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

dahat

saganfan wrote: »

Was that around the top of Cunard? Between Cunard and the piperstown road? Saw a buzzard around there myself, amazing.

Far far away from Cunard!!!

It was in S. Tipp, on the road from Grange to Cahir.

saganfan

Haha well at least we both got to enjoy a buzzard!

loyatemu

dahat wrote: »

Best part of the spin was seeing what looked like a buzzard having lunch on a freshly killed pigeon, tried to get the phone out for a pic but he flew off after looking my way.

alright, free pigeon!

secman

Did the DAA charity spin this morning, a jaunt around NCD ,a bit of Meath and back, haven't a clue where i was to be honest, mostly did it with about 6 or so riders and last bit with a nice chap Donal from Clontarf cc,
100km Avg of 30.97 kph.

Wishbone Ash

secman wrote: »

... a jaunt around NCD ,a bit of Meath and back, haven't a clue where i was to be honest,...

A bit of Meath??

.........Kilbride, Ratoath, Batterstown, Drumree, Dunsany, Skryne, Rathfeigh, Curragha, Ashbourne etc.......most of it was in Meath!


Impressive riding from you today secman. You switched on the afterburners following the banana stop and I was promptly shown the back door.

magicbastarder

I assumed the donal I knew of was a swords man, not a clontarf one?

Wishbone Ash

magicbastarder wrote: »

I assumed the donal I knew of was a swords man, not a clontarf one?

The Clontarf Donal was a bit older and a lot faster!

rushfan

Missed this, for only the second time, as I had to work Friday night. Well done to all who participated. Great day for it.

LollipopJimmy

I without with long sleeves and shorts today. Regretted it, there's a bite in that wind

Type 17

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I without with long sleeves and shorts today. Regretted it, there's a bite in that wind

Me too - went out in a long top and shorts, seemed lovely all the way up the Military Road, until the top of Sally Gap - loads of wind.
Then I got a puncture, and the sideways drizzle started...
Got the punc fixed, started back into the crosswind full of drizzle, my top wasn't waterproof, so one side of me was wet and stingy-cold, in a temp of 7 degrees.
Descended slowly, back to 13 degrees and sunshine by the Yellow House - felt like summer

Boscoirl

First club spin in about 8 weeks. With only one spin in that time. 100km @29kmph. I hit the wall at 15km and wanted to turn back but they wouldn’t let me

Man did I suffer for the rest off the spin

P_1

First proper spin since the incident involving the Peoples Elbow and the N5. Did the cycle for diabetes in Galway today, a pretty appropriate one for the comeback event.

49k from Galway to Spiddal to Moycullen and back into Galway. Moycullen Bog is beautiful.

Very well run event, only minor quibble was having the end run go through Salthill, yikes the traffic there makes College Green look pleasant!

49km in just over 2 hours, happy with that considering I was taking it handy enough lest I damage the elbow.

https://www.relive.cc/view/1875077055

secman

magicbastarder wrote: »

I assumed the donal I knew of was a swords man, not a clontarf one?

Met Donal 2 , definitely from Clontarf cc, was with Donal 1 Swords McNally earlier in the spin. One as nice as the other:)

secman

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

The Clontarf Donal was a bit older and a lot faster!

Donal 2 probably a bit wiser and didn't do as much work as you early days

secman

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

A bit of Meath??

.........Kilbride, Ratoath, Batterstown, Drumree, Dunsany, Skryne, Rathfeigh, Curragha, Ashbourne etc.......most of it was in Meath!


Impressive riding from you today secman. You switched on the afterburners following the banana stop and I was promptly shown the back door.

You won't be surprised that I did badly in Geography in LC,
I was surprised with that Donal, was wondering what the matter was with you after the banana break as you were riding very strong up to that point.

Mc Love

Got my back tyre replaced last week, picked the bike up Saturday, cycled to and from work yesterday, on the way in this morning, cycle over a bump in the road and it goes flat luckily I was only 200 metres from the office.

Alanstrainor

Mc Love wrote: »

Got my back tyre replaced last week, picked the bike up Saturday, cycled to and from work yesterday, on the way in this morning, cycle over a bump in the road and it goes flat luckily I was only 200 metres from the office.

What tyres are they? Sometimes you just get unlucky though, I remember putting on a GP4000 and a day later having a large nail puncture the bloody thing.

silverharp

Cycling etiquette/rules on a cycle path? , couldn’t have timed it better mother and child walking on a cycle path (path split between cyclists and pedestrians, orange tarmac the works) coming against me , eye contact but they weren’t going to move so cycled around them, back on the cycle path look up only to see a cyclist coming towards me with no intention of making way, there is a cycle path on both sides of the road and I was going in the direction of the traffic. Is it everyone for themselves?, I’d always make space for a cyclist if I was on a path going against the direction of traffic, I’d assume they have the primary right of way?

