Photos taken on your cycle.

cletus · 06-03-2023 11:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323122#Comment_120323122

😁😁😁

CramCycle · 07-03-2023 7:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120321520#Comment_120321520

Latest word is that they want the line reopened rather than a greenway and they will work on the Enniscorthy - New Ross Greenway. I am not complaining either way as I would be happy with either. Both a train or Greenway make Waterford commutable for me. Personally I don't see it happening though as IR drove that line into the ground intentionally, the NTA might do a better job of timetabling though.

JMcL · 07-03-2023 2:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323555#Comment_120323555

Yeah I believe the last few years had seriously low passenger numbers, not helped as you say by imbecilic timetabling. The relocation of the train station, new pedestrian bridge etc might make it a bit more viable than the current dumping off point on a particularly inhospitable roundabout (for any mode of transport)

CramCycle · 07-03-2023 3:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120325181#Comment_120325181

One journey to Waterford that left you late for most workplaces and another that left before most people would finish work, and then nothing at all for day passengers, it was intentional, much like their sale of the line into the port under the guise of it was a terrorist threat (with no Garda or security assessment, just the word of an IR employee). Anyway, rant over, until then I will give the full line a try on my MTB the next time, the CX bike was a shade bumpy.

DaveyDave · 10-03-2023 4:48pm

Not taken on a cycle but I got to take my mountain bike for a drive today...

Someone smarter than me probably wouldn't have ventured up to Ticknock today. West Dublin got a tiny dusting of snow overnight which was barely enough to stick to the car and was gone by noon so it's only when I was driving down the M50 I saw the snow on the mountains, even the road up to Ticknock was fine. It's only when I got to the car park I saw how bad it was.

I only continued up as I saw clear tyre tracks before anyone thinks I'm the type of person you always hear about getting stuck at Sally's Gap in their Qashqai/Tucson.

Didn't park anywhere with the risk of getting stuck, just stopped to the side where I wouldn't get stuck to get a few pictures.

Seth Brundle · 10-03-2023 7:03pm

Someone smarter than me probably wouldn't have ventured up to Ticknock today.

They did and they parked like dicks!

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1634182926278467585?t=FkRJBHfiPL0Kf4IINyrP-A&s=19

magicbastarder · 10-03-2023 7:07pm

if you cannot see a double yellow because of snow, does it exist?

(and yes, i can see the no parking sign on a pole!)

DaveyDave · 10-03-2023 7:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120341891#Comment_120341891

I passed some of the cars there on the way up, thought nothing of it assuming they just didn't want to drive up further but yeah Ticknock is always a bad spot for emergency vehicle access.

Some of the replies to that tweet are moronic but people are constantly parking wherever they want making it someone else's problem. There was a tractor with a plough at the bottom of the hill, no chance for it to pass if it needed to clear the road up from the car park.

saccades · 11-03-2023 12:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120341915#Comment_120341915

Usually there is also a signpost with the restrictions. I know this because in the snow the other year I got done for incorrectly parking in a disabled space. Turned out the signpost had been knocked over by a truck 2-3 days previously so I was let off.

retalivity · 12-03-2023 12:58pm

A couple of snowy gates from this morning

Raam · 13-03-2023 5:30pm

On the GC-60 in Gran Canaria

DaveyDave · 27-03-2023 3:43pm

Taking a breather at Ticknock.

Bought a set of stickers for the fork to match the colour of the frame, black stickers on a black fork are a bit boring. Never had money to add a bit of flair to my last MTB. The Marsh Guard is supposed to be sand colour like the frame but it's barely an off white. Need to replace the white zip ties, it's all I had on hand...

wanderer 22 · 02-04-2023 8:57pm

Nice spin around Minaun in Waterford today.

cletus · 17-04-2023 2:27pm

Work break spin. I'd seen this gate before, bagged it today. Little bit of hike a bike to get to it.

Also saw a heron sunning itself, newly hatched baby ducklings, and a swan that tried to bite me.

Roadtoad · 17-04-2023 8:34pm

@cletus

Is that the de Burg Estate in Naas?

cletus · 17-04-2023 8:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120489095#Comment_120489095

It is indeed. Or, more accurately, its outside the de Burgh estate looking in 😁

cletus · 23-04-2023 10:58am

I'll take any path that gets me off the road

A fantastic morning for a spin, even if it is a little tricky to figure out what to wear when you set out early

retalivity · 24-04-2023 9:08am

Snow on the Wicklow mountains, looking south from Luggala down towards the Lough Dan valley. Not sure if that's Lugnaquilla or one of the mountains in between

Snow on April 23rd!

Large bottle small glass · 24-04-2023 9:39am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513907#Comment_120513907

I remember my father talking about snow in Wicklow mountains in May 1963.

It was the 5th May, he was in Dublin for the National league final.

That snow may have survived from a proper harsh winter from Christmas to well into March

Mercian Pro · 24-04-2023 1:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513907#Comment_120513907

When hillwalking on Maulin yestewrday, snow could be seen clearly on Mullacleevaun so I'd imagine there's still some on Lugnaquilla as well.

