Tell us about your new improved government regulations compliant cycle part II

Beasty

Old thread here

No cycle for me today - back's gone and can barely walk, so over to the rest of you.....

Rogue-Trooper

Late getting out the door this morning so only managed 32k before work.

However, as the first post in the new thread, it makes my spin epic!

Smashing morning for it too by the way.

Eponymous

Yesterday's effort was Greystones - Bray - Leopardstown - Rathfarnham - Stepaside - Enniskerry - N11 - Greystones.

Not sure why but I really felt like I was suffering until I reached Leopardstown, but somehow managed some PBs along the way even on the climb up Bray Head, which was the most surprising as a jogger passed me in the last 200m of it! I was just about ready to climb off the bike at that stage.

http://www.strava.com/activities/628758818/

Oymyakon

Another puncture on the way to work, hand pump wasn't working.... Great start to a Monday morning.

strmin

Signed up for Great Dublin bike ride and wanted to check out the route. Took a wrong turn, so not exactly the same. It was pleasant 97km ride:

https://www.strava.com/activities/628394674

smacl

Camping with the family in Clare over the weekend and managed to sneak in ~110k here and there when no one was looking. Blustery around Loop head on Saturday but great gas once the wind was behind you.

yop

Tough club spin, was uncomfortable from the start and the level of pain increased hour by hour and I'm worried now I'm in major trouble for Tuesday nights 40KM TT.
We clocked up 117km just under 30kmph average. Windy but a lovely dry day.

Idleater

I suppose I could do a bit of a write up. Since getting: (images of beauty thread)

Idleater wrote: »

My new horizontal top tube non SRAM bike for Nederland. It's a full Campagnolo super record from the 70's.

I found out that L'Eroica had an event in Limburg, southern Netherlands so I signed up. 160km, on an old bike, be grand.

Spent the interim weeks researching and buying bits n pieces like 28mm tyres because apparently as it was the first running of the event, they planned some "special" routes.

Got the first train down to Maastricht on Sunday morning, and cycled to the start in Valkenburg, to find a nice throng of people at the start square:



First stop was in a lovely country villa where there were sandwiches, tomato soup, gazpacho, coffee and (as only the Belgians would think of), sparkling or still water from the onsite spring.

Second stop was: (pic from your cycle thread)

Idleater wrote: »

Nicest and most welcome coffee at the second stop on l'Eroica Limburg.

and from there it was on to Dreilandenpunkt, through the Brand bier brewery and on to a final stop at another country farm for asparagus soup and focaccia. The local water here only had mint leaves in it.

Another 60 km later was a celebratory beer back in Valkenburg


The scenery was spectacular throughout and the weather held up nicely on the day (though there has been plenty of rain so far this year). The route was extremely well signposted, though it needed to be considering the "paths" it went down. Met many walkers and mountain bikers who were bemused to say the least at the "tour de France" bikes going up and down the rock/sand/stone mud hills lanes alley ways and caves.

The bike held up well, though after being off road for probably 80 of the 160km it looked like it needed a wash.


Thoroughly enjoyable in a kind of satisfying though wondering why did I think this was a good idea way. Met many very sound people en route, some absolute nutters doing the distance on "single" (double) speed bikes with a 56 front ring, and Uwe, who I happened to cycle with for the second half.

~2000m of climbing and the strava details (though the garmin was in my pocket for authenticity)

Bloggsie

28.8 kms in 65mins 26.5 avg.

I will pass the 1000km mark on my spin home this evening, not bad considering I only started commuting to & from work in the second week of May

not as much as some on here but Im chuffed with hitting the mark.

CrowdedHouse

Folks although I did a good bit of cycling in my younger years, I haven't thrown my leg over a bike in 20 years. I got a bike lately and finally got out for a spin this evening. I did 26.86 km at an average of 20.4 km/h. (out and back flat just 98m climbing according to these new-fangled computers) I know 'tis little enough but little acorns etc etc

retalivity

Lovely evening for a spin, 2 ascents in the dublin mountains, one up cruagh to the viewpoint then stocking lane. Was the clearest ive seen it at the viewpoint (admittedly ive only been up there 12-15 times), could see the mountains on the Cooley peninsula & the mournes beyond.

Cruagh PBs, dont normally go up that way and noticed that I went up today in half the time it took me my first ever attempt at it last summer. Onwards and upwards

https://www.strava.com/activities/631176084

dahat

Tipp League TT tonight which was my first ever try at a TT. Enjoyed it immensely as i went pretty well tbh.

