Jaysus cycling! (6 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

shit. hurt?

nah, i'm sure the people driving the other way had a right laugh though

 

[Pantone247]

back on the bike three months now

fun

I will die on camden street some morning

fact

new issue of The Dubliner has a feature on surviving cycling in dublin... out this weekend.... *COUGH COUGH*

 

[snakybus]

I nearly died/maimed someone twice there on Tuesday, then a couple of times again this morning.

what the hell's going on? They're throwing themselves on the streets

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Throwing themselves gladly?

Anyway, you have to admire this person:

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/94/31804894.html

 

[flashback]

Throwing themselves gladly?

Anyway, you have to admire this person:

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/94/31804894.html

Amazing.

 

[rettucs]

Throwing themselves gladly?

Anyway, you have to admire this person:

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/94/31804894.html

Immaculate reflectors?

I'm sold

 

[Amolta]

I got a spanking new hybrid bike a few weeks ago.
I got it through the bike to work scheme up here in the north, and i had to spend an exact amount already specified. So I bought meself a damn good lock etc.

Anyhow, had the bike a week. Left it outside a cafe/pub place in town in a dark alley (like ya do... stupid i know but it was only 6:30). I came back out and the feckers cut away at the mudguard with a hacksaw, tried to saw the lock (fancy expensive chain worked wonders), so instead they jumped repeatedly up and down on the chain trying to pop the lock.

In doing so they bent the wheel and messed up the gears really badly, twisting part of the mettle that the wheel wouldn't turn at all.

Been in getting fixed for 2 weeks now because of christmas.... Boody selfish children and their first bikes... gurgh...

 

[classic seanc]

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=25459

Stupid tempting weak £ making me want to spend all my money [/grumble]

 

[magicbastarder]

act soon, the pound is strengthening.

 

[classic seanc]

Well, I'm almost certainly not going to get it. Not that one anyway. It's just tempting is all.

I did get meself a basic pair of SPD MTB* shoes which, unlike my road shoes, will allow me to walk around without sounding like a trotting horse. They work well and only €30something they were:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=18376



*sorry for the wanky abbreviations everybody.

 

[Lili Marlene]

today my lock broke and my bike was stuck to the bicyle frame thingy in work.

so I drove up tonight with my dad and we smashed the lock open using a chisel!

awesome.

 

[flashback]

Immaculate reflectors?

were they an early eighties Dublin band?

 

[magicbastarder]

hmm. €300 to get my dad a bike for his 60th birthday. where's good to check out bikes in that price range?

 

[flashback]

does he like reflectors?

 

[rettucs]

hmm. €300 to get my dad a bike for his 60th birthday. where's good to check out bikes in that price range?

you'll be limited enough with what you can get for that, but try the usuals. chainreactioncycles.com. cyclesuperstore.com, wiggle.co.uk.

Or if you're nice to flashback check out racycles.com and ask him to bring one over for you.

Actually I've heard the racycles folks are happy to help overseas buyers buy bikes by making life easy for them customswise (won't say how here, but they seem like mighty nice folks).

 

[rettucs]

were they an early eighties Dublin band?

they were a tribute band. The band you're thinking of were the immaculate conceptors.

 

[Pantone247]

my bike got nicked outside my flat over new years ever, just plain vanished, no sign of it or the big fuck off lock I had on it

on the upside I got agreat second hand 'hybrid' from McDonalds Bikes on Camden street, bikes it deadly nick, lots better then my old one, and it was a fair $$$ too

Some of the prices I had been quoted were bats (considering I have a short ten minute up and down cycle everyday and am very aware that my bike will probably get nicked) and most everyone was mad to try and up-sell you too

 

[Los Davos]

Hybrids rule.

 

[penexpers]

Actually I've heard the racycles folks are happy to help overseas buyers buy bikes by making life easy for them customswise (won't say how here, but they seem like mighty nice folks).

I don't think RA cycles sell handlebars for under 300 euro, let alone full bikes for that price.

Nice people though.

 

[flashback]

up the racycles.