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

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  • #2702
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭positron


    Clear, calm morning out there but cold enough for the time of the year. I opted to cycle to work once again today (Drogheda-Dundrum). Took the main road (R132) and while the surface is better than the backroads, the traffic makes it more tiresome. There's something peaceful and magical about riding along empty country roads on a nice dry bright cold morning - I got some of that on the first half but not for long,, although I can't complain, it's a work day. Of course one you past the Lissenhall Junction, it's all roundabouts, buses, long ass trucks, broken bike lanes going up and down the sidewalk etc, which only gets worse as you go towards inner city - Drumcondra/Fagans all the way to Capel st are not the most bike (or car) friendly part of the town.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/1162559748

    2h 20m, 57.6k, rake of PRs (probably because of changing the rear tyre from 35mm Schwalbe Rapid Rob CX tyre to 32mm Schwalbe Marathon). Front is still 35mm CX tyre, bike does look very wrong. :D


  • #2703
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    An early 100k from dublin to sally gap, round lacken, blessington and Kildare backroads towards the city again. The viewpoint is an..... Interesting place at 7.30am in the morning. A few cars full of young fellas flying around doin donuts, and A junkie couple appeared to be in the middle of a proposal in the carpark. They then also asked me if i was delivering their hash up the hill for them. I quickly belted on...

    100k, 4h8m, 1318m vertical

    https://www.strava.com/activities/1164096956


  • #2704
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    a 30km spin from baldoyle out to malahide and then back over to howth for a lap of the hill. legs felt like concrete the whole way and struggled up to the summit from the sutton side. bad enough getting passed by a lad on a fixie but only got worse when i could barely get the power to get past a guy out for a run. Got passed by a large bunch of riders probably about 20 from a southside club near home, some amount of roaring and shouting out them for every little lump bump and drain


  • #2705
    Torres09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Torres09


    Nice 65km spin out around NCD beautiful morning for it...Jaysus that stretch of road from Ballyboughal to Naul seemed never ending!!!


  • #2706
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Torres09 wrote: »
    ..Jaysus that stretch of road from Ballyboughal to Naul seemed never ending!!!

    I find it worse going the opposite way especially when im up that way coz I've to go out of ballyboughal and down left at that cross roads besides the golf course back to swords


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  • #2707
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the nag's head climb is great though. especially coming downhill.


  • #2708
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    the nag's head climb is great though. especially coming downhill.

    yeah thats fine until you hit the flater parts and then it gets draggy coming out of ballyboughal and im usually ****ed at that stage


  • #2709
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Disappointing 40k today. Had planned to go to from the docklands to Sally Gap via Stocking Lane and try not to sightsee a the viewing point and at Lough Bray. Really struggled with a stitch and my legs felt really heavy while on Stocking Lane and so went to Glencullen, Stepaside and back home.

    I was really surprised to see that I set a new PR for Stocking Lane by knocked exactly 5 minutes off my previous best! :eek: It felt never-ending today.


  • #2710
    pjmn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭pjmn


    42km - Knocknacarra - Moycullen - Spiddal - Knocknacarra - went early - lovely morning, spilling rain now!


  • #2711
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    50odd kms up around Enniskerry and Glencree. Beautiful day for it. The descents from Johnnie Foxes to Enniskerry can be hairy at times with the loose chippings


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  • #2712
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,826 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    A solo 125km for me today with the aim to climb a bit, got in 1200m and an avg of 29.9km(cruel) but I had a spin up Seskin hill for first time in long long time and took a full min or so off my previous, 7.07m up there is half decent for a big fat lad like myself.


  • #2713
    Arcade_Tryer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    You must be mistaken. It is cyclists that break the lights, not cars. You can ask Pat Kenny or George HOok if you don't believe me.
    Yes, but had it been the cyclist braking that red light, he could have killed the poor motorist.


  • #2714
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Kit all prepared to go out for this morning, woke up at 7 this morning took a look out the window and said feck that


  • #2715
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    yeah, i dropped my wife out to her horseriding this morning; we'd usually see maybe a dozen cyclists on the way out, but not a single one to be seen this morning.


  • #2716
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    70km club Spin this morning @~27kmph. Hoped it would be called off with the weather but it was clear out, but looked cool. Put on some layers and had a warm breakfast and a cup of tea to set me up. Headed out the door and it was muggy as hell, ditched the jacket but was still over heating all day


  • #2717
    DominoDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Waited on the rain to pass , not so quick 30KM spin out to Howth thanks to a killer side-head wind coming off the sea the Gulls looked to be enjoying it I was not.

