Photos taken on your cycle.

Benbecul97

meercat wrote: »

descent from loughcrew cairns
lovely evening for a spin

Is that near Oldcastle in Meath?

meercat

Benbecul97 wrote: »

Is that near Oldcastle in Meath?

spot on
side road though
not the kells-oldcastle road
signposted loughcrew cairns
tough clime from loughcrew side
much easier oldcastle side

Benbecul97

meercat wrote: »

spot on
side road though
not the kells-oldcastle road
signposted loughcrew cairns
tough clime from loughcrew side
much easier oldcastle side

Are they both not the same side?
Climbed it as part of the 160km route in the 2010 Tour of Meath.
It was an absolute $%^& of a climb with 100+ish km already on the legs!
It was from approximately where you took that pic that I crashed into that ditch on the descent!
Bringing back memories there!:eek:

meercat

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=loughcrew&hl=en&ll=53.73531,-7.117252&spn=0.055136,0.169086&hnear=Loughcrew,+County+Meath&t=m&z=13&layer=c&cbll=53.735283,-7.117581&panoid=qq9h7iVneK6uTjaQrmeeFw&cbp=12,315,,0,0



this is the tough side

they may have used the main road for the tour of meath
this one is lethal


this is the easier route(the one i took)


http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=loughcrew&hl=en&ll=53.750418,-7.139161&spn=0.055523,0.169086&hnear=Loughcrew,+County+Meath&t=m&z=13&layer=c&cbll=53.750418,-7.139161&panoid=cpSmJgeC49qjzcsWuWU48A&cbp=12,45,,0,0

meercat

maybe this is the route you took

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=loughcrew&hl=en&ll=53.749421,-7.085495&spn=0.055118,0.169086&sll=53.750538,-7.134762&sspn=0.055522,0.169086&hnear=Loughcrew,+County+Meath&t=m&z=13&layer=c&cbll=53.749924,-7.086112&panoid=IL4AIdTSxYuUtSUyCeyCiA&cbp=12,45,,0,0

sy

meercat wrote: »

this is the tough side

Hits 22% on that switchback! The Tour of Meath comes up the easier side and down the side you took this photo.

meercat

sy wrote: »

meercat wrote: »

this is the tough side

Hits 22% on that switchback! The Tour of Meath comes up the easier side and down the side you took this photo.

Roads marked with yellow arrows recently
Must be doing it again so
Hope potholes get filled in on the climb
Mind that descent(it's fast and tight)

eoin88

Cycled from Cork to Castlecove and back over the weekend, got some fantastic weather and great scenery along the way. A selection of some of my better shots here:


Up at Moll's Gap, Carrantuohill and the Reeks in the distance.



On the way to Sneem from Moll's Gap.


Looking down to Derrynane and the Beara Peninsula beyond from Coomakiste.

I took the coast road back to Kenmare from Sneem on Sunday.
by eoin88, on Flickr

Lusk Doyle

I took this the other day while I stopped at the school in Clonalvey. I turned around and about 100 cows were trudging up the road after me. Apparently the Boards.ie jersey scares cows!!!

GlennaMaddy

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

I took this the other day while I stopped at the school in Clonalvey. I turned around and about 100 cows were trudging up the road after me. Apparently the Boards.ie jersey scares cows!!!

looks like one of those John Hind? postcards, just missing a bit of bright red and the farmer chewing a long stem of grass

langdang

eoin88 wrote: »

Cycled from Cork to Castlecove and back over the weekend, got some fantastic weather and great scenery along the way.

Nice spin man, have all the patches of loose chippings up near molls gap and between Sneem and Castlecove bedded in now? Also - the patches of road near Sneem that had some kinda subsurface-with-mesh-wire, is that covered over now? Could be heading down the ROK myself this weekend.

vektarman

Long hot, dusty pilgrim path between Leon and Astorga


1.5 hour climb to Alto de San Roque.


First camino ascent done, phew!!

Esroh

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/album.php?albumid=1651&pictureid=12980


Sunday Morning : The Upper Mask from the Ferry bridge Between Finny and Clonbur. Joyce Country

velopeloton

Riders from Comeragh Cycling Club on Port de Boucharo. 41km at 4.3% to the summit at the Spanish border at 2273m.




