Photos taken on your cycle.

iwillhtfu · 05-06-2021 9:26am

Special Delivery

fryup · 06-06-2021 10:43am

cocaine?

iwillhtfu · 06-06-2021 10:50am

fryup wrote: »

cocaine?

Stuck in customs I'm afraid :P

06-06-2021 1:35pm

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Special Delivery

What is the bike? looks interesting

iwillhtfu · 06-06-2021 8:21pm

Jakub Zytecki wrote: »

What is the bike? looks interesting

It's the beer bike

Probably gotten the most use of late but a super comfy ride.

It was originally an old BSA racer which had a hard life and needed some repair to some brazing which led to it being stripped and I liked the raw look so there it stayed.

It also has a really nice Adie Williams & Co. bell

The one beside I don't have much detail on the frame a mate picked it up from adverts but I can tell you it has done a 400km+ Audax and is lovely to ride, hub brake and dynamo with a nice converted carbide lamp and the saddle is as comfy as the throne.

aloyisious · 06-06-2021 10:47pm

iwillhtfu wrote: »

It's the beer bike Probably gotten the most use of late but a super comfy ride.

It was originally an old BSA racer which had a hard life and needed some repair to some brazing which led to it being stripped and I liked the raw look so there it stayed.

It also has a really nice Adie Williams & Co. bell

The one beside I don't have much detail on the frame a mate picked it up from adverts but I can tell you it has done a 400km+ Audax and is lovely to ride, hub brake and dynamo with a nice converted carbide lamp and the saddle is as comfy as the throne.

Are those cranks extended or just look like it due to the single chainring?

iwillhtfu · 07-06-2021 8:46am

aloyisious wrote: »

Are those cranks extended or just look like it due to the single chainring?

Nope they're standard Shimano 600 I think it is and on the smaller side at 165mm. The chain ring is a slightly smaller so could be throwing off the eye, I think it's a 46 strong light

Thargor · 12-06-2021 3:34pm

Out to Shannon Airport>Sixmilebridge up over Woodcock Hill Bog and back into Limerick, only 300m elevation but fecking wrecked for some reason:

iwillhtfu · 12-06-2021 7:35pm

Some day out there.

Magzire · 13-06-2021 2:54am

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Some day out there.

how is that standing?

Magzire · 13-06-2021 6:17am

hate to be a party pooper, but this is way beyond legal for a bicycle. it's not even legal as a moped.

this.lad · 13-06-2021 8:17am

Magzire wrote: »

how is that standing?

The power of photo editing

Wildly Boaring · 13-06-2021 9:29am

this.lad wrote: »

The power of photo editing

There's something yellow under the chainring

Magzire · 13-06-2021 10:47am

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

There's something yellow under the chainring

Sneaky bastard.. fooled me

RobertFoster · 13-06-2021 11:14am

Obviously iwillhtfu's bike is magic. You can't just STICK a bike IN THE middle of the road with the CHAINSET at that angle :pac:

Magzire · 13-06-2021 11:25am

this.lad wrote: »

The power of photo editing

now that i see it its actually careless, windows paint job

this.lad · 13-06-2021 12:02pm

Magzire wrote: »

now that i see it its actually careless, windows paint job

Effective though, to be fair. The shadow gives it away first.

Lovely bike.

iwillhtfu · 13-06-2021 1:27pm

Magzire wrote: »

now that i see it its actually careless, windows paint job

Ah now I never claimed to be Jackson Pollock

It was just the blur pen on the phone. If I were really inclined I could make it disappear altogether but simple and effective

iwillhtfu · 13-06-2021 1:27pm

RobertFoster wrote: »

Obviously iwillhtfu's bike is magic. You can't just STICK a bike IN THE middle of the road with the CHAINSET at that angle :pac:

Those Michelin tyres are super sticky

magicbastarder · 13-06-2021 4:29pm

If the wind is blowing at *just* the right strength, you can lean the bike into the wind and the wind holds it up for you.

ednwireland · 13-06-2021 5:47pm

nice bridge work

iwillhtfu · 13-06-2021 8:19pm

Another couple today twas very hot. :eek:

After the last controversy the road is actually a mural on a wall and the bike is leaning against it

Also before it's said these roads see more sheep than cars, also granny ring pics ftw :cool:

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magicbastarder · 13-06-2021 9:53pm

please excuse badly positioned bike.

Cabaal · 14-06-2021 9:44am

Something different :pac:

Dutch designed Gazelle bike, first outing with a trailer

iwillhtfu · 14-06-2021 10:51am

That's a cool setup Cabaal a real pack horse. The only thing I'd change would be for it to be a step through

Cabaal · 14-06-2021 11:06am

iwillhtfu wrote: »

That's a cool setup Cabaal a real pack horse.

I still have my road bike but got this as the most super practical bike ever, great to have such good rain protection and built in lights. I have panniers but took them off the other day.

It's certainly not fast but its super comfortable to cycle, though I did manage 30miles on it once.
First time with a trailer and its interesting when dealing with other road traffic, for the most part people have kept the hell back from me.

selwyn froggitt · 15-06-2021 9:12am

I spent the weekend down West and got the opportunity to do a bit of cycling on the Mizen peninsula.
These photographs are from Mount Gabriel with Crookhaven and Mizen peak on the left hand side and Dunmanus Bay and the Sheepshead peninsula on the far right

Overlooking Schull with Cape Clear and Sherkin Islands in the background.

Incredible weather and scenery

Daroxtar · 16-06-2021 11:28pm

First pint in a pub since last July. Didn't last long!!

cletus · 17-06-2021 7:42am

Daroxtar wrote: »

First pint in a pub since last July. Didn't last long!!

And a handsome looking pint it is

Dcully · 17-06-2021 12:59pm

I seem to have timed this well getting home from a spin earlier.

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Gwildor · 17-06-2021 1:53pm

Action shot, heading into the Ballyvoile tunnel on the Waterford Greenway…

cletus · 17-06-2021 3:59pm

Dcully wrote: »

I seem to have timed this well getting home from a spin earlier.

It can be unusual enough to see the drawbridge up in Monasterevin. As kids we'd be hanging around hoping a barge would come along.

Is it in some way automatic since they refurbed it, I wonder (haven't lived in Monasterevin in 20 years)

Dcully · 17-06-2021 6:32pm

cletus wrote: »

It can be unusual enough to see the drawbridge up in Monasterevin. As kids we'd be hanging around hoping a barge would come along.

Is it in some way automatic since they refurbed it, I wonder (haven't lived in Monasterevin in 20 years)

I took your place so I'm here 20 years

It's still manual with the waterways guys arriving in their van to activate it all.
Can be rare enough but that's a few I've seen this past week.

cletus · 17-06-2021 7:34pm

The house with the pillar to the left of your picture used to be the gate keepers house.

marvin80 · 18-06-2021 8:18am

Cabaal wrote: »

I still have my road bike but got this as the most super practical bike ever, great to have such good rain protection and built in lights. I have panniers but took them off the other day.

It's certainly not fast but its super comfortable to cycle, though I did manage 30miles on it once.
First time with a trailer and its interesting when dealing with other road traffic, for the most part people have kept the hell back from me.

What model is it? Looks like a great all-rounder and practical bike.
Did you buy it online or is there a store in Ireland selling them?

iwillhtfu · 19-06-2021 8:45pm

What a belter of a day, she's some country when the sun shines.

Large bottle small glass · 21-06-2021 10:06pm

Rip Van Winkle's bike?

There's at least three places i pass regularly where there is an old high nelly left out in this fashion.

Irish gravel

The end of the gravel road on descent from Baylough; agressive ht or fs after this or a walk

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That weed might look pretty but there isn't much pretty about it when it establishes a canopy, as it has all over mountain.

A little glimpse of the Vee road Climb in background

magicbastarder · 21-06-2021 10:30pm

the rhododendron? it's a menace.

21-06-2021 10:37pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

the rhododendron? it's a menace.

Looks to be, is it Mayo/Sligo that has a particular problem with it here vs the rest of the country?

I've seen a bit of hog weed on my travels lately too, not the small stuff at the side of the road the thicker taller stuff. Not something you want to touch if it's leaking sap!!!!!

magicbastarder · 21-06-2021 10:38pm

pretty much most of the west, and the slieve blooms.

Wildly Boaring · 21-06-2021 10:43pm

The Vee is so covered in it that they have an annual festival celebrating it. (Knockmealdowns)

Does look spectacular for a few weeks.

Ecologiical disaster but looks well

21-06-2021 10:48pm

I saw an RTE news piece a month or so back in relation to getting farmers to stop burning gorse because we all know how well that goes !!!!!!!

They left horses to the gorse and they chomped their way through it, stripped it bare. I believe it's actually very nutritious for them?

magicbastarder · 21-06-2021 10:50pm

gorse is leguminous, so nutritious.
and ironically, apparently one of the reasons the fires in killarney were so bad is that a lot of the tinder was rhododendron which had been cut but not removed so after a dry spell exacerbated the situation.

21-06-2021 10:55pm

Wow related to peas according to my look up of leguminous.

smacl · 22-06-2021 10:26am

Old graveyard on Bishops Lane on yesterday's lunchtime ramble

smacl · 22-06-2021 5:02pm

Dirt road to Kippure at lunch today. As far as I could make it on this setup, not sure I'd have the lungs to make it much further on a full suss but must try sometime.

Plastik · 22-06-2021 5:12pm

I must've passed you just at the top of the Featherbeds.

Heraclius · 22-06-2021 5:15pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

the rhododendron? it's a menace.

It's really sad to see the state of West Kerry and west Cork. I still see people growing it in their gardens so clearly there is zero effort being made to control it.

Heraclius · 22-06-2021 5:16pm

smacl wrote: »

Dirt road to Kippure at lunch today. As far as I could make it on this setup, not sure I'd have the lungs to make it much further on a full suss but must try sometime.

Lovely photo!

I would like to make it to Kippure this summer but I think my legs will be pretty much useless after an entire year of laziness.

smacl · 22-06-2021 5:28pm

Plastik wrote: »

I must've passed you just at the top of the Featherbeds.

A got a shout from someone overtaking me as I was crossing over onto the dirt track, yourself maybe?

Photos taken on your cycle.

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