Tell us about your cycle Yesterday.

Carpenter

Mec-a-nic wrote: »

In the Wars were we?

The drive came within 20mm of sending me to hospital I chased him/her as far as the golden ball and @ 1 point was in the mid 70s but then ran out off air thanks for asking drivers giving 1.5m me hole.

Roquentin

finally some grand weather.

route66

Carpenter wrote: »

The drive came within 20mm of sending me to hospital I chased him/her as far as the golden ball and @ 1 point was in the mid 70s but then ran out off air thanks for asking drivers giving 1.5m me hole.

Heading up to the Golden Ball from Carrickmines on the Glenamuck Road?

The "pinch" point just at the top before the pub is always a danger spot - cars just overtake regardless of how much of the road you take, regardless of how close they are to the blind corner, etc. I had one particularly close incident where a last-gasp overtake attempt resulted in a head-on collision just being avoided.

To be honest, I just use a different route mostly now.

PaddyFagan

Hi folks,

Lovely evening - everything was going well, until ... I got a flat in the middle of nowhere. Got the tyre off, fresh tube in and re-inflated... Then almost home when I had an off - stopped at a junction to let a truck that had right of way though - he ended up coming far enough onto my side of the road that I had to move to avoid him - with one foot still clipped in I lost my balance and toppled over - fortunitly the I was far enough over that I didn't get hit by the truck - both the truck and passing motorbike stopped to check I was ok. Mainly my pride that was wounded - all things considered, I think I got off lightly....

Paddy

32km @ 24 kmph (includes the stop for the tyre change)

ted1

Blew a tube today beside a busy bus stop. Sounded like a **** gun, one or two people ducked.

It blew right through the side wall which meant that the spare tube I put in only lasted 1Km before the metal in the side wall burst it.
Balls to that. It's a pain the arse walking on paths in cleats.

neris

96-97km done today. garmin froze up and had to restart it so 91km on the clock. tough one today and my longest of the year. home, naul, bellewstown (via a wrong turn and the duleek julianstown road), garistown, airport, home. Came out of Naul straight up a hill only to realise my tinkering with the gears yesterday had left me short of my top ring few km on had to hop off and play around with the rear deraileur. Got my top ring back and all was good. Until climb up in bellewstown killed me. had to get off the bike for a breather bout 250m fron the top. Descent from bellewstown was hairy. road was covered in farm muck and ****. Del & Rodney must be on the piss in ardcath last night and left the reliant robin outside the boozer. Worst part of the whole spin was at the back of the airport. was dead at that stage and just wanted to get up but howling head on breeze.

91.2km
808m climbing
avg speed 22.4
4 hours 20mins

Im actually feeling physically sick in the stomach now back home. Any one else ever get this after long spin?

The tax man

First proper climbing of the year today. Rathfarnham - Cruagh - Kippure.
Bloody freezing up there today. Nice tailwind on the steeper ramps made a pleasant change to the usual headwind. Still patches of snow lying on the ground.

https://app.strava.com/activities/267949744

zl1whqvjs75cdy

115 km with the Galway cycle plus extra of my own. Longest ever cycle, well chuffed.

nilhg

In the spirit of the Spring Classics I decided to try to ride all the local strava climbing segments in one spin this morning, they say Kildare is flat, but I still managed over 1000m in 84km. Chilly but still a lovely morning to be out and about.

https://www.strava.com/activities/267886128

godtabh

137km to Athlone averaging 32.4km/h. I am now stuffing my face

Don't Chute!

100kms today Greystones out to Howth and back. Apart from the ferocious headwind from Fairview to Howth a great day to be out! Huge amount of cyclists out around that area, great to see.

https://www.strava.com/activities/267911454

Wishbone Ash

Luxman wrote: »

... with a cuppa out the back garden when I got home.

So she doesn't allow you into the house with sweaty lycra! :pac:

Gearsofwars wrote: »

Nice 102k solo spin today Wexford-Kiltealy-Mount Leinster-Bunclody-Enniscorthy-Wexford, 1,103m just over 4 hours really nice sunny and warm and no wind!!!