16KM TT in 24.43 at 39km avg speed.... Really pleased.

yop

Broke the hour in tonights Connacht 40km TT. Worse prep with around 2 hours kip as my son was sick and then ended up at doc for the full morning with him, so no proper sleep, no proper food or drink, so that wasn't looking good. Turned up then and realised with everything I had forgot my Garmin. My wife put the 2 kids into the car and drove the 30 minutes to leave it to me.
Felt tired, even the warm up was a disaster, just couldn' find my legs. Took a gel way to early and just felt that I wanted to end it before it started.
Outleg I felt alright, average was poor and the average power was at 285 watts which was 20 watts down on the last time I did that TT 3 weeks
ago. I went out at position 3, caught the front 2 by the 10km mark, Got to the turn and was just passed by a lad who started 2 minutes behind me. Total downer on that. 32 minutes, so was looking at a 64 minute finish time, 3.5 minutes more than 3 weeks previous.

But I hit a gel, got some water and turned into the wind. I said I would live on the average watts and not worry about the average speed which was 38kmph bang on. So even on the down (there was 2) and on the hills I kept it over the 300 watts, I was concerned my back and hips were going to give up but I just relaxed and didn't panic.

I kept the lad who passed me in good eye view so maybe that helped. With 10km to go I felt pretty good. I upped the output again and then with 5km to go I realised my time wasn't as bad as I thought. At 3KM out I was at 55.5 minutes so I buried everything I had to see if I could get sub 1 hour.
I managed to finish out the 3KM with just under 400 watts average in just over 4 minutes @ 44.1kmph average. And 4 seconds to spare off the 1 hour!

I have to say I was over the moon.

dahat

Any tips on approach for a 40km TT?

Bloggsie

on the commute home yesterday, I saw the most reckless behaviour from a cyclist. Between the henry street/o'connell street junctions and also on parnell square-street she broke almost every red light narrowly missing pedistrians and just avoided being milled by an aircoach. I pulled up beside her and tried to engage her, I must have been wearing my cloak of invisibility cos she just ignored me and broke another light and headed on her way.

ohh and just to lob a grenade in, she was wearing headphones!!!

Bloggsie

yop wrote: »

Broke the hour in tonights Connacht 40km TT. Worse prep with around 2 hours kip as my son was sick and then ended up at doc for the full morning with him, so no proper sleep, no proper food or drink, so that wasn't looking good. Turned up then and realised with everything I had forgot my Garmin. My wife put the 2 kids into the car and drove the 30 minutes to leave it to me.
Felt tired, even the warm up was a disaster, just couldn' find my legs. Took a gel way to early and just felt that I wanted to end it before it started.
Outleg I felt alright, average was poor and the average power was at 285 watts which was 20 watts down on the last time I did that TT 3 weeks
ago. I went out at position 3, caught the front 2 by the 10km mark, Got to the turn and was just passed by a lad who started 2 minutes behind me. Total downer on that. 32 minutes, so was looking at a 64 minute finish time, 3.5 minutes more than 3 weeks previous.

But I hit a gel, got some water and turned into the wind. I said I would live on the average watts and not worry about the average speed which was 38kmph bang on. So even on the down (there was 2) and on the hills I kept it over the 300 watts, I was concerned my back and hips were going to give up but I just relaxed and didn't panic.

I kept the lad who passed me in good eye view so maybe that helped. With 10km to go I felt pretty good. I upped the output again and then with 5km to go I realised my time wasn't as bad as I thought. At 3KM out I was at 55.5 minutes so I buried everything I had to see if I could get sub 1 hour.
I managed to finish out the 3KM with just under 400 watts average in just over 4 minutes @ 44.1kmph average. And 4 seconds to spare off the 1 hour!

I have to say I was over the moon.

safe to say that you werent just mooching along then!

yop

dahat wrote: »

Any tips on approach for a 40km TT?

As in food or warm up? I just spin the legs for 20 minutes tbh. I eat around 2 hours before and just nibble a bar/banana in the final 30 minutes.
I took at drink twice, 20 and 40 minutes, gel at 30 minutes also.
That was only my 3rd ever, so total newbie!

Bloggsie wrote: »

safe to say that you werent just mooching along then!

Whats odd is that I put no pressure on myself, I probably have a habit of overthinking leading and getting up in a heap. But ya I just kept it very steady, learned a lot in that one last night.

