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Tell us about your cycle today part III

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  • #1202
    Wishbone Ash
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728130#Comment_118728130

    Bingo!

    The Flathouse just outside Dunboyne beside the M3. (Although filmed there, it was actually set in Co Kilkenny).


    The Flathouse.jpg


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  • #1203
    JMcL
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118727787#Comment_118727787

    Let me guess before I look at replies. Is is where the ra held the industrialist (Herema?) they kidnapped in the 70s?

    (Edit : Ah, completely wrong so 😄)

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  • #1204
    magicbastarder
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    i briefly lived in a house in enniskerry whose exterior was used as the exterior for the town hall in 'ros na run'.

    also, the house i currently live in was the family home of henry kelly (irish times journalist, and 'going for gold' quizmaster)

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  • #1205
    loyatemu
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    Kilcoole still has "Welcome to Glenroe" signs up on every approach to the village. It must be 20 years since that show was cancelled, I wonder do they still get any Glenroe related tourism... And then there's Wicklow CC's wildly optimistic "Excalibur Drive" which I assume will eventually be replaced by some sort of "Vikings Trail"

    (I suggested a Zardoz themed tourist trail, they said they'd get back to me).

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  • #1206
    Wishbone Ash
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118730256#Comment_118730256

    Herema was held in a housing estate in Monasterevin.

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  • #1207
    Large bottle small glass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118730676#Comment_118730676

    Early days yet


    https://maps.app.goo.gl/YNBC6PPkduadWwdu9

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  • #1208
    Wishbone Ash
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118730461#Comment_118730461

    My only claim to fame (and one that I'm not particularly enamoured with) is that Connor McGregor spent a night in my bedroom.

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  • #1209
    Roadtoad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118727787#Comment_118727787

    The last house in rural Meath to sell for less than half a million? Punt, of course.

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  • #1210
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,845 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118731454#Comment_118731454

    I have heard rumours about him with different women but never knew that he slept with men also!

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  • #1211
    Wishbone Ash
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118732549#Comment_118732549

    LOL - he was a friend of the previous owner of the house!

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  • #1212
    magicbastarder
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    my brother in law bought his house off the actor who played father damo. he did a lovely renovation job on it.

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  • #1213
    devonp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭devonp


    Sunny and dry so brought the light bike on the commute today....decided to use the PP on the way home, see the closures on the glen rd..then down the strawberry bed to Lucan ....I know the rd well but usually later in spring and summer ...today with the low setting sun I had real difficulty seeing the near side margin nearly clipped it a few times (had good sunglasses on too)..then it dawned on me would the cars behind me might have the same problem...seeing me !! a nervous few Km til i got to Lucan and then on to Leixlip

    anyone else use that route at this time of the year (traffic was light enough) ?

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  • #1214
    silverharp
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    Fk me but Enniskerry up to Glencullen is a pig early in the year,


    ukriane.PNG


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  • #1215
    magicbastarder
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    via the devil's elbow?

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  • #1216
    silverharp
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118736786#Comment_118736786

    I dont know names but sounds like a description of the hairpin bend with a >15% incline and having devil in the name would be appropriate

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    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #1217
    stevencn88
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118736754#Comment_118736754

    That'll be the devil's elbow alright. And it's a pig all year round 🤣

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  • #1218
    Nigzcurran
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    Fairly uneventful 40kms blanch to dunshaughlin and back, havnt been on the bike in ages and felt it today, hopefully the weather stays kind and I can keep at it

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    Time is contagious, everyone is getting old.



  • #1219
    [Deleted User]
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    Out with my wife this morning for 30km odd. Heading home I needed the loo so stopped at Oldbridge, decided to have a coffee. Outside there was a cat who could only be described as monstrous. I wouldn't be surprised if he weighed in at 20kg+ You could put him on a lead and people would think he was a dog.

