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

Wishbone Ash · 11-06-2020 10:30PM

Rode a rough outline of Co Dublin today (with a few minor incursions into Meath, Kildare and Wicklow). 231k with about 2,000m climbing. Was soaked to the skin for several hours and the wind was a killer.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3599809528

magicbastarder · 11-06-2020 10:52PM

Bloody Nora.

flutehook · 11-06-2020 11:24PM

That's epic! Fair play.

iwillhtfu · 12-06-2020 08:32AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Rode a rough outline of Co Dublin today (with a few minor incursions into Meath, Kildare and Wicklow). 231k with about 2,000m climbing. Was soaked to the skin for several hours and the wind was a killer.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3599809528

That's deadly fair play. Is there an app or something you planned that out with or did you just drop a whole bundle of way points on strava route builder.:eek:

Wishbone Ash · 12-06-2020 08:57AM

iwillhtfu wrote: »

That's deadly fair play. Is there an app or something you planned that out with or did you just drop a whole bundle of way points on strava route builder.:eek:

I did it manually on Strava routes bit by bit choosing roads which were close to the border (although I did miss a few smaller boreens that could have taken me closer). I then had a few paper notes for some junctions and roundabouts that I was not very familiar with. Strava also wouldn't plot some of the route that I knew was possible (e.g.off road bits) and it led me the wrong way down a couple of one way routes.

Plastik · 12-06-2020 10:20AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Rode a rough outline of Co Dublin today (with a few minor incursions into Meath, Kildare and Wicklow). 231k with about 2,000m climbing. Was soaked to the skin for several hours and the wind was a killer.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3599809528

Nicely done. I did the same around Wicklow a couple of years ago.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1687397869

Wishbone Ash · 12-06-2020 10:39AM

Plastik wrote: »

Nicely done. I did the same around Wicklow a couple of years ago.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1687397869

I thought Wicklow would be a lot longer than that. I'd like to see someone do Co Cork - probably take 5 days!

CormacH94 · 12-06-2020 02:50PM

Fair play Ash and Plastik, giving me inspiration to do a Meath one now

ED E · 12-06-2020 02:51PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Rode a rough outline of Co Dublin today (with a few minor incursions into Meath, Kildare and Wicklow). 231k with about 2,000m climbing. Was soaked to the skin for several hours and the wind was a killer.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3599809528

I have a route file saved somewhere that looks like that, created it after seeing a fella from Luxembourg circumnavigate the country in one ride.

magicbastarder · 12-06-2020 03:22PM

if you cycle around dublin three times in a row anticlockwise, does the bogeyman appear?

triggermortis · 13-06-2020 11:38AM

Took the winter bike out to clear my hangover and test the new parts I fitted. All was well apart from after cleaning, shortening and refitting my chain, I forgot to re-lube it. Therefore after approx 5 km it began to sound more like a sherman tank than a bike.
A quick 33km was all I could stand of that noise - plus I was too overdressed for the weather.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3607081013

Type 17 · 13-06-2020 12:00PM

Surprised myself today - damp enough for clip-on mudguards so I went out from home (south inner city),only planning on going to Dalkey and back (about 27.5km), but was having a great run, so detoured over the East Link and up the Clontarf-Sutton bike path (avoided Howth as I hadn't brought food, and my single water bottle was by then only ¼ full), enjoyed the (very slight) tail wind home for a run of 58.8km in 2 hours dead on at 29.3 av, with av cadence of 90, but only 200m of climbing.

smacl · 13-06-2020 04:39PM

Nice loop this morning. Back roads from Rathfarnham out to Enniskerry taking in Barnasligen, up the the Featherbeds and back via Foxes and Kilternan for 61k with 920m of up in three hours. Total pea soup up on the Featherbeds which I took quite slowly, just as well as a couple of runners emerged from the mist in the middle of the road at one point so I was pleased not to be carrying too much speed. Hordes of cyclists out, great to see and everyone seemed in good form.

puddles22 · 13-06-2020 05:06PM

Longest ride yet, well happy with it, still buzzing but legs are starting to stiffen this evening.

https://www.relive.cc/view/v8qV1xd1W76

magicbastarder · 13-06-2020 05:24PM

decided to go out having had a handful of peanuts and a can of coke and do a loop of howth. decided while there to do another loop, and ran out of puff halfway up. still, first time i'd been up a hill in months, 50km at 27km/h, spotted Weepsie near Sutton too.

retalivity · 13-06-2020 06:10PM

Weather was weird today...Dublin was in a grey, foggy and a bit damp when I left around 2, once up the hills though it was nice and warm, the sun shining in wicklow.

