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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    Omega28 wrote: »
    Strava is so unreliable on my phone. It keeps dropping signal.

    I need a bike computer.

    Or a Garmin/smart watch


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭Omega28


    Or a Garmin/smart watch

    I have the Fenix 5Plus but I'd still like a computer for the bike


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I've a Garmin 520 Plus which I find does the job.
    https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/s?q=garmin+edge+520+plus+gps+cycling+computer&cat=product

    Plenty of bike computers on adverts: https://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/sports-fitness/bikes/209/q_garmin/

    One advantage of the bike computer is that you can monitor speed and map without taking a hand off the bar for too long.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭.red.


    Headed out this evening for my toughest cycle yet. Decided on a new route and took a detour where I shouldn't have. I really struggled on the hills. I thought I'd have to pull in a few times but kept slogging along and got to the top, nice easy cycle downhill for a bit and another big hill before I got my breath back properly. Just about made it to the top again. Then got to a hill down that frightened me a little. Far from smooth road and had to go into the drops to pull the breaks tight enough to slow me down. A few people mentioned the stock breaks on my Trek 1.5 weren't the best and I didn't realise what they meant till tonight.
    Anyways, made it home safe and sound, I'll be planning my next route more carefully.
    29kms in 77mins. Averaging 22.5kph and 290m elevation that felt a lot more.
    Not the easiest cycle for a fat 40+yo with little or no fitness.
    https://strava.app.link/TXUBHdhxU7


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭positron


    Omega28 wrote: »
    I have the Fenix 5Plus but I'd still like a computer for the bike

    Also considering a bike computer. I have a watch (FR245) which is perfect for running and good enough for recording rides, but I would like something with navigation. There's specific garmin mount to mount watch to the handlebar and use it as a bike computer - but tiny screen wouldn't be ideal.

    On the other hand an Edge 130 is only around €100. Apart from usual bike computer speed / distance stuff, it allows navigation with preset courses downloaded from Garmin Connect.

    Personally I am not massively bothered about speed or distance, but navigation is what I am really looking for - And because I would always have my phone with me - so I am now experimenting with Komoot and voice navigation. Worked well for a while last night, overlays instructions over podcast/music etc nicely, but the phone keeps killing it and I have to figure out why.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭JMcL


    Omega28 wrote: »
    I have the Fenix 5Plus but I'd still like a computer for the bike

    Barmount kit for the Fenix? Only disadvantage to that would be you wouldn't get the HR monitoring


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭brownian


    Yesterday evening was ok, so headed out to the Beehive, down the coast to Brittas Bay, turned right just before Arklow, over the Beech Road (traffic!) to Avoca. Watched red kites wheeling over the village - often visible there. Up Avoca Valley to Rathdrum, and up the stump. Pleasant 57k with 500 or so m of climbing. There are nicer ways to get home (e.g. via Conary, or via Kingston) but the main road wasn't bad.
    Great to have killed the squeaks in my bike (no doubt will start again now!)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    35k at 6:30 this am, Bohernabreena, Featherbeds and back by Foxes. Constant rain but not much wind so handy enough and for once made the climbs more pleasant than the descents. Arrived in looking like a drowned rat though.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Had to pick something up for my daughter in Drumcondra so planned a bit of a jaunt on my way home and managed to get in 60km in absoluely horrible weather.
    I put the mudguards back on the bike for the trip which was a good move but I got drowned nonetheless.
    Brakes were absolutely brutal (which nearly got me at one stage: https://streamable.com/xnuypr)
    Travelled from Leixlip to Drumcondra and on out to the back of the airport and over to Kilbride via St Margarets before heading back towards Leixlip via Dunboyne.
    https://www.strava.com/activities/3727051091


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭Omega28


    A hideous 90km cycle today. I got absolutely drenched and I had no wallet or food on me.

    Pros: My avg. time has slightly increased

    Cons : Not fuelling during my rides leading to a complete loss of power


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Main bike had a flat this morning (thanks bottle throwers) so off on the good bike I went. The good bike had no mudguards on dear reader....not pretty.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    howth was mobbed with thiin young whippersnappers passing me on the climbs this evening.
    also passed some poor sod whose 90s S class had caught fire between howth and sutton. car was destroyed.

    and i'll have to send an email to a certain cycling club about a bunch of their riders taking up the full width of the cycling path near st annes, forcing other cyclists into the pedestrian side.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    ...and i'll have to send an email to a certain cycling club about a bunch of their riders taking up the full width of the cycling path near st annes, forcing other cyclists into the pedestrian side.
    I've experienced that a few times. Why on earth a club would wish to train on a busy track is beyond me. The last time I encountered them, I raised my arm as if to say WTF lads and one of them pointed to the grass verge to indicate that there was plenty of room there.


  • Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    If it's not clontarf I would be shocked!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    it was not clontarf CC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Posting this here as can't find a more appropriate location. Feel free to move mod. It's an interesting video, but for a good cause which I thought many here would be interested in.



    Some commitment by Hank, you could see how tired he was from the outset.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    50 tough, windy and very hilly ks @28.5kph. My brother bailed at the last minute on a planned 80k spin so had to make do. Tried out my new Mavic wheels for the first time and it felt like a new bike. The control, speed and general feel I was getting from the bike was on another level.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Quick 40km but with 450m of up, so only at 25km/h av.

    Made a point of keeping my cadence above 75rpm on the steeper bits (and in the 80's on the slopes), and beat my PRs for 10 of the Cruagh segments, and 4 others elsewhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Luxman


    Wandering over to Tara to drop a few quid into a bucket for Graham who is doing a double evereating now. Started at 430am this morning. Pacing it well he was. I did 3 with him. You know to help him out😂. 250 ascents needed in total. He should have been doing RAM around now but it was cancelled.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Luxman wrote: »
    who is doing a double evereating now
    binge and purge!

    a double everesting, though? madman. in a good way.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    114k today with 1.8k of up this morning taking in Sally gap, Blessington, St Kevins way, Wicklow gap and Sally gap again. The gardaí were stopping people from going to Glendalough and turning them up the Wicklow gap if they made it that far and up via Glenmacnass if not. Roads around Glenmacnass were absolutely jammed with cars so well pleased to be on the bike :p First hill 100k for me this year and thoroughly enjoyed it, albeit at a rather slow pace taking just under 6 hours all in. Masses of cyclists out and everyone seeming in good form.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,826 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Bailed on the cycle Ireland Zwift race today for a road spin in what was a glorious day. The sun shone for the full 4hrs across the coast road, savage road on a sunny day.

    134km solo in 32.9 avg with 1100m.

    Now to get a pizza into me for 200km tomorrow!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭positron


    Inspired by the "Lap of the county" idea that was posted here before, I tried Lap of County Louth today. 210 kms. 1721 meters elevation. And Clairmont Cairns!

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    https://www.strava.com/activities/3747330412/overview

    I planned the route using Komoot, and the entire county is within their one free region. Also you can switch the maps to one that shows county boundaries, which makes it easy to plan. Well turns out planning & inspiration are important but so is being fit enough to do it - i was not really, and I suffered thru it. When you go off the main roads and venture into tiny lanes that primary serves farms - about 50% of the roads were rotten, pot-holed lanes that probably sees more tractors than cars and certainly no roads bikes. I had a CX. I was wiped out even before I got to the half way mark - I hadn't trained for such long rides in a long time, I think the longest I did last year was 115k. And yes, I had to walk up to Clairmont Cairns. And absolutely crawl down the other side, it's just too steep for my skill level / brakes.

    Also around 160k mark, coming up to the roundabout just north of Dundalk, I was foolishly keeping my head down, and I ran into the back of a parked van. I saw it with about two bike length to spare, so I was able to scrub some speed but couldn't save from crashing and collapsing in a heap onto the road. Luckily nothing more than a few grazes and massively bruised ego. Of course the bike suffered too - rear hood is wonky and wobbly. Front derailleur stuck in whatever position I want to manually set it to, and the rear derailleur is also acting funny, moving up / down a gear whenever it feels like. People were sound though - offered all sorts of help, but I was fine enough to cycle the rest myself, which is what I did in the end. Oh yeah the phone screen is shattered as well. Still, could have been worse, but today the luck was with me.

    At the end of the day, despite some wind against me in both directions (!!) it was a beautiful day and my god, the views from the top of Clairmont Cairns is something else. Enjoyed it overall, but won't be in a hurry to do it again :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    ouch! fair play, though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭mvt


    Some nice descriptions of spins today- well done all!!

    Had a good one too, headed up by Ballinscory to kilbride army camp & then back to Ballysmutten bridge which is now named in honour of Guarda Jones who gave his life for his community in 2011- it is well worth a visit.