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  • #1220
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118738430#Comment_118738430

    There was a bit of head scratching here, I said to herself did you take a picture of that huge cat this morning, no did you ???? It actually would have been funny to have one of my wife and the cat given her small stature, oh well next time, it's only 5km away.

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  • #1221
    magicbastarder
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    a maine coon maybe?

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  • #1222
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118738777#Comment_118738777

    No looked just like your bog standard part tabby with with white paws and legs, common looking cat of extraordinary size.

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  • #1223
    fat bloke
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    160km today over the hills. Misjudged my fuelling so I bonked spectacularly going up Glenmacnass. Awful slog gone into a headwind.

    Mind you, petrol at 2 euro a litre tonight in my local so that 60km wouldn't cost me 40 quid in the car!!

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  • #1224
    magicbastarder
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    found a dead buzzard at the side of the road today while out on the bike. went back for it later in the car, will try to get through to the NPWS to see if they want to test it. it's lambing season so could well have been poisoned. but there was also an outbreak of avian flu recently. or it could have been struck by a car.

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  • #1225
    bazermc
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    Smashing day for it. Here’s to the rest of the spring/summer

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  • #1226
    [Deleted User]
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    Out at first light. It was -1 when leaving the house and it's the first time I've felt cold on the bike but did warm up after a while. The light was spectacular, and despite the cold it really felt like the winter was over. I saw a buzzard, hawk, two foxes and lots of rabbits over the course of the cycle, which is one of the benefits of an early spin.The bike was spotless when I got home! Overall, 57k with 705m climbing at 28.3kph. Home and all for 9.15am.

    On a side note, I bought an indoor trainer last October and set myself a target of hitting 340 watt ftp before the birth of my third child, who is due to arrive any day now. I had never done any structured training before and started out at 292 watts and hit my target of 342 watts in a ramp test last Wednesday. It's probably some sort of midlife crisis, but after realising I'm too old to play any team sports anymore and having given up on running as I was getting injured all the time, it felt good to get the competitive juices flowing and set myself a tough target. I did it all on Zwift, averaging 4-5 spins a week including two high intensity interval sessions and a longish outdoor spin at the weekend where family commitments allowed.

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  • #1227
    devonp
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    not today but y'day...100Km with hills which brought me over Cromwellstown Ballinascorney Kilbride camp and Sorrel hill to Lacken...left my camelbak bottle on the stone seat at Lacken ...only realised when i got over to Crosschapel/Rathmore hill...boy did i get thirsty ...

    big thanks to Seth Brundle of these parts who on his cycle today picked it up and returned it to me in Leixlip 😃

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  • #1228
    Seth Brundle
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    I did a similar route to yours devonp taking in Cromwellstown and Ballinascorney but with a trip up to Sally Gap before heading over Sorrel hill. My legs were knackered by the time I started climbing Ballinascorney but somehow I managed to keep going. The Easterly wind helped make the ascent to Sally tough going* but it also helped give me good speed for the descent where I managed to pace some two and three wheeled motorbikes for a couple of kms.

    Glad to have been able to return your bottle devonp. Hopefully karma will be good to me!

    112 kms @ 24.5km/h with 1666m of climbing.

    * at one point on the Sally ascent I pulled over into a kind of layby for a banana. The amount of discarded condoms was unreal. Some people are disgusting.

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  • #1229
    bazermc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118743554#Comment_118743554

    I’m not sure I could bring myself to eat a banana while surrounded by a load of johnnies 😉😉🤣🤣

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  • #1230
    mr spuckler
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118744123#Comment_118744123


    Are they not just raincoats for bananas? 🤭

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  • #1231
    smacl
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    First lunch time spin in a while due to a mix of ill health and storms. A short but hilly one up Cruagh to the Featherbeds and back via Stocking lane. Did a bit of the off-road towards Kippure but a bit too waterlogged and I didn't fancy getting drenched so cut it short. 20k with 447m of up @17.5kph. Glorious out there today!

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