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

micar · 18-02-2020 06:19AM

Sitting at home eating breakfast listening to the lashing rain outside....in 5 mins I'll be cycling out there.

North of 32 · 18-02-2020 06:57PM

My spin was actually on Saturday. 80km. The combination of the weather, winter training benefits and tail wind almost brought a tear of joy to my eye after months of indoor riding.

In particular what I want to mention, though, were the many considerate drivers. All gave a minimum of 1,5 - 2m when overtaking and some even fully crossed to the other side of the road which was hugely appreciated when I was riding into a nasty head/cross wind. Thanks to those folks!

triggermortis · 18-02-2020 10:34PM

50km spin today with a big hill in the middle.
https://www.strava.com/activities/3110692298

Went out later to miss the worst of the weather this morning, and almost got away with it. Cold and windy for the most part and a few showers thrown in for good measure.

Seth Brundle · 18-02-2020 10:49PM

Went out this evening on my way home from work and with another club member I clocked up 55km @27km/h around Lucan and Tallaght.
Feet were absolutely frozen when I got home.
Got my YTD total over the 1200km mark so I'm happy with that.
https://strava.app.link/gl1tIf7Qb4

magicbastarder · 18-02-2020 11:02PM

triggermortis wrote: »

with a big hill in the middle.

odd that there's no segment showing which takes in the full climb?

triggermortis · 19-02-2020 04:51PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

odd that there's no segment showing which takes in the full climb?

Yeah, I noticed that. I would make one myself but I'm no climber and don't want to be last on my own segment...

triggermortis · 19-02-2020 05:04PM

https://www.strava.com/activities/3113908944

Todays torture..

I thought I'd planned a gentle spin to get out and see the local area a bit more - but forgot to check the elevation! Around the 60Km mark I hit a wall, literally and figuratively.
It was wet from the off with drizzle on and off, giving way to persistent rain. I didn't sleep well last night and missed breakfast this morning so just had a few Jaffa cakes before setting off. All was ok apart from my feet were beginning to get really cold, and then at 60km I had a nightmare. I was tiring and was suddenly faced with a climb from hell. The road was gravelly with grass growing in the middle, and suddenly went straight up. I have a 32 cassette on my good bike for things like this, but my Cube that I was on today has a 28 on it (felt like a 4 today!!). I was doing ok for the first part until I spun out the back wheel on some loose gravel and had to put my foot down. Could I get started again? Not a chance. I ended up walking probably 200m (which felt like more as my feet were so cold). If I wasn't on some little track in the middle of nowhere, I'd have dumped the bike in the ditch and got a taxi, but this wasn't really an option.
I stopped in the next town and got a coffee and cake to buck me up, which helped. Got back to find my Garmin on 99.4Km so somehow summoned the energy to ride 400m further down the road and turn back to click it over the 100 mark.
Definitely taking a day off tomorrow to recover (and let my gear dry..)

dahat · 22-02-2020 12:31PM

4hrs, cold, wet, windy and solo. Glad to get out on the road it equally glad to get home, not a good day on the bike.

secman · 22-02-2020 12:45PM

dahat wrote: »

4hrs, cold, wet, windy and solo. Glad to get out on the road it equally glad to get home, not a good day on the bike.

Better than sitting at home hoping the physio session booked for Monday will get me sorted and back out on the bike ....just saying

dahat · 22-02-2020 01:10PM

secman wrote: »

Better than sitting at home hoping the physio session booked for Monday will get me sorted and back out on the bike ....just saying

Very true & hope it works out for you.

Kaisr Sose · 22-02-2020 03:44PM

secman wrote: »

Better than sitting at home hoping the physio session booked for Monday will get me sorted and back out on the bike ....just saying

Hope you get up and out on the bike again soon.

Today was an OK day for my second spin of 2020. Very windy, not that cold, but when it rained it was cold rain. Glad to get out of my kit after 2hr. 52km, 24.6 average.

saccades · 22-02-2020 03:46PM

None of the club spins appealed so went around ballinstoe on me tod.

