucs]

I was on a Dublin Bike last night and finally had the old wheel caught in the Luas tracks moment. Went chin first into the pavement, luckily no serious damage but I’m sore all over this morning.

good job you have all that padding on the chin

 

[flashback]

C’mere - this is probably just me being a prick - but I wanted to get the input of the cycle heads on thumped on this. (IMHO) well meaning but ultimately counter productive bit of cycle infrastructure (or cycle washing one might term it).

This road leads past two schools. They have put a cycle lane on one side (ya!) compacting both lanes of traffic, so there is now considerably less space for cyclists on the other side. To top it off the opposite side is not double yellow lined, so pricks park there, increasing difficulties for cyclists in the old system, but now meaning cars can’t get past when there’s traffic congestion.
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So while the cycle path offers protection for people heading south, cyclists heading north have to content with less space, and even more angry drivers.

Am I just being a dickhead here

I wonder how widening the existing cycle lane slightly and making it two directions would work.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I wonder how widening the existing cycle lane slightly and making it two directions would work.

yeah, could just about do it I think - problem is road narrows significantly past a certain point (at which point the lane disappears), so I'm not sure how people would feed onto the contra-flow lane