Quality of Roads

DriverMad

Went for a spin this morning. Quality of roads are shocking. You would nearly need an old secondhand bike for training.

Any good cycling routes around north galway, south mayo?

Thanks

fat bloke

I was going to post something similar but from the opposite end of the spectrum. Been training with Usher IRC most Sundays for since Autumn and every week I am absolutely amazed and astounded at the quality of the roads out around Meath and Kildare. My usual haunt would be Wicklow and that sort of Dunlavin/Ballymore end of Kildare, but our training spins have all been up around Prosperous, Celbridge, Clane, Maynooth, Kilcock, and then sometimes over to the Curragh and Kilcullen, and today we were up around Trim - absolutely gorgeous roads, fantastic surfaces, very friendly motorists too -130k today and nary a beep did we hear.

No help to you in Galway mate though I'm afraid

triggermortis

+1 on Meath roads fat bloke. I moved to Monaghan from Ashbourne and the roads are far worse here, especially the N2 between Ardee and Carrick which nearly shakes my fillings out!
Sorry OP, no help from me either

DriverMad

Thanks for the replies.

I might just get an old training bike or get a cheap pair of wheels....

Roads are not too smooth around where I live.

Thanks.

Captain Havoc

I think we're blessed so far with the weather which means the roads have held up fairly well. I remember a couple of years ago heading down to Bunclody from the Nine Stones to be met with a crater that had taken up the complete width of the road. Kilkenny coco do a good job in fairness of keeping up the roads, once you cross into Tipperary it makes good training for cobbles, actually Carlow coco should be given a mention also for good up-keep of their roads.

monkeypants

fat bloke wrote: »

today we were up around Trim - absolutely gorgeous roads, fantastic surfaces

The Noel Dempsey effect?