Photos taken on your cycle.

DaveyDave

Just because you can doesn't mean you should, but I did it anyway. I took the road ebike up to Ballinastoe for the blue trails, using 35c Marathon Winter Plus spiked ice tyres in place of gravel tyres lol.

Good craic, hands a bit sore as expected but part of that is down to the stiff tyres and running a mid range pressure, I'll drop it a bit more next time. Thinking of picking up a set of 35c Continental Terra Trail gravel tyres for around €50. Looks like 40mm would easily fit up front but not many options for a cheap tyre.

221w average power without zero average counted, always a good workout on the bike.

THE_SHEEP

Looking across Dundalk Bay towards the Cooley Mountains ( centre ) . Slieve Gullion far left , Mourne Mountains in distance far right .

Seth Brundle

Donore Castle (near Longwood Co. Meath) - a £10 castle built to defend the Pale

A step back in time in Killyon...

cletus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120935897#Comment_120935897

Hope those rain clouds held off...

Seth Brundle

The rain held off for the whole spin: for once recently it was lovely out

brokenbad

Outside Tullamore on the Grand Canal

sbs2010

South Netherlands - not in this pic but surprisingly hilly.

cletus

Slow braised brisket burger, chips, and a pint in Nanny Quinn's.

Turned into a great day for a bank holiday spin

brokenbad

Up on the trails in Slieve Blooms yesterday - great fun

Dr.Tom

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jebidiah

Amazing cycle this weekend from New Ross in Co. Wexford to Passage East Ferry, to Dungarvan via the Waterford Greenway. Return leg was Dungarvan to Tramore via the copper coast and then Tramore to New Ross via the ferry.

Amazing scenery down on the coast road! Stunning cycle! Last photo, I nearly had a bad crash into a ditch but managed to get my right foot down and keep my rear wheel on the path. Cleat is worn to almost nothing 😱

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120955472#Comment_120955472

Nice photos but I'd say it was a bumpy ride travelling along photo #3 😁

Is it a bog railway?

jebidiah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120955485#Comment_120955485

Haha! Would have been better off with a MTB 😂

The Greenway seems to run a long side an old train line for the most part! It was quite nice, but the coast was spectacular

cletus

Had only a short timeframe this morning, so went out early for a ramble

Managed to startle both a rabbit and a heron.

It was a bit cooler and breezier than I thought it would be when I was setting out, so I threw on my new Tourmalet jacket as a sort of windbreaker (plus, I wanted to give it a try out). Worked perfectly for that, and when it warmed up, it was stuff-able into the cargo pocket on my shorts.

mcburns07

Extremely windy one 💨

https://strava.app.link/0t4JQOWgbCb

iwillhtfu

Some fun was had, till I punctured and luckily I had loads of spares. (in the car 🙈😭)

Brian?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120967799#Comment_120967799

where is the 2nd one?

Brian?

Stopped for coffee and a tosti at a waterskiing park, just north of Eindhoven. No mountains but good forest trails.

Dr.Tom

Nagle Mountains. Chimneyfield area Killavullen. More well know for a Cork 20 stage.

iwillhtfu

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They're both Ballinastoe. The first more over towards the wicklow way, just went over for nosey.

Cabaal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120955536#Comment_120955536

Thats the Suir Valley railway, it does a 40min trip on the line several times a day during about 6 months of the year,

https://www.wsvrailway.ie/

secman

Taken out by Peamont hospital looking back towards Dublin mountains , gorgeous clouds this evening.

cletus

I went out for a spin yesterday evening, and was treated to VIP access to the next section of the Barrow Line blueway section to be opened (that is, someone left the fence unlocked)

Having cycled it while it was a grass track many times, I only saw this small section of narrow gauge track for the first time last night.

There appears to have been some sort of turntable too.

cletus

So, took a spin with the young fella to see if the last section of the Barrow Line blueway was finally open.

Fences are down, but there's still workers there. Official word from the man in the hardhat when I asked when it would be open was "very soon"🙄

It seemed like an ideal opportunity to take my mountain bike out. My son took some convincing that my bike was, in fact, a mountain bike 😂

nilhg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120988942#Comment_120988942

I saw that yesterday, going to have to make some enquiries as to what it was for.

cletus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121007957#Comment_121007957

Let us know the outcome

iwillhtfu

It's bound to be an old loading/unloading point. Are the rails alongside the canal roughly 40'? I think the barges were around 40' long.

Large bottle small glass

https://irishwaterwayshistory.com/about/irish-waterways-furniture/the-machine-demands-a-sacrifice/

nilhg

It definitely looks like a place for loading/unloading with one of those cranes, I just can't figure out what, it's out in the middle of nowhere.

https://goo.gl/maps/p1h5HgQvkJpaM1Nv5

The old malt works which is now Church of Oak distillery is about a KM up the canal but it had it's own harbour.

cletus

Yep, there's no slip anywhere near it, it's farm land on either bank, and it's about equidistant from both of the bridges that demark that section of the canal.

It's almost definitely a loading point all right, but like nilhg says, I don't know what would be loaded there.

What I don't see in the link from @Large bottle small glass is the T junction of the tracks, with a turntable at the junction.

I'm assuming it's a turntable, because if it was a crane mount, it would mean the tracks either side of it were basically unusable