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First Commute

  • 22-06-2010 9:36am
    #1
    spurscormac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭


    Well did my first commute on the new bike this morning. Had brought a week worth of clothes to work in the car yesterday to have everything here.
    Total of ~12.5km from Knocknacarra to Parkmore in Galway.

    Very happy with it I have to say, except I can already see what you guys complain about all the time, today I had to cope with...

    1. Cow**** on the road & no mudguards, luckily I could swerve around it.

    2. Cycle Lane with Road Works sign in the middle of it.

    3.Cycle lane with no lowered entry point so had to stay on the road.

    4. Cycle lane covered in pieces of glass sparkling in the sunlight - luckily no puncture.

    5. Cycle lane with solid concrete lumps in it an inch high, as if they'd dropped from a cement truck.

    6. Postman parked in the cycle lane.

    Felt great though, took ~30 mins, I hardly had to stop anywhere, felt great overtaking the lines of traffic and it only took me about 10-12 mins longer than it would in the car. :D


Comments

  • #2
    kennyb3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    This will be the next step http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055850176&highlight=commuter+races

    Trust me


  • #3
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Well done, what route did you take?

    There's a steep hill in Wellpark to face every morning.
    I'd imagine you are avoiding Taylor's hill, dangerous enough for cycling


  • #4
    spurscormac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭spurscormac


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Well done, what route did you take?

    There's a steep hill in Wellpark to face every morning.
    I'd imagine you are avoiding Taylor's hill, dangerous enough for cycling

    I live on Ballymoneen Road, so up the back as far as the Rahoon Road, down past the graveyard, Westside, over the bridge, out to the Headford Road Roundabout, on to the Tuam Road and up and over the hill and down to Parkmore.

    I mapped a few routes before, through town, out by the Clayton, through Salthill & out Wellpark as you said - they're almost exactly the same distance so might mix it up a bit over the coming weeks.


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