Had a stab at the shortest Cat 1 climb on Strava that is relatively near to dublin, which involved my first trip up kippure this year. Was gassed for the last k but managed to keep it upright til the top.

66k in a little under 3 hrs, 1295m vertical.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3608889042

Wishbone Ash · 13-06-2020 06:15PM

puddles22 wrote: »

Longest ride yet, well happy with it, still buzzing but legs are starting to stiffen this evening.

https://www.relive.cc/view/v8qV1xd1W76

And you by-passed Horn Head? Tut, tut!

smacl · 13-06-2020 06:48PM

retalivity wrote: »

Weather was weird today...Dublin was in a grey, foggy and a bit damp when I left around 2, once up the hills though it was nice and warm, the sun shining in wicklow.

Had a stab at the shortest Cat 1 climb on Strava that is relatively near to dublin, which involved my first trip up kippure this year. Was gassed for the last k but managed to keep it upright til the top.

66k in a little under 3 hrs, 1295m vertical.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3608889042

Starting at the bottom of the Wall to the top of the Kippure for 5th place on Strava overall. Fair play and chapeau.

retalivity · 13-06-2020 07:27PM

smacl wrote: »

Starting at the bottom of the Wall to the top of the Kippure for 5th place on Strava overall. Fair play and chapeau.

Cheers...but its 5th out of only 22 in fairness!

secman · 13-06-2020 07:29PM

Headed to Ballycanew, Gorey, out to Ferns and almost into Enniscorthy, left hook for Oulart and back on main road to Ballycanew. 75 km 500 up , avg 30kph. Followed by a 7km cool down spin home ftom Ballycanew.

astraj · 13-06-2020 07:36PM

Longest spin in a long long time. https://strava.app.link/L30a3759h7
Lovely afternoon. Not too hot and not too windy.

puddles22 · 13-06-2020 07:46PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

And you by-passed Horn Head? Tut, tut!

not quite ready for that hill just yet

silverharp · 13-06-2020 08:16PM

Nice spin to Glencullen with a guy from work and a coffee in Johnny Foxes, back around to Ratharham and home. No wind which was nice.

Wishbone Ash · 13-06-2020 09:55PM

puddles22 wrote: »

not quite ready for that hill just yet

It ramps up in places alright.

crosstownk · 13-06-2020 10:18PM

I got out to Blessington today for the first time since the lockdown.

Grey, damp and somewhat misty leaving home and heading for Tallaght. Once past Brittas the sun shone. A lovely day to be back cycling in Wicklow.

The cloudy weather was still in Dublin when I returned but it cleared soon after - enough that I lit the BBQ for a protein feast

triggermortis · 14-06-2020 11:46AM

https://www.strava.com/activities/3612809912

Handy spin out this morning. Hangover wasn't as bad but needed shifting so I decided to push a bit. Followed a guy out of Oldtown and pushed to keep up and ended up riding with him as far as Balbriggan.
52km @ 31km/h

smacl · 14-06-2020 02:38PM

Few beers myself last night so took a leisurely 56k out to Enniskerry, Glencree and back via Foxes. Crazy amount of bikes out this morning, felt for all the world like a big sportive, passing people fixing punctures and mechanicals every few minutes. Briefly chatting to a bloke on the Featherbeds who managed to snap an axle (QR i'm assuming) which is a first for me. Great morning out but a bit busy for my liking, going to have to start getting out earlier on the weekends.

Tony04 · 14-06-2020 03:04PM

smacl wrote: »

Great morning out but a bit busy for my liking, going to have to start getting out earlier on the weekends.

Go during the week if you can, when theres none of this mass movement to Dublins beauty spots.

I went up to the sally gap last Monday afternoon and it was blissfully quiet, but yet not isolated at the same time.

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! · 14-06-2020 04:38PM

Not bad for a novice

Mercian Pro · 14-06-2020 04:58PM

Was tempted to try WA's circuit of the Dublin border but wisely decided that I needed to build up the milage first. Plotted a route from Glasnevin over to Westmanstown and around the southern border to Shankhill and back along the coast from there. It worked out really well even though I'm fairly knackered after it. New climbs (for me) at Cromwellstown and up to the Lead Mines at Ballycorus but the Lower Cunard Road was probably the toughest. 110km and 1,275m of climbing. https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/35286204 is the course.

Hope to tackle the northern border during the week (155km and 1000m) before even considering the 230km full circuit.

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