Boards Spin Saturday November 8th

Chips Lovell

Anyone up for one? Weather doesn't look fantastic, but maybe better than two weeks ago. 9am beneath the Luas bridge in Dundrum?

kenmc

nah, 9am at the trailhead in ballyhoura!

TinyExplosions

Brother's 30 today, so I'm up in the sticks tonight doing celebratory-things.... won''t be back in time

Caroline_ie

in

blorg

in... hopefully. 9am, christ

Chips Lovell

blorg wrote: »

9am, christ

I refer you to this post.

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

I refer you to this post.

Nothing to do with that, it's just that Blorg doesn't know how to be on time for anything!

niceonetom

the beeb say: 11°C


but Joe Bastardi, he say: 11°C


and the wind people, them say:


so, eh, i'm in, i suppose.

Chips Lovell

niceonetom wrote: »

so, eh, i'm in, i suppose.

Another morning under the blankets in Enniskerry?

barrabus

can we make it 9.20 or so I want to pop in to Joe Dalys??

Caroline_ie

el tonto wrote: »

Another morning under the blankets in Enniskerry?

Do not underestimate the power of the blankies @ Enniskerry coffee stop!!! That will keep us all going this winter and YOU KNOW IT!

Chips Lovell

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Do not underestimate the power of the blankies @ Enniskerry coffee stop!!! That will keep us all going this winter and YOU KNOW IT!

I'm not. I'm quite fond of them already.

Chips Lovell

barrabus wrote: »

can we make it 9.20 or so I want to pop in to Joe Dalys??

If the others are alright I don't mind pushign it out to 9:20. You never know, blorg might have his breakfast finished by then.

Caroline_ie

el tonto wrote: »

If the others are alright I don't mind pushign it out to 9:20. You never know, blorg might have his breakfast finished by then.

I am ok with it, anyway, we usually hang out a bit before leaving.

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

If the others are alright I don't mind pushign it out to 9:20. You never know, blorg might have his breakfast finished by then.

Don't tell him you've changed the time, and you have a slight chance of him making 9.20!

niceonetom

barrabus wrote: »

can we make it 9.20 or so I want to pop in to Joe Dalys??

i've no objection to that.

Lumen

I fancy coming along (subject to dumping the kids with SWMBO) but can't yet do much more than 2hrs on a bike due to my pathetically weak back.

Since Dundrum is about an hour by bike, this means (very shamefully) I'd need to drive to Dundrum and leave the car there. Is the shopping centre car park open that early? Any good alternatives?

zzzzzzzz

Lumen wrote: »

I fancy coming along (subject to dumping the kids with SWMBO) but can't yet do much more than 2hrs on a bike due to my pathetically weak back.

Since Dundrum is about an hour by bike, this means (very shamefully) I'd need to drive to Dundrum and leave the car there. Is the shopping centre car park open that early? Any good alternatives?

There's plenty of random estates around with free parking.

What's SWMBO?

Lumen

aidan.offbeat wrote: »

There's plenty of random estates around with free parking.

What's SWMBO?

Cool, ta. She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Chips Lovell

I'd say the shopping centre carpark is open at nine at the latest, but as aidan says, there's loads of estates around where you could park and a car park at the old shopping centre.

DirkVoodoo

Lumen,you could park in UCD. No shortage, relatively safe and only about 5-10 mins from Dundrum.

9:20 it is. I was gonna pop into Joe Daly's too, wanna ask how much it would cost to chop my head tube a bit.

Has a route been mentioned yet or did I miss that? I wouldn't mind getting back in time to see Arsenal (K.O. 12:45) so that gives me a 3 hour cycle.

barrabus

i think even the old dundrum shopping centre has clamping notices so an estate is a safer bet ..

Chips Lovell

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Has a route been mentioned yet or did I miss that?

Not yet. I think it might be safter to decide in the morning as its hard to tell just what the weather's going to be like.

Húrin

I'll be going out to Clontarf for the Promenade live art event. Should be pretty cool, starts at 12pm.

Lumen

Húrin wrote: »

I'll be going out to Clontarf for the Promenade live art event. Should be pretty cool, starts at 12pm.

"Out Of Site was set up by Michelle Browne in 2006 to bring about the creation of new performative work"

Another great word to add to the list acquired from boards. Doesn't beat squoval though.

Chips Lovell

Húrin wrote: »

I'll be going out to Clontarf for the Promenade live art event. Should be pretty cool, starts at 12pm.

Promenade?! I think you're on the list

blorg

I am looking unlikely, may try to catch up with Orwell on Sunday. Suspect I will be out tomorrow but not at 9am... or even 9:20. In the afternoon.

DirkVoodoo

Nice spin today, good to meet Lumen.

I somehow reset my computer, could someone post some stats of time/distance, cheers!

Caroline_ie

105km
1 bag of salt & vinegar crisps
1 croissant
1 big cookie
5 cups of tea

for me ... that's all the stats I've got... tummy feels funny ...

Bambaata

meet one of ye at the lights at the bridge as i was heading out with Belpark (about 9.10). got 90km in myself @ 27km. thank god the heavens didnt open while out. not so nice now!!!

Lumen

Great to meet you all.

Only about 67km in total for me. Getting back to Dundrum was sloooow - I was running on empty.

Today I learned that descending is fantastic, and ascending is....necessary.

Lumen

Bambaata wrote: »

meet one of ye at the lights at the bridge as i was heading out with Belpark (about 9.10). got 90km in myself @ 27km. thank god the heavens didnt open while out. not so nice now!!!

That was me. Was it you that said "Sally Gap is impassable"?

Bambaata

twas i. i said the sally gap will prob be impassible soon ;-) was up that direction today but not sally itself. nice up there today

scottreynolds

Bambaata wrote: »

twas i. i said the sally gap will prob be impassible soon ;-) was up that direction today but not sally itself. nice up there today

Sally Gap was great today. Only a bit of wind near the top... All sides around looked fine.

Bambaata

yeah the early part of the day was fantastic. cant imagine being up there from 2 or 3 though

Gavin

kenmc wrote: »

nah, 9am at the trailhead in ballyhoura!

Kenmc goes MTB


Verb joins in.

Chips Lovell

Are ye on invisible bikes?