Great Dublin Bike Ride 2019 - 29/09/19

stas · 29-09-2019 5:56pm

Eamonnator wrote: »

I went over Snowtown before the tandem crash.
There was no marshal there, when I passed.

There were marshals signaling to slow down after that crash, which was good, but obviously not fair to the ones who already crashed.

Does anyone know if the gentleman hit by a car around 7am on the quays near Guinness plant is okay?

Wishbone Ash · 29-09-2019 6:19pm

retalivity wrote: »

it was crap when i did it a few years ago, so havent returned. Looking at the route today, is this the first year it came up the river road and ashtown? Who thought a rail crossing and a major roundabout that is a nightmare to try and get out of (the halfway house roundabout from ashtown) in the last few kms were a good idea??

It was a hell of a lot better than the final few kms of last year. And it's virtually impossible to plot a route for a sportive which starts and finishes in a major urban area without crossing major roads and rail lines.

The Gardai were a lot more pro-active this year.

07Lapierre · 29-09-2019 7:32pm

Woke up at 6am... heard the rain against the window, rolled over and went back to sleep! Woke up at 8, so got up and joined the route just before Naul. A real shame the weather was not on the organizers side. At the finish the bowl of pasta and coffee was nice but it was too cold to hang around and enjoy the atmosphere. 85k door to door for me. Enjoyed it.

McGrath5 · 29-09-2019 7:36pm

91km door to door, my first time doing it. A little bit sorry I didn’t try the 100km route but there’s always next year.

Hal3000 · 29-09-2019 7:39pm

Does it still go up the N32 ? I wouldn’t be paying to cycle along that dump of a road.,. The coastal section is nice though !

Wishbone Ash · 29-09-2019 8:25pm

Hal3000 wrote: »

Does it still go up the N32 ? I wouldn’t be paying to cycle along that dump of a road.,. The coastal section is nice though !

Doesn't go anywhere near the N32.

Effects · 29-09-2019 9:03pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Doesn't go anywhere near the N32.

It did last year though, didn't it? After Baldoyle, up the N32 and the right on the roundabout before the M1/M50.

Seth Brundle · 29-09-2019 9:56pm

Hal3000 wrote: »

Does it still go up the N32 ? I wouldn’t be paying to cycle along that dump of a road.,. The coastal section is nice though !

2019 GDBR routes...
http://greatdublinbikeride.ie/routes/

Hal3000 · 29-09-2019 10:01pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Doesn't go anywhere near the N32.

Funny, I must have got stuck behind some other great Dublin bike ride last year...

07Lapierre · 29-09-2019 10:06pm

Hal3000 wrote: »

Funny, I must have got stuck behind some other great Dublin bike ride last year...

The N32 has two lanes in each direction... doubt the road was blocked. naomh Barroge CC run an event which goes along the N32.

Wishbone Ash · 29-09-2019 10:29pm

Effects wrote: »

It did last year though, didn't it? After Baldoyle, up the N32 and the right on the roundabout before the M1/M50.

Nope - Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Malahide, Swords, last year also - nowhere near the N32.

Hal3000 · 29-09-2019 10:33pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Nope - Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Malahide, Swords, last year also - nowhere near the N32.

Sorry that’s not true. It may have been the year before last but I definitely saw them on the N32.

Effects · 29-09-2019 10:39pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Nope - Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Malahide, Swords, last year also - nowhere near the N32.

I think you're just confused. I checked back over my Strava from GDBR from last year and it did go via the N32/R139.

Effects · 29-09-2019 10:43pm

There's the stretch on the N32 from last year in the 60km.

marvin42 · 30-09-2019 8:05am

I like the GDBR because it goes to places i would alone not feel comfortable to cycle alone. That said, I dont like linking the Tandem crash to marshaling. It would be very sad, if in a couple of years events like this would be impossible to organise, because there is the expectation that every danger has to be pointed out to the participants.
p.s: the food stop did suck, i would expect much better than a banana and a chocolate bar for 50 euros.

54and56 · 30-09-2019 8:14am

marvin42 wrote: »

I like the GDBR because it goes to places i would alone not feel comfortable to cycle alone. That said, I dont like linking the Tandem crash to marshaling. It would be very sad, if in a couple of years events like this would be impossible to organise, because there is the expectation that every danger has to be pointed out to the participants.
p.s: the food stop did suck, i would expect much better than a banana and a chocolate bar for 50 euros.

I wouldn't put the tandem crash down to marshalling, some well placed "slow" and "sharp left turn in 200m" types signs would have done the trick.

LollipopJimmy · 30-09-2019 8:30am

Personal responsibility comes into it too, tearing down a hill you don't know on a tandem is not exactly advisable.

Utter Consternation · 30-09-2019 8:51am

I did the 60km. A small thing, but i would have loved a cup of tea at the pit stop around the 46km mark. Still nice to get the bit of food though.

Effects · 30-09-2019 9:00am

marvin42 wrote: »

p.s: the food stop did suck, i would expect much better than a banana and a chocolate bar for 50 euros.

Did they not offer sandwiches this year?
Last year I had to pull the ham off the cheese and ham sandwiches. Being a vegetarian that doesn't eat eggs!
But yeah, I thought the food could have been better.

ridelikeaturtle · 30-09-2019 9:05am

Utter Consternation wrote: »

I did the 60km. A small thing, but i would have loved a cup of tea at the pit stop around the 46km mark. Still nice to get the bit of food though.

With a tailwind and slight downhill, and <20kms to go, I didn't see any point in pulling in at the stop for the 60km route. If that could've been placed closer to halfway, it'd have been ideal, but maybe that wasn't possible.

Utter Consternation · 30-09-2019 9:07am

ridelikeaturtle wrote: »

With a tailwind and slight downhill, and <20kms to go, I didn't see any point in pulling in at the stop for the 60km route. If that could've been placed closer to halfway, it'd have been ideal, but maybe that wasn't possible.

It was too close to the end. I needed the sustenance however, i was flippin starved. My legs also needed a bit of a break too. I hadn't done that many long cycles this year and was finding the pace a bit tough.

ridelikeaturtle · 30-09-2019 9:11am

Whatever the complaints about a few missing signs at some roundabouts, or marshalls, or the food, I gotta say I think the jersey is sweet - a really nice fit and kinda reminds me of mid-00s Team Liquigas colours. For that alone to me it was worth the price of admission.

Alkers · 30-09-2019 9:36am

ridelikeaturtle wrote: »

Whatever the complaints about a few missing signs at some roundabouts, or marshalls, or the food, I gotta say I think the jersey is sweet - a really nice fit and kinda reminds me of mid-00s Team Liquigas colours. For that alone to me it was worth the price of admission.

I thought the jersey was extra?

Seth Brundle · 30-09-2019 9:44am

Alkers wrote: »

I thought the jersey was extra?

It was and they sold out apparently.

ridelikeaturtle · 30-09-2019 9:50am

Seth Brundle wrote: »

It was and they sold out apparently.

Yeah, you're right, my mistake. But still worth the price of the jersey.

Boom_Bap · 30-09-2019 10:02am

First time doing