mtb'ing tomorow, how high have you managed to get lately?

IM0 · 08-01-2010 11:02PM #1

For those who have the mtb out with the 2' tyres and low pressures, using the roads up the mountains how high have you managed to get before the snow got too deep and not compact enough to support the bike to keep going, anyone (who knows how to handle the conditions) planning on SG tomorow or anything like that?

Blorg? Lumen, Raam? (which was the one who posted themselves a while ago on their bike up there last year?)

tomc · 09-01-2010 09:30AM

Hey hey.......Its snowing again, time to head for the hills.......well stocking lane anyway! ;-)

billy.fish · 09-01-2010 11:23AM

Did 40km yesterday, going for the same loop again today, stick to the forrests and you are grand, just need to watch the exits to the fireroads!

tomc · 09-01-2010 07:11PM

Got up stocking lane as far as the first turn off back to Botharnabreena...400mts and then the road turns into a 4 ft Snow drift:)

IM0 · 09-01-2010 07:22PM

was just up Luggagla (SG) myself there, ran out of time to get back home and grip, was using a worn rear tyre, but very grippy front one, and snow was a bit too soft and thin on the steeper slopes to get traction for that rear tyre, got back home just in time for a snow shower!

such deadly craic though!

Conor20 · 10-01-2010 09:46PM

I managed to get out onto the start of the Sally gap yesterday by a mix of the mountain bike and hiking. The road up after the turn from ViewPoint is covered in maybe a foot of snow with two tire grooves compacted in which is was possible to cycle with a small bit of traction. The road disappears under a sea of snow after about a half a km then, after which the only means of travel is on foot. It looks amazing up there. The road is somewhere underneath here:

(I just noticed the ghost people on the left. They were obviously moving when the picture was taken)

tomc · 10-01-2010 11:41PM

Conor20 wrote: »

I managed to get out onto the start of the Sally gap yesterday by a mix of the mountain bike and hiking. The road up after the turn from ViewPoint is covered in maybe a foot of snow with two tire grooves compacted in which is was possible to cycle with a small bit of traction. The road disappears under a sea of snow after about a half a km then

This is where we managed to get to also yesterday and then we turned back......went back in an Army truck today to see if we could get any further but ended up digging that out not far in!:(

tomc · 11-01-2010 03:02PM

Above Kilakee Car Park

mtb'ing tomorow, how high have you managed to get lately?

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