leisurely cycling weekend

siobhanlleher

Looking for some ideas..... Would like to hop on the train with bikes in Dublin on a saturday.

Travel to somewhere maybe...an hour or so...hop off and have a leisurely cycle with a few stops along the way. Max cycling time maybe hour and a half/two hours. Have dinner and stay somewhere...then Sunday get up and make our way to another train station home. Again, no more than two hours cycling.

Its nothing hardcore...just an idea for a weekend. Would love to hear if any nice routes or cycles...

Bigus

West port cycle way to achill, further than you suggested buta great place to start

Darkglasses

Bigus wrote: »

West port cycle way to achill, further than you suggested buta great place to start

I think you can do it one way and get a bus back to Westport?

That'd easily be 2 hours or less.

Roxy12

http://www.greenway.ie/
This - amazing scenic route through Westport, Newport, Mulranny and Achil - beautiful part of the world! The cycle route is mostly constructed where the old railway line was so most of the route is very safe as well

Roxy12

Oh and for accommodation with amazing breakfast views I'd recommend here http://www.mulrannyparkhotel.ie/ - cycleway is on the doorstep and they do cycling packages and bike rental too

mandz

Would this route be okay for road bikes or more suited to wider wheeled bikes?

ROK ON

IMHO wasting your time getting train.
Leave Dublin by bike. Head for Rathsallagh outside Dunlavin or say Ballyknockan House in Glenealy Co Wicklow.
Both are lovely country houses with great food. Both are no more than 60km from Dublin. The journey out and back is picturesque and you can talk all day to cycle to either or else donut in 2-3 hours.
Save the train fair and have a nice dinner with a decent bottle of wine.

TonyStark

mandz wrote: »

Would this route be okay for road bikes or more suited to wider wheeled bikes?

Wider wheels a must :-) It can be gravelly in places.. people have done it one road bikes.. but not recommended.