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

magicbastarder

i can confirm it's a lovely day for a spin up howth.

triggermortis

Nice enough out today now the wind has died down a bit. Will pass my 10,000Km yearly target on the ride home later

Weepsie

I nearly went to Howth myself, but ended up on my usual roads of with one or 2 less taken ones around North Dublin. 55 kms when I included a dash to the shops after.

Bike is filthy as the roads were manky. But a dirty bike is a happy bike as it's being used.

Weepsie

Howth today on the Croix de Fer. Still filthy from yesterday but with a 32/34 on it felt like spinning up and taking it easy.

41 km all in, nice and stress free. Back to work tomorrow .

triggermortis

Just got in from work and the Garmin was reading -4.5 at Blake’s Cross!!
Few days off now

arybvtcw0eolkf

Nothing spectacular, the vast majority of my cycling these days are commuting on a hybrid, so nothing spectacular except for the best track stand I've seen on my morning commute (or anywhere) and was wondering if the cyclist was a boardsie?.

Absolute legend track stand and got compliments myself and another cyclist on it, if you're a boardsie ~ well done again

(in wicked windy weather too)

**Woops, late edit.. It was on the Malahide Road heading south into the city

Weepsie

Meant to add, yesterday while cycling to Howth, I saw a dog approach on the grass. Happy in his own world, not bothering anyone and never seemed like he'd come onto the path. Then It occured, I knew this dog. Right after I saw the cargo bike. IT was Citizen Wolf of the Twitter fame. I was a little more excited about that than is normal.

velo.2010

Very poor visibility this morning meant a switch to the Royal Canal greenway. What a boon it is in weather like this!

Plenty of cyclists, including several groups, making good use of an amenity growing in popularity and importance.

dahat

4hrs going between fog and blue skies with visibility at times iffy at best. Once or twice I thought about heading home but being a sensible cyclist I kept going..

Legs blew ony last effort to end the spin on a poor note but overall a decent day.

122km @ 28.2 avg & 1300m of up.

secman

A leisurely spin from Tallaght to Hollywood cafe this morning for mince pies ðŸ‘. 70 km spin , avg 26.5kph nice and handy one. 140 ish left to hit 10,000 km.

julio_iglayzis

Cycling home on Thursday evening, in the torrential rain, I hit an extremely nasty pothole on Windsor Terrace in Dun Laoghaire. I had an Exposure Diablo MTB light on my helmet that failed to pick it out - the rain and surface water effectively camouflaged the defect.

I went headfirst over the bars, with my shoulder taking the brunt of the impact. I destroyed a Castelli Tempesta Jacket, a gabba, Sorpasso bibs, overshoes and gloves - as well as a broken Ultegra shifter and a damaged wheel. With the trip to A&E included it was an expensive evening.

I've a fractured collarbone, a sprained shoulder, lots of bruising, road rash and some back/neck pain thrown in for good measure too. It could have been a sh1te side worse mind. I rang the council who filled it in by 8PM (accident occurred at 5PM)

The drivers in the area were fantastic, with three staying with me until help arrived - if any are on this forum - my sincere thanks.

This was earlier in the day -



and this is what it looked like when I hit it. For scale, the first one is four foot long.



This was yesterday

Weepsie

That looks like an attempt to repair it was made, and it was very, very badly done.

julio_iglayzis

Weepsie wrote: »

That looks like an attempt to repair it was made, and it was very, very badly done.

I think it can most kindly be described as "half-assed".

secman

julio_iglayzis wrote: »

I've a fractured collarbone, a sprained shoulder, lots of bruising, road rash and some back/neck pain thrown in for good measure too. It]

Really sorry to hear about your incident, could have been a lot worse as you say , but was also totally avoidable , road should never have been left in that state,
A speedy recovery to you.

secman

A 70km handy meander with my imaginary friend Annette, just 72km shy of 10,000 km for the year.

dahat

Another 4hrs today, a cracker of a day. A cold but fresh day with a noticeable reduction in traffic for the time of year, weird really.

The spin was finished with 3 x 15min intervals with the last one spent wishing for a puncture!!!

122km @ 29.0 avg & 1100m of up, solid weekend on the bike.

magicbastarder

64k this morning, 820m of climbing. nice weather for it, but the roads are in **** again.

i must sit down and try to figure out a circuit that takes in all the climbs up to bellewstown with the least distance travelled.

julio_iglayzis

secman wrote: »

Really sorry to hear about your incident, could have been a lot worse as you say , but was also totally avoidable , road should never have been left in that state,
A speedy recovery to you.

Thanks - much appreciated. I'll be grand in a few days.

Type 17

Weepsie wrote: »

That looks like an attempt to repair it was made, and it was very, very badly done.

The fact that it was repaired and the repair failed because it wasn't done properly (as opposed to the holes opening up in the original road surface) means that the local authority are liable for your injuries/damage to property...

Eamonnator

magicbastarder wrote: »

64k this morning, 820m of climbing. nice weather for it, but the roads are in **** again.

i must sit down and try to figure out a circuit that takes in all the climbs up to bellewstown with the least distance travelled.

