Saturday spin 14th November

Chips Lovell

Myself and The Claw are heading out tomorrow morning. Meeting in Dundrum at 10am.

joker77

Where are you planning on heading? (How many kms in total?)
Cheers

Chips Lovell

Haven't decided on a route yet. Up the mountains, probably 70 to 80km

blorg

10am? What is wrong with you? You aren't tempted by an earlier 8am start in Bray?

Chips Lovell

blorg wrote: »

10am? What is wrong with you? You aren't tempted by an earlier 8am start in Bray?

The Claw got in before me with the start time.;) Don't fancy the Lumpy.

joker77

el tonto wrote: »

Haven't decided on a route yet. Up the mountains, probably 70 to 80km

No worries - I'm prob still not up to that yet - have a good one

blorg

el tonto wrote: »

The Claw got in before me with the start time.;) Don't fancy the Lumpy.

Why don't you come down and just do 100km of it?

Then you could turn back

Chips Lovell

joker77 wrote: »

No worries - I'm prob still not up to that yet - have a good one

No problem. Nothing to stop you coming along for a bit and turning off early either.

blorg wrote: »

Why don't you come down and just do 100km of it?

Then you could turn back

....wait a second....

Caroline_ie

thinking about it

ROK ON

The fact that the promised heavy rains predicted haven't yet materialised makes me fear for weather tomorrow.
Be careful. High wind and driving rain. I will be in bed.

Raam

ROK ON wrote: »

The fact that the promised heavy rains predicted haven't yet materialised makes me fear for weather tomorrow.
Be careful. High wind and driving rain. I will be in bed.

It's expected for tomorrow: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/eymheykfojid/rss2/

Caroline_ie

Raam wrote: »

It's expected for tomorrow: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/eymheykfojid/rss2/

[confused]
Joe Bastardi wasn't THAT dramatic ...
[/confused]

Planet X

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/

Raam

Caroline_ie wrote: »

[confused]
Joe Bastardi wasn't THAT dramatic ...
[/confused]

Ah you know us Irish, all doom and gloom

lukester

Can't be any worse than 2 sundays ago. I get to try out my new wet gear too, yay!

Caroline_ie

Rain Showers - Sun spells - Sun showers - Rain spells

Raam

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Rain Showers - Sun spells - Sun showers - Rain spells

You forgot: Sun Rain

Planet X

Don't stick your head out the window now! It's bucketing.

lukester

Raam wrote: »

You forgot: Sun Rain

And sun hail rain

joker77

Feck sake. Was out on Wednesday about 20 minutes before it started bucketting down...

Hopefully it's clear for a few hours tomorrow. Then again, would I prefer to get pissed on out on the bike in the morning, or sitting in Croke Park tomorrow evening for 2 hours..... hmmm...

niceonetom

Saturday

The BBC says . Unlikely methinks.

The weather channel says .

Joe Bastari, he say .

Windfinder says .

Met.ie say

My bike is clean so I predict heavy horizontal rain from all directions.

Nietzschean

presuming its more like joe bastard's predicition than the current weather i'm in

(thats gotta be like partial wimplist credit already...)

blorg

I just got soaked out there coming home, absolutely soaked although only out in it for half an hour. Roads like rivers. To be honest my enthusiasm for a Lumpy 200 tomorrow morning is much diminished, I may defect to this 10am gang.

DirkVoodoo

Can't go tomorrow.

rottenhat

blorg wrote: »

To be honest my enthusiasm for a Lumpy 200 tomorrow morning is much diminished, I may defect to this 10am gang.

Perhaps someone could start warming up a few seats on the wimp list - I have a feeling certain boardsies will be needing them.

blorg

rottenhat wrote: »

Perhaps someone could start warming up a few seats on the wimp list - I have a feeling certain boardsies will be needing them.

I am a fair weather cyclist... I just cycle a lot in the fair weather... which there is a lot of.

LastGasp

rottenhat wrote: »

Perhaps someone could start warming up a few seats on the wimp list - I have a feeling certain boardsies will be needing them.

Defer it to Sunday and I'll go ! Sent my cheque to Arranmoreelw for the route last week, but never received it. Taking a few days off late next week so I might have a go at it then. The OH is doing a 1 year course every second Saturday (and some Sundays) which is stuffing up my weekends at the moment !

blorg

@LastGap- there is talk of an "alternative" Lumpy200 next week on the same route if the weather is better. Will not be eligible for medals mind.

rottenhat

blorg wrote: »

Will not be eligible for medals mind.

Nor is this one, technically - this (and the rerun in January) will not be BRM (i.e. not validated by ACP) which makes them (theoretically) cheaper but means that there is no medal option, and they don't count towards an ACP SR award either. Anything on the calendar on the Sorrento site will be BRM, and I've marked on my calendar that the Lumpy 200s are non-BRM.

Looks all right out there now - not raining, not much wind.

joker77

Did you get out for the spin today? Might have passed you on the road.

Nice day for it, damn glad the rain held off, but there were a couple of hairy moments with wet leaves / downhill / corner combinations.

Went up to Enniskerry, over to Kilmacanogue, then Bray, and back to Dundrum, just over 50kms in total. Pretty happy with that, don't think I'm quite ready for a full stint in the Wicklow hills, but getting there

ednwireland

lovely day medium wind (not too bad ) showers all missed me a very pleasant 60km even the tendon doesnt hurt too much happy days
but i am in donegal

sy

ednwireland wrote: »

...... even the tendon doesnt hurt

Injured at the moment?

Captain Havoc

Fixed that for you:



:pac:

ednwireland

sy wrote: »

Injured at the moment?

had tendonitis on the back of the knee since the end of aug
6 weeks of physio got it fairly sorted but its still a bit achy after a ride
(look keo 2's seem to be helping - had a slight wobble when the cleats were in the old pedals not there with same cleats on new pedals)
trouble is the nearest physio i can find is a 2 hour round trip away so thats not popular at work (must someone closer just cant find them)

just have to work through it i guess

jerseyeire wrote: »

Fixed that for you:

thats the bbc for you, glorious evening here

blorg

No rain today for me but a fair bit of water on the road, in places there were rivers. Windy up over Sally Gap.

sy

ednwireland wrote: »

had tendonitis on the back of the knee since the end of aug
6 weeks of physio got it fairly sorted but its still a bit achy after a ride
(look keo 2's seem to be helping - had a slight wobble when the cleats were in the old pedals not there with same cleats on new pedals)

Good to hear you are on the mend. Knee problems are the scurge of all cyclists. I've had trouble since last June and still not sorted but working on it. Depressing at this stage.:(