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

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  • #9602
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭secman


    Headed to Ballygarrett, Kilmuckridge and to Blackwater, up the hill and instead of going on the lower road to Curracloe, took the higher road, well boreen to Screen. Out on to main road and vack towards Ballyedmund but too turn back to Kilmuckridge and home.

    55km avg , 27.2 kph , 490 meters, windy and cool yet again.


  • #9603
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    45k, AVG 24kph. Miserable day out there wanted 60 but strong southerly breeze and wind got better of me.


  • #9604
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Type 17 wrote: »
    This place sounds made up, but I’ve seen it on paper OSI maps:

    https://www.townlands.ie/dublin/castleknock/leixlip/clonsilla/passifyoucan/
    there's also shallnotpass. and hungersmother in donegal.


  • #9605
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Did 55km solo on sunday afternoon along greenway from mullingar to near Moate then back
    Enjoyable but very few people out on bikes compared to previous outings there


  • #9606
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    Went out with the intention of doing a flat 50 and ended up doing a hilly 70 odd. 71km 900 up and 25.8kmh. Summer gear with arm warmers. Took off the arm warmers after a while. Then shortly afterwards put them back on again


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  • #9607
    rushfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭rushfan


    Went out at 10.30 expecting to do around 90km, had just passed Jones's garden centre when the back punctured. I'd injured my right arm while changing last week's puncture, so fortunately the team support car was available for the ultimate phone call of shame!! Only got 29km done in the end.


  • #9608
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,440 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Managed to get just shy of 70km this afternoon.
    Found myself struggling to keep pace despite managing a respectable 28.5km/h with 347m. I think it might be the first time I've encountered it but bizarrely, my Garmin had me at 28.4km/h - usually it is Strava that has the lower figure.
    Although I managed a few PRs, I'm obviously doing ok performance-wise but after having a quiet January and then being out of action for Feb and March from injury, I'm finding even 40 or 50km tough going. My plan to get my first 100km of the year this week may not come to anything :(
    Still, I got to see my first swallows of the year at Ferrna's Lock which was nice :)
    https://www.strava.com/activities/5160499170

    I also reckon I met one of the anti-cycling posters from the Cyclists, insurance and road tax thread who greeted me with a friendly "get off the road you c**t" (well in fairness, I don't pay road tax on my bike!)...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs1leU6WsFs

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  • #9609
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    Sounds like ya f.......er rather than ya c.....

    Anyway that thread and it's ilk are best avoided for a happy life


  • #9610
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,440 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »
    Sounds like ya f.......er rather than ya c.....
    Either way, the sentiment was the same.

    I was thinking about my feeling of struggling to keep the pace I had a year ago. Maybe I need a new bike?

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  • #9611
    wheelo01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭wheelo01


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Either way, the sentiment was the same.

    I was thinking about my feeling of struggling to keep the pace I had a year ago. Maybe I need a new bike?

    Maybe just new carbon wheels?? If that doesn't work, a new group set, followed by a new frame - no need to have a kneejerk reaction..... :D:D


    Anyway, I got out for my longest of the year so far - 76km at 25kph.
    Started by going to dundrum, stillorgan road, mount merrion(I think) Strand road, over the east link, coast road, once over Howth, portmarnock, malahide, Athens, Malahide Road, the quays, and home again.

    Quite warm for my Galibier Mistral bibtights and jacket.


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  • #9612
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭positron


    Tried cycling Oldbridge to Newgrange alone the banks of Boyne. I tried running this couple of years ago and didn't get too far as the path was blocked with nettles and there's only so much sting one can take. This time of the year though the nettles are still growing and haven't fully taken over - however on the flipside - path hasn't dried out yet and there are large sections of deep muck to navigate thru. Of course attempting it on the gravel bike with road tyres didn't help - the rear wheel just spins or you fishtail and fall over.

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    BUT - what an amazing place. River flowing by so peacefully, dense vegetation all around you, and it's fully alive with all sorts of birds and other wildlife (there are deer there, according to the nice local man I met near Staleen lock, who gave me so much of his time and explained the whole area).

    There are dozens of streams running across the path along the way but there's a mini/micro waterfall just before Staleen lock - perfect to hold the bike's wheel which by now was caked in mud and barely turning. The small section from Staleen lock to Newgrange has seen some work - and it's a stunningly beautiful little walk in it's on right. The path got too difficult to bike with overgrown brush just couple of hundred meters past Newgrange so I had to turn around.

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    Overall take away for me is just how beautiful and pristine that area around is, and how amazing a canal path connecting Oldbridge to Slane/Navan could potentially be. At the same time I also feel slightly bad if construction / tourism wrecks the sense of peacefulness that exists there at the moment.

    I will go back at next opportunity - without the bike. And a better camera!


