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Escape from IFSC

  • 04-02-2017 12:23am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭


    Ahoygins,

    (...as the young people are saying these days).

    Just moved office to the IFSC and have started cycling 3 mornings a week (for logistical reasons), I've basically been able to incorporate my usual pre-work spins into the commute to extend it by..well about 500%.

    But in the evenings I've more or less just scuttled home along the canal cycle route as traffic and luas tracks and everything else and I feel that I'm missing out on a bit of extra mileage by not doglegging the route home.

    Are there any neat and not standstill traffic filled routes for getting from IFSC back out around the other side of the city?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    I'd recommend down the quays, left at the point depot (I refuse to call it what it is now) through the port tunnel onto the M1 and onto the M50 and then exit the m50 depending on where you live


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭cython


    bazermc wrote: »
    I'd recommend down the quays, left at the point depot (I refuse to call it what it is now) through the port tunnel onto the M1 and onto the M50 and then exit the m50 depending on where you live

    Seriously?! You know you replied in the cycling forum with this, and it's highly likely the poster is looking for a cycling route, i.e. not motorway! :confused::confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭jon1981


    And it got a thank you!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Considering that I'm currently wearing the Boards cycling jacket I bought from BazerMC I'd suggest that you'll all find your bladders to be a little lighter ;-p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    Where do you want to go


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    IFSC and other side of the city hints at southside but we really need more details.

    Theres plans to add a cycle path on the point bridge isnt there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    jon1981 wrote: »
    And it got a thank you!!!

    It was me that thanked it first. I felt a comedic effort like that deserved some love.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    cython wrote: »
    Seriously?! You know you replied in the cycling forum with this, and it's highly likely the poster is looking for a cycling route, i.e. not motorway! :confused::confused:

    1iyzox.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Which part of the city are you trying to get to?

    I'm trying go get to the Rathmines Ranelagh area but hoping for a way to add 20-30km to the 4km commute back without drowning in traffic. If that's possible


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    What time do you start work? Portobello - viewing point is virtually empty before 7am and you should be back home around 8, with 20+km and 350m elevation in the legs. Coming back the traffic can be heavy, but won't add more than 5min to the route. Been there done that many times :-)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Alek wrote: »
    What time do you start work? Portobello - viewing point is virtually empty before 7am and you should be back home around 8, with 20+km and 350m elevation in the legs. Coming back the traffic can be heavy, but won't add more than 5min to the route. Been there done that many times :-)

    I already have pre-work squared away, it's just the return leg that feels like wasted potential


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Aaaah, completely missed that. In the afternoons laps of Phoenix Pk work for me :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭harringtonp


    Alek wrote: »
    Aaaah, completely missed that. In the afternoons laps of Phoenix Pk work for me :)

    +1 Park. Used to live in Drimnagh and going up and down the Chapelizod bypass was also good for extra miles (though admittedly I did this evenings)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭NeedMoreGears


    Would you consider heading over Howth and back? Off road cycle track pretty much all the way to Sutton. Probably a bit more than 30km but you could always turn back at Sutton. Lovely spin on a summer's evening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Would you consider heading over Howth and back? Off road cycle track pretty much all the way to Sutton. Probably a bit more than 30km but you could always turn back at Sutton. Lovely spin on a summer's evening.

    I'll be doing those kind of miles in the morning. Just hoping for a dogleg to draw out the journey home in a good way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Take the Royal Canal towpath out as far as Castleknock (or further if you don't mind the dirt track in the Deep Sinking). Then head south, pick up the Grand Canal and head back in for home.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Take the Royal Canal towpath out as far as Castleknock (or further if you don't mind the dirt track in the Deep Sinking). Then head south, pick up the Grand Canal and head back in for home.

    Wouldn't go deep sinking on the road bike with slicks if it has been any way wet, lots of roots and mud and can be a bit unnerving on the narrow section with steep drop. Fine on a cross bike or MTB (regardless of the no cycling signs at either end).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    +1 on Howth. A spin out and back is a quick win from the city center.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Delboy007


    I already have pre-work squared away, it's just the return leg that feels like wasted potential

    Hi what is your morning route looking for one my slef. Do u have it up on strava or anything


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Delboy007 wrote: »
    Hi what is your morning route looking for one my slef. Do u have it up on strava or anything

    Basically anywhere that gets me back to IFSC before 0830.

    Playing it safe with a lot of coast road at the moment e.g. Bray and Howth when it gets brighter will go back to heading out via phoenix park towards Maynooth or Summerhill.

    For late spring summer usually do Cruagh to Johnny Foxes or vice versa. Sometimes go up to the featherbeds and back.

    Might throw in a bit of reverse and go up Dundrum to Glencullen and back via the coast or Cruagh.

    Anything that ends on the quays brings you to a pretty straight run on IFSC with a left turn to bring you over to Connolly station.

    Coming from the southside I'd take Pearse but turn off for Samuel Beckett


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