Buzwaldo

Took a day out from family holiday in southern France yesterday for a two hour drive up to Bedoin, base camp for Mont Ventoux.
Got to hire shop at 8.15 and instead of intended domane triple, had my head turned by a lighter emonda with compact & 32 on the back (more later)
The 21 km climb starts gently enough for the first five or so km, but then the middle section through the forest is quite steep. Initial thoughts of getting to chalet renard 6 km from the top without stopping soon went out the window. The heat and the constant gradient in excess of 10% for I don't know how long changed my plans. Got to the chalet anyway, another brief rest, and onwards and upwards - less steep now until that last km, but the goal was in sight then, and I was too busy posing for the photographers (three in all) snapping away and handing out their cards.
There was quite a bit of traffic on the road - cyclists of all shapes and variety, and sightseers in cars, some vintage, & on motorbikes. The top was pretty busy with an ill-organised queue for snaps at the summit sign.
It was an arduous climb, taking me about 2 hours &. 20 or so minutes including stops, but I didn't travel that far for half a days cycling, so down the far side I went to Malucene for lunch followed by another 21k of upward mobility.
The stats from this side are similar at almost 1600m of climbing over similar distances but I had convinced myself that this was a bit kinder. In truth, it possibly was, but still had a 4-5 k bit in the middle averaging greater tha 10%. (The 11k to go marker signifies that the next km averages 12%)
Needless to say, my planned 3 stop strategy soon morphed to 4, then 5, then out the window. As on the first ascent, heat was an issue, with every sip of water being accompanied with splashing some on my head or back of my neck. Having said that, it was only about 28-29 degrees, and cooler at the top, could be worse.
After the tough middle section, I had a coke & coffee at a cafe with 6 k to go. While I was stopped it clouded over and as I was wet from sweat & water I cooled down quite a bit. Never mind, climbing would soon warm me, I thought, but not so. I had just donned my rain jacket for heat, when the rain did come. Not too much, but it kept on up to the top - much less crowded now, and on down to Bedoin I headed.
I had the obligatory stop at the Tom Simpson memorial, in memory of the cyclist who died there on the 1967 tour.
Lovely descent down - similar on both sides- good surface, winding roads, nice bends, but few hairpins. It was wasted on me as I am a crap descender, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
All in all 84 km with total climbing of 3184m at an average of 14.5 kph according to my Garmin.
There is a third ascent from Sault which is easier about 1300 m spread over 26 k and many do the three in the one day. Wouldn't mind trying it, but not with the constraints of one day bike hire.
On the gearing, I would never need or use a 32 in Ireland, but with being conservative early on, and under pressure later, I probably did about half the climbing in 34/32 gear. On the hard part of the second climb, the speedo was reading 7kph or thereabouts for long periods! Grinding a 32 cassette indeed. Had I gone with the triple I would have had a wider choice of low gears available to me at the expense of maybe a kilo of bike.
Anyway, a very memorable day on the bike, on of my toughest yet, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Oymyakon

When I was cycling to work this morning I overtook a 33 as it began to move off from a stop

At the next lights I was stopped and the bus pulled right up to me and the driver opened the doors, I was expecting him to give out to me or something

He said:

"What's your average cadence"

Wishbone Ash

Oymyakon wrote: »

When I was cycling to work this morning I overtook a 33 as it began to move off from a stop

At the next lights I was stopped and the bus pulled right up to me and the driver opened the doors, I was expecting him to give out to me or something

He said:

"What's your average cadence"

There's a driver on the No.33 who is a keen cyclist and races. Sometimes goes out with the McNally Swords groups. Probably him. He gives me the odd beep when I'm commuting.

secman

Haven't been out since Sunday...
A summer headcold... pits ...Probably won't be able to get out till weekend hopefully. Poxy summer headcold..... you expect these in the winter

Oymyakon

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

There's a driver on the No.33 who is a keen cyclist and races. Sometimes goes out with the McNally Swords groups. Probably him. He gives me the odd beep when I'm commuting.

It's probably him so, I'll have to keep an eye out for him at the club

Alek

He also drives the 16, but I'm yet to meet him on the road

[edit]

Asked on Strava, he confirmed it was him in the 33

DominoDub

So the Sun is out in Dublin , "Howth for lunch" I said.

Plan was to do the Sutton to Howth Village Climb non stop (as it's only my second time doing it ).

