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Sportives 2022

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,603 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    I think ridewithgps is definitely off there - it touches 20% iirc, certainly in 18-19%. Anyone know if they're strict on "lite" entries doing the full randonee?


    Edit - Strava has the top half topping out at 20.3%



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,821 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    where is this famous 'wall'?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,422 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    near Powerscourt Waterfall. The top half of the climb above the crossroads is the bit the Randonee is using and for extra punishment they're then turning right and going up Old Long Hill.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭Drake66


    The surface on it is pretty rough to add to the fun. It's quite a narrow lane as well



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,603 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    It's more the moss and sheep **** on it (not cunard levels, but not far off in spots).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    For those not familiar with the route of the Randonnée, there is a fast and potentially dangerous descent from the Military Road at Glencree down to the gates into Powerscourt Waterfall. Shortly before the gates, there is a steep and sharp right turn. Knowing Orwell, it will be well marshalled but please take their advice and slow down. A colleague misjudged it on a club spin last year and had a very bad crash resulting in him having to give up cycling.

    After the gates you have about 0.8k of uphill before the right turn at the crossroads onto The (Upper) Wall. That's where you really do need to be in the small ring.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    Is there plenty of parking in de la salle palmerstown rc for the day? Don’t fancy the extra 15k cycle there and home on top of the 140!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    The email I got from them today (assume everyone that's registered got it) said that parking at De La Salle is limited so they recommend carpooling or making alternative arrangements. My plan is to arrive early, hopefully well before any overspill.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭monkeyslayer


    You could probably easily park up the road at the school/church if it does fill up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    I find Old Long Hill nearly tougher than The Wall. You know what coming on The Wall but as soon as you finish it you turn the corner and before you catch your breath there's another bloody kilometer hitting 10%.

    Unfortunately I can't make the Randonee this year but it's a great spin. Good luck to all taking part.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    Make that 16% D - was looking forward to meeting up again on the Randonnée but I think you have been in the wars recently!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    i'm signed up for the Lite - hadn't heard of the wall before so glad to be missing it :). I reckon i'll be tacking on the spin in either direction rather than take the car



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    Hopefully the change in forecast (yr.no) to ‘raining for 6 hours from 9am Saturday’, has changed early enough for it to revert back to ‘dry and no wind’ 😬!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Christ I just checked my forecast app and it looks pretty grim alright.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,205 ✭✭✭dinneenp


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Keep_Her_Lit


    I admire your optimism, though I'm struggling to share it 😉!

    We'll be out there on Saturday after 100km of pi**ing rain ... "Right, the sun is going to break through those clouds any minute now ... there'll be blue skies the far side of that hill up there".

    I have to confess, I'm wavering now, despite having paid for a ticket. Anyone who completes that course if it's raining from start to finish most certainly deserves their burger afterwards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,015 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Looking at the rain radar it looks to be dry to start with rain sweeping down from the North West later in the day. Has me thinking of setting off early, more like 8 am. The mass start barely lasts a km anyway cos the bunch splinters completely on the almost immediate climbing.

    Just wondering when the food stop in Laragh opens. I may as well get my Orwell artisanal snacks for my 50 quid like!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    I've actually managed to stay upright for a while now!! I had the Dreaded Lurgy 2 months ago and had a minor bit of heart surgery prior to that, but have just begun to get a bit of form back in the legs in the past couple of weeks . Just tied up tomorrow so won't get out. Don't worry, we'll have a spin or two soon enough. WW200 and Evil are on the agenda



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,015 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Sugar anyway. Looks worse now. :(. We have until about 10am.


    <sigh> Mummy, take me back to Majorca!! 😭😭



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    at least the wind is low!!

    Will be emotionally difficult to take that sweeping left down towards powerscourt just as the heavans open... might force myself out in the AM but knock the 20km off by ignoring that turn!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,015 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    My counter-intuitive road to Damascus junction is Manor Kilbride. Straight on for easy spin home, or turn east for Sally Gap again!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Keep_Her_Lit


    Yeah, that's the bail out point alright.

    If you can't make it over the Wicklow Gap, well you probably chose the wrong course, TBH. But by the time the lakes are behind you, a lot of folks (myself included) will be feeling less than fresh. Manor Kilbride is often my "nearly home now" marker, with no more climbing to do. So turning for the Sally Gap at that point will require a deep breath and firm resolve!

    Good luck to everyone tomorrow. Get yourself around in one piece, take it handy on the descents in the wet and remember Mercian Pro's safety tip.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,015 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    I think I'm going to drive and leave the car and then just gear up and suck it up. That leaves me with no excuse but to Sally gap back to the start to collect the car.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭Drake66


    That weather is making it tricky to decide what to wear. I wonder if it will be chilly enough for the Mistral jacket.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    As Brendan Behan said "the weather is so changeable, you wouldn't know what to pawn"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 davidgaughan


    I have 2 tickets for the 2022 Ring Of Beara on 28th May that I'm not going to use.

