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

brownian · 25-08-2020 10:13AM

Don't Chute! wrote: »

Paddy gets caught fly-tipping: it’s the gubbermint wot made me do it.
Paddy gets caught speeding: it’s the gubbermints fault for having speed cameras everywhere.
The vast majority of **** you see on the roadside is just someone opening their window and throwing something out. That has nothing to do with money or incentives it’s just scumbag behavior. In Ireland it’s ALWAYS somebody else’s fault.

No, sorry. What I am talking about is fly-tipping. Speed cameras do not incentivise you to speed?

Throwing stuff out of windows is indefensible and reprehensible, and totally the fault of the person doing it.

CramCycle · 25-08-2020 10:57AM

puddles22 wrote: »

its the only KOM i'll ever hold lol

Cram: How about we get away for a family holiday to somewhere remote?
Partner: Like where?
Cram: I don't know, let me have a look around..... Tory Island looks amazing, quiet, remote, peaceful. We could go out for a day trip as we go around Donegal.
Partner: Sounds lovely.

Many month later, they arrive on Tory Island:
Partner: This is lovely, great to get some time alone together.
Cram: Hold my stuff, I'll be back in 20 minutes or I won't be coming back at all, there is someone on the internet I really want to annoy.
Partner: You f****r

puddles22 · 25-08-2020 11:05AM

CramCycle wrote: »

Partner: This is lovely, great to get some time alone together.
Cram: Hold my stuff, I'll be back in 20 minutes or I won't be coming back at all, there is someone on the internet I really want to annoy.
Partner: You f****r

Bring it on , i know i'm not that fast but i know the winds are like up here , ill repeat it in midwinter storm with tailwind just single laps lol , ill be literally flying it lol won't even have to pedal

fryup · 25-08-2020 01:37PM

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Coming out of Allenwood a lad passed us without even a hello which didn't go down well with our senior member lol. I took after him and passed him at the dump before pulling in to the school to wait on the lads. Yer man was not impressed when he came by me for the 2nd time when i stopped .

hope you gave him a sarcastic "Hello" as he passed

MojoMaker · 25-08-2020 06:37PM

Nice video puddles

Looks like a different country to the weather in Dublin lately.

Kevhog1988 · 26-08-2020 08:12PM

fryup wrote: »

hope you gave him a sarcastic "Hello" as he passed

Waited till i was right behind him and shouted car down lol

Kevhog1988 · 26-08-2020 08:14PM

Spin with 1 other club member as were not allowed across the border to Wuhan (Edenderry). Lovely evening for it.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3969886035

rushfan · 27-08-2020 07:46PM

Left the house this morning around 10.30 but while I was geared up properly on top, I had neglected to put the overshoes on. 63km of which the last 20 or so were squelchy. Otherwise very enjoyable.

Seth Brundle · 27-08-2020 07:57PM

I went out twice today to make up for not managing to get out over the last few days.
Did just over 50km this morning and just over 60 this evening.

Loads of close passing this evening. For some reason the road that passes Bodenstown repeatedly seems to be worst stretch for it.

Unlike rushfan, I remembered my overshoes but with the rain this evening, they didn't make a difference. My feet were soaked. Had to drive the young fella to and from hurling training this evening so Sat in the car watching Children of Men whilst the car's fan blew dry my shoes

https://strava.app.link/WM4gtVuFi9
https://strava.app.link/lltK99sFi9

Wishbone Ash · 28-08-2020 07:23AM

a148pro wrote: »

....second time i've been stuck cycling along beside running water while parched, it's torture....

Why not use the water?

Seth Brundle · 28-08-2020 07:48AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Why not use the water?

There could be anything including dead animals upstream

Large bottle small glass · 28-08-2020 07:57AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Why not use the water?

Jobst Brandt he's not. He famously rode without water bottles

Not hard to find water in countryside; graveyards, churches, gaa grounds, livestock fields etc

triggermortis · 28-08-2020 08:32AM

Refill.ie will show you cyclist friendly places you can refill bidons

Wishbone Ash · 29-08-2020 06:02AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Why not use the water?

Seth Brundle wrote: »

There could be anything including dead animals upstream

There could but why go through life thinking like that? If I was very hungry, I wouldn't pass a cafe/coffee shop because of the possibility that I could get food poisoning.

puddles22 · 29-08-2020 06:04PM

Nice wee spin round Donegal today, headwind for most of it. 520k for the month my most yet, fitness getting there slowly but surely.

Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/mpSfqigRl9

Seth Brundle · 29-08-2020 09:08PM

120km club spin today around the poisoned lands of Kildare (me and four others).
Dunno what's in the water but stound Nurney we were treated to several punishment passes, a lot of horn blaring and a driver angrily shouting something out his passenger window - none of us knew what he said but we all caught the word "ditch" (we were doing about a 30km/h average around there).

https://strava.app.link/J6GWDNC4l9

wirelessdude01 · 29-08-2020 09:17PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

120km club spin today around the poisoned lands of Kildare (me and four others).
Dunno what's in the water but stound Nurney we were treated to several punishment passes, a lot of horn blaring and a driver angrily shouting something out his passenger window - none of us knew what he said but we all caught the word "ditch" (we were doing about a 30km/h average around there).

https://strava.app.link/J6GWDNC4l9

Maybe he was saying the wife was an awful b!tch for making him go out for some milk ðŸ˜

JMcL · 31-08-2020 10:04AM

Been off the bike for the best part of 2 weeks now between storms and being laid low by a nasty bout of some gastric bug last week. Took an early leisurely 31km loop to get the legs moving again this morning. Lovely morning, but a bit of a nip in the air though, so was glad to have dug out my Mistral and wouldn't have minded having a pair of long fingered gloves

puddles22 · 01-09-2020 04:00PM

getting stronger. only been cycling properly for the past three months

https://www.strava.com/activities/3995090098

secman · 01-09-2020 04:23PM

Here we go again... can't access latest posts...only loads up to yesterday.
PI T H .. keeps happening and only on this particular thread

magicbastarder · 01-09-2020 07:50PM

welcome drop in humidity out there; pleasant evening if a bit windier than expected. naul to roganstown was more of a slog than normal.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3997267944

secman · 01-09-2020 09:29PM

To the Mods: does anyone else have difficulty with this thread, for me it regularly gets "stuck " i can see that there are new posts but when i open it, its stuck on day old posts ??
Now it opened fully ?????

magicbastarder · 01-09-2020 09:47PM

there were site wide issues (fixed this morning, in theory) but affected all threads, not just this one.
i don't think i saw any reports as specific as yours?

a148pro · 02-09-2020 02:11AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Why not use the water?

Lots of livestock in dublin and wicklow mountains. They ****, it rains. I'm sure you'd get away with it but the guidance is not to drink water in that kind of environment. I mean we routinely can't swim in the fecking sea due to heavy rainfall washing similar into it, cant be a great idea to drinking it? Did about a year of upset tummy post india / south america, wouldn't like to repeat

I did try glencree as it's the kind of building that looks like it would have a tap around the side but they actually lock the outer gates.

John Hutton · 02-09-2020 10:21AM

a148pro wrote: »

Lots of livestock in dublin and wicklow mountains. They ****, it rains. I'm sure you'd get away with it but the guidance is not to drink water in that kind of environment. I mean we routinely can't swim in the fecking sea due to heavy rainfall washing similar into it, cant be a great idea to drinking it? Did about a year of upset tummy post india / south america, wouldn't like to repeat

I did try glencree as it's the kind of building that looks like it would have a tap around the side but they actually lock the outer gates.

Isn't there a filter type thing you can get? I think bicycle tourists use them

a148pro · 02-09-2020 01:07PM

I think there are straws and maybe a uv filter yoke, but iodine tablets probably cheap as chips and less hassle on a bike. I did look for a bottle that would fit in a bike cage with a filter built in.

Personally I'd rather nuke it (iodine) than rely on a straw, seems a bit flimsy?

a148pro · 02-09-2020 01:07PM

I do like the idea though as you're rarely far from a river or stream on a nice cycle and I've become allergic to purchasing single use plastic for something like water

secman · 02-09-2020 04:14PM

Weepsie wrote: »

There's a fairly well used spring or something on the road between Aughrim and Arklow. Water is reputedly nice and clean. Keep meaning to cycle that way when going to Aughrim just to try it, but always end up coming from Laragh direction

There is one on the left on the road from Arklow to woodenbridge , not unusual to see folk parked up and filling 5 litre containers

brownian · 02-09-2020 07:36PM

Woodenbridge is actually a surprising place. There are some really interesting roads.

Just on the Arklow (SE) side, under a castellated archway, there are some of Wicklow's only hairpins on a narrow, lovely road with endless rhododendrons and ferns that eventually takes you to Kilcarra and then either Arklow or Coolgreany.
Take the next right after the castellated gateway (going SE towards Arklow, still) and there's a proper beast of a hill up to the same Kilcarra.
SW there's a proper gorge, that runs back towards Croghan Kinsella and the 'other' Wicklow Gap (the one with a pub on it).
Fork off that, and you end up going around the W side of Croghan Kinsella, and down towards Tinahely.

And, of course, the three main roads - the gentle and pleasant ride up the Ow/Aughrim river to Aughrim, the pleasant but slightly busier road up the Avoca valley to the eponymous village (lots of Red Kites), and the ramble down the Avoca River to Arklow.

Sorry, slightly off topic - but there's a lot more good roads in Wicklow.

secman · 02-09-2020 08:20PM

I see a post 39 min ago but yet again thread won't open ti show that last post

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