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Leisure cycles in the Dun Laoghaire area?

  • 17-08-2010 8:05pm
    #1
    Schtoom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭


    Hi there,

    Some friends and I have started a weekly leisure cycle from Dun Laoghaire - so far we've been to Sandymount and to Shankill.
    We're not super-fit so 20-30 k round trip would probably be the maximum we could do at the moment. Maybe 40 if there were a very nice cafe for lunch somewhere in the middle of it!
    I bought Leisure Cycles Near Dublin (operative word being 'near') but most of these seem to require a car or a main line train to get the bikes there or mountain goat genes to cope with the vertical ascent (I did mention we're not fit? :) Vico Road is probably the limit of what we want to do right now.
    The train might be an option but in the mean time could anyone suggest nice leisure cycles we could do starting from Dun Laoghaire?
    Your advice will be appreciated.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Milan Cobian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭Milan Cobian


    Marlay Park is nice.
    Or the Phoenix Park if you don't mind cycling through town. Which sounds a lot worse than it is though I think.


  • #3
    Schtoom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭Schtoom


    Thanks - both good ideas :)
    I've heard there's a really nice cycle to Marlay Park
    Phoenix Park could be nice too


  • #4
    desertcircus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭desertcircus


    The cycle to Howth village and back is at the long end of your range, but you do get fresh fish and chips at the halfway point.


  • #5
    Schtoom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭Schtoom


    Thanks - I 'accidentally' did that one evening i.e. didn't know that's how far the route was - my knees didn't forgive the 60 k too willingly! (does knee pain mean seat height not right though?) Maybe we could work up to that one - thanks for the suggestion


  • #6
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,334 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    out to Greystones, lunch in the Happy Pear and back to to Dun Laoghaire - about 40K (bit of a hill between Bray and Greystones, but its not exactly the alps).


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  • #7
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    loyatemu wrote: »
    out to Greystones, lunch in the Happy Pear and back to to Dun Laoghaire - about 40K (bit of a hill between Bray and Greystones, but its not exactly the alps).

    Yeah id cycle that regularly to stretch the legs, after the first time the hill is fine


  • #8
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Something similar to the route from this thread would probably suit you.


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