Easy out lap and pushed hard for the second (too windy to give it beans everywhere)...

Managed to get around only 90 seconds slower than my all time record.

Old bike was a better climber (nearly 3 mins faster to the top) but the segment flies downwards. The puddles on expressway meant I lost feeling in my feet on the 2nd lap, looked a right idiot trying to pass by a crowd of riders nattering as I was unable to clip back in for ages. Hadn't a clue where on the peddle my foot was

Be interesting to see where I am in 5 months (usually the tip of my fitness before holidays and the like).

bazermc · 23-02-2020 03:31PM

Had a nice cycle today. I thought I was flying, get home upload to Strava and not a single PB not even a second or a third. Wtf!!!

Daroxtar · 23-02-2020 04:55PM

Did the Ray Crinion sportive today. Always a hammerfest and today was no different. Legs felt great and I spent the day up with the big boys, even putting in a few turns at the front.

Coming through Edenderry a couple of highly enthusiastic folk with somewhat questionable road etiquette squeezed up the middle of the bunch and took the wheel in front of me. Sure, no bother, if you're that keen then don't let me hold you back. BUT DON'T LOSE THE FKING WHEEL AS SOON AS THE ROAD KICKS UP!!!!
But they did. In a flash there was a hundred meters of a gap and I was not pleased. May have expressed that to the lads as I had to go past them.

5 of us had a go and went hell for leather from Carbury trying to bridge the gap to the front bunch again but by the time we got to Broadford we hadn't closed any ground and we had burned our matches.
As we got into Longwood I had enough and pulled into the house as the headwind for the 15km back home wasn't very appealing at that stage.
Apart from that, it was great to be out after the last few weeks weather. Also felt good to finally be back properly on track in my own head after my spill last year.

86km at just under 35kmh (first 15 was a leisurely spin to the start so the main event was a fair bit faster)
https://strava.app.link/Bs8HZyYJj4

Kevhog1988 · 23-02-2020 10:49PM

did the Ray Crinnion also with dad.

First time on the bike in two weeks. i was planning on doing the 60 but was hating the first 10k as my hamstring was fierce tight . Saw a sign for the 40k and we took that route instead as i wanted to see the kildare game too. We kept the pace in high 20s for the rest of the spin. felt good after a mars bar at 15k. Met a few others and formed a good group back to trim. The baked potato was welcome!!

And Kildare lost... AGAIN!!

https://www.strava.com/activities/3124781257

23-02-2020 11:19PM

My uncle is over again from the UK for a few weeks and new Cube Agree C62 in tow so went for a 40km odd spin with him this morning. I've a significant birthday this year and I might be asking for one of those !!!! Beautiful machine.

24-02-2020 09:02AM

Baby landed three weeks ahead of schedule on Monday so had to make do with the turbo charger over the weekend.

An hour of five minute intervals on Saturday and then a scheduled two hour steady spin was interrupted after 65 minutes when our 1 and a half year old woke early from his nap.

Planning for the Wicklow 200 at the start of June so training will be fairly hit and miss and mostly indoors.

McGrath5 · 24-02-2020 09:23AM

Mostly a tail wind heading in this morning, apart from a few rogue gusts that nearly blew me of the bike.

Glad I cycled though, traffic around Sandyford and the N11 was bedlam!.

Utter Consternation · 24-02-2020 09:29AM

McGrath5 wrote: »

Mostly a tail wind heading in this morning, apart from a few rogue gusts that nearly blew me of the bike.

Glad I cycled though, traffic around Sandyford and the N11 was bedlam!.

I was stopped at lights and nearly came a cropper with a big gust.

It looks like it might not be too bad Thursday or Friday.

mr spuckler · 24-02-2020 11:17AM

Utter Consternation wrote: »

I was stopped at lights and nearly came a cropper with a big gust.

It looks like it might not be too bad Thursday or Friday.

