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  • #152
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Bloggsie wrote: »
    I have some shorts & long pants on the way from sports direct, but I cant seem to shake that teenager feeling of Mehhhhh, i just cant be arsed!

    Clearly you need to buy a new bike then


  • #153
    dahat
    Registered Users Posts: 16,629 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Clearly you need to buy a new bike then

    This fixes all bike related problems.


  • #154
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,706 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Bloggsie wrote: »
    my question is, does anyone who cycles regularly get the "I just couldnt be arsed" feeling and if so is it just a matter of getting on the bike or taking a break?

    Yep, get this all the time. Best cure is getting on the bike, and for me going up a road I haven't been on in awhile. A bit of exploring off the beaten track is always good.


  • #155
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Clearly you need to buy a new bike then
    m,y BTW isnt due for 2 more years!


  • #156
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Bloggsie wrote: »
    m,y BTW isnt due for 2 more years!

    BTW won't cover what you need though :pac:


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  • #157
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    back in the saddle this morning, usual 28.8 kms in 70 mins, 24.6 kmph average. a bit moist!


  • #158
    drogdub
    Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭drogdub


    Cycled from Malahide to Drogheda. Didn't start too well, got a puncture. As I was changing tube a lad out with the kids asked me did I have everything I needed. I told him I did, he saw my pump and ordered me use of his track pump as he only lived up the road. I gladly excepted his offer. Cheered me right up.

    So if the bloke is a boardsie, thanks very much.


  • #159
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Doc07


    Very rare midweek day off. 140km around South Dublin and Wicklow including Shay Elliot and Sliabh Mann from both sides. I had the Sally Gap all to myself, not another sinner in sight . Enjoyed a shandy in the GlenMalure Lodge as well!


  • #160
    2RockMountain
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭2RockMountain


    Doc07 wrote: »
    Very rare midweek day off. 140km around South Dublin and Wicklow including Shat Elliot

    Tough climb then?


  • #161
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Doc07


    2RockMountain wrote: »
    Tough climb then?

    Haha! Bloody iPhone!
    I didn't break any records on the climbs but I didn't have any 'accidents' either.


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  • #162
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    a nice warm "swim" home yesterday, it pished down from the PP all the way to maynooth, a very odd experience occurred to me, I passed a fella (hello again, if you are on here) on a very nice felt roadbike just past leixlip confey, normally I am the one who gets passed!

    home, hot shower and a bowl of homemade minestrone soup, happy wee chappie!


  • #163
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Was a t a wedding at the weekend amd wasnt feeling great, so cried off going for a cycle yesterday and had a snack box instead...was debating doing the same thing today but forced myself to go out on the bike instead and go relatively balls out. Quick and dirty 30k up stocking lane, and shaved over a minute of my pb, well happy with that.

    Bloody starving now though.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/655577517


  • #164
    brownian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭brownian


    After driving to Galway and back, a quick spin on the bike helped to clear the cobwebs. Another great evening - warm, dry, fairly still. Glasses/bug-shields totally necessary.

    Deansgrange - Silver Tassie - Kilternan - Glencullen - Barrack Rd to Enniskerry (glad I was going down that hill, not up), then over Puck's Castle and back home via the park. 35k, average 22.4. Bike behaving perfectly - new saddle a thing of joy. Might be worth fitting brighter lights tho.


  • #165
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,706 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Went slightly off the beaten track last night, Ballyboden, Tibradden Lane, Tibradden Wood, Cruagh Wood, Cruagh Road and home. My very limited CX skills made me stop once I got to the rockier bit, must pick up an MTB bike at some point (and figure out how to smuggle it into the house unnoticed). A short spin at a slow pace, but all good fun and will probably add Massey's wood to the circuit next time.

    392870.JPG


  • #166
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭secman


    Didn't get home till almost 7 last night, quick dinner and change.... was out the road when I realised I had no helmet on.... as wife slipped around to supermarket..I was locked out, no keys on board... managed to get her on phone to meet me in carpark...back to house ... anyways just did Kilnamanagh to blessington and straight back... 42km Avg 25.4kph. Light fading badly around 9ish now..:(
    .


  • #167
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    normal spin this morning, saw something that bates Banaher!, a numpty on the North Quays @ Croppy Park on a DB cycling whilst holding an umbrella! if only he had been on a unicycle juggling umbrellas!


  • #168
    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Very greasy roads this morning in south Dublin. Had a skid and an almost fall over moment at an amber that I should have proceeded through. Pulled the rear brake and was surprised to lock it up, then pulled the front brake and had the same. Just about managed to stay upright.


