2012 Maracycle

lennymc

Couldnt find a thread on this years one. Apologies if there is one.
Anyway - is anyone else doing it? Im planning on doing it and just wondering if there is overnight parking up at Belfast. Plan is to drive up on the morning, do leg 1, stay with inlaws, then back up to belfast for the car. At least if I leave the car up in belfast it means I have to go back to get it, right?

feck sake lads

lennymc wrote: »

Couldnt find a thread on this years one. Apologies if there is one.
Anyway - is anyone else doing it? Im planning on doing it and just wondering if there is overnight parking up at Belfast. Plan is to drive up on the morning, do leg 1, stay with inlaws, then back up to belfast for the car. At least if I leave the car up in belfast it means I have to go back to get it, right?

there making a balls of it this year why not leave it as it was.

Eamonnator

I'm doing it. I'm staying overnight in Belfast on Friday. I don't know yet, how I'm getting to Belfast.
I presume the reason, it starts in Belfast every second year, is to give people from North and South an equal run at it. I'm sure, it suits people from around Belfast better to have it start in Belfast.

lennymc

cheers Eamonn. Ill have a chat with you about it next time i see you. I know Granda is doing it aswell.

Lightfoot

For anyone interested, I have put the 2012 route on Bike Toaster which allows you to download it as a GPX.
http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=413022

Other route information is on the Cooperation Ireland web site.
http://www.cooperationireland.org/supportus/2012/maracycle/pptinfo

Best of luck if you're doing the cycle.

doozerie

It's a shame that they've changed the structure of it from years back, where the Dublin or Belfast group left on the Friday, riding back on the Saturday along with the other group, and the other group rode back home on the Sunday. Ah, nostalgia! *sniff* If I remember rightly, breakfast in Belfast was my first introduction to hash browns. Ah, my poor arteries! *sniff*

Good luck to everyone taking part.

awec

lennymc wrote: »

Couldnt find a thread on this years one. Apologies if there is one.
Anyway - is anyone else doing it? Im planning on doing it and just wondering if there is overnight parking up at Belfast. Plan is to drive up on the morning, do leg 1, stay with inlaws, then back up to belfast for the car. At least if I leave the car up in belfast it means I have to go back to get it, right?

If the place on the map posted above is where it ends in Belfast then you can park on the various side streets off the main Malone road.

It's a very up market area, your car will be safe.

granda

is anyone from the dundalk or drogheda area doing the maracycle on sunday from dublin that i might be able to hitch a lift with from drogheda to dcu as i dont fancy getting the 5.30 bus to dcu,i will of course contribute to petrol costs.
thanks granda

lennymc

what time will you need to be in dublin for?

Im not doing it due to other commitments

granda

might be a bit early for you lenny but about 7.30-8

lennymc

granda wrote: »

might be a bit early for you lenny but about 7.30-8

ill be heading to dublin earlyish sunday morning, if you were leaving drogheda then i could drop you down, if you need to be in dublin then, it would be too early. Can you confirm the time and send me a txt?