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Saturday Spin, 8 May 2010

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  • #52
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Did ye travel down the N9 to Castledermot on Saturday.
    If so is this now a quiet road given the nearby motorway?


  • #53
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Did ye travel down the N9 to Castledermot on Saturday.
    If so is this now a quiet road given the nearby motorway?
    Only for about 4km ([url=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/17827/113213.png[/url]) and unintentionally- I had meant to go straight on to Kilkea but couldn't as the motorway cut it off.

    Yes, the N9 was quiet. I wasn't sure why it had not been redesignated as an R road- the N8 has for much of its length.

    Castledermot looked like a bit of a ghost town to be honest, a lot of stuff shuttered up. I've noticed this in a lot of towns on the now bypassed by the M8.


  • #54
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,142 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    @Lumen: Are you implying I am a Fred?

    Not at all, quite the opposite. It's just that the chain jamming in the spokes would indicate the need for a pie plate (or a competent mechanic), and I'm sure if anyone can carry it off it's you.


  • #55
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Nah, no need for a pie plate, competent mechanical skills maybe.


  • #56
    iregk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    Cadex wrote: »
    Then up through Roundwood, Ballinastoe (long section of gravel and feck all tar, what's the story there?)

    A lot of the roads around roundwood are like that. I was around the mountains myself on saturday and the climb from roundwood to sally gap is gravel for about 1km then not bad. thankfully it turns to proper surface when the proper climbing starts.

    Wind was a bitch on saturday. Heading up the wicklow gap it was in our face. Heading out through laragh (stopped in home home for a snack) it was in our face. From sally gap to tallaght it was in our face! We only got a tail wind in the last 10km coming back to blessington.


  • #57
    Nietzschean
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    iregk wrote: »
    A lot of the roads around roundwood are like that. I was around the mountains myself on saturday and the climb from roundwood to sally gap is gravel for about 1km then not bad. thankfully it turns to proper surface when the proper climbing starts.

    As a lot of us discovered about 2 weeks ago descending from luggala(that climb) isn't a lot of fun at the moment...no warning coming down(least not then), few of us all hit the gravel section at >70km/hr its interesting doing windy roads on gravel at that speed...


  • #58
    Vélo
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    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    .. stop looking at the women in Larragh and get yourself one. It would be much healthier.



    No it's not.....keep looking


  • #59
    ten speed racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭ten speed racer


    Cadex wrote: »
    Distance: 199.8k

    I think I'd have been tempted to cycle around the block to make 200...


  • #60
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    ten speed racer wrote: »
    I think I'd have been tempted to cycle around the block to make 200...
    just hold your bike up and spin the front wheel ...


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  • #61
    Cadex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭Cadex


    To be honest, I kinda did! I went in the slightly longer way to my estate rather than the most direct. I reckoned no one would argue with 199.8 but might quibble something like 198. I felt I was being pathetic as I was doing it, so sternly told myself to 'just go home and cop on'. At this point you could be caught mumbling to yourself....

    As for 'spin the front wheel' - oh my! The suggestion that one of us would fiddle is just scary.....


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