Tell us about your new improved government regulations compliant cycle part II

Daroxtar wrote: »

....Witnessed a comical confrontation between an apoplectic midget motorist and a couple of cyclists outside the café. The purple faced loon lept straight out of the car, fists clenched, screaming at the cyclists. Then a load of other people started roaring laughing and he seemed to turn even more enraged before storming off like a slapped child.
Take a wild guess what type of car he was driving? ....

MG Midget?

Usual test post to get ths thread to open for me

Nice highly enjoyable 85 k spin around the roads of Donegal today.

https://strava.app.link/yIegYqAkM9

on an extended commute home this evening via cruagh to the line and down Cunard....that awful sudden drop in the rd coming from Cunard direction to just before the fork at the top of Bohernabreena ....
has been fixed
it used to be marked with a yellow exclamation sign and painted arrow on the rd...always had to get to the centre line to avoid it


fixed/repaired:):)

Last night did one of my regular short loops up Killakee to view point, first right on Military road and down by Bohernabreena. Fantastic day for it and some lovely fast descending. Going up the climb though just before the Hellfire club I got confused by a strange sounding wheel and engine noise behind me, expected to see an eBike come past me but music pumping like a boy racer, saw to people hovering past me for a minute and thought it was a ghost then they flew up the hill and left me for dust. Only as they passed I realized they were on electric unicycles! Surreal experience, they must have been doing at least 30kmh up the hill.

Headed out for a spin minus the stopwatch (aka my phone) as my bike fitter suggested, so I could relax and take it easy instead of flogging myself on every single spin!!!! "Define take it easy" I said to myself as the heat and hills stretched ahead of me!

Anyways it was a nice cycle on a beautiful day heading from Clane, cross country to Knockanally Golf Club and then the hills around Newtown, down onto the old N4 before turning for Kilcock and Maynooth, to Rathcoffey and home. An hour and 28 minutes for what I think is approx 45kms-ish? Apart from the first hill from Knockanally up to Newtown (and its a looong stretch upwards with a crap surface), where I had to slip into the granny ring at the front, I felt amazingly good on my new Fizik saddle and powered home, sweat dripping to my dinner which is sizzling away as I type.

Don't think I exactly "took it easy" but with the absence of timing myself, I just have the time I left and the time I got back with a rough guess of distance. Still think I was pretty quick even with two long climbs in there.........just don't tell the bike fitter!

Seth Brundle wrote: »

That's a nice spin D13exile. The spin down from Knockanally (I refer to it was Ovidstown - presumably wrongly)) is tough because the surface as you say is rotten. The council resurfaced it some months back but I think they made it even worse and now it manages to scrub off any speed you had goinf into it.
Still, there's a lovely downhill stretch into Newtown before you have the hill on the Northern side of the village.

It’s always been a lousy road surface in the 6 years I’ve been cycling up there. That’s what makes it a hard climb as you’re bouncing over potholes and the general unevenness of the surface.

Saying that, coming down into Newtown was a rush until I remembered that tight chicane at the bottom just as you come into the village. Hard on the old rim brakes and...........let’s just say, in that blink of an eye, I decided my next bike will have disc brakes as the rim brakes took their time to bite, although I will admit I was absolutely, top gear, flat out flying it.

Was a lovely day for a spin, even if it was very warm at midday as d13exile says.

First spin in a fortnight after falling and messing up my back, Drimnagh, Tallaght, gunny hill, Mount venus road, down to Marley park, sandyford, Rathmines, and then an extra loop of inchicore, Walkinstown, Harold's cross and home.
45km at an average of 25.7 km/h.

Paid it forward yesterday, just after Powerscourt. Stopped for a cyclist who had punctured for the second time, and was in need of a spare tube. He needed me to wait with the pump as well, as he'd used his CO2 cannister on his first replacement tube. I was on a short spin anyway, and had the option to ring home if I had a flat. I hope he made it home okay ... and that the cycling gods will look favourably on me for future rides!

Busted out my first 100k, 106 to be exact. Had initially planned to go to Wicklow but when the restrictions hit had to stay within Dublin.

Went around North Dublin County. Oldtown, Naul, Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk, Malahide and then home on the S2S where for once the wind was at my back.

Out for 5 hours in total and horsed through a bowl of stew when I got in

Was saddened to hear that while I was out a poor soul was killed on a road that wouldn't have been too far from me at the time. They should cover every road in this county with cycle lanes, using compulsory purchase if necessary. Hard to feel safe.

Apart from that, great day out and feel quite achieved.

RIP friend

Whats the craic with the dublin 'lockdown' now, are there guards up the mountains turning cyclists back like there was earlier on in the year?
Looking to head up the mountains in the morning from the city centre.

retalivity wrote: »

Whats the craic with the dublin 'lockdown' now, are there guards up the mountains turning cyclists back like there was earlier on in the year?
Looking to head up the mountains in the morning from the city centre.

What does it matter if they are there or not? Surely you can give a good guess as to where the border lies before turning back or changing direction?

GazzaL wrote: »

Anyone on here cycle into the back of a car today and cycle off without giving their details to the driver?

It wasn't me guv, honest!

First time on the bike in 6 months .

54km in 2 hours.

Drogheda, Mornington, laytown, julianstown, towards duleek and left up to Naul, balbriggan, julianstown and back to Drogheda.