    If anybody knows anyone who wants to go, contact me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,821 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Its not actually that cold. The easterly breeze is gone



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,015 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Was grand in the end. I toddled off early and spent 5 and a half hours on my own 🙄. Was damp all day. I just wore my winter gear and brought my winter bike. A couple of degrees colder and it would have been miserable but as it was it wasn't too bad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭Drake66


    Weather wasnt the worst in the end. I averaged 24.8kmph which I was happy with. The Orwell guys are very friendly. It was an exceptionally well organised event so fair play to them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    Really well organised. Super spread at the food stop. Friendly to a fault as well.

    I was not in my winter gear... chilly at times



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Keep_Her_Lit


    Great day out, tough but thoroughly enjoyable. Weather didn't turn out too bad after all. Drizzling most of the time. Mucky conditions but quite mild and very little wind. Fell in and out with various groups over the course. Thumbs up to the lads from Naomh Barrog CC in Kilbarrack, from whom I hitched a lift coming down from the Wicklow Gap and all along the lakes.

    I did very little distance over the winter, partly due to injury, and only really got motoring again early last month. So quite happy to get around in 5h 37m moving time, 26.0 km/h average.

    Thankfully, I didn't see any accidents and I hope everyone got around safely. However, there was one hair raising moment when a chap in front of me ran wide through a corner, mounted the ditch and ended up riding along the ridge of the ditch inches from a barbed wire fence. Miraculously, he stayed on board and rejoined the road again. You can guess which corner it was!!!

    Finally, huge thanks to Orwell Wheelers. They do a really superb job of running this event. Marshals all over the course looking out for our safety, an absolute feast laid on in Laragh and scrummy burger at the finish! Fair play to all in the club and thanks for your efforts. 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    Did the 125 in the end. Rain wasn’t too bad all day and the only wind that whipped up was the tailwind after the last assault on the sally gap. Extremely well run event, fair play to Orwell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    Great event and well done Orwell for getting everything right except the weather! Very impressed with two Dunboyne CC riders who led a mixed group of us around the lake. They could easily have left us behind but eased back on the climbs to keep the group together as far as Manor Kilbride.

    Overall I found it tougher than previous attempts but that could be down to less training in the hills, the weather, a faster average of 24.0 or, perish the thought, a recent significant birthday 🙁

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    As others have said the overall organisation, food stops and general atmosphere are a real credit to Orwell Wheelers. It's such an enjoyable event, even on a bit of a soft day like yesterday! We did the 125km route but one of the lads in our group was suffering badly from Wicklow Gap and the Lake Drive finished him off so we ended up routing back via Ballinascorney to cut around 12km and a chunk of climbing off to get him home in one piece.

    The rain really wasn't that bad thankfully but I was still very glad of my winter gear and mudguards! I definitely felt the effects of Covid from late March but am hoping yesterday might have helped me get back on track for the summer 🤞



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,015 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Was over the 2 gaps today. Today was obviously the marshalls' Randonnee! Fair play to them, they deserve their day on the bike. I hope they kept some carrot cake for themselves. :)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Corker1


    Yes it was a testing route with lots of little 'Bergs' along the way. And very well marshalled and marked. An enjoyable way to kick off my sportive season. Nice to meet you for a chat Mercian Pro. Sorry for the delayed reply. I haven't been on boards in a wee while.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Lough Key Sportif the following week on 15 May from Boyle also. Curlieu wheelers organising this one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,796 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Serious question, what sort of a place is Boyle if you were to do a night out after something like that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Don't live in it myself but lads who I work with normally go to Carrick on Shannon for the craic. If you're just after a 'local' pub however there are plenty of them in Boyle town.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Corker1


    The 2022 Reservoir Dog Sportive takes place on the 4th September. We would love to see our friends and familiar faces that have been on our challenging event before and also some new faces who have yet to experience The Reservoir Dog Sportive in person.

    The registration link is now live at;

    Hope you can make it. 🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭AxleAddict


    Hmmm. Let me think about that.... thinking complete. Entered! 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Done!! My favourite event. Roll on September!



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Corker1


    Haha. You are always in like Flynn AxleAddict. Thanks, See you in September.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Corker1


    Nice one Daroxter. Looking foreward to seeing you then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Corker1


    Thank you Seth. I know you are being a bit tongue in cheek but yes, Sportives are getting pricier. We made a conscious decision to freeze our prices this year given the inflationary pressures everyone is facing. We will take a wee hit given that our costs are rising but we are determined to offer the best value and quality we can to riders.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I wasn't referring to the cost of Sportives - my comment was more that I spend too much money on cycling related stuff

    Also, last year's Reservoir Dogs was probably my favourite event of the year and the burger at the end was brilliant!



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