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    #32
    alcyst
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭alcyst


    To confirm; this Sunday, 7am, College Rd/Grange Rd intersection (south east corner, Marley Park). Open to all, as long as you have a suitable bike, gear, & hope?
    Sounds tempting


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    #33
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Confirmed!


    On a side note, after spending 2 nights in hospital with the older son and the younger one getting a high grade fever last night, and myself feeling and infection coming, I can only hope I'll be fine by then myself!!


    Re: low gearing, I'd consider 34x28 minimum, and 34x32 comfortable for this ride.


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    #34
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    The weather forcast looks quite good for Sunday - not much lazy sunshine, but no hurricane either*! More importantly, it will be dry.

    *This is coming mid-Monday.


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    #35
    cdaly_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Alek, Would you consider extending this to 200k and then proposing it as an off-road audax route?


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    #36
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Yes, I was thinking about it! The problem is that it would be extremely hard to navigate it with turn-by-turn directions... if possible at all. I believe all Audax routes need to have a cuesheet - am I wrong?


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    #37
    cdaly_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    You're probably right. I suppose it depends on whether the off-road bits include hard to spot, unsigned 'road less travelled' junctions and such. A bigger issue would be choosing controls to eliminate the numerous shortcuts available in the route.


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    #38
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Thats impossible... Too many loopy loops. As a permanent maybe?


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    #39
    Resoguy
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Resoguy


    Going to give this a go, looking forward to it, see you in the morning


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    #40
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    The more the merrier! In fairness I feel like a piece of shoite today, but will be there for sure - my body will tell me later for how long :-)


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    #41
    Sunsets On Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Sunsets On Tuesday


    Hi all,
    So Alek and I completed the Weevil 170 -bar the last climb up Three Rock. It was too dark and we couldn't be bothered.
    In the end I spend 12h 20m out on the bike, with 10h of that moving.
    It was a great day, with its ups and downs, rain, sugar filled foods etc.
    I'm sure Alek will fill you guys in too when he sorts out his Strava!
    Cheers also to the other boardsies who came out with us till roundwood. You guys were great company.
    Funny thing -I left in the morning in the dark, and came back in the dark. Weird!
    Cheers Alek for organising :-)

    (EDIT) Forgot to give the data. 170km for me with 3,930m elevation. The most I've ever done!

    Link to my ride here:
    https://www.strava.com/activities/1232098592/


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    #42
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek




    Also link to my strava log :)


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    #43
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,708 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Excellent video, looks awesome.


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    #44
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    Nice looking spin.

    How would it compare to MB200, tougher at a guess?

    You should check with Paul, Andreas or the like of Audax Ireland (or ask via Google group) as to whether you could put up as a permanent.
    I don't provide any route sheet for permanent but I'm not certain I don't have to.

    In reality trying to do a route sheet for this or similar wouldn't be possible.

    There is certainly an appetite for this type of route.

    Well done on ride even if you did seem to get dropped all the time :D


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    #45
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I was *allowing* to be dropped only to take a strategic filming position! :D

    I find it much tougher than MB200 in fairness, due to difficult terrain / surface. Some of the short climbs are insanely steep too :) On the other hand, I wasn't in my best form on the day, just out of a cold of sorts.


    ***
    I'll talk to Paul about making it a permanent.


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    #46
    Resoguy
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Resoguy


    Great video Alex, thanks again to yourself and Sunsets on Tuesday for setting it up and the the ride as far Roundwood.


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    #47
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Thinking of changing the route slightly: does anyone know if there is open access through Kilpedder Rifle Range near Greystones, leading to Altidore hill?


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    #48
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Alek wrote: »
    Thinking of changing the route slightly: does anyone know if there is open access through Kilpedder Rifle Range near Greystones, leading to Altidore hill?

    A rifle range doesn't seem like the best place to be cycling


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    #49
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I know, but it seems the road only enters the range and then veers out to the right....

    https://www.komoot.com/plan/@53.1160138,-6.1395121,15z


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    #50
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,708 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Weepsie wrote: »
    A rifle range doesn't seem like the best place to be cycling

    Usually not an issue, in that there are signs up if the range is closed. Only downside is that your re-route might get you a bit lost or take longer, as I found out on a spin last year on my third visit past Fenton's where my planned route was here.


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    #51
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,268 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Weepsie wrote: »
    A rifle range doesn't seem like the best place to be cycling
    Surely we're used to being target practice from being on the roads?

    Just incidentally, the dirt road in trooperstown is due to be surfaced.


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    #52
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Just incidentally, the dirt road in trooperstown is due to be surfaced.

    Dammit, it was a really nice one.


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    #53
    The Noble Nudge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭The Noble Nudge


    Are you doing it again sometime soon Alek??

    i was thinking after RTL end of November of the Wicklow way again but this would interest me...


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    #54
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,268 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Alek wrote: »
    Dammit, it was a really nice one.
    I'm not sure how much of it - I follow "Trooperstown" on facebook, and they've been putting out the call to residents to volunteer money to add to the grant, and last week posted that they had the funding in place.


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    #55
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,268 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Does anyone have the gpx or kml of this route, please? I'm not strava premium, so can't download from there, but hoping to do some of the route over the next few weeks now I have cross bike!


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    #56
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Attached to this post, a little bit edited and hence not 100% explored version.

    Godspeed!


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    #57
    The Noble Nudge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭The Noble Nudge


    Any thoughts on a 2018 version of Aleks Weevil...


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    #58
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    I'd be up for it...need a few weeks training first though


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    #59
    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Dont really want to contemplate sitting on a bike for a while but fhook it I'm in!


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    #60
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I've been offline for quite a while, but I've been told The Crew is up for some gravel munching again!

    In the meanwhile my Kinesis gravel frame snapped, been sent back, fully refunded and a monstercross rig has been built in its place, so I can start thinking of the 2018 edition :D

    This year's route:

    https://www.strava.com/routes/14112402

    Shorter, but gnarlier! :D



    Knobby tyres a must this time, sorry Sean.

    ;)


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    #61
    The Noble Nudge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭The Noble Nudge


    Alek wrote: »
    I've been offline for quite a while, but I've been told The Crew is up for some gravel munching again!

    In the meanwhile my Kinesis gravel frame snapped, been sent back, fully refunded and a monstercross rig has been built in its place, so I can start thinking of the 2018 edition :D

    This year's route:

    https://www.strava.com/routes/14112402

    Shorter, but gnarlier! :D



    Knobby tyres a must this time, sorry Sean.

    ;)

    I did ask.....:cool:


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