    As is the gap road just past it which brings you to Ballnutagh gap & down to Lacken. The views on both sides are fantastic & you will most likely be on your own.

    Took lake drive towards the Wicklow gap, went up the road parallel to it towards Quintagh I think.

    There is a sign saying the road is closed for works but it is passible, been resurfaced to WCC standard of tar & stone.

    Back onto the Wicklow gap & laragh- say the M50 was quieter.

    Back over the Sally gap & parking at waterfall & lough Brey was pretty poor but what can you do.

    Fairly slow going but am blaming it on the surplus of hair:)

    Let's hope the airports fully reopen & the queues in the barbers calm down!


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,162 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Unusual one today. After a series of unfortunate events, I found myself in Howth with my commuter bike, a heavy backpack and in jeans and hoodie. Climbed up to the summit via RHS of church and then back to the city centre via coast road. A sweaty, unpadded but still enjoyable spin :-P


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    There is a sign saying the road is closed for works but it is passible, been resurfaced to WCC standard of tar & stone.

    Was up there today, felt like the tar under the gravel was very fresh. Its marked St Kevin's way on some maps, my favourite way to get to the Wicklow gap from Valleymount.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Just shy of 65km from Ardmore to Dungarvan via Rinn and back via N25. Surprisingly I managed 650m despite being relatively close to the sea. Had a tow for most of the N25 stretch from four lads out touring which was great as my knees were getting tired.
    Weather was lovely for it.
    https://strava.app.link/7BXJ21mI37


  • Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    46ish km around usual roads of NCD. Got out later than planned, then missed a turn so ended up coming back into my route far sooner than planned so just turned home anyway.

    Knee giving me a little bit of bother last couple days, so can live with the relatively short distances til I solve that. It was fine today bar one twinge near home

    Think it's cleat related on 2 shoes and I'm up and down a lot of stairs in work at the moment


    Also, loads and loads out. Good to see


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    decided to just do a few reps of the approach to fourknocks from the oldtown/naul road today. was getting a few odd looks from the lads who were trying to fix some agricultural machinery halfway up the hill. just 'not you *again*' sort of looks.

    sweltery today.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,826 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Change in weather today but glad it wasn't as hot given what was ahead.

    Out the gap @7am for a planned 200km which became a battle of survival for a couple plus we lost two with mechanicals.

    201km @ 29.2 avg with a more than decent 2000m ish across a few nice hills in the South east.

    Big weekend on the bike completed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,350 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    First lash at the dublin/Wicklow hills in a long time. I had a cold blustery spin up there just before the lockdown but that was short enough. Today was a proper one. Cunard, Kippure, Sally down to Laragh, Wicklow gap, Turlough Hill, back up Sally and back down Cunard.
    6°and very breezy up the top of Kippure but I was pleasantly surprised with the road surface. So much better than it was, actually let go a bit on the descent. Had a headwind/crosswind down to Laragh so burned a few matches to keep motoring down to the coffee stop. Had a puncture too and realised one of my spare tubes was burst too so that made for a bit of caution for the rest of the day.
    I won't name the overpriced establishment I chose for my coffee stop but the proprietor could seriously do with learning some manners or at the very least maybe not look upon her clients as an inconvenience. I think the term I would use would be "an auld Jennet"
    Anyway...
    Met another boardsie there and we had a great chat and climbed Turlough hill and then back up the Sally gap together at a nice steady pace.
    Legs were fairly tender by the end and I'm currently not much good to anyone on the couch but I really enjoyed it and hopefully it won't be another year before I'm back again.

    117km, 2200m climbing
    https://www.strava.com/activities/3750786302


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭wheelo01


    Gentle 35km Drimnagh, funny hill rockbrook, sandiford, city centre, then home again.
    Seemed to be a lot breezier than it looked, could be down yo just not having anything in the tank.

    https://strava.app.link/gqwepXXh47


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    After hoping to do at least 1 x 100km per month this year, I got out on Saturday for my second of the year and first since January :o

    Athlone to Ballymahon, mainly via back roads, then onto the Royal Canal greenway / blueway for around 35km, then the Old Rail Trail greenway from Mullingar to Athlone. Got the odd light bit of rain but otherwise was fine out, I was the biggest problem! Couldn't sustain any reasonable pace at all but still happy to get out and hope to get in more longer spins now I've that one behind me.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/3741214037


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭paddydriver


    A Lap of the Gap yesterday very early.. Up Glencullen, over via Tibradden > Cruagh > Featherbeds > Sally Gap > Laragh > Roundwood > Enniskerry and home. 90k all in.

