After Denise’s recent foray into the “gravel bike” world with the acquisition of her 2022 Cinelli Zydeco, I thought it would be fun to make the city-smasher 1998 Klein hardtail mountain bike to be more gravel-friendly. I had long gotten rid of the knobbly off-road tyres, using very fat 2.2″ Maxxis “Holy Roller” street tyres,
In case the size of the frame wasn’t a giveaway, this one ain’t mine. Looking for a bike that can handle the mean city streets and luas tracks of Dublin, this was bought “sight unseen”, purely based on lust – and is there anything wrong with lusting after a beautiful Italian? Obviously, yes. One can
When I see a watch I’m lusting after, I try — I really do! — to go through a process of waiting for a few months, to know that it’s really a watch that deserves a place in the collection, that I’d wear, that I don’t already have basically the same thing, that isn’t just
It’s been a while since my last watch post, and I’ve added, and subtracted, a few from the collection. Looking at the watches in the box, when there are more than a couple that just never find their way into the rotation, it was time to do some thinning. There was some redundancies in features,
Is there any point to trying to change the status quo, when those in positions of authority don’t follow their own rules, abuse the power of their position, their governing body doesn’t find anything wrong with not following their own rules or any of their clear unethical behavior, no one is ever held accountable and,
I am no longer a Bearcat. What exactly is a “bearcat” anyway? Apparently there is such an animal, called a binturong (Arctictis binturong), in southeast Asia. Related to neither bears nor cats, we are also alike in that we no longer play softball for the team of the same name. Firstly, it is very unfortunate
Don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining. I have no confidence in anything the league (Softball Leinster) or national governing body (Softball Ireland) says, and below you’ll see why. They twist words and spin meanings to manipulate and obfuscate, and it doesn’t bode well in the search for truth or justice. Please
If you’ve been following along, you’d be aware that there was no official investigation into a complaint I filed about a sexual harassment charge levied against an umpire in a Softball Leinster game; however, there was an unofficial, private, anonymous, secret, confidential investigation, and it has yielded… an apology. “Hi Judy,I would like to apologise
Sometimes it is useful to boil things down to their most basic components, in order to get some clarity. I filed a sexual harassment complaint.A league administrator suppressed it, and nothing was done.The national governing body thinks this is fine.No one has been held accountable for either instance of serious misconduct (the sexual harassment, or
Before this season started, I made a declaration: I would only field a 5&5 (or 5&4 short) team for the entire season. Many team captains agreed this was a good thing. More than lip service, I wanted to show we are committed to having gender equality in the sport, as the WBSC rules want the