Mc Love

Alanstrainor wrote: »

What tyres are they? Sometimes you just get unlucky though, I remember putting on a GP4000 and a day later having a large nail puncture the bloody thing.

I'm pretty sure a bog standard tyre. Is it worth getting the puncture resistant tyres on the bike I'm getting for the cycle to work scheme?

silverharp wrote: »

Cycling etiquette/rules on a cycle path? , couldn’t have timed it better mother and child walking on a cycle path (path split between cyclists and pedestrians, orange tarmac the works) coming against me , eye contact but they weren’t going to move so cycled around them, back on the cycle path look up only to see a cyclist coming towards me with no intention of making way, there is a cycle path on both sides of the road and I was going in the direction of the traffic. Is it everyone for themselves?, I’d always make space for a cyclist if I was on a path going against the direction of traffic, I’d assume they have the primary right of way?

Common sense would be to be on the cycle path going in the direction of traffic unless its a cycle lane with lanes going in both directions

mloc123

silverharp wrote: »

Cycling etiquette/rules on a cycle path? , couldn’t have timed it better mother and child walking on a cycle path (path split between cyclists and pedestrians, orange tarmac the works) coming against me , eye contact but they weren’t going to move so cycled around them, back on the cycle path look up only to see a cyclist coming towards me with no intention of making way, there is a cycle path on both sides of the road and I was going in the direction of the traffic. Is it everyone for themselves?, I’d always make space for a cyclist if I was on a path going against the direction of traffic, I’d assume they have the primary right of way?

Same here... IMO if you are going in the direction of traffic you have right of way.

Shared "paths" are annoying... I use a stretch in the evenings and now that it is dark again the walkers are out. Walking 2,3,4 wide taking up both lanes.

Felexicon

mloc123 wrote: »

Same here... IMO if you are going in the direction of traffic you have right of way.

Shared "paths" are annoying... I use a stretch in the evenings and now that it is dark again the walkers are out. Walking 2,3,4 wide taking up both lanes.

Had this last night on my cycle home. 3 aul ones taking part in one of thos slogger to jogger things walking towards me apparently didn't see my flashing light and then took the hump when they had to move over. The only moved after I'd come to a complete stop and said excuse me.

Alanstrainor

Mc Love wrote: »

I'm pretty sure a bog standard tyre. Is it worth getting the puncture resistant tyres on the bike I'm getting for the cycle to work scheme?

Ah it depends on your use, but for me I would want some protection on any tyre I use as I have no patience for stopping mid cycle to fix them! I always like GP4000's, they are expensive and not necessarily the most puncture resistant but they are a good balance between performance and durability. Schwable ultra-marathon plus tyres are the ones to get if you never want to have to think about punctures again, but they are a heavy tyre, and not as nice to ride on. Honestly there's tonnes of options (and plenty of threads about them on here!).

mloc123

30km along the royal canal last night, from Leixlip to Kilcock and back. The updated greenway is quite good.

circler

I'm giving Panaracer Gravel Kings a go. I stuck on 28s (tight squeeze to get it on the rim) and they've been brilliant. Rolls well on tarmac, and zero punctures in about 3000km. Unfortunately if I do get a puncture I've no idea how I'm going to get them off in one piece.

terrydel

Lap of the Blessington lakes from Valleymount side yesterday evening, nice (rare) tailwind going that direction, so managed 31kmph average for the 25km loop.
Best I've done over the infamous lakeshore drive!

mloc123

45km of north Kildare and Meath this afternoon. Pleasant weather... dry, not too cold and no much wind

rushfan

86km this morning around NCD. Presumably it was the wet/damp roads but it was astonishing how much fuel spillage I came across.

triggermortis

Only noticed today when I uploaded my commute to work, that I passed my goal of 5000km for the year on Monday!! Did a spin out to Howth and did my second best time up the village side. Maybe the last spin of the year on the good bike, who knows...


https://www.strava.com/activities/1877288127

magicbastarder

first time out in three weeks today, so first time out in long sleeves and leggings in months. quite blowy out; hooked up with a small group of cyclists for about 10km, and had a random beep and brandishing of the finger from a motorist coming the opposite direction. he must have been having a bad morning.

Tell me how

On holidays in Portugal for the past week. Cycled daily.
Totals of 400Km and 5,000M climbing.

Feeling suitably tired for a 110Kg guy.