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  • #6542
    Taxuser1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Taxuser1


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    ouch. looks deep enough?

    Unfortunately it’s the same side gets it each time! Third time this year so looks worse than it is I think.


  • #6543
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,777 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Taxuser1 wrote: »
    Unfortunately it’s the same side gets it each time! Third time this year so looks worse than it is I think.

    Left side? If so I'm sure the bike is thanking you :)


  • #6544
    Taxuser1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Taxuser1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Left side? If so I'm sure the bike is thanking you :)

    no the right. rear mech hangar definitely isnt' straight and its a 3 day old second spin bike


  • #6545
    Takca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭Takca


    Out for a quick spin yesterday evening, the plan was to do 50km but then, I noticed one of my front lights wasn't working, fine I thought thats why I have two. Then it started lightly raining about an hour earlier then I had expected (I thought I'd be home before any showers), all was still fine until I started thinking what it would be like if the rain turned to snow when I was at the top of a planned climb. Next a message came up on my garmin, "warning 15% phone battery remaining". That was the last straw and as I imagined myself at the top of a climb in the dark and freezing cold with no lights or phone, so I turned early and managed to get home with my phone down to 3%....
    https://www.strava.com/activities/2935236941


  • #6546
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Bloody gorgeous out there this morning. I've not been on the bike as much of late, and I missed it. It was just the right amount of cold for me this morning, fresh and not quite bitter. There was a gorgeous sunrise too, I brought my camera just in case and stopped at the wooden bridge to Bull Island to take a few snaps.


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  • #6547
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Bloody gorgeous out there this morning. I've not been on the bike as much of late, and I missed it. It was just the right amount of cold for me this morning, fresh and not quite bitter. There was a gorgeous sunrise too, I brought my camera just in case and stopped at the wooden bridge to Bull Island to take a few snaps.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112014893&postcount=5708

    :pac:


  • #6548
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


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


  • #6549
    triggermortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #6550
    triggermortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭triggermortis


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


  • #6551
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #6552
    velo.2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6553
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,239 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6554
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6555
    julio_iglayzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭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 -

    498193.jpg

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

    498195.jpg

    This was yesterday
    498196.jpg


  • #6556
    julio_iglayzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭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".


  • #6557
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6558
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭secman


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


  • #6559
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,239 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6560
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6561
    julio_iglayzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭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.


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  • #6562
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭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...


  • #6563
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6564
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6565
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,777 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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" :D

    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.


  • #6566
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


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


  • #6567
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6568
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,777 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #6569
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6570
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #6571
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭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)


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