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[Jerry Twig]

'Proper'? Get over yourself man.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Buy clip ons, or just wear proper waterproofs

What am I missing about the word 'proper' here?

 

[Jerry Twig]

What am I missing about the word 'proper' here?

The fact that no-one cares what type of waterproofs you own

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The fact that no-one cares what type of waterproofs you own

Plenty of people on here care about the welfare of my arse. I'm pretty sure.

 

[Space]

Proper waterproofs.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Proper waterproofs.

Proper like a Whopper, Cyndi Lauper and the Big Bopper

 

[nooleen]

water palaver

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Anyone know someone in Dublin that sells these?

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Families Ditch Cars for Cargo Bikes


By LAURA MOSERAPRIL 22, 2015

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Dave Hoverman and his wife, Abby Smith, in Berkeley, Calif., with their cargo bike, which can hold all four children. CreditJason Henry for The New York Times

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• Cetma cargo bike with a trailer hitched to the rear.
  
  “We do all sorts of errands on the bike,” Mr. Hoverman said. “We try not to get in the car all weekend.”
  
  Mr. Hoverman is among a growing contingent of eco-minded and health-conscious urban parents who are leaving their car keys at home and relying on high-capacity cargo bikes for family transportation.
  
  Cargo bikes initially catered to the “hard-core D.I.Y. crowd — people who wanted to carry around really large objects like surfboards or big speakers or kayaks,” said Evan Lovett-Harris, the marketing director for Xtracycle, a company in Oakland, Calif., that introduced its first family-oriented cargo model, the EdgeRunner, in 2012. Cargo bikes, he said, now account for the largest proportion of the company’s sales.
  
  “When we first started selling these bikes 15 years ago, we were the total freako weirdos,” said Ross Evans, the company’s founder. “Back then, a basket on your handlebars was considered fringe.”
  
  These days, cargo bikes are no longer a novelty: They are cropping up not just in the expected West Coast enclaves like Seattle, Portland and the Bay Area, but in cities like New Haven, Tucson and Dallas. “It used to be that if I saw somebody in Boston on a cargo bike, I probably knew them and probably helped them buy their bicycle,” said Nathan Vierling-Claassen, who has ridden a cargo bike since 2008. “Now that’s no longer the case.”
  
  Cargo bikes are also popular in Washington. Jon Renaut, 37, a software engineer at the Department of Homeland Security, said that he is one of more than a dozen parents at his children’s elementary school who commute to school and work by cargo bike. “There have been only two days this whole school year — when it was really, really snowy out — that we left the bike at home,” Mr. Renaut said. What helps keep his 4- and 6-year-old daughters warm, he said, is to have them face backward while riding.
  
  The popularity of cargo bikes has given rise to more variety. Cargo bikes come in two main types: longtails, which look like a regular bike with a large rack extended over the rear wheel, and the Dutch-style bakfiets, which has a cargo box mounted in front of the handlebars. While longtails are considerably cheaper (a Yuba Mundo starts at $1,300), bakfiets (which start at about $3,000) can generally hold more.
  
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  “The thing I love about cargo bikes these days is that there is such an amazing selection,” said Shane MacRhodes, 43, who manages a school transportation program in Eugene, Ore. “People are finding bikes that really fit their lifestyle. Some people like the sturdiness of a Yuba Mundo, and some people like the sporty zippy ones. It’s almost like the S.U.V. versus the sports wagon.”
  
  Cargo bikes are making inroads into New York, too. It is not unusual to see them parked outside Whole Foods in Gowanus, Brooklyn, or Union Market in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
  
  Joe Nocella, who owns 718 Cyclery, a bicycle shop in Gowanus, joined the bandwagon last year and expanded his cargo bike selection. “Our shop was up 21 percent over the year before,” he said, “and a good chunk of that was from our focus on cargo bikes.”
  
  “It’s such a great transaction because here’s this family that’s ditching the car and transforming itself, and you get to be a part of that,” he said. “I love when the kids come in and jump all over the bikes.” (When parents show up without children, he lets them test-ride bikes with sandbags.)
  
  Manuel Toscano, 42, a design consultant who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, commutes to his son’s preschool in Chinatown and his job in TriBeCa on a Bullitt bicycle. “Every time we tried to take the kid into the subway, it was an ordeal,” he said. “People don’t move or let you sit when you have a kid.”
  
  “We finally decided we’d had enough,” he said. “The only sustainable way to have kids here is not to get in the subway.”
  
  Biking in New York has its share of challenges. “New York is not an easy place to have a family, and it’s not an easy place to have a cargo bike,” Mr. Toscano said. The bike-path approach to the Manhattan Bridge, he said, is not for the faint of calf muscle, and the bridge’s narrow entrances are difficult to navigate.
  
  “The other challenge is where to put my bike,” he said. “I garage mine, and they charge me the same as any other bicycle: $38 a month plus tax, even though it’s longer than a Smart car.”
  

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

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[nooleen]

should dave hoverman not have a hovercraft?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Why would he need a hovercraft when he can hover himself?

 

[nooleen]

to ferry his family around cos his wife's mundane name diluted their hovering abilities

 

[magicbastarder]

currently nursing a gammy knee; i'd been doing 40k spins no problems, went out on a 54k one on monday and my knee started giving problems the next day.
i reckon i had my saddle angled too far forward, which meant i'd lifted it too high to compensate. so i have been getting pain behind my knee, as well as in front, to complicate figuring out the cause.
funny thing is, if i remain generally active and moving about, it's fine. sitting down - and especially driving - and it starts getting sore.

 

[eoinzy2000]

currently nursing a gammy knee; i'd been doing 40k spins no problems, went out on a 54k one on monday and my knee started giving problems the next day.
i reckon i had my saddle angled too far forward, which meant i'd lifted it too high to compensate. so i have been getting pain behind my knee, as well as in front, to complicate figuring out the cause.
funny thing is, if i remain generally active and moving about, it's fine. sitting down - and especially driving - and it starts getting sore.

It's prob related to something above or below. I'd make a guess at quads and possibly IT band. Get a foam roller and point ball and spend loadsa time mashing the shite out of them. Look up n buy a 'voodoo band' n wrap tight as fuck above knee first, do a good few squats, then same below knee (just a strong rubber strip). But foam roller, roll on muscles, find sore points and mash out. Completely essential. I bet it's not the knee, nor seat position. If you don't foam roll already, it'll hurt like hell when you start, but persevere, its soo worth it and I guarantee better performance if you do it regularly

 

[therealjohnny]

I recently started cycling again..mainly because I own a Mini.

The pain in the arse muscles hasn't gone away yet and contrary to hopes and expectations I still have what I think are sciatic nerve pains.

On the plus side I usually cycle along the canal and I've noticed that apart from the scenery being nice to look at, everyone who uses it is really friendly. None of the usual avoiding eye contact but loud hellos and big smiles and snatches of conversation along the way. And lots of dogs jumping in and out of the water and generally having a great time.

It's nice.

 

[george mcfly]

Srsly though, when did it become the norm for people to not look where they're going when they step out on to the road? Then, when they release they've stepped out in front of a bike they just either continue checking their phone or stare off into the middle distance as if they can't see you. I'm not Patrick Swayze in Ghost foo'!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I usually cycle along the canal

Which one?

 

[therealjohnny]

The Royal

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The Royal

Nice one. That's my local canal.

How far west?

 

[therealjohnny]

Based in Leixlip. I've only gone as as far as Maynooth one way and Clonsilla the other.

And it nearly killed me every time.

I expect it will get easier if I keep it up