Cycling Dublin to waterford

rothar man

Hi folks,
decided to join boards, been into cycling now for more that a year after doing a couple of marathons and loving it....

from waterford originally but living in dublin, checkd out the weather for sat and looks good so goin to do dublin to waterford on n81 to carlow then accross to thomastown and carrick on suir and onto home in wford

aaroadwatch make it about 180k with no major climbs, so going to leave early sat morning

hopefully give an update on sat night once i get down....

pedal hard

rothar man

Quigs Snr

When riding from Dublin to Waterford I prefer to go via Tallaght, Blessington, Baltinglass, Bunclody, Enniscorthy, New Ross, Waterford. Quieter roads, less boring. From the Square in Tallaght thats 160km.

Good luck with it anyway. Hopefully the wind direction will be kind to you. Miserable trip with a headwind, great training though.

jwshooter

dublin is a biggish place , where are you coming from .

blorg

Cycled down with Raam in a morning in 2008 to see the Tour of Ireland stage finish. Very nice route almost completely on back roads- not entirely unhilly, nothing crazy but certainly rolling. Raam posted the route here if it is of interest. Note I had a GPS, makes it easier to follow a complicated route.

rothar man

yeah,
left from drumcondra sat morning bt 6.40, got bright going through blessington, continued onto baltinglass, carlow, pretty easily to Paulston , got a flat, then after thomastown turned for carrick on suit and on to Kilmacthomas

184k, aver 27.2 kph is that any good i m not sure? legs were fine today, just dont know where to go next, dreaming of l'etape but no funds


badly need some upgrades, using standard giant defy 2 at moment and wheels are crap, removed 3 spokes on the way came loose and were doing my head in,

so anyone selling some good wheels, i m in the market,

ROK ON

Well done. Speed was pretty good over the distance. whatever about doing 180k in an organised cycle, doing it on your own is tough.

columbus_66

That's good going for 184km Rothar Man, was it a tailwind?

I have a brand new pair of Ultegra 6700 wheels for shimano that I might not use if you want them for €275?

Lumen

184km solo in February. Top effort!

Quigs Snr

Good going Rothar Man.

rothar man

thanks columbus66,
i ll get back to you on that...have to say the surfaces were pretty good, not much wind around...thinking of joining dublin wheelers as they are just up the road in santry and hopefully do some more events during the summer