A small breath of fresh air...

ollietrex

I live in Lucan and Cycle to work in Clarehall (Coolock) every so often and its a pretty miserable cycle, N4, South Keys and then the Malahide Road. I was bored of cycling this route so yesterday I decided to take a different route and cycled from howth along the sea front until I hit the north keys again.

What a breath of fresh air literally, about 7-8km of semi purpose built cycle track away from the main traffic. I cruised its length at about 25-30km on my road bike with a smile on my face

This will now be the way I goto and from work avoiding the malahide road. Its a shame there is not more purpose built cycle track that is away from the fools who drive and park there cars in cycle lanes.

Raam

ollietrex wrote: »

I live in Lucan and Cycle to work in Clarehall (Coolock) every so often and its a pretty miserable cycle, N4, South Keys and then the Malahide Road. I was bored of cycling this route so yesterday I decided to take a different route and cycled from howth along the sea front until I hit the north keys again.

What a breath of fresh air literally, about 7-8km of semi purpose built cycle track away from the main traffic. I cruised its length at about 25-30km on my road bike with a smile on my face

This will now be the way I goto and from work avoiding the malahide road. Its a shame there is not more purpose built cycle track that is away from the fools who drive and park there cars in cycle lanes.

I use that coastal one twice every day. It's great. It has a few problems in the evening time when walkers and cyclists compete a bit. Overall, the positives outweigh the negatives for me.

Bicyclegadabout

Does that coastal wind not knock ya?

ollietrex

There was no wind yesterday but I can see how it might get a bit windy out that way. You just have to lean a little bit more if it is blowing hard.

Raam

Bicyclegadabout wrote: »

Does that coastal wind not knock ya?

It did when I started, but not anymore. You get used to it.