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

magicbastarder · 05-05-2020 08:30AM

i am not the HSE, thankfully.

Eamonnator · 05-05-2020 09:14AM

Effects wrote: »

Does that mean you can cycle all day, as long as you're within 5km radius?

I couldn't at the moment, very unfit, but hope to improve in the next while.

NamelessPhil · 05-05-2020 09:24AM

Effects wrote: »

Does that mean you can cycle all day, as long as you're within 5km radius?

Theoretically, yes! Although you'd probably be fed up of the same route.

magicbastarder · 05-05-2020 09:27AM

i've mentioned before, but i've been having fun banjaxing myself in a way which was not usually my style of cycling - there's a 'hill' near me, i think just shy of 2%, about 2km, and i stick the bike in a very stiff gear and hammer up it. slower than i'd manage in an easier gear, but the aim is to burn out my legs in the short time available. not the sort of cycling i usually do.

Seth Brundle · 05-05-2020 09:38AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

i've mentioned before, but i've been having fun banjaxing myself in a way which was not usually my style of cycling - there's a 'hill' near me, i think just shy of 2%, about 2km, and i stick the bike in a very stiff gear and hammer up it. slower than i'd manage in an easier gear, but the aim is to burn out my legs in the short time available. not the sort of cycling i usually do.

Intentional innuendo or is there something wrong with me?

magicbastarder · 05-05-2020 09:43AM

not intentional, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with you...

Mc Love · 05-05-2020 10:45AM

Went for a 20k cycle this morning (using the 5km boundary) and rather funnily on Saturday morning did one pretty close to 20km within the 2km boundary. But I felt it on the legs as one of the loops was on a (punishing for me) hill.

But there was a noticeable difference in the amount of cars on the road this morning where for the last few weeks has been very quiet. Almost felt like a normal school holiday traffic day.

smacl · 05-05-2020 10:55AM

Eamonnator wrote: »

I couldn't at the moment, very unfit, but hope to improve in the next while.

Same, once up Cruagh road to the viewing point before breakfast was enough for me but would hope to increase this over the coming weeks. Strava May climbing challenge signed up for to keep me motivated.

JMcL · 05-05-2020 12:04PM

23km this morning - first time on the road (spins with the kids excepted) since the lockdown. The short loop I'd been doing in March almost exactly traces a segment in the 5m radius, and looking at some more I can get a nice 40-45km figure of 8 with some sharp climbing thrown in - might investigate further at the weekend, Typically having sweated on the patio in dead calm weather for the past 5 weeks, today it's back to the 30-40km/h winds we were all giving out about in Feb :rolleyes: Still, all that turbo and core sessions I've been doing have had some benefit as I went around significantly faster that the last time.

Seaswimmer · 05-05-2020 12:41PM

ted1 wrote: »

I got in trouble last week for saying I was out for 80 minute and the post deleted.

Anyway is it worrying that I’m doing the same Laps around killiney hill on a daily basis and hitting PBs? Or is my hill game improving daily. Usually 450m over 20km.

I expanded my loop today to include Killiney Hill from the Dart stataion up to the Druids Chair. Up to this my loop was around Foxrock, Cornelscourt hill, Johnstown Road, Stradbrook, Deansgrange for 13km. Been doing that 3 times. Hopefully over the next few weeks I will get to do Killiney Hill 3 times. It is a 12km loop from home

Mercian Pro · 05-05-2020 12:42PM

Effects wrote: »

Does that mean you can cycle all day, as long as you're within 5km radius?

A few quotes from the Government Covid-19 website:

Everyone is urged to stay in their home wherever possible until Monday 18 May. Staying at home is the best way to minimise the risk of COVID-19 to your friends, families and communities.
There are exceptions for some workers in key businesses but for the majority of people, the rule is simple: stay at home.
Stay at home in all circumstances, except in the following situations:-to exercise within 5 kilometres of your house. You cannot exercise with people from outside your household

So the question is: how much exercise do you need? For me, I'm probably maintaining my fitness level by a combination of an hour a day on a fitness bike in the back garden and a real cycle of about the same duration within the circle twice a week.

If the question was: how much exercise do you want, I suspect for most people here the answer would be a whole lot more.

Eamonnator · 05-05-2020 12:45PM

I did 37kms today.
And more importantly, I put the turbo back where it belongs, in the shed.

fat bloke · 05-05-2020 03:35PM

Mc Love wrote: »

But there was a noticeable difference in the amount of cars on the road this morning where for the last few weeks has been very quiet. Almost felt like a normal school holiday traffic day.

Thought the same. Was like a normal day traffic wise. Huge difference to even just last week.

Eamonnator wrote: »

I did 37kms today.
And more importantly, I put the turbo back where it belongs, in the shed.

. That's where they'll go, and from there to Donedeal.

I was saying in another thread that second hand bikes are like gold dust now. Turbos are old had and the scavenging for ANYthing approximating a RACER BIKE is on. But judging by the increase in traffic, the honeymoon for pedalling is over and I forsee a lot of these bikes going the same way as the turbos...

