New Route - Rathgar - Cherrywood

km991148

Been off the bike for a few weeks due to a dodgy knee (which is now hopefully better!). In that time I have moved jobs. Looking for a route to Cherrywood that can hopefully avoid the following:

- Hills (I am lazy, but dont mind too much!)
- N11 - can be ars3d fighting with peds/sh!tty cycle lanes/maniac bus drivers (i.e. the ones who see themselves as an extension to the Gardaí, but use vehicles as tools of enforcement).

I'd also like to minimise hanging about at lights and crazy roundabouts (although I can handle traffic).

Any suggestions (other than being less fussy!!)

Cheers,,

Traumadoc

Suppose go up to Sandyford and across by the industrial estate, then through foxrock, torquay road, then through connelscourt.

km991148

yeah, wasnt sure about the roads around connelscourt, looks like I will need the N11 afterall, although I think after leopardstownits probably not as bad natzi wise..

I was hoping that googlemaps was a little incomplete between cherrywood nd connelscourt.

AstraMonti

km991148 wrote: »

yeah, wasnt sure about the roads around connelscourt, looks like I will need the N11 afterall, although I think after leopardstownits probably not as bad natzi wise..

I was hoping that googlemaps was a little incomplete between cherrywood nd connelscourt.

Yes unfortunately you have to use N11 from Cabinteely to Cherrywood. It's not that bad though at this stage. As you are coming back really watch the broken glasses around the bus stops. There is alternative but you have to go up the mountains and back (and is nice route!).

km991148

yeah, I might do this (in the summer at least) over through kilternan etc

Cheers all

DirkVoodoo

Avoid foxrock at all costs! Probably the most dangerous part of my route. Bad roads (destroyed from constant building over the last 20 odd years), lots of speeding, dangerous overtaking, old people driving fast cars and yummy mummys piloting range rovers while on the phone.

Stereotypical? Yes, but all true and I hate cycling through here.

Krusty_Clown

Head through Stepaside and take the next left after the petrol station (after Palmer's pub), then head down Bride's Glen and you can enter Cherrywood from the side (pedestrian) entrance on Brides Glen Road/Cherrywood Road (instead of looping around the Silver Tassie).

It's all uphill on the way back though.

C3PO

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Head through Stepaside and take the next left after the petrol station (after Palmer's pub), then head down Bride's Glen and you can enter Cherrywood from the side (pedestrian) entrance on Brides Glen Road/Cherrywood Road (instead of looping around the Silver Tassie).

It's all uphill on the way back though.

That's the route I was going to suggest too! Much more pleasant than the N11 - a bit of a climb back up to Kilternan on the way home but ok from there!