Spin tomorrow?

AstraMonti · 02-10-2009 10:25am #1

What about 10 at Dundrum for something reasonably easy, 80 kms?

blorg · 02-10-2009 10:39am

Cool, 10 is good, 80km give or take- this route is actually only 97km?

I will ride my new Planet X, reckon we will have a few of them out.

AstraMonti · 02-10-2009 10:55am

Oh i hate the rolling road around Blessington lakes, but wth, let's go for it. Cake and coffee at larragh?

blorg · 02-10-2009 11:58am

Cake and coffee is always good.

DirkVoodoo · 02-10-2009 12:31pm

Sounds great, see you all tomorrow. Don't have a planet-x, hope I can still join your gang.

Nietzschean · 02-10-2009 12:38pm

wicklow without the big climbs...sounds good, i'm in tooo

Planet X · 02-10-2009 12:52pm

Be there.....

Gavin · 02-10-2009 2:37pm

Roger that homies !

eggie · 02-10-2009 3:39pm

in

The tax man · 02-10-2009 5:18pm

Working.:mad:

Lumen · 02-10-2009 5:31pm

What's the current protocol? Leaving Dundrum at 10am?

I've sold a bike this week, so might try and negotiate a day release to make this one.

DirkVoodoo · 02-10-2009 5:33pm

Yeah I would imagine leaving at 10. Do it!

Lumen · 03-10-2009 7:58am

I'm in. Leaving in a few minutes. See you at 09:55 ish. Lovely weather!

Planet X · 03-10-2009 8:23am

Hack bike.

DirkVoodoo · 03-10-2009 1:01pm

That was a nice spin. Nice as in good crowd out, weather was awful and exposed my poor descending. Thanks to the guys for waiting for me and to Nietzchean for escorting me back to Enniskerry. Good to be back out though.

I have a photo of Lumen which summed up the weather perfectly, I'll stick it up later.

blorg · 03-10-2009 1:34pm

That was really horrible, and it only got worse... Of course it seems to have turned in to a lovely day now.

DirkVoodoo · 03-10-2009 1:38pm

Nice photos Blorg. My crappy stand-in helmet actually looks pretty good. Take that Giro!

Nietzschean · 03-10-2009 1:40pm

nice photo's, i don't look like i'm nearly dead, n1 !

Gavin · 03-10-2009 1:45pm

It's obviously been too long since I was on the road bike given that I really enjoyed that. The climbing at least. Mashing ftw. The descent was horribly cold. Nice grub and also pleasant to meet some real cyclists in Enniskerry.

Now to try out my park tool chain washer.

DirkVoodoo · 03-10-2009 2:13pm

How miserable was it? Let's consult Lumen's miser-ometer:

jwshooter · 03-10-2009 3:49pm

there has been mist rain and wind all week up there ,sorry should have said .
i seen a guy yesterday on the sally gap at 10.30am he had on a yellow and red fluorescent top on ,he was flying into a head wind up. the weather was so bad up there yesterday in was hard to hold the binos steady.

Lumen · 03-10-2009 4:13pm

God that was painful. I need to ride my bike more.

95km, and it felt like 150.

Lovely company, sorry for holding you up with my mechanical woes.

You know it's crappy when Blorg's whining.

Nietzschean · 03-10-2009 4:23pm

Lumen wrote: »

You know it's crappy when Blorg's whining.

i was quite surprised when that happened!

03-10-2009 4:35pm

Lumen wrote: »

You know it's crappy when Blorg's whining.

Maybe it was like a fake bonk, to lure you into a false sense of security.

AstraMonti · 03-10-2009 6:14pm

It was a lovely spin with the usual boards fun but in the same time miserable and wet and the crosswinds were killing me. Lumen's picture is priceless

LastGasp · 04-10-2009 9:40pm

Went out on an early one myself at 7.30, Dundrum, Brittas, Sally Gap, Glencree (Coffee) Enniskerry, Dundrm, 70km. I seemed to be battling a major headwind all the way out the N81, had a tailwind blowing me up Sally Gap which was nice, unbelievable crosswind from Sally Gap over to Kippure (I thought the bike was going to be blown sideways), braking hard (but not too hard as I thought the tyres were going to let go) all the way down to Glencree. Somehow managed to average 25kph which is a good bit higher than usual !

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