Cabaal · 26-04-2023 9:44am

Kilkenny Castle...it has a gate so it counts 😁

cletus · 29-04-2023 10:58am

Gate...

Not gate...

Roadtoad · 30-04-2023 1:50am

B: Vickerstown

A: Don't tell me, I'll find it!

Roadtoad · 30-04-2023 1:55am

If you don't recognise this, you have more exploring of Leinster cycleways to enjoy!

cletus · 30-04-2023 6:48am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120537674#Comment_120537674

Correct on B.

I'll be really quite impressed if you recognise A

Alkers · 30-04-2023 5:50pm

B'stoe taken at the start of Junkers

Cabaal · 01-05-2023 5:09pm

This is technically two bikes (balance bike on the bike)....and another thatch cottage

Roadtoad · 02-05-2023 9:56pm

^ and ^^^

I bet we could do a far better job at nailing all the thatched cottages on the island than any state body, and it would be more interesting than photos of gates.

Not sure if it's fair on the owners/occupiers though, but they may well be used to randomers/ randonneurs being overly nosey, while pretending to catch their breaths.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 11:31am

So are thatched cottages a thing on here now as I've a idea for my route today so!

magicbastarder · 04-05-2023 11:33am

it's a thing if you want it to be a thing.

cletus · 04-05-2023 11:47am

I think they should be a thing, along with and not replacing, the gate thing.

The great thing about a gate is you never know when you'll see a good one out of the corner of your eye that you never saw before.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 4:04pm

Took a spin down around Caragh, Prosperous and Rathcoffey (between Naas and Maynooth) and got a few photos of thatched cottages (some with gates)...

...and this one but I didn't go in...

cletus · 04-05-2023 5:51pm

See, there's the problem with thatched cottages. Seth's after going and fūcking that entire area for the rest of us in one go...

Large bottle small glass · 04-05-2023 6:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120553627#Comment_120553627

It's all nostalgia in a way;farmers, mainly for cost reasons, left wrought iron behind in exchange for steel gates.

You would probably buy a half decent 4m galvanized gate for €150 or so; I'd be afraid to ask for a quote for a rivetted wrought iron gate today.

Likewise with thatch, if done well it's warm and keeps rain out but has downsides; continual maintenance, cost, fire risk and best of all rodent friendly 😄

Anyway here's a photo of one of the last places in Ireland still cutting and saving the reeds. He brings a lot onshore by row boat.

Winter work in marshy ground with hand tools, no place for soft lads.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 6:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120555320#Comment_120555320

You could get the one in my last photo!

There are loads more around that neck of the woods anyhow!

Another "thing" I thought of was old non-thatched cottages. I passed quite a few today, most of which had tin roofs but I'd say the houses are in or around two centuries old.

cletus · 04-05-2023 6:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120555428#Comment_120555428

Where abouts is it? I've a few down here in the south of the county in mind.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 6:36pm

Where abouts is what?

cletus · 04-05-2023 6:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120555460#Comment_120555460

The thatched cottage in your last photo 😀

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 7:01pm

Ah, sorry. Its on the R409 between Mondello and Caragh, just south of the turn for Éire Óg & Digby Br.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nvW7nPa4e9YqGJL48

Seth Brundle · 06-05-2023 2:36pm

Organised a group spin to Newgrange and took this somewhere along the road to Duleek, I took this gate pic...

cletus · 06-05-2023 5:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120562524#Comment_120562524

That's not a thatched cottage...

Seth Brundle · 06-05-2023 5:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120562985#Comment_120562985

True. I did pass one earlier which was mostly covered with a tarpaulin but decided I'd leave it for others to snap 😎

magicbastarder · 06-05-2023 5:21pm

the one out beside garristown?

Seth Brundle · 06-05-2023 5:33pm

Nope. It was a blue tarp and the house is on the left as you head from Rathbeggan to just west of Ratoath (the road continues on and eventually leads to Tayto Park but Google maps isn't giving me a road number).

magicbastarder · 06-05-2023 5:36pm

ah - the one at garristown would potentially be on the way to newgrange, hence my guess.

Seth Brundle · 06-05-2023 5:44pm

Garristown would have been slightly out of our way coming from Lucan & Leixlip (to Slane) and I wanted to keep the route distance to about 100kms so took more direct roads...

https://strava.app.link/TD0bI6mjAzb

Mundo7976 · 06-05-2023 5:45pm

Think it's between the bush & lagore cross

Wildly Boaring · 07-05-2023 10:05am

I'd say it's a nice bit flatter to go by the Bush etc than involving rolling hills by Garristown too.

cletus · 07-05-2023 10:08am

Out for a morning ramble, no real plan for the route, other than bagging my local thatched cottages before @Seth Brundle decides to come down the south of the county and take all them too

And finally a thatchless cottage (or, more correctly, shop)

saccades · 07-05-2023 2:36pm

Didn't see a thatched cottage but I did stop at a gate, somewhere at the top of a climb outside of buncloudy.

Photos taken on your cycle.

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