Bagged it at a slow pace at 19mins. So as treat and reward for my little effort I had a nice seafood lunch at "Octopussy's Seafood Tapas Bar".:D




So I was feeling great on my return leg of my lunch spin, when along those Clontarf Sea Front road works I was forced into a Pot Hole at speed ,,,cheers Mr Van Driver..

The result was an instant "Double Puncture" event.:mad: ( Only had one spare tube)

Thanks to the friendly guys at "360 Cycles" I was back on the road quick enough.

***So a heads up warning to watch out for that Clontarf road surface during these road works.

https://www.strava.com/activities/633118000

Bloggsie

Oymyakon wrote: »

When I was cycling to work this morning I overtook a 33 as it began to move off from a stop

At the next lights I was stopped and the bus pulled right up to me and the driver opened the doors, I was expecting him to give out to me or something

He said:

"What's your average cadence"

Thats great, I really hope you told him & not think he was taking the p**s. in the 3 years or so since I have begun cycling, I have noticed the behaviour of Dublin Bus drivers has improved greatly towards cyclists, some of the private companies could do with taking a leaf out of their book!

godtabh

Boss owed me a day off so I said feck it I'd take it today.

Had a route in mind and set out to see where the morning would take me. 8 hours later I had 200km in the legs and felling of satisfaction that this has been my most productive day all week!

https://www.strava.com/activities/633246516

Oymyakon

DominoDub wrote:

***So a heads up warning to watch out for that Clontarf road surface during these road works.

Those roadworks are Hell on Earth. Avoid that road like the plague now.

smacl

Headed out to the hills after work, planning on Ballyboden - Bohernabreena - Glassamucky and back down, but missed the turn off and ended up coming up Piperstown instead which is still a nice climb. Met two rather lost young hikers near Piperstown wondering where exactly on the Wicklow Way they were, having come from Marlay Park, Enniskerry and Glencree, and felt rather sad telling them the nearest point to the Wicklow way from where they were at that point was probably Marlay Park. One way of discovering Ireland I guess.

Hauki

godtabh wrote: »

Boss owed me a day off so I said feck it I'd take it today.

Had a route in mind and set out to see where the morning would take me. 8 hours later I had 200km in the legs and felling of satisfaction that this has been my most productive day all week!

https://www.strava.com/activities/633246516

Looks like a nice route, might give it a go in the coming weeks :cool:

crosstownk

I left home this morning for my usual commute to work. On the incline to Whitehall, Alek pulled alongside me and we had a chat.

On my way home I met Alek again on Dorset St. and we yapped all the way to the South Circulsr Road where our routes split.

Nice to have a chat on a commute with a fellow Boardsie and Alek is sound. It was an interesting twist to my usual commute.

Bloggsie

godtabh wrote: »

Boss owed me a day off so I said feck it I'd take it today.

Had a route in mind and set out to see where the morning would take me. 8 hours later I had 200km in the legs and felling of satisfaction that this has been my most productive day all week!

https://www.strava.com/activities/633246516

seems like you have a nice boss, can i have a job?

devonp

fold up bike on Cruagh or Stocking !!??

on an extended commute home last night/evening came across a guy on what looked like a fold up bike!! :eek: very small wheels didn't notice any gears ? ascending from the viewing point towards the gap
tall bloke , dont know if he came via cruagh or straight up stocking

a regular??

godtabh

Bloggsie wrote: »

seems like you have a nice boss, can i have a job?

My wife didnt think so when I was getting phone calls off him on holidays.

Alek

On the incline to Whitehall, Alek pulled alongside me and we had a chat.

On my way home I met Alek again on Dorset St. and we yapped all the way to the South Circulsr Road where our routes split.

'Twas a pleasure Sir!

rollingscone

I'm halfway through my least enjoyable spin in recent memory.

Checked the weather last night saw it would be warm with all day rain so I wore my Verge Defender (Gabbaesque longsleeve).

No rain in 3hrs just excess heat. Crawled up Cruagh with my jersey zipped halfway then balked at hitting the featherbeds in strong gusting winds.

Another hour+ of seemingly omnidirectional headwinds and I'm I'm Maynooth having lunch.

When life gives you lemons etc

Kaisr Sose

godtabh wrote: »

Boss owed me a day off so I said feck it I'd take it today.

Had a route in mind and set out to see where the morning would take me. 8 hours later I had 200km in the legs and felling of satisfaction that this has been my most productive day all week!

https://www.strava.com/activities/633246516

Don't tell the boss you had your most productive day of the week on your day off 😀

Wishbone Ash

godtabh wrote: »

My wife didnt think so when I was getting phone calls off him on holidays.