  • #9613
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,497 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Although I managed a few PRs, I'm obviously doing ok performance-wise
    better than me, i managed a single one. 56km, 680m of climbing. saw two lads up ahead of me on a decent steep hill and decided to play catch up, but they fairly easily pulled away from me, which me out of the saddle huffing and puffing, and them seated and seemingly not breaking a sweat. was happier when i saw they were on e-bikes.


  • #9614
    wheelo01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭wheelo01


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Some distance that

    Cant even think where I meant lol Athens it is


    Raheny?


  • #9615
    Mercian Pro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    With a forecast for no wind and unfortunately not much sunshine, I decided to see if the legs were up to taking on the (Dublin) North County border. I reckoned anticlockwise gave more options for baling out early so headed for Fairview and up the coast via Howth, Malahide, Rush, Skerries and Balbriggan. Highlights were the fact that the tide was low enough in Broadmeadows to cycle the normally underwater road, coffee plus at the van in Donabate and crossing the railway bridge in Balbriggan for the first time.

    Heading inland through Balscaddan brough me to a very welcome lunch at the Seamus Ennis Centre where bizarrely, their benches are all wrapped in cling-film but they will deliver the food to the public bench or the piper's statue. It's a bit of a drag from the Naul up around the back of Garristown and seemed to take forever to get back south to the R125 near Greenoge. From Ward Cross the Garmin directed me over through Hollystown before passing through the rather desolate Damastown Industrial Estate. Skirting Ongar involved a very short excursion into Meath before dropping down to the Liffey at Lucan. After a few photos of a remarkably forward mallard on the banks of the river, I headed back to the Park, Royal Canal and home via the Strawberry Beds. Unlike the busy and exposed R121 that I used last week, this was an absolute joy. I think less than 10 cars passed me between Lucan and Knockmaroon and the views of the river seem to shorten the distance despite the best efforts of my legs to call it a day.

    Overall, it ended up at 169km and just over 1000m in 6:36 moving time. A good deal longer but with a lot less climbing than the southside equivalent.

    Strava: https://strava.app.link/R9RhjRYoCfb


  • #9616
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,322 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    vintcerf wrote: »
    picked up cycling late February and enjoying it quite a lot! Been doing some tiny hills around me and even got a KOM yesterday! What is the etiquette regarding KOM hunting?
    Do it
    Mercian Pro wrote: »
    Existing Strava segments are predominately short and some of them ridiculously so. Where you will find longer ones is on the big climbs like the Wicklow Gap or Slieve Maan. It's unlikely that there is a segment say from Dundrum to Enniskerry as there are a number of traffic lights in between and it would be a bit of a lottery to get them all green when trying for a KoM.
    If you are really into taking KOMs, you have to go for them at night time where main through fare lights stay green unless crossing traffic triggers them.
    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I also reckon I met one of the anti-cycling posters from the Cyclists, insurance and road tax thread who greeted me with a friendly "get off the road you c**t" (well in fairness, I don't pay road tax on my bike!)...
    Dear lord that is some car crash, it has to be trolling for the most part, some of the comments are just so stupid it beggars belief.


  • #9617
    vintcerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭vintcerf


    bought an action camera and on my first outing :facepalm: ... https://streamable.com/b7tbsh


  • #9618
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    vintcerf wrote: »
    bought an action camera and on my first outing :facepalm: ... https://streamable.com/b7tbsh

    It wouldn't have stopped that fool, but I'd cycle out a bit further into the lane.


  • #9619
    ARX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭ARX


    Mercian Pro wrote: »
    remarkably forward mallard
    Why didn't I choose this as my username?!


  • #9620
    ckeego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭ckeego


    vintcerf wrote: »
    bought an action camera and on my first outing :facepalm: ... https://streamable.com/b7tbsh
    Had an almost identical incident Southbound in Kilmacanogue yesterday.

    The roadworks and flow there are a bad accident waiting to happen. All the way from the turnoffs into Bray until you are past Kilmac is tight and the “cycle lane” is full of detritus.

    Anyone cycling out from Dublin with the lifted restrictions beware and cycle safe..


  • #9621
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,322 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Similar myself but I was driving, N driver ran into the T junction as I was going through. Thankfully I copped the speed they were approaching and dropped anchor. I beeped in shock, he nearly spilled his McDs, and well if the young lad and his two scumbag passengers didn't start giving out yards. It sounds terrible but I am in poor form and was disappointed they didn't hang around for further discussion where I could just vent at them in general. I would have appreciated he pointless shouting for no good reason, might have been a nice destresser.


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  • #9622
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,173 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    vintcerf wrote: »
    bought an action camera and on my first outing :facepalm: ... https://streamable.com/b7tbsh

    Great quality footage, what camera are you using?


  • #9623
    vintcerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭vintcerf


    youcancallmeal wrote: »
    Great quality footage, what camera are you using?

    cheers - it's the dji osmo action - this is reduced to 720, actual footage is 4k. it's mounted on the handlebars and the footage is quite stable even with the vibrations. battery lasts just over an hour.

    https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B07RJMK2GV/


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