Dublin City Cycle -Sunday September 14th 2008

http://www.dublincitycycle.ie/index.htm

blorg

Love the photo of a bike race on the page where they have in bold "This event is a leisurely cycle not a race." Closed roads, hmm, would be mighty tempting to cane it!

LDB

Quote from the site ...

Getting Ready for the Big Day
If you're planning to come to The Dublin City Cycle, there are a couple of things you might like to do beforehand.

The first thing I'd suggest is that you work out some kind of regime to get you ready for the event. Spending five minutes each day posing in front of the mirror and pretending you've just won the Tour de France.

That's me all set so!

blorg

Ha, good to see they have a sense of humour. Invaluable training advice there!

cantalach

blorg wrote: »

Closed roads, hmm, would be mighty tempting to cane it!

I was thinking the exact same thing. It would be fun to see how many laps you could do during the road closure...other than the tiny rise to the north end of Parnell Sq, it's pan flat.

Bunnyhopper

I did this a couple of years ago and it was good fun. I'll probably go along this year, but what I dislike about it now is that they've had to tuck it away at 9.30 on a Sunday morning: heavens forfend that a load of bicycles might clutter up the road when the poor cars want to use it...

Raam

Bunnyhopper wrote: »

I did this a couple of years ago and it was good fun. I'll probably go along this year, but what I dislike about it now is that they've had to tuck it away at 9.30 on a Sunday morning: heavens forfend that a load of bicycles might clutter up the road when the poor cars want to use it...

The morning is the best time to cycle

Howitzer

This looks like a bit of craic.

Cracking spelling mistake on their site. needs a bit of maintainainance and laughing at.



;-) sorry to be a pain

Chips Lovell

Eh...

It is expected that it will take approximately one hour to complete the circuit

Bicyclegadabout

Man I'd love to cane that route. Surely there'll be motorcycle guards there to stop any messing though? I've said it before, but they should let us tear through the Port Tunnel some time, that'd be deadly.

Might do it. Might bring the camera...

DirkVoodoo

Well, as long as the Gardai won't try and tackle anyone off their bikes I wouldn't mind trying to race around it.

blorg

el tonto wrote: »

Eh...

You going for four laps then Tonto?

Raam

Here are some tips on how to win...
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/05/dominating-unwitting-winning-five-boro.html

Chips Lovell

blorg wrote: »

You going for four laps then Tonto?

Yep, I intend to be the biggest d**k who shows up on the day. I'll be angrily shouting at family groups if they get in my way and ruin my chance of a 40kph average

Raam wrote: »

Here are some tips on how to win...
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/05/dominating-unwitting-winning-five-boro.html

That's exactly what I was thinking of.

Raam

el tonto wrote: »

Yep, I intend to be the biggest d**k who shows up on the day. I'll be angrily shouting at family groups if they get in my way and ruin my chance of a 40kph average

Better get your skin suit for this one.

Bicyclegadabout

Raam wrote: »

Here are some tips on how to win...
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/05/dominating-unwitting-winning-five-boro.html

'kin bike snob. He told me that interview was off the record. Now you all know my strategy :mad: