Anybody interested in a ride out to Turlough Hill hydro station on Sunday 13th July?

Skill Magill

I was reading that the Esb are offering free tours of this amazing feet of engineering on that weekend, on its 40th birthday. The engineers chopped the top off the mountain and scooped out the insides in order to create an artificial lake. They then bored down through the mountain to a lake below, fitted turbines and let the water flow down. Then, of an evening they would pump the water back up to the lake (when there the demand for electricity was low) and ready to go again.

Love that sort of stuff, looks like you get to walk around the inside, where the turbines are!

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/esb-offers-free-tours-of-turlough-hill-hydro-station-1.1850809

https://maps.google.ie/maps?ll=53.0880173,-6.5162646&z=11&q=Turlough+Hill&output=classic&dg=ntvb



Wondas in!

blu3r0ri0n

Yep should be able to make this, treating the mrs to a night out Friday so its safe to say permission slip will be signed!:D

BTW the map url is incorrect, try this instead,https://goo.gl/maps/EBcIQ

Wonda-Boy

Will I do a picnic basket?

zubair

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Will I do a picnic basket?

Make it for 4.

Zascar

Wow, that sounds cool! I'll try to go, what time? Earlier the better for me, will have to be back by 3pm I think

Skill Magill

Just headin in to work now, I'll check it out later, I think it opens at about 10, and you may have to book if theres more than 10.

Wonda-Boy

Sure we can meet up early and do the tour and then who ever wants to go for a nice spin afterwards can.....

Zascar

Sounds good!

Skill Magill

From the Esb website
"Special public weekend tours are available during 12-13th July and 9-10th August from 10.00am to 3.30pm. No booking required for these weekends"
Maybe meet up at about 10.30 @ hills garage and head up for the tour?

Wonda-Boy

ITS A DATE!

The Don

I heard about this and would be really interested in going to see it!

I'll have to see what my head is like after Saturday night.

LookBehindYou

That date clashes with Real Road Racing in Walderstown (near Athlone).
Practice is Saturday 12th July.
Race day is Sunday 13th July.

Wonda-Boy

LookBehindYou wrote: »

That date clashes with Real Road Racing in Walderstown (near Athlone).
Practice is Saturday 12th July.
Race day is Sunday 13th July.

AHHHH BOLL@#KS!!!!!! :mad::mad:

Skill Magill

I'll send an email off asking to postpone the event:D
I'll be goin up anyway, fascinated by these things!

goodlad

Looks grand! It can be my first spin on the new bike. Pretty sure i don't have anything on that Sunday but will double check later

Zascar

I'm still on for it but have to be hone by 3pm. Who else is coming?

Skill Magill

I'll be goin anyway, seems like a thing to to do, an objective! Subject to the tdm being split and put back with new rings and seals. (thanks ED )

Wonda-Boy

Sorry lads would have loved to go.....totally forgot that it clashes with the Road Races.

Apologies Guys. :(

Zascar

So are we meeting at 10.30 in hills garage? I'll be there. Who else?

goodlad

Zascar wrote: »

So are we meeting at 10.30 in hills garage? I'll be there. Who else?

Sure its still a week away so I haven't a clue yet if I'm gonna make it.

Zascar

LOL! Ah jeasus I got my dates all wrong. Duh!
Shyte I was looking forward to a spin anyway. Anyone out tomorrow morning anyway?

Wonda-Boy

Zascar wrote: »

LOL! Ah jeasus I got my dates all wrong. Duh!
Shyte I was looking forward to a spin anyway. Anyone out tomorrow morning anyway?

LOL, you all loved up Zascar!!! Dont know what day of the week it is never mind the week...:o:o

prunudo

Just reading here in the local rag that they're doing open days on the 9th & 10th of August too for anyone that's not around this weekend.

RosieJoe

They also run free tours during the week for those who work the weekends.

See here to book

ESB is offering FREE guided tours of the Turlough Hill generating station which is located around 1.5km through a tunnel in the picturesque Wicklow mountains. The facility is situated on the Wicklow Gap close to the Monastic site at Glendalough and can be accessed by following the R756. The free guided tour will last approximately one hour and participants will cover almost 3km, round trip on foot.
The tour is wheelchair and buggy accessible.
Guided tours are available every Tuesday to Friday during the months of June, July and August at 10am, 11:30am, 2pm and 3:30pm.
Special public weekend tours are available during 12-13th July and 9-10th August from 10.00am to 3.30pm. No booking required for these weekends.
Booking is essential for weekday tours. Numbers are limited to 40 persons per tour. Terms & conditions apply

Skill Magill

So the parts for the bike came in and its going to be done over the weekend, hopefully I'll have it back by Sunday but I'm not bettin on it
I may or may not make it

Wonda-Boy

Skill Magill wrote: »

So the parts for the bike came in and its going to be done over the weekend, hopefully I'll have it back by Sunday but I'm not bettin on it
I may or may not make it

WHA'

With a name like "SKILL MAGILL" and you cant get the boike sorted......ahh here leave it ou'

Skill Magill

You're right! If the rings and seals are all the correct ones and theres no fúck ups, should make it, a 10 min job

Skill Magill

Ed is costing me a fortune, next time i ride behind him (ooer missus!)

Bikerguy

I hope that its worth.. and its not me costing you but your bellowed TDM that was bleeding for long time and you didnt care... lol i hope that she will be alright asap

Skill Magill

Gonna have to forego this one, bikeless at the moment, blame Ed and his "ooh the oily mist coming from the back of your bike is playing havoc with my complexion", had to get it sorted.

Bikerguy

When you told me that your TDM is "smoking hot" looking i never though that its gonna be so much...

Now fix that bike and enjoy her even more.

Skill Magill

Got it back, the valve seals were shot, hard to tell about the rings, worth replacing though if you go in that far, So I left Clondalkin for a spin, took it up through the sally gap, just couldn't find signs for Turlough hill, so kept spinnin around,
doesn't back fire anymore (well a bit of popping when I hard throttle off). Joe, (who did the bike) also found that the down pipes for the akropvic cans had corroded at the seal and welded them back into shape, this involved refluxing, polishing them down refluxing until metal was rebuilt back up. He did a very thorough job, and addressed what was up, bear in mind I never asked him to do the pipes, but gave him free range.
Fúck buses I'm back on the road!!

Oh and Ed, you cost me a fortune, but I'll burger you at the next meet!

Sometimes i get my R's confused with my G's, Ed you now what I mean