I had to take several work related calls while out yesterday - usually at the most inopportune time. One was at the top of Turlough Hill and I couldn't hear or make myself heard with the wind.

ted1

DominoDub wrote: »

So the Sun is out in Dublin , "Howth for lunch" I said.

Plan was to do the Sutton to Howth Village Climb non stop (as it's only my second time doing it ).

Bagged it at a slow pace at 19mins. So as treat and reward for my little effort I had a nice seafood lunch at "Octopussy's Seafood Tapas Bar".:D




So I was feeling great on my return leg of my lunch spin, when along those Clontarf Sea Front road works I was forced into a Pot Hole at speed ,,,cheers Mr Van Driver..

The result was an instant "Double Puncture" event.:mad: ( Only had one spare tube)

Thanks to the friendly guys at "360 Cycles" I was back on the road quick enough.

***So a heads up warning to watch out for that Clontarf road surface during these road works.

https://www.strava.com/activities/633118000

Looks tempting , the misses is away with the kids mid week , so might call out that way for a spin and tapas after work .

Unknown Soldier

I haven't posted here in awhile but thoroughly enjoy reading about everyones spins out on their bikes, especially those starting off. there is a high motivational factor to be had

Anyways, my cycling over the past few months hasn't been the may west tbh. Life threw me a fair few lemons, and after awhile... I couldn't be arsed trying make lemonade.

But I still did my best to get out on the bike. Well, not really my best, more just Ultra procrastination, ending up in getting out and about.

To help with motivation I have been doing the odd Sportive here and there, and this morning was no different.

Decided to give the Bray Wheelers - Paddy Martin Randonee a lash. The 120km route.

I'd been thinking about doing it all week so planned to be in good form for it.
That all went a bit pear shaped last night when I decided to have two beers to help me sleep (a good night's sleep is very important for a sportive), and my local offy were doing 5 Łomża (pronounced Womza, weirdos!) for 10e. It just didn't make economic sense to buy two.

Lacking sense, I didn't just drink two. They rock in at 5.7%. And youtube is great for 90s dance tunes!

All that aside I woke up with my alarm at 5am. Then I woke up at 6am. Not sure what happened there.

The weather out the window, with the wind and the rain, was not conducive to Sportive stuff, or cycling in general. Nor was the fact that I slept badly and my neck hurt, a lot. I couldn't turn it to the right.

I had to let the BootyCat out so I got up anyways.

Couple of coffees and a few smokes later...I decided to head to Bray.

Due to the weather the numbers were lower than previous years I was told. Don't blame them. It was constant "proper" rain and a horrendous wind starting off.

Now, being a spanner, I didn't know the route. I am at this stage very used to being pampered with marshals and signs and stuff.

The first 20 odd KM were down the N11! I didn't see that coming!

I was blessed with hooking up with two lads and two ladies from Gory CC when I was leaving Bray on my lonesome. I'd have been fecked without them tbh. I assumed it was all back roads and stuff. Not the fecking N11.

It rained, a lot, but it was summer rain.

They were going at a seriously handy pace which suited my neck and stuff, but when we hit the countryside/hills at about 20km the two lads headed off and I tootled along with Anna and Michelle.

It still rained, a lot.

We split up at the point where the 90/120km split.

Then I was on my lonesome.

It was quite a lumpy ride to get to Shay Elliot, eventually @ 85 odd KM. After being lost a few times. I had to back track up a few hills. Insert #sadface

I eventually made it to Laragh. That is where I learned the final part of the route, the OLD Roundwood route to Bray.

What an utter See you next Tuesday. Full of false hopes and hills. Call me stupid here but if you climb 300 odd meters and then descend, you want to be at sea level heading to Bray? Right?

No.

Back up again. Then false hope with a descent. It went on and on.

My neck was killing me, I was wondering if tri bars would be a good addition to the bike so I could "lie down" and cycle.

Then the sun came out.

I had about 5ml of water left. More #sadface

I was over the moon to get to the end. this was far from my finest cycle, it was quite tough tbh.

But I got there in the end. And that is what it is all about.

I read a good article earlier about recovery after an arduous cycle, foam rollers, protein etc.

I'm down with that stuff. Lesson learnt.

Right after I finish these lovely Żywiec beers.

Kaisr Sose

Fair play to you for getting out after the joys of the night before! I am a bit envious....

