Thank God for the M50 Updgrade

Garibaldi

Outside of rush hour, the temporary road they've put through the LUAS car park at the Red Cow has given Dublin some of the finest bends in the country, comparable to Laguna Seca's famous Corkscrew. Discuss...

mikemac

Don't know the road, but you will NEVER beat Cork Screw Hill in Co. Clare. Never a road so aptly named.

The closest you'll get a Swiss Alps scenario in the country

Garibaldi

Is that on the road to Lahinch? Kinda rings a bell somewhere.

If it's the road I'm thinking of, then the Red Cow road really is better.

mikemac

Correct, on the road to Lahinch.
Red Cow road is better you say, must take a spin out there tomorrow.

stipey

most enjoyable indeed....

although you have to watch for the gobshites who aren't paying attention and try to follow the original path of the road

(path of the road - is that an oxymoron?)

Fnz

stipey wrote:

is that an oxymoron?

[childish tone]No you're an oxymoron![/childish tone]

Sorry... I'm just, really, really sorry for that... really...

... I... I'll just go... I'll go now....

..... sorry!

Garibaldi

micmclo wrote:

Correct, on the road to Lahinch.
Red Cow road is better you say, must take a spin out there tomorrow.

Don't get me wrong, now. The Lahinch road still kicks ass (and lasts a lot longer than the Red Cow road). It's just the transition from dull, straight road to sudden uphill tight left, into sweeping downhill right, into hard left, is quite exhilirating.

I saw the final plan for the m50 a couple of days ago. If you think that bend is fun then you have a lot to look forward to.

fricatus

Garibaldi wrote:

Don't get me wrong, now. The Lahinch road still kicks ass (and lasts a lot longer than the Red Cow road). It's just the transition from dull, straight road to sudden uphill tight left, into sweeping downhill right, into hard left, is quite exhilirating.

Afraid I don't know it... but I can recommend the N10 coming south from Kilkenny towards Waterford. From KK to Danesfort it's wide and mostly straight, like a runway, but then after Danesfort it narrows into what I can only describe as a kilometre-long roller coaster!

I do this in a car every day on my way home from work (yes I know I should probably hang for mentioning this fact in the bike forum, but it's probably even better on two wheels).

Dorsanty

fricatus wrote:

Afraid I don't know it... but I can recommend the N10 coming south from Kilkenny towards Waterford. From KK to Danesfort it's wide and mostly straight, like a runway, but then after Danesfort it narrows into what I can only describe as a kilometre-long roller coaster!

Damn missed out and was so close. Did Dungarvan -> Carrick -> Kilkenny -> Dub, last weekend. Found the first hairpin turn I've seen in ages. Went down via the N11 though which is very straight and fast.

I've heard great things about this Red cow modification. Also now the M50 roundabout at palmerstown has down hill and up hill sweep to it heading west to east. Nothing major mind but it's all fun.

Garibaldi

baz8080 wrote:

I saw the final plan for the m50 a couple of days ago. If you think that bend is fun then you have a lot to look forward to.

Saw it myself, a few months ago. People really should lock their PCs when they're away from them.

Lots of bends at the junctions, alright, but nothing like the temporary setup we have now. God knows, if all the junctions ended up like the current Red Cow setup (pauses for dream sequence), it'd be absolute mayhem on the roads. Not like the blissful Nirvana we've got now.

Actually, I wonder are those bends all part of a plan to stem the spread of Harley Davidsons. They've got a new showroom just down the Naas Road, I see. I haven't seen the movie, but I can't stop thinking about Wild Hogs every time I go past it. :cool:

Mitch Connor

i drive this every morning (sorry....don't have a bike, wanted to see what the thread was about) and it is fun. Hit that peice of road as the first car off the roundabout the other day, so i was able to have a little fun with it. However, you have to be real careful in the middle lane as you come back on to the N7 - as the people in the right hand lane tend to cut across instead of staying right.

fricatus

Dorsanty wrote:

... Carrick -> Kilkenny -> ...

That road is not fun though... it's in genuinely white-knuckle scary territory! The one road where I can say I actually nearly got killed! An Audi (A4 or A6) came tearing around a bend/hillock at Jeremy Clarkson speed, but the bend obviously tightened quicker than the driver expected. How he gathered it up and avoided hitting me I'll never know.

Dorsanty

fricatus wrote:

That road is not fun though... it's in genuinely white-knuckle scary territory! The one road where I can say I actually nearly got killed! An Audi (A4 or A6) came tearing around a bend/hillock at Jeremy Clarkson speed, but the bend obviously tightened quicker than the driver expected. How he gathered it up and avoided hitting me I'll never know.

Must have been a quattro. Bro had one. They are the biz.
Did I just say good things about a car? Oops!


Also I agree that, that route can be scary territory. Found myself speed limited because the road was so bumpy for large sections I just didn't want to go any faster. Don't want to go, "Bump. Nice ditch"