Yeah I'm aiming for a decent spin on Thursday after seeing the forecasts.

This morning I was into the teeth of the headwind along the coast on the S2S north. Possibly the slowest commute I've ever done but didn't help that I'd 2 fully loaded panniers

Tailwind might be a bit slacker this evening on the way home by the look of things too :mad:

cdaly_ · 24-02-2020 12:00PM

I took the inland route through Raheny and Killester instead of the S2S. Less windy but got beeped at for overtaking a fellow cyclist...

Seth Brundle · 24-02-2020 12:05PM

cdaly_ wrote: »

I took the inland route through Raheny and Killester instead of the S2S. Less windy but got beeped at for overtaking a fellow cyclist...

The driver was probably telling you that there was a perfectly fine cycle path half a mile away along the coast

Thelonious Monk · 25-02-2020 09:53AM

Weeks on end of being absolutely battered by the wind going to work. If this is going to become the norm I'll have to get an ebike sooner or later.

mr spuckler · 25-02-2020 12:04PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Weeks on end of being absolutely battered by the wind going to work. If this is going to become the norm I'll have to get an ebike sooner or later.

Makes for good training :pac:

Thelonious Monk · 25-02-2020 01:05PM

mr spuckler wrote: »

Makes for good training :pac:

I'm just trying to get to work!

triggermortis · 25-02-2020 01:49PM

https://www.strava.com/activities/3130730058

Parts of today were a real struggle. Opted for shorts and leg warmers instead of proper tights and regretted that for the first half an hour - tops of my legs were cold. Got over that discomfort as the sun shone brightly and the rain stopped. Briefly. The first hail shower wasn't too bad and only lasted a few minutes. By the fourth one I was getting pretty cold and unhappy - until I saw a sign for a café. Filled with hot coffee and pancakes, I was good to go as I could feel my feet again.
The last hour was a slog into a cold headwind and I was glad to get off the bike after 66km.

triggermortis · 26-02-2020 04:05PM

https://www.strava.com/activities/3133829114

Todays rookie mistake: came to a flooded road after about 13km and thought, I'll take it handy and see how it goes. There was a 400m stretch of proper flooding, but it was a couple of inches deep in the centre of the road (small L road, no traffic). All going well until the last 50m when it suddenly got about 12-18 inches deep! As the water was so deep, both feet got totally soaked. A sensible person would have thought, sod it, I'll head home as its only about 3 degrees ambient out. Not this muppet!
Had to stop after 50km as I couldn't feel much in my feet. Had a coffee at a petrol station and struggled on. Any time I got any speed up, I could feel my feel getting colder by the second so I had to keep a steady slow pace.
As I got to Tulla, it started to hail, so stopped at a café to warm up with a second coffee.
I thought I was glad to be off the bike yesterday, but today was worse. My feet took a good 30 mins to warm up.
Definitely a day off the bike tomorrow!

mr spuckler · 27-02-2020 04:47PM

Boring in comparison to ^!

Wasn't feeling the love for a longer spin, been off the bike more than I'd have liked recently and knew my fitness had dropped badly as a result. So just got out for 65km up and down the S2S north and then up Howth and then repeated all that. Gorgeous morning out though the wind was stronger than I'd expected based on forecasts earlier in the week.

65km, 467m, 25kph

https://www.strava.com/activities/3136251381

27-02-2020 05:24PM

Got out for the first time in ages today and did 75k in beautiful conditions.

Unfortunately, I forgot to swap out the back wheel axel from the turbo trainer and only realised it when I stopped for coffee and the back wheel came rolling past me as I walked with the bike on a path. Two minutes earlier I had been doing 60kph down a huge hill so it was a very lucky escape. The axel from the turbo trainer was a cheap, fairly basic piece and must have come loose and I can only assume the wheel was jumping in the fork all the time without me realising it.

I won't be making that mistake again.

triggermortis · 28-02-2020 02:46PM

https://www.strava.com/activities/3138995511

Another wet and windy day out. 250km for the week

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

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