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Route Musings

  • 23-03-2025 11:33PM
    #1
    cletus
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    I was driving back from Brittas Bay, through Wicklow, Rathnew, and then onto the motorway, and I started thinking about cycling routes.

    Say I wanted to start from Dun Laoghaire and head to Arklow. How possible is it to do this hugging the coast as close as possible, while also not being on shirty roads (traffic wise that is. **** surface I have no issues with)

    Off road is even better, of course



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  • #2
    magicbastarder
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    campaign for the greystones to wicklow greenway!

    though that's not without its opponents.



  • #3
    Del2005
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058403787/route-musings

    There's always an alternative route to the motorway as learners and slow vehicles can't use motorways. So there is a road from Dun Laoghaire to Arklow which isn't a motorway.



  • #4
    10-10-20
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291846#Comment_123291846

    True as that might be, the options from Bray to Greystones are either the N11 through the Glen of the Downs, or the hill at Windgate (or the Roundwood road which isn't coastal). I know which one I'd prefer with my bandy legs!



  • #5
    MangleBadger
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058403787/route-musings

    Pretty much coast road the whole way down. Over Bray head. through Greystones and down the coast past Kilcoole etc. Come out at Rathnew where you will have to deal with a bit more traffic to get through Wicklow and then coast road from Wicklow past Brittas to Arklow.



  • #6
    cletus
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291846#Comment_123291846

    Thanks. I understand how roads work. What I was asking was if the non motorway route down the coast was a pleasant road to cycle, or if it was narrow and full of drivers going too fast, making it an unpleasant experience, rather than the day long enjoyable cycle I'm envisioning



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  • #7
    magicbastarder
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    i've not cycled it, but i don't think i'd consider the road down through newcastle and kilcoole to be a pleasant cycle.



  • #8
    Paddigol
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291910#Comment_123291910

    It's awful. They've resurfaced the road from Greystones to the start of Kilcoole, but after that, through the village, the road is in bits. It's my commute home and it's genuinely nerve wrecking at this time of year in the evening trying to pick out what shadows are potholes and what are just rough surfaces. Not helped by crap street lighting and modern car lights.

    I don't particularly enjoy the Newcastle - Rathnew stretch either. Surface isn't destroyed by potholes and roadworks like Kilcoole, but it is a very rough surface. Sucks the power rights out of your legs and your hands won't thank you by the end either. It's a gradual uphill going south too.

    It's a shame, because it could be a really beautiful route to cycle.



  • #9
    Macy0161
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    I wouldn't say from Kilcoole on is the worst tbh (it's no Kilmac to Roundwood or Rathnew to Rathdrum anyway!).

    Ferndale - Ballyman - Poggio - Rocky Valley - across the N11 to Bohilla Lane - Kindlestown - Priory Road - Kilquade Road/ Hill - Woodstock Road would get you the far side of Kilcoole. But no avoiding some potentially busy spots.



  • #10
    lissard
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    Once you're past Greystones it's pretty relaxed cycling all the way down to Arklow. You can follow the cycle path around Wicklow town and around the harbour, Actually really like the bit after Brittas Bay particularly early in the morning with the sun rising over the Irish sea.



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