Paul Brett on the French/Spanish border with the Spanish Pyrenees behind.

eoin88

langdang wrote: »

Nice spin man, have all the patches of loose chippings up near molls gap and between Sneem and Castlecove bedded in now? Also - the patches of road near Sneem that had some kinda subsurface-with-mesh-wire, is that covered over now? Could be heading down the ROK myself this weekend.

Cheers, was the perfect weekend for it. Yeah, I was a little concerned when I came across that section of loose chippings since I was on 23s and had the panniers on as well. Was actually fine once you stuck to the sections that have been bedded down by cars, didn't need to slow down at all. There was another section that felt like I was cycling over those yellow "rumble" strips coming up to junctions, maybe that was the wire-mesh thing you were talking about? Again wasn't too much of an inconvenience. Overall I found the surface pretty decent the whole way, no scary gravel descents or anything like that!

langdang

eoin88 wrote: »

There was another section that felt like I was cycling over those yellow "rumble" strips coming up to junctions, maybe that was the wire-mesh thing you were talking about? Again wasn't too much of an inconvenience.

Yup that's it. Presume they'll have that sorted and bedded in before the ROK. Cheers.

talkabout

Lovely Sunday evening outrside Ballybofey, Co Donegal (27/05/12)

meercat

came across these artists on my leisure spin today

Pat Holton (Enfield)






sorry cant credit this artist(he is from Mayo though)



cant credit this artist either(she is from Cavan)

maloner

Some shots taken as I climbed up, and at the top of, the Stelvio pass last week. I climbed from the Prato side during a trip from Munich to Lake Garda. I left my back pack at the info office in Prato so only had a small handle bar mounted bag. Incredible climb.

Before things really kick off, the views are still mad:


About 6km from the end the crazy wall comes into full view:


The summit:


Looking back down from the top along the route I took.

okane1

Gap of Dunloe

velopeloton

Carpenter

Not a pic but a short video of Saturdays spin

hope this is allowed

t'bear

Just at the end. Did he lean over the handlebars and hurl like a good hard climb should make you do?

Carpenter

t'bear wrote: »

Just at the end. Did he lean over the handlebars and hurl like a good hard climb should make you do?

Close very close have you being up there

Jawgap

@velopeloton - are they pictures from your ride or stills from the Sound of Music?:D

Great shots again.

nilhg

Our little mountains look small compared to some pictured on here, just about the right size for me.:p

lennymc

maloner wrote: »

Some shots taken as I climbed up, and at the top of, the Stelvio pass last week. I climbed from the Prato side during a trip from Munich to Lake Garda. I left my back pack at the info office in Prato so only had a small handle bar mounted bag. Incredible climb.

i stayed at the top of stelvio in a hotel a couple of years ago on my honeymoon. absolutely fabulous roads. I was in an mx5, and went up and down and up and down etc. Its the best road ive ever been on. Stunnig scenery, and a lad at the top selling cycling jerseys with a print of the climb on it.

maloner

lennymc wrote: »

i stayed at the top of stelvio in a hotel a couple of years ago on my honeymoon. absolutely fabulous roads. I was in an mx5, and went up and down and up and down etc. Its the best road ive ever been on. Stunnig scenery, and a lad at the top selling cycling jerseys with a print of the climb on it.

Yeah its an amazing road. I only did the prato side, but the view when you're about 6km from the top and cycling up to that wall of switchbacks is something else. Whoever thought to build a road up that is an evil genius

Benbecul97

@Maloner: Those pics of your climb from the prato side are stunning pics - and arguably the best in this thread - thanks for sharing!

maloner

Benbecul97 wrote: »

@Maloner: Those pics of your climb from the prato side are stunning pics - and arguably the best in this thread - thanks for sharing!

Quite the praise!

Its a big thread though, I'm sure I could find quite a lot of better shots.

As a climb though, its the best I've done. The only other climb of that scale I've done is Ventoux, and I found Stelvio tougher and more stunning.

Definitely I'd put this on your hills to climb one day.