Photos taken on your cycle.

ednwireland

nice bridge work

iwillhtfu

Another couple today twas very hot. :eek:

After the last controversy the road is actually a mural on a wall and the bike is leaning against it

Also before it's said these roads see more sheep than cars, also granny ring pics ftw :cool:

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magicbastarder

please excuse badly positioned bike.

Cabaal

Something different :pac:

Dutch designed Gazelle bike, first outing with a trailer

iwillhtfu

That's a cool setup Cabaal a real pack horse. The only thing I'd change would be for it to be a step through

Cabaal

iwillhtfu wrote: »

That's a cool setup Cabaal a real pack horse.

I still have my road bike but got this as the most super practical bike ever, great to have such good rain protection and built in lights. I have panniers but took them off the other day.

It's certainly not fast but its super comfortable to cycle, though I did manage 30miles on it once.
First time with a trailer and its interesting when dealing with other road traffic, for the most part people have kept the hell back from me.

selwyn froggitt

I spent the weekend down West and got the opportunity to do a bit of cycling on the Mizen peninsula.
These photographs are from Mount Gabriel with Crookhaven and Mizen peak on the left hand side and Dunmanus Bay and the Sheepshead peninsula on the far right


Overlooking Schull with Cape Clear and Sherkin Islands in the background.





Incredible weather and scenery

Daroxtar

First pint in a pub since last July. Didn't last long!!

cletus

Daroxtar wrote: »

First pint in a pub since last July. Didn't last long!!

And a handsome looking pint it is

Dcully

I seem to have timed this well getting home from a spin earlier.

Gwildor

Action shot, heading into the Ballyvoile tunnel on the Waterford Greenway…

cletus

Dcully wrote: »

I seem to have timed this well getting home from a spin earlier.

It can be unusual enough to see the drawbridge up in Monasterevin. As kids we'd be hanging around hoping a barge would come along.

Is it in some way automatic since they refurbed it, I wonder (haven't lived in Monasterevin in 20 years)

Dcully

cletus wrote: »

It can be unusual enough to see the drawbridge up in Monasterevin. As kids we'd be hanging around hoping a barge would come along.

Is it in some way automatic since they refurbed it, I wonder (haven't lived in Monasterevin in 20 years)

I took your place so I'm here 20 years

It's still manual with the waterways guys arriving in their van to activate it all.
Can be rare enough but that's a few I've seen this past week.

cletus

The house with the pillar to the left of your picture used to be the gate keepers house.

marvin80

Cabaal wrote: »

I still have my road bike but got this as the most super practical bike ever, great to have such good rain protection and built in lights. I have panniers but took them off the other day.

It's certainly not fast but its super comfortable to cycle, though I did manage 30miles on it once.
First time with a trailer and its interesting when dealing with other road traffic, for the most part people have kept the hell back from me.

What model is it? Looks like a great all-rounder and practical bike.
Did you buy it online or is there a store in Ireland selling them?

iwillhtfu

What a belter of a day, she's some country when the sun shines.

Large bottle small glass

Rip Van Winkle's bike?

There's at least three places i pass regularly where there is an old high nelly left out in this fashion.



Irish gravel




The end of the gravel road on descent from Baylough; agressive ht or fs after this or a walk .

That weed might look pretty but there isn't much pretty about it when it establishes a canopy, as it has all over mountain.

A little glimpse of the Vee road Climb in background

magicbastarder

the rhododendron? it's a menace.

magicbastarder

magicbastarder wrote: »

the rhododendron? it's a menace.

Looks to be, is it Mayo/Sligo that has a particular problem with it here vs the rest of the country?

I've seen a bit of hog weed on my travels lately too, not the small stuff at the side of the road the thicker taller stuff. Not something you want to touch if it's leaking sap!!!!!

magicbastarder

pretty much most of the west, and the slieve blooms.

Wildly Boaring

The Vee is so covered in it that they have an annual festival celebrating it. (Knockmealdowns)

Does look spectacular for a few weeks.

Ecologiical disaster but looks well

I saw an RTE news piece a month or so back in relation to getting farmers to stop burning gorse because we all know how well that goes !!!!!!!

They left horses to the gorse and they chomped their way through it, stripped it bare. I believe it's actually very nutritious for them?

magicbastarder

gorse is leguminous, so nutritious.
and ironically, apparently one of the reasons the fires in killarney were so bad is that a lot of the tinder was rhododendron which had been cut but not removed so after a dry spell exacerbated the situation.

Wow related to peas according to my look up of leguminous.

smacl

Old graveyard on Bishops Lane on yesterday's lunchtime ramble

smacl

Dirt road to Kippure at lunch today. As far as I could make it on this setup, not sure I'd have the lungs to make it much further on a full suss but must try sometime.

Plastik

I must've passed you just at the top of the Featherbeds.

Heraclius

magicbastarder wrote: »

the rhododendron? it's a menace.

It's really sad to see the state of West Kerry and west Cork. I still see people growing it in their gardens so clearly there is zero effort being made to control it.

Heraclius

smacl wrote: »

Dirt road to Kippure at lunch today. As far as I could make it on this setup, not sure I'd have the lungs to make it much further on a full suss but must try sometime.

Lovely photo!

I would like to make it to Kippure this summer but I think my legs will be pretty much useless after an entire year of laziness.

smacl

Plastik wrote: »

I must've passed you just at the top of the Featherbeds.

A got a shout from someone overtaking me as I was crossing over onto the dirt track, yourself maybe?