    Very slow progress outbound even found hard to breath at times with the constant wind in the face.

    Nice trip back ...wet ass reminding me I need to invest in a ass saver


  • #2718
    triggermortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭triggermortis


    I looked out the window at 07.00 and thought seriously about going back to bed when I saw the weather. Drove to Wicklow and dragged my sorry ass round the reservoir dog 125km route.
    Never has a beer and a burger been more welcome...
    Great event, pity about the weather.
    Met rockstar in the car park when I arrived - only boardsie I spoke to all spin


  • #2719
    Mercian Pro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    triggermortis wrote: »
    Met rockstar in the car park when I arrived - only boardsie I spoke to all spin

    Wishbone Ash and myself were there too and caught up with Daroxtar as he was leaving the food stop when we were arriving. There was a time when we could keep up with that fella but not since he started racingtongue.png


  • #2720
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Cycled the Waterford Greenway to Dungarvan and back with a few kms at each end to bring it over 100. It was breathtaking at times, amazing scenery and great coffee.

    Next time I'll remember to bring my cycling shoes though, that distance in trainers on look pedals was not nice


  • #2721
    Eponymous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭Eponymous


    Waterford Greenway on Saturday with my neighbour. 90.2km. Most I've covered this year. My Vivosmart stopped recording the activity when we stopped for coffee on the return leg to let the volume of joggers on the half marathon subside rather than trying to negotiate a path through them so that's something I need to be aware of when stopping in future. I think it's because I got back to a recovery heart rate.


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  • #2722
    route66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭route66


    Did the Tour de Achill on Saturday. This was organised by the Achill Wheelers with a selection of distances on offer - I went for the longer 110km option (link).

    Being the North-West, things can often get a little wet and Saturday's weather did nothing to dispel this reputation. It was wet and very windy. Oh, and there were hills too; lots of them. I struggled around for most of it, with the very occasional wind-assisted portions helping to reduce the misery a little. My fitness has fallen away a lot since I did the WW200 in June; I'd say I felt equally awful at the end of both :eek:

    107.7 Kms with 1187 meters elevation, averaging 20.4 KM/H which I was very happy with. The time was 5 hours and 17 minutes on the bike with only an additional 9 minutes for breaks; yes the weather was that bad!

    The event was very well organised and the voucher for the chipper van at the finish was a great idea!


  • #2723
    Takca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭Takca


    route66 wrote: »
    Did the Tour de Achill on Saturday.

    I also did the Tour de Achill, I was expecting to get wet and wasn't let down. It was a very wet and windy day in the saddle and after the first half the hills kept coming. I've done a few spins recently with averages in the mid 20's and was hoping for something similar but this route just laughed at me with the climbs into and out of keem draining most of my energy. By the time I got to the final 20km my pace was way down.

    Despite being drained towards the end, spending most of the day soaked and fighting against constant winds, I had a great day, met some good people(I don't think I spent any of it cycle solo). The other half and some friends did the shorter distances so we made a weekend of it and topped off the day with a few too many pints in a Achill local that night. I'll be back again for what I thought was a very well run event. +1 for the medal too ;-)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/1164499882


  • #2724
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    route66 wrote: »

    The event was very well organised and the voucher for the chipper van at the finish was a great idea!

    This should be a rule for all events !!!!!! Om nom nom nom :pac:


  • #2725
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    Deleted User wrote: »
    This should be a rule for all events !!!!!! Om nom nom nom :pac:

    They should use it as the pace car!


  • #2726
    CaoimH_in
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭CaoimH_in


    Had a 70km cycle.

    Doesn't the world feel like such a harmonious place when your bike has no mysterious clicks, creaks or rattles, no squeaky brakes, and gear shifting performance is where it should be?

    It's the simple things folks!


  • #2727
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Flat tyre. First on my new bike, with maybe 1,200km covered. A massive piece of glass did it in (well, about the size of my baby finger nail!). Happened on the Clontarf cycle route in this morning and I had two sound lads stop and ask if I needed assistance during the change, so a big thank you to both. Running Schwalbe Double Defense which were thrown in with the bike which had been fine up until now. But to be honest the size of the glass shard would probably have ripped through most tyres.