  • #169
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    tough slog home last nite, it seemed that the wind picked up more and more the nearer i got to home.
    To the numpty on the motorbike who decided to overtake the car that had overtaken me at the same time(must be been on the verge on the far side of the road just beofre westmanstown, you sir are a d1ckhead. the driver of the car luckliy for me was not a novice driver, it could have been nasty if the car driver had panicked because of the aforementioned numpty.

    hope to get out over the weekend & get a 50-60 kms in to take me up to 1400 kms since May


  • #170
    Galway K9
    Registered Users Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Galway K9


    Great cycle today, held up at least 15 cars for at least 10 minutes by cycling on the road instead of using the hard shoulder. muhahaha


  • #171
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    Galway K9 wrote: »
    Great cycle today, held up at least 15 cars for at least 10 minutes by cycling on the road instead of using the hard shoulder. muhahaha
    bet your ears were burning with all of the at least 15 drivers wishing all sorts of missfortune on to you & yours, never mind the new names that you have been given!

    there goes another at least 15 drivers that hate us!


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  • #172
    2RockMountain
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭2RockMountain


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Very greasy roads this morning in south Dublin. Had a skid and an almost fall over moment at an amber that I should have proceeded through. Pulled the rear brake and was surprised to lock it up, then pulled the front brake and had the same. Just about managed to stay upright.

    I had a very short spin today to bring the bike to the shop, but I noticed two cars wheel-spinning when starting off form traffic lights, presumably because of greasy surfaces.


  • #173
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,254 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    100.71 km straight after work from Dawson street to Ballymoney, Wexford .
    Absolutely shattered I had two water bottles with some high 5 tabs in them, but still was struggling I really should have stopped for food. I had a back pack with around 5kg of stuff that might have made a difference.

    Got soaked heading in to town this morning (+18km on to the daily total ;) ) so delighted that it stayed dry.


  • #174
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    I don't give in to my sad b*stard Strava tendencies too often but today I said feck it and decided to go for a KOM on a segement I thought was achievable -Berryfield Lane in Bray. Ryan Sherlock (who else) is top with 4:48....so anyway, I got out there and gave it a lash. Properly destroyed myself and 4 minutes 40 seconds later crossed the line to the sounds of screaming, adoring crowds.*


    Just got home now and uploaded the ride. Ryan Sherlock's time is 4:18.
    B£$tard.



    *or a small cat meowing at me, I forget which


  • #175
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,706 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Meandering cycle today following a route including lots of l-roads around South Wicklow that I hadn't been on before. Ballyboden - Laragh - Greenane - Macreddin - Askanagap - Aughavanagh - Rathdangan - Kiltegan - Grangecon - Dunlavin - Ballymore Eustance - Blessington and home via Ballinscorney. Mostly good, but on certain sections I realised there's more to cycling a road than drawing a line on a map. I'd forgotten what an evil little set ramps connect Greenane to Macreddin, and many of the other l-roads I'd selected turned out to be equally vicious. Fantastic day out though, ~160k, 2.4k climbing over 8 hours. (should have be 145 but usual navigation errors)

    393061.JPG

    (One from the top of Reily's lane outside Macreddin which is my new least favourite climb in Leinster).


  • #176
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭secman


    Into killenagh..Gorey... down old n11 to Arklow.. around to rock of Arklow... Castletown.... by Tara hill...Ballymoney... courtown...ballygarret...home. 67 km Avg 25.6 kph. Back out on 1992 steel frame Raparee, picked it up from Peter in Revolve bike shop Gorey this afternoon . He fitted the vintage chainring set that i had sourced on eBay, new chain and block....new brake pads and new computer. Great to have it pack purring...... a 24.5 year old steed and a 59 year old (almost ) engine ..:)


  • #177
    EDit
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭EDit


    Went out with family (wife + 9yr and 11yr old sons) on Friday night and did a 30km blip up and down the Athlone-Mullingar greenway. Followed that up yesterday with a 63km trek (again on the greenway). Was pretty impressed with average moving speed on yesterday's jaunt (19.3kph) considering the kids were involved (although, tbf, we did 3hrs 15mins of cycling over 5+ hours, so a good deal of stopping for snacks, lunch, etc.). Was planning on getting out again today, but everyone's legs are in bits.


  • #178
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Did an easy 30km this afternoon but I was oh so hungover doing it.


  • #179
    650Ginge
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭650Ginge


    2RockMountain wrote: »
    I had a very short spin today to bring the bike to the shop, but I noticed two cars wheel-spinning when starting off form traffic lights, presumably because of greasy surfaces.

    Chinese tyres more likely....


  • #180
    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    69km in just a shade over 3 hours, down to Enniskerry then up through Kiltiernan, Glencullen and the Viewing Point. Not too bad considering I haven't been out properly in about a month.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/659563191


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  • #181
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,282 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    41km this morning around NCD - up into garristown, ardcath, back through oldtown and kilsallaghan.

    one of the biggest perils on one of the stretches of road i was on was the double bad bend near thornton hall - one of the people who live of the bend regularly lets their labrador out, and he runs around the road. someday he's gonna be flattened, and this morning it was nearly me who would have been involved.


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