Love the way you nonchalantly throw in Mount Leinster. If I did one of the toughest climbs in the country I'd be highlighting it in large red lettering. :cool:

Daroxtar

Brought the bike to work today and jumped on it straight away when I finished. Headed up from Tallaght to Bohernabreena/ Ballynascorney and up through the gap, Featherbeds, down Stocking lane and back to Tallaght.
I wanted to see how Bohernabreena/Ballnascorney compared to stocking lane. IMHO it's tougher.
I took the wrong turn first and started towards Allagour so I had to turn back. The little breather was welcome all the same. The Ballynascorney climb has some vicious ramps. It's gorgeous though so I just said to hell with racing to the top and enjoyed the view. However the descent nearly took me out. I love descending, I'm not technically great at it but I don't get nervous. That changed about 3/4 way down. I got the worst speed wobble I've ever had, pretty much hopped straight across the road and barely stayed out of the field. I was doing about 60 so I'd have been in bother. It completely unnerved me for a while.
Continued on anyway and unlike The Tax Man I had a dirty headwind all the way to the featherbeds. Ya, it was cold up there alright. I only wore a single base layer under the long sleeve jersey and I felt it on the way down.
I'm still a sh!t climber but maybe I'm just getting used to it or something because while I'm not getting much faster I'm not as phased out by the climbs as I was.

49.6 km in 2:19:42 with 884m climbing.
https://www.strava.com/activities/268093386

Crocked

Daroxtar wrote: »

Brought the bike to work today and jumped on it straight away when I finished. Headed up from Tallaght to Bohernabreena/ Ballynascorney and up through the gap, Featherbeds, down Stocking lane and back to Tallaght.
I wanted to see how Bohernabreena/Ballnascorney compared to stocking lane. IMHO it's tougher.
I took the wrong turn first and started towards Allagour so I had to turn back. The little breather was welcome all the same. The Ballynascorney climb has some vicious ramps. It's gorgeous though so I just said to hell with racing to the top and enjoyed the view. However the descent nearly took me out. I love descending, I'm not technically great at it but I don't get nervous. That changed about 3/4 way down. I got the worst speed wobble I've ever had, pretty much hopped straight across the road and barely stayed out of the field. I was doing about 60 so I'd have been in bother. It completely unnerved me for a while.
Continued on anyway and unlike The Tax Man I had a dirty headwind all the way to the featherbeds. Ya, it was cold up there alright. I only wore a single base layer under the long sleeve jersey and I felt it on the way down.
I'm still a sh!t climber but maybe I'm just getting used to it or something because while I'm not getting much faster I'm not as phased out by the climbs as I was.

49.6 km in 2:19:42 with 884m climbing.
https://www.strava.com/activities/268093386

I did this exact route today only in reverse, I was definitely happier to be coming down Ballinascorney then up it. It's a tough climb,

lukegjpotter

I'm back from a week in Spain. A trip organised by Sinead Kennedy in conjunction with Cycle Sierra Nevada.
It was a great trip.

Here are the rides:
Yoga 4 Cyclists day 1: Motril - 2:10:07 - 51.1 km - 621 m
Yoga 4 Cyclists day 2: Cormac is unbelievable at descending. Eugene had the turbo boosters on all day. - 3:32:21 - 75.0 km - 1,512 m
Yoga 4 Cyclists day 3: Another elevation record rewarded by some awesome technical descending. - 3:54:22 - 79.1 km - 1,576 m
Day 4 was a rest day, where we drove to Granada and Motril.
Yoga 4 Cyclists day 5: To Trevelez, highest village in mainland Spain. - 5:28:22 - 107.4 km - 2,290 m
Yoga 4 Cyclists day 6: Motril. Destroyed Charles on the 5km climb. Thanks Cormac and Sinead for the week. - 1:50:21 - 41.5 km - 421 m

Here's a Google+ Story Stream of the trip.

Carawaystick

[QUOTE=neris;94683448
Im actually feeling physically sick in the stomach now back home. Any one else ever get this after long spin?[/QUOTE]
That's just a sign you're trying...!

Unknown Soldier

115 for the day out cycling with the Laurels crew. Great group to go out with tbh.

I should be in bed, asleep.

Look at all the weird data I collected .

No idea what it all means.

I'm a nerd

http://di2stats.com/rides/view/1933

Wishbone Ash

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

115 for the day out cycling with the Laurels crew. Great group to go out with tbh.

I should be in bed, asleep.

Look at all the weird data I collected .

No idea what it all means.

