Photos taken on your cycle.

Straatvark

buffalo wrote: »

Where abouts is that taken from/of?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Luggala&ll=53.102837,-6.254568&spn=0.019273,0.111494&hnear=Luggala&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=53.102826,-6.254563&panoid=vPGqQ6ILSlBOjNejXuwlDg&cbp=11,210.78,,0,4.92

nilhg

buffalo wrote: »

Where abouts is that taken from/of?

Straatvark wrote: »

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Luggala&ll=53.102837,-6.254568&spn=0.019273,0.111494&hnear=Luggala&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=53.102826,-6.254563&panoid=vPGqQ6ILSlBOjNejXuwlDg&cbp=11,210.78,,0,4.92

Got it in one.

buffalo

nilhg wrote: »

Got it in one.

Ah, it's Lough Dan I'm looking at, not Lough Tay. It all makes sense now. Great shot!

Guill

Dcully wrote: »

Stunning morning for a spin photos taken between Stradbally and Portarlington in Co Laois.

Was up that there myself yesterday, was going to stop and take pics but didn't, looks like you had it covered anyways!

Anywho, Two tractors mounted on posts for some reason:



Real horse power:



Some Irishness:

rich.d.berry

Saw this on the Inis Eoghain 100 [IMG][/img]

Our health service is really specialising now.:)

Dermot Illogical

rich.d.berry wrote: »

Saw this on the Inis Eoghain 100 [IMG][/img]

Our health service is really specialising now.:)

Did you enquire about joining http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/ while you were there?

Ole Rodrigo

Ah, good ole Muff. Always good for a snigger. Shame they never setup a local diving club. :pac:

Dermot Illogical

ror_74 wrote: »

Ah, good ole Muff. Always good for a snigger. Shame they never setup a local diving club. :pac:

See the post before yours.

Ole Rodrigo

Dermot Illogical wrote: »

See the post before yours.

Lol

Mr. Grieves

Garzard wrote: »

On that little dirt track leading up towards the mast. Becomes a dead end eventually into some bog or camping ground, not sure which. Was up around near where you were for a while until I went off up to the mast.

Not sure where you mean. Kippure mast or Three Rock mast? I was above Three Rock mast (at Fairy Castle), but the mast you can see in my picture is Kippure off to the south.

Garzard

Mr. Grieves wrote: »

Not sure where you mean. Kippure mast or Three Rock mast? I was above Three Rock mast (at Fairy Castle), but the mast you can see in my picture is Kippure off to the south.

It's near Kippure. The dirt track leads off the Military Road towards the mast but doesn't go fully up to it.

https://maps.google.ie/?ll=53.2156,-6.307806&spn=0.000103,0.132093&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=53.2156,-6.307806&panoid=vsYkQiCj4OkfkJXCQ7Pbbw&cbp=12,174.8,,0,-1.17

alaimacerc

Garzard wrote: »

Noticed a lot of people stopping to take photos of those sun rays!

Don't blame them one bit. Down here it's been relentlessly dreich here for days, aside from a fleeting glimmer of sun this morning. There should be a support group for us fair-weather cyclists this time of year. (Or some years, for the whole year.)

denbatt

Outside Killumney. Anyone know the story with this? Its bothered me every time i pass it.

mamax

2years ago that was a 3 step ladder, see how good their manure is :P

alaimacerc

denbatt wrote: »

Outside Killumney.

Which road? Never noticed that, which given that Killumney is pretty much my default "spin" direction, likely speaks volumes for my (lack of) powers of observation..

denbatt

alaimacerc wrote: »

Which road? Never noticed that, which given that Killumney is pretty much my default "spin" direction, likely speaks volumes for my (lack of) powers of observation..

Right hand side as your heading Crookstown direction.

alaimacerc

denbatt wrote: »

Right hand side as your heading Crookstown direction.

Before or after K "proper"?

Nice enough day, maybe I'll take a spin out that way and investigate.

DrChristianTroy

buffalo

I'm not going to claim all of these were from the bike... but they're all based around tomorrow's Hill Climb. Quite a few out recce-ing it this evening.

Morrisseeee

Not too far from buffalo's Hill Climb is another Hill Climb where a Priest is supposed to have Leaped !
/I climbed the Cork side, and it's brutal, serious ramps - loads of them, legs died on the 2nd part.

Road Block >



Kerry side >



Bike (yes I did suffer !!) >



Cork side - the long road >



All kinds of gradients >

denbatt

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Not too far from buffalo's Hill Climb is another Hill Climb where a Priest is supposed to have Leaped !
/I climbed the Cork side, and it's brutal, serious ramps



Tough on the standard crank I'd say?

Ole Rodrigo

Kerry side of the Leap last year.

madtheory

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Not too far from buffalo's Hill Climb is another Hill Climb where a Priest is supposed to have Leaped !
/I climbed the Cork side, and it's brutal, serious ramps - loads of them, legs died on the 2nd part.

Looks amazing. Love the roadblock pic. So did he move eventually?:)

Can you post a google map ref please?

Morrisseeee

denbatt wrote: »

Tough on the standard crank I'd say?

Yeah just about got there with a 28 on the standard, kinda wish I had my old compact back or Chris Horner's Vuelta legs! tis a good climb for out-of-the-saddle climbing, you've no choice really. I tried to stay in the saddle at times but ended up getting front wheel lifts.

The last part is unreal, you build up quite a bit of speed after a little descent and remember not to swing too wide on the left as there's quite a drop, and then you have the final b*tch of a ramp to really kill you off.

Morrisseeee

madtheory wrote: »

Looks amazing. Love the roadblock pic. So did he move eventually?:)

Can you post a google map ref please?

No, she didn't move on the way up or down, fcekin cow :pac:

Map, just NW of Glengarriff/Ballylickey & then look for Coomhola, try this link.

spoke2cun

Rathmullen, Co. Donegal.

madtheory

Morrisseeee wrote: »

No, she didn't move on the way up or down, fcekin cow :pac:

Map, just NW of Glengarriff/Ballylickey & then look for Coomhola, try this link.

Oh ya, that's udders Thanks for the link.

denbatt

Down home in Beara, out Allihies direction today, was scary how foggy and wet it was,

alaimacerc

madtheory wrote: »

Looks amazing. Love the roadblock pic. So did he move eventually?:)

I'd say you're even more of an urbanite than I am.

Can you post a google map ref please?

I don't know the road or the area myself, but searching the web, I get the impression that it's this route here, or some variation on that theme.

alaimacerc

Nothing very impressive to contribute either routewise or photographically, but share and share alike:

(Approaching Killeady from the city side, with my inner tubes increasingly in ribbons.)