Tri - a - Cycle Sunday Sept 13th

07Lapierre

Not exactly the Wicklow 200, but for anyone with kids, you might be interested in this;

nak

I'll be going, we'll all no doubt be too hungover to attempt the other rides. Anything to raise the profile of cycling in the city centre, is worth attending.

Caroline_ie

did this last year - and ended up skipping the last 4 km for a full irish breakie... they made us wear a hi viz vest ... in broad daylight and roads closed to traffic .... tsssss!

Glitterangel76

Trying to persuade my friends to come along to this...but it all depends on the heads as we are going to September Fest on Saturday.
I think I'll keep the potential hi viz vests a secret....

Raam

Caroline_ie wrote: »

they made us wear a hi viz vest

I'll bet you secretly liked it.

lukester

Hi-viz vests?

I'm all over this like a cheap suit, where do I sign up?

Victor

Map included in original doc is wrong.

http://www.garda.ie/Documents/User/Fun%20Cycle.doc

Three separate groups of approximately 300 - 500 cyclists in each group will start from 3 locations in the city.

On Sunday 13th September 2009, Cycle Ireland have organised a “Fun Cycle” event which will commence at 11am. The format of this event will be that three separate groups comprising of approximately 300-500 cyclists in each group will start from three locations in the city.

These groups will converge at Irishtown Stadium, Ringsend, after cycling through the city.

The three starting locations are:-
1. Dun Laoghaire Sea Front Car Park,
2. Bull Island, Dollymount Strand, and
3. Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

Routes
Route 1:
Dun Laoghaire Car Park,
Seapoint Avenue,
Frascati Road,
Rock Road,
Strand Road,
Irishtown Stadium.

Route 2:
Bull Island Car Park
James Larkin Road
Clontarf Road
Fairview
East Wall Road
York Road
Irishtown Stadium

Route 3:
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham,
Suir Road,
Dolphin Road,
Parnell Road,
Canal Road,
Mespil Road,
Bath Avenue,
Irishtown Stadium.

Gardai wish to advise motorists that there will be certain delays on the above routes on Sunday morning.

DualFrontDiscs

We'll be heading along to Kilmainhan tomorrow.

Thanks for letting me know about this, hadn't heard about it elsewhere.

DFD.

DualFrontDiscs

Well.....

We headed to the Kilmainham kick-off. It was poorly attended. I'd say a maximum of about 15 cyclists. We enjoyed the Garda escort down the canal and the kids enjoyed being cheered and clapped into the Irishtown stadium car park. It didn't look like the other kick-offs had many more cyclists. Which was a pity as with the number of Gardai and other staff, it was clear that more people were expected.

The weather was lovely, so that wasn't the problem. I'd put it down to poor PR/ marketing. I only heard about the event on this forum yesterday. Didn't see any flyers, posters or anything on the news or in the papers. Pity that.

DFD.

BostonB

I didn't see it advertised anywhere. Only read about here. Had other stuff already planned for this weekend anyway.

niceonetom

The thread/event title (chosen by the DCC? or the guards?) made me think that this had something to do with triathlons, so I didn't read it until now. Ah well.

Glitterangel76

There were only 7 cyclists from the Clontarf side...it had the potential to be a great day but sadly it failed to deliver. Luckily the weather was glorious and the garda escort was nice but too be honest, I wish I had stayed out drinking the night before

07Lapierre

Not sure if i felt like a "VIP" or a "convict" been escorted by Two Garda Motor bikes and two Garda Mountain bikers yesterday. Only 7 or 8 cyclists! How come it was so poorly supported? I heard it been advertised on Q102 on Satruday. Was it advertised in the newspapers? One things for sure, it wasn't that there were no cyclists out there.....we were passed by plenty of them as we were "escorted" by the Garda Soo embarrasing!

Maybe it was because it clashed with the launch of the Dublinbikes Scheme?

nak

There were hardly any people on the ride from Kilmainham, at most 10. Felt bad for the guys from CI, but it wasn't well advertised; the posters only went up on Tuesday last week, and there weren't many of them. Too many other things on yesterday unfortunately.

The turn out for the city cycle earlier in the year was also pretty poor compared to the previous years.

c0rk3r

Release Document wrote:

For further information & interviews with Geoff Liffey, CEO Cycling Ireland contact:

Ian McClure, Hartnett McClure PR

t: 01 400 3607

m: 087 28 30 600

e: ian@hmpr.ie

"Good afternoon

Geoff just wtf happened on Sunday? The turn out was abysmal. What kinda of organization are you cowboys running?

Sincerely X"

Doctor Bob

What a shame. I only heard about it on Sunday morning, but I had other plans already. I thought about going up to Strand Road (not far from my house) to have a look, but by the sounds of things I might not have recognised it as an event.

Poor promotion must have been a factor, but the amazing weather and the embarrassment of event riches in Dublin this weekend (I've never seen the Phoenix Park busier [Yay for all the bikes, Boo for all the cars- OPW needs to tackle that congestion], not to mention the Liffey swim, the launch of Dublin Bikes) can't have helped.

nak: agreed on the City Cycle (though the numbers on it were in the hundreds rather than the dozens), though I'd say the reasons were different- a victim of the Hi-Viz policy and anti-social timing of the previous year, perhaps, but certainly a victim of the horrendous weather on the morning of the event. The bike cage in work was emptier that day than almost any other day all summer, and if you don't go to work on your bike, you don't have it in the evening...

DFD: did I see you on Dame Street on Saturday afternoon? I saw a Christiania bike with a lady on it (M[r]s DFD?) and thought I recognised the kids in the bucket from my Lance video. As they were stopped to say Hi to the horses at City Hall, I suspect I saw you just ahead, waiting for them to catch up. (You weren't in a Boards jersey, otherwise I'd put it in that thread! )

(I had a 1.8m kite [not a samurai sword or a garden umbrella, as some people thought!] strapped to my back, in case it jogs your memory.)

DualFrontDiscs

Doctor Bob wrote: »

DFD: did I see you on Dame Street on Saturday afternoon? I saw a Christiania bike with a lady on it (M[r]s DFD?) and thought I recognised the kids in the bucket from my Lance video. As they were stopped to say Hi to the horses at City Hall, I suspect I saw you just ahead, waiting for them to catch up. (You weren't in a Boards jersey, otherwise I'd put it in that thread! )

(I had a 1.8m kite [not a samurai sword or a garden umbrella, as some people thought!] strapped to my back, in case it jogs your memory.)

That was Mrs. DFD and the DFDettes. I don't have a boards jersey. For commuting, perhaps a nice boards tweed? I noted you as you passed. I assumed it was fishing equipment. We were heading home after lunch in Temple Bar.

DFD.

Doctor Bob

Boards tweed? Where do I sign!

The kite is a bit of a bugger to carry on a bike- methinks I need to invest in a Long John.

(I'll say Hi next time- I was about to, but then I couldn't remember if your Christiania mudguards were chrome or white, and I got all bashful. )