Tell us about your cycle Yesterday.

First time up and out properly in ages. 30ish km from the folks house to Dunmore East and back with a neighbour. Really beautiful morning, especially on the way out. Not a whole pile of ice left on the roads and very little traffic. A particularly nasty cold and wet wind hit us from the bay coming into DE. Hung around on the harbour for about 2 minutes before hopping back on and heading home. Even nastier cold headwind on the way back.

I was rightly off form from not being on the saddle for more than 10-20km stop-start commuting journeys, but it was really enjoyable. Forgot how nice it is going cycling with someone for company. I had put a Brooks Flyer on the bike that I'd used on a previous build. Forgot how slippy it can be if not installed perfectly. Comfortable but a right pain in the arse trying to stay in the right spot.

Also gave my Planet X merino jersey and winter bib tights their first spin... Really nice - Glad I picked them up in the 3 for 2 offer before Christmas.

I put ice tyres on the mountain bike today. Went for a spin without any problems but some unfortunate person on a road bike tried to follow me around a corner and came off. They were unhurt luckily.

Spin to Trim with some mates 2 punctures for me on the way back all of them in Corduff and 1 puncture for my mate outside Trim,..... Horribly icy in parts and the Phoenix park this morning was just an ice rink, Going to Trim we had to take it really easy as on the way there and back as we saw one guy slip had to take an extended break to get something hot to eat as it was just freezing and road conditions in some areas where a nightmare there are parts where in your rear wheel just spins cos there is no grip and out of the blue you just start drifting left and right, had to spin to and fro just to control the bike. we arrived in Dublin when it was dark already and we had to go insisde to Phoenix park again cos my mate left his car there and cycling in the dark with the road conditions there is pretty nerve wracking ;-P Glad to be home now.

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@Wishbone Ash.

Well done on knocking out 1,000 KM for December.

Pretty impressive!

I had a target of 20,000 for the year but I'm going to come up short and will be lucky to hit 19'000.

Sir, you are a cycling cyborg. Casque bas*!





I'm 1500km behind my 10k target and still quite happy about it...

* © rollingscone

Just in from a 84k spin
It's gets cold when that sun drops

Went tallaght kilteel naas clane kilcock maynooth celbridge tallaght

Hit one small bit of ice in a shaded part just past kilteel,just managed to avoid a spill

Thinking of going out through Tallaght, Saggart, Rathcoole and into Celbridge tomorrow. Hoping that the ice will be cleared. Anyone have any experience out that way today?

Thanks for that. Have spent the last two days out to Howth and back which is getting a little boring.
I am nervous of Enniskerry - roads will be slippery as its higher. Figured this would be a good spin.
Any other suggestions given the risk of frost/ice?

Did you go out past Enniskerry?

jober wrote: »

Was out there today 99% of the roads were fine just the odd patch in shaded areas to keep an eye out for

Parts of Aylmer rd in Newcastle were lethal today.

Alek wrote: »

Inspired by Donal
I went to see if there is any snow on top of Kippure this morning at 5:20 There was none, to the disappointment of studded tyres that rolled me there.

The headwind was absolutely mad going uphill, steady 50-60km/h while going through featherbeds - lowest gear all the way For some reason I started thinking about the lovely youth that ocassionally visits these roads to burn some cars and I can't really tell it made my trip fully enjoyable. Thankfully going up Kippure shook these thoughts off me and allowed to concetrate on pure suffering.

Last trip of the year, quite good for my standards: 59km and 1171m climbing.

Gosh, those studded tyres are heavy.

Mad Ted.

Ditched the road bike and took out the hybrid. Terenure, Rathfarnham, Stocking Land and then turned off at the Hell Fire Club and all the way to the top. Short but enjoyable

Gave up on an icey climb up the Sligo way on Monday due to time constraints but made up for it today, and boy was it muddy, my tyres normally handle mud well but the back tyre is getting worn and kept spinning out, the front is still good but decided enough was enough midway through a fairly easy corner and flipped me into a ditch. Body is OK but the wheel is slightly out of line I think.

First proper time out in about 5 or 6 weeks too, so I suffered for it, new years resolution is to break 3500 km, for 99% of regulars here that sounds small but with the kids and all I'm not getting as many hours out as I'd like, not to mention you cover a lot less distance mountain biking, so, achievable targets and all that!

36.7km in 2hr 52min, avg 12.8km/h (which if you know the climbs and condition of the terrain isn't as bad as it sounds!)