I am starting my 5th week off the bike due to an accident. No idea when I will be back on it. Not bones broken - all soft tissue /nerve damage in my arms from the jolt I got when hit. Please feel free to send your sympathies but no medical advice. ��

LollipopJimmy

Nice write up Unknown Soldier, it's the hard slogs that stand to you mentally and physically when you're chasing improvements. Knowing you can dig deep and pull through when you need to is a nice weapon to have in the bag.

devonp

Sunday spin, first time to Kippure mast..via

Leixlip, Enniskerry, Glencree, Kippure mast, Sally gap, Manor Kilbride, Saggart/Rathcoole, Newcastle , Celbridge and home

very windy and a nasty headwind from Glencree to the mast, but really scary coming down got blown from the right to the left side of the road on the descent a few times :eek: but kept out of the ditch:)


https://www.strava.com/activities/636212019

retalivity

Flattish 50+k out from dublin - celbridge - maynooth - leixlip - lucan - back

Windy as hell

https://www.strava.com/activities/636164707

traprunner

Distance 82.9 km
Avg Speed 23.7 kph
Time 3:29:42
Elev Gain 730 m

That's by far the furthest I've done. City centre to bray via the Rock Rd, into Dalkey and up Killiney Hill. It was the first time getting up from Dalkey to Killiney Hill without stopping so I was delighted with that. On to Bray and then back via N11. Over 40k done at that stage and I was feeling like calling it a day as it started to rain. Only a few drops so decided to keep going and went out and did Howth Head and back to the city centre.

It was a target of mine to get Killiney Hill and Howth Hill in on the one spin. I wasn't intending on it today. I only planned on doing 70km. I had a killer of a head wind in every direction it seemed and a little disappointed with my average. But I'm delighted to have increased my distance by quite a bit and get both hills in.

I just noticed that Strava has some obvious differences to the Garmin.
https://www.strava.com/activities/636359498

Wishbone Ash

devonp wrote: »

...very windy and a nasty headwind from Glencree to the mast, but really scary coming down got blown from the right to the left side of the road on the descent a few times :eek: but kept out of the ditch..

I got blown across the centre gravel on a bend on the descent on Friday. I thought I'd lost it. Scared the crap out of me! :eek:

Daroxtar

I had to do a job in Dundalk this morning so I brought the bike and took a spin out along the coast to Carlingford with the intention of climbing Long Woman's Grave and up to the TV mast. Got a puncture just as I came into Carlingford and noticed that my gears weren't shifting to the 3 smallest cogs. That was odd as the bike was shifting beautifully beforehand.

I fixed the puncture but couldn't get the gears right so I said Fk it, I wasn't needing them anyway. Continued on to the start of the climb, made it to the first flat section and as I shifted to accelerate the RD cable snapped and lo and behold I was now in the 11 cog permanently. Boll0x.

My bike is internally routed so I couldn't do a whole lot except turn around and head back the flattest way I could.
40km back to the car into a headwind stuck in the 11 cog at about 60rpm.
I wanted hill training and I bloody well got it just without the hills. The amount of cross chaining that went on would make you cry. My legs and lower back are in bits.
90km in 3:05@29.1kmh
I think I'm going to skip my Tempo sessions for a few days
https://www.strava.com/activities/636170320

man_no_plan

So, I was reading the WW200 thread last week and it was all Shay Elliot this and Slieve Mann that. So I gave it a bash this morning.

Into Baltinglass, Rathdangan and on and up and down and up into Laragh, back by the gap to Hollywood and out home. Weather was mixed. Wind was a bitch, changed direction every 5 mins.

Half dead.

102km
20.6km/h
1620m of murder
4h 50 moving time

Now I know what the fuss was all about.

Bloggsie

normal spin to work this morning 28.8 kms in 69 mins 25kmph average & found €50.00 just sitting on the side of the road!

magicbastarder

that's mine. i can even tell you what it looks like, as proof - large brownish note, bridges on one side and a couple of arches on the other?

Bloggsie

magicbastarder wrote: »

that's mine. i can even tell you what it looks like, as proof - large brownish note, bridges on one side and a couple of arches on the other?

no bother I'll post it to you!

LollipopJimmy

magicbastarder wrote: »

that's mine. i can even tell you what it looks like, as proof - large brownish note, bridges on one side and a couple of arches on the other?

Been so long since I had 50's in my wallet I wouldn't be able to describe one!