  • #2728
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Boscoirl wrote: »
    They should use it as the pace car!


    What's that "faster internet" ad with the Minions chasing the banana?


  • #2729
    Takca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭Takca


    Boscoirl wrote: »
    They should use it as the pace car!

    Some of the Achill club members told us at the food stop it was leaving a 15:30 which certainly helped with motivation to get back .... rolled in at 15:27


  • #2730
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Still struggling on the bike after the injury, managing just 18k last night before the shoulders had had enough. Hope to get out every second day and slowly build up distance and endurance but it looks like it will be some time to get back to a pre-accident level.


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  • #2731
    CaoimH_in
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭CaoimH_in


    smacl wrote: »
    Still struggling on the bike after the injury, managing just 18k last night before the shoulders had had enough. Hope to get out every second day and slowly build up distance and endurance but it looks like it will be some time to get back to a pre-accident level.

    It feels like a long road, but you have all the time. :)


  • #2732
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    breezy out there this evening.


  • #2733
    Prince Rough Logger
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Prince Rough Logger


    I'm a novice cyclist, got a bike back around Xmas to do my 8km commute through the city. Worked great, was much faster than driving or public transport, was enjoying cycling and really took to it.

    Have had to move house and I'm now 20km away from work. Appreciate this is little or nothing to the seasoned cyclists on here but it's a lot for me, there and back every day. I've been trying to stick with it but my god finding it tough, particularly at times this morning with the wind I felt like I was going walking pace. And we're heading into winter now...


  • #2734
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i find commuting 20km on the bike is noticeably harder than doing 20km out on the open road - much easier to get into a rhythm and stick with it on the open road.


  • #2735
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Kailani Repulsive Toddler wrote: »
    I'm a novice cyclist, got a bike back around Xmas to do my 8km commute through the city. Worked great, was much faster than driving or public transport, was enjoying cycling and really took to it.

    Have had to move house and I'm now 20km away from work. Appreciate this is little or nothing to the seasoned cyclists on here but it's a lot for me, there and back every day. I've been trying to stick with it but my god finding it tough, particularly at times this morning with the wind I felt like I was going walking pace. And we're heading into winter now...

    A lot of it depends on your commute. A 20km blast in on quiet roads would be joyous for me but a slog in heavy traffic could be soul sapping


  • #2736
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,402 ✭✭✭plodder


    Kailani Repulsive Toddler wrote: »
    I'm a novice cyclist, got a bike back around Xmas to do my 8km commute through the city. Worked great, was much faster than driving or public transport, was enjoying cycling and really took to it.

    Have had to move house and I'm now 20km away from work. Appreciate this is little or nothing to the seasoned cyclists on here but it's a lot for me, there and back every day. I've been trying to stick with it but my god finding it tough, particularly at times this morning with the wind I felt like I was going walking pace. And we're heading into winter now...
    My commute is 25km but I've only been cycling a couple of times a week. Not sure I'd be capable of (or really would enjoy) doing it every day. Having said that, Tuesday was my first experience of driving this Autumn and it was slower than the bike would have been. That's probably going to get worse when the weather gets worse. So, I may end up sucking it up, getting better organised, keeping dry cycling gear at both ends etc and doing it more on the bike.

    What kind of a bike do you have? I think you'd need a lightweight road bike for that kind of distance.

    Also, it takes time to get used to upping the distance. The first few times I did mine, I was in bits at the end of each leg (never mind the end of the day).


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  • #2737
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    Kailani Repulsive Toddler wrote: »
    I'm a novice cyclist, got a bike back around Xmas to do my 8km commute through the city. Worked great, was much faster than driving or public transport, was enjoying cycling and really took to it.

    Have had to move house and I'm now 20km away from work. Appreciate this is little or nothing to the seasoned cyclists on here but it's a lot for me, there and back every day. I've been trying to stick with it but my god finding it tough, particularly at times this morning with the wind I felt like I was going walking pace. And we're heading into winter now...

    Probably things you may be able to do to reduce the effort.

    Carry less, look at your bike setup, slick tyres ect.

    But fair play. stick with it. There are often far worse days during the rest of the year than during the winter. Feb to May this year was lovely and very dry. Entire winter was very mild.


  • #2738
    brocbrocach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭brocbrocach


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    Probably things you may be able to do to reduce the effort.

    Carry less, look at your bike setup, slick tyres ect.