Effects · 05-05-2020 04:20PM

Got out for a 39km spin. Firstly within my 5km radius, and then a little further afield.
I have a DAFM exemption, and chose to cycle rather than drive, to collect some equipment. Didn't realise the equipment I had to pick up weighed 20kg so had to lug that home on my back!

j@utis · 05-05-2020 05:33PM

I got out in the morning for my regular 1hour/25km or so spin. The difference is that today I could set my Strava privacy settings back to "public" tssss....

05-05-2020 05:37PM

The plan was to go out this morning but heard the wind at 6am and went back to sleep. Just waiting for the dinner to settle now before I head out

devonp · 05-05-2020 05:40PM

Deleted User wrote: »

but heard the wind at 6am and went back to sleep.

east wind was pretty strong on my loops today and cool in spots...sun was grand

FixdePitchmark · 05-05-2020 06:46PM

I've been building the kids up to 25 km - and as now > 5 km , we got out to new cycle path in Baldoyle - fantastic job. Would be great if we just went and did this fully , including tunnels / flyovers , whatever it takes.

First bit of decent cycling front in years out that way.

I'm a big car user , but I have to admit , this time has made us see what the world could be like with less cars.

fat bloke · 05-05-2020 06:48PM

There's quite a bite in the wind the last few weeks isn't there? When you're in the direct sun it's quite warm but if you're in the moving air at all it's pretty cutting. I keep getting conned by the view out the window into not wearing leg and arm warmers and then instantly regretting it once I'm gone out and around the corner. - Legs, arms and gilet tomorrow. No excuses.

FixdePitchmark · 05-05-2020 07:01PM

fat bloke wrote: »

There's quite a bite in the wind the last few weeks isn't there? When you're in the direct sun it's quite warm but if you're in the moving air at all it's pretty cutting. I keep getting conned by the view out the window into not wearing leg and arm warmers and then instantly regretting it once I'm gone out and around the corner. - Legs, arms and gilet tomorrow. No excuses.

Spot on - was on the coast, looked perfect out, but no - wind was cold.

Eamonnator · 05-05-2020 07:08PM

Lazy all' wind up our way today as well. It'd go through you rather than around you.
Noticed it particularly on the Duleek-Julianstown road.

Seth Brundle · 05-05-2020 08:15PM

devonp wrote: »

east wind was pretty strong on my loops today and cool in spots...sun was grand

On the flip side, it's great when the wind is on your back. On my spin this evening, I managed 60km/h on the N4

https://strava.app.link/4CmGbBOtf6

05-05-2020 10:49PM

The wind was all but gone this evening when I headed out. Headed north as far as was allowed out of Drogheda on the R132 to popes cross and turned right to Cockle rd. right again to Ballymakenny Rd and home. Just shy of 20km.

Haven't done that loop in that direction for an absolute age and remembered why I don't do it as it's a long boring drag heading out.

Mc Love · 06-05-2020 10:08AM

Went to go for my cycle this morning, rear wheel was flat again, having no luck with this bike.

magicbastarder · 07-05-2020 07:49AM

so there's strava segment near the house i was trying to have a crack at, an extended run at washerwoman's hill, beside the met office in glasnevin, and was getting frustrated that i was not doing better than i was; even though i was pushing hard at it (well, hard for me, and i'm a little more unfit than i'd like).
it ends at a set of lights, and i only realised last night that whatever twonk created it created the end point about 10m *past* the lights, not the sensible option of ending it before the lights. so i was deliberately emptying the tank to get to the lights, and stopping for a breather, and then wondering why i was not doing well.
it's *this* sort of thing that you should be able to report a segment for in strava.

RobertFoster · 07-05-2020 09:46AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's *this* sort of thing that you should be able to report a segment for in strava.

Does "Vehicular traffic, stop signs, stop lights or busy intersections" not cover that?

JMcL · 07-05-2020 10:24AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

so there's strava segment near the house i was trying to have a crack at, an extended run at washerwoman's hill, beside the met office in glasnevin, and was getting frustrated that i was not doing better than i was; even though i was pushing hard at it (well, hard for me, and i'm a little more unfit than i'd like).
it ends at a set of lights, and i only realised last night that whatever twonk created it created the end point about 10m *past* the lights, not the sensible option of ending it before the lights. so i was deliberately emptying the tank to get to the lights, and stopping for a breather, and then wondering why i was not doing well.
it's *this* sort of thing that you should be able to report a segment for in strava.

Can you create a new segment, same start point and sensible end point before the lights?

magicbastarder · 07-05-2020 10:31AM

ah yeah, i can do that. just laughing at having missed something so obvious...

blackwhite · 07-05-2020 10:49AM

On commute home last night, saw Mr. Orange Bike Repair van parked blocking the cycle lane across the road from Clonskeagh mosque. Looked like he'd gone into someone's home for a repair. But he had the hazards on so all good :rolleyes:

You'd have thought someone in that line of business might know better

magicbastarder · 07-05-2020 10:52AM

also an odd move, naming your business after a movie character whose most memorable act is getting shot in the stomach.

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

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