I'm a nerd

http://di2stats.com/rides/view/1933

94.4% in the small ring! :eek:

Alek

It's time to go 1x11

Unknown Soldier

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

94.4% in the small ring! :eek:

It's bleedin hard to maintain that "pace"

Really hard. Though good to learn to do so.

It's a charity training spin so we have to take it handy. We "lost" a couple of people going up Slade hill at the start!
Me rims are going to be destroyed from feathering the brakes so much.

It's still great going out with a group though. I'm giving serious consideration to joining a club after the G2D thing. though it's possible people will still meet up for Saturday or Sunday spins, which would be cool.

Alek wrote: »

It's time to go 1x11

If that's one of them "fixie" yokes I'll leave that too you two lunatics! I've seen on Strava some of them mental spins yis have done on them!

Scrappy600

Havent been on the bike since last October and am still recovering from a diagnosis of Myocarditis, so was nice to get back out but couldn't put myself under any pressure, went out with a friend who's back on a bike for the first time in a year and we ambled around chatting for 17.5k on the back roads round Maynooth and Celbridge, was nice to have a lazy bumble round chatting along not worrying about the gps or how strava was going to look when i got back! Most enjoyable! The old sit bones are protesting slightly this morning though!

astraj

Only a short spin this morning. Cold wind blowing from the east today. Not just time to pack away winter clothes yet. Hopefully weather stays dry and get another spin out on Tuesday.

29.6km
1:14:41
174m
Avg Max
Speed 23.8km/h 43.2km/h
Calories 535
Elapsed Time 1:16:02

BoardsMember

Wrecked! Did about 70k in 2 and quarter hours. Terenure up Crusgh to Sally Gap back thru Roundwood and Enniskerry. Wind and no bike for few weeks, wanted robcall the broom wagon at Lough Dan

wanderer 22

BoardsMember wrote: »

Wrecked! Did about 70k in 2 and quarter hours. Terenure up Crusgh to Sally Gap back thru Roundwood and Enniskerry. Wind and no bike for few weeks, wanted robcall the broom wagon at Lough Dan

That's some average for the terrain...strava link?

edit. er , read that as 80k for some dyslexic reason :-P carry on...

BoardsMember

colm18 wrote: »

That's some average for the terrain...strava link?

It didn't feel fast. And I meant 2 hours 45 minutes!! There, that's a bit more my pace!! Don't use strava, have a crivit bike computer from lidl as ofa st night!!

Found it very hard going. Not done a lot of biking, and less by myself. It's hard work and quite a bit of a mental battle when you are wrecked.

devonp

quick spin today to check out the engine after a fall friday nite on the commute, everything seems ok
https://www.strava.com/activities/268706671

Orion

92km today - Galway Cycle training so out the same road past Kinnegad and back to Maynooth. Nice spin. Little headwind on the way back but not too bad.
https://www.strava.com/activities/268516638

G1032

Got two unexpected spins in yesterday and today!
Got 31km yesterday and 41km today.
I left the HRM at home for both spins. Savage wind today even though it seemed relatively calm when I looked out the window before I left.

shaka

Handy 40km today in 1 hr26min , bit windy

crosstownk

I headed out today with a view to completing my first 100km spin of 2015. I went out with a buddy who was on his second spin after a 4 week lay up due to a spill. We decided that we'd head out the N81, through Manor Kilbride and around the Blessington Lakes and turn back for Blessington.

At Blessington I went left for Naas while he went straight home happy with a 75km spin which was a good achievement given his 4 week break.

I had a tail wind to Naas and the road (R410) is more or less a downhill stretch all the way. When I turned for home at the roundabout for Johnstown the wind hit me. I'd completely forgotten that it was now a long draggy climb to get back through Rathcoole, Saggart and onto the N81 for home. My legs started to complain. My brain was complaining about the road that runs alongside the N7 - boring, exposed and slowly inclining (not much of an incline but the addition of the headwind didn't help). So, in order to help the brain out I decided to go over Windmill Hill. It's not a mental climb but my legs complained further (probably because they knew the climb into and out of Saggart was next!).

At the junction of the N81 I was feeling tired and a quick glance at the Garmin told me that I'd be 9km short the the 100km if I went straight home. So a few local detours saw me home with 101km and my first 100km this year and I'm happy that I plugged on despite my complaining legs.

My legs are tired now and I'll probably wait until Paddy's Day for my next spin.

101km, 730m @ 24.1km/h.