    Thumbs up for Coffee in the The Dome just before Roundwood - another recommendation for this stop. Great welcoming service, lovely location and great cake.

    All roads leading to Glendalough seemed very busy.. glad was heading the opposite direction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    Thumbs up for Coffee in the The Dome just before Roundwood - another recommendation for this stop. Great welcoming service, lovely location and great cake.


    Good to hear they are open again. Weekends only I presume?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    In donegal for the week and only out for a quick lunchtime spin, but finally headed up to the windmills in gweedore - the gate has been closed the 2 other times I've checked it but was open today. Don't think I've ever been so broken after only ~20 mins on a bike, it matches kilmashogue and cunard in the thunderbastard stakes. sat for 10 mins up there and came straight back to work.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/3755844493


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i like the strava segment name.


  • Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭North of 32


    I changed onto my third chain late last week but it was skipping on my 2 most used gears. I ordered a new cassette and installed it yesterday with minimal fuss. Then I went out and did 42km with, crucially, no skipping gears. Happy days.

    I had only installed a casette on my indoor trainer before this so I was quite surprised at how smoothly it went. A bit of a hit on the wallet though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    Currently riding back up to Dublin from Cahir, Tipperary. Having lunch in Carrick on Suir. My route takes me through the Comeraghs, across the bastarding hills of Kilkenny, Mount Leinster, Shillelagh, Slieve Maan, Shay Elliott and then home from Laragh. I might ring the broomwagon in Laragh! It's a beautiful day for it apart from.the flies.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    80k @ 28.5kph with 800m ascent. Great to feel the fitness and sharpness coming back. Put the pedal down for a few climbs and was able to find an extra gear and my quads were not screaming at the end. Mandatory pizza after.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭puddles22


    Fun run up into the hills , the tailwind was great , hammered a few pb's along the way by some margin. Headwind over Muckish not so great

    https://www.relive.cc/view/vWqBe8L38Y6


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    I'm not phoning the broomwagon because he's probably asleep. In Laragh, 211km, 3,500m and a pitiful average speed.

    Best bits, climbing up to the Nine Stones on Mt. Leinster in the evening sunshine. Comet Neowise hanging over Glenmalure like a Christmas star guiding me home.

    Now to do the 45km home without ending up in the ditch. Thank goodness for Spotify playlists.

    Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/Ki9DZFJtb8


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    66km with over 900m of climbing around NCD today. lovely moment climbing up to bellewstown at the top of that bastard steep climb approaching the racecourse, where i was surrounded by a massive swarm of flies and couldn't outrun them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    66km with over 900m of climbing around NCD today. lovely moment climbing up to bellewstown at the top of that bastard steep climb approaching the racecourse, where i was surrounded by a massive swarm of flies and couldn't outrun them.

    I detest that section but love when you emerge out into the light.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Yep, but doing it in the opposite direction is something else. Feels like you've been tied to be back of a car and the driver is gunning it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    In a rush today, so drove to Ardara for a go at Glengesh. Headwind blowin down the valley didnt help, but what was worse was I couldnt shift into my lowest gear, meaning I had to grind through the corkscrew higher than I wanted. From looking at the map before hand, i knew there was a loop that brought you back down at maghera beach and the waterfall, but got lost down a badly signposted boreen after that. The other valley (granny's glen?) may be even more picturesque than glengesh, and the descent off it was fun. Next time i'm up that way, will go up that one, and down glengesh.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/3784242211


  • Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭onlineweb


    55km cycle along the North Dublin coast this morning, Malahide, Portmarnock, Howth, Clontarf Etc

    Fantastic morning for it.

    However, I had two small irritations.

    Firstly I lost my GPS signal for the second time in a row at the same place in Clontarf.

    Secondly, groups of cyclists forcing other cyclists out into the pedestrian path. So much for common courtesy.

    The joys of cycling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭positron


    206k, mostly into the wind, yesterday. Character-building. Usual N2-A5 route from Drogheda to Buncrana, which fully reminded me all over again why I had decided not to do that ever again. Taking the new (to me) bike was not the best idea (slow puncture etc). On the plus side, it was dry and warm. Hope to explore towards Glenveah now that I am here.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    you got a rare enough northwesterly for that cycle...

    if you're in buncrana, you could try the inishowen 100 (should you wish to do another long cycle...)


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