When you do, will you post it here, please.

magicbastarder

these would probably be all the climbs?
hilltown: https://www.strava.com/segments/12838256
bellewstown bridge: https://www.strava.com/segments/788129
ladymoor road: https://www.strava.com/segments/783661
bellewstown hill/carnes hill: https://www.strava.com/segments/712656
ongenstown: https://www.strava.com/segments/3997442
up via bonfire bank: https://www.strava.com/segments/700539
up via legganhall road: https://www.strava.com/segments/5395643
via finegan's hill (though the true start point of this is probably a movable feast): https://www.strava.com/segments/18093229

i picked the first two based purely on the difficulty of the climb. i think the way of doing it by covering least ground is to on most of the climbs, cycle down and straight back up them; it's a bit boring that way, but would give you about 700m of climbing in 38km.
doing it in a way without immediately reversing course a few times would lengthen the distance covered but make for a more interesting spin.
ladymoor road, bellewstown bridge and hilltown would cover about half the climbing.

Hilltown? Is that the one from the R150 up through the middle of the race course? God my 14 year old self rode that 5 days a week for a whole summer in 94 or 95 to pick strawberry's for the gob****e who grew them taking a right after the race course and on the left a ways down.

I can still hear him shouting while stood on the trailer "Sh1te!!!!!! yis are picking f'n sh1te"

Kills me to ride up there now, especially with my partner who skips up. 5% average but what is the max? It's way steeper than that surely.

magicbastarder

if strava is to be trusted, it maxes out at about 16%.

Eamonnator

Yes, Hilltown is the one, that goes through the racecourse.
If you look at Strava you'll see that a lot of the best times were set on the final stage of the Ras in 2017.

Thinking about the bike I was on that year and the ease I went up it day in day out makes me want to cry when I think the last time we were up it in September and wish I could have words with my younger self.

Eamonnator

magicbastarder wrote: »

these would probably be all the climbs?
hilltown: https://www.strava.com/segments/12838256
bellewstown bridge: https://www.strava.com/segments/788129
ladymoor road: https://www.strava.com/segments/783661
bellewstown hill/carnes hill: https://www.strava.com/segments/712656
ongenstown: https://www.strava.com/segments/3997442
up via bonfire bank: https://www.strava.com/segments/700539
up via legganhall road: https://www.strava.com/segments/5395643
via finegan's hill (though the true start point of this is probably a movable feast): https://www.strava.com/segments/18093229

i picked the first two based purely on the difficulty of the climb. i think the way of doing it by covering least ground is to on most of the climbs, cycle down and straight back up them; it's a bit boring that way, but would give you about 700m of climbing in 38km.
doing it in a way without immediately reversing course a few times would lengthen the distance covered but make for a more interesting spin.
ladymoor road, bellewstown bridge and hilltown would cover about half the climbing.

If I did all of those the way you suggest I'd cover about 50kms door to door.
Something to aim for next year.
About 18 months ago, I did most of the climbs, without turning on the road. I got 620 metres elevation in 46kms, door to door.
For some reason,I missed out on Legganhall road. It took me less than 2hours.

wirelessdude01

magicbastarder wrote: »

these would probably be all the climbs?
hilltown: https://www.strava.com/segments/12838256
bellewstown bridge: https://www.strava.com/segments/788129
ladymoor road: https://www.strava.com/segments/783661
bellewstown hill/carnes hill: https://www.strava.com/segments/712656
ongenstown: https://www.strava.com/segments/3997442
up via bonfire bank: https://www.strava.com/segments/700539
up via legganhall road: https://www.strava.com/segments/5395643
via finegan's hill (though the true start point of this is probably a movable feast): https://www.strava.com/segments/18093229

i picked the first two based purely on the difficulty of the climb. i think the way of doing it by covering least ground is to on most of the climbs, cycle down and straight back up them; it's a bit boring that way, but would give you about 700m of climbing in 38km.
doing it in a way without immediately reversing course a few times would lengthen the distance covered but make for a more interesting spin.
ladymoor road, bellewstown bridge and hilltown would cover about half the climbing.

I sat down one evening over the summer to see if I could map 1000m of climbing in under 50km around Bellewstown. Only stipulation was that a climb couldn't be done twice. Couldn't be done from what I could see.

On a side note I love that Ladymoor Road climb especially the initial hit up to the pump house.

magicbastarder

you would add 80m if you approached from north of the M1 on the R108 (i.e. from the julianstown/duleek road), but if you didn't want to repeat that road, it's a long way round with no climbing.

this was the rough calculation i used last night - measurements are from google maps. as you can see it's very repetitive, turning back at the bottom each time, 37.7km:
start at carnes hill: 4km to BT, 85m up
down and back up hilltown, 5.6km, 117m up
down and up bonfire bank, 2.2km, 57m up
down legganhall and back up, 3.6km, 39m up
down bellewstown bridge and back up, 6.1km, 121 up
down and up ongenstown 2.5km, 69m up
down ladymoor and back up to bellewstown - 8.7km 137m up
down to R108 and back up, 5km, 39 up.

i suspect you could knock 1km off the above by starting at the R108 - i.e. avoid the rep on the longest stretch, rather than avoiding it on the second longest one (carnes hill)

Weepsie

I need to go that way a bit more. Tend to get as far as Snowtown and go back, but I'm often about 75km into my cycles by then and ready to turn home.

secman

Needed 72km today to round off 10,000 km for the year, did a solo handy spin, trying to pick a route to give me 72 km on the nose. Headed out to blessington and in to Hollywood,on tbe way back turned for Tulfarris at poulaphuca and back out on to n81 at the Valleymount turn. Through blessington on to the Lamb, all the time recalculating my route, turned at the Lamb towards Manor Kilbride and back around by Lisheen, Brittas and home, hit 72km on the nose as i turned on to my road, Happy days, 10,000 km , no commuting kms.