    But fair play. stick with it. There are often far worse days during the rest of the year than during the winter. Feb to May this year was lovely and very dry. Entire winter was very mild.

    I've got rained on more this last month than all winter on my commute.


  • #2739
    Annie get your Run
    Registered Users Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Annie get your Run


    Kailani Repulsive Toddler wrote: »
    I'm a novice cyclist, got a bike back around Xmas to do my 8km commute through the city. Worked great, was much faster than driving or public transport, was enjoying cycling and really took to it.

    Have had to move house and I'm now 20km away from work. Appreciate this is little or nothing to the seasoned cyclists on here but it's a lot for me, there and back every day. I've been trying to stick with it but my god finding it tough, particularly at times this morning with the wind I felt like I was going walking pace. And we're heading into winter now...

    20km each way is my commute too. I built up to it starting with 1 or 2 days a week then building to 5. It can take a lot out of you so if I'm feeling tired I might get the bus one day a week or I might drive part of the commute and cycle the rest of it. You can mix it up a little and as someone else said try and lighten the load you're carrying. It's been (IMO) extremely windy the last few months, I actually found it easier over winter than over the last few months!

    Fair play for giving it a shot, stick with it :)


  • #2740
    Prince Rough Logger
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Prince Rough Logger


    Thanks for the replies all. My initial idea was to get the bus a couple of days but I did it on Tuesday and honest to god I nearly lost my mind the journey was so long, nearly 90 mins to get home. I got the first bus in the morning and ended up late to the office.

    I think this is definitely something I will look into:
    I might drive part of the commute and cycle the rest of it.

    I would need to get a bike rack for the car but yeah it would soften the blow quite a lot, there's a couple of spots I could park about half way to the office and I'd cycle through the worst of the traffic in the city.

    To be honest if I was doing it again I would get a different bike, the one I have is very heavy, but just didn't know what I was looking for at the time and it's too late now.


  • #2741
    Classyrider
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Classyrider


    Hi there, I noticed a Garda reprimanding a cyclist for breaking a red light on Capel Street bridge at 8.30 am this morning (07/09/2017) on my commute.
    The mornings and evenings are less bright, it is getting darker.


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  • #2742
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Kailani Repulsive Toddler wrote: »
    ....I would need to get a bike rack for the car...
    Do the rear seats fold down? If so, you may not need to get a bike rack as most hatchbacks and many saloon cars will take a bike (assuming you don't have rear seat passengers).


  • #2743
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Lahinch to Galway today around the Wild Atlantic Way. Lovely scenery and not too much wind.

    Galway to Dublin tomorrow


  • #2744
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Wind is with you today. Should make it a hell of a lot more enjoyable. I did similar recently on a day with barely any wind and it was great.


  • #2745
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,402 ✭✭✭plodder


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Do the rear seats fold down? If so, you may not need to get a bike rack as most hatchbacks and many saloon cars will take a bike (assuming you don't have rear seat passengers).
    and a quick release front wheel makes that even easier.


  • #2746
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Up until one month ago I had never been stung by a wasp. As of this morning I have now been stung twice! Cycling through Contarf in the cycle lane travelling at ~25km/h I look down to find a wasp on the back of my leg stinging the bejaysis out of me. Yelped and swatted him away. Ffs, what the hell!


  • #2747
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Up until one month ago I had never been stung by a wasp. As of this morning I have now been stung twice! Cycling through Contarf in the cycle lane travelling at ~25km/h I look down to find a wasp on the back of my leg stinging the bejaysis out of me. Yelped and swatted him away. Ffs, what the hell!

    Time of year. Poor creatures are dying now. It makes them crazy.


  • #2748
    Prince Rough Logger
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Prince Rough Logger


    plodder wrote: »
    and a quick release front wheel makes that even easier.

    I have a quick release front wheel. I'll see if I can fit it in easily/quickly. My car is pretty small.


  • #2749
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Dublin to Galway done. 236kms all in from Eyre Square to Dublin City Centre and back to the house.

    Shagged now, bed.


  • #2750
    dom_1000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭dom_1000


    Cycled the complete Royal canal from Drumcondra to Cloondara in Longford on a CX bike with a couple of mates. Then cycled to longford to get the evening train back. 158km into a headwind. took 10 hours. tired.


  • #2751
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    50km around ncd this morning. Started raining as soon as I set out and stopped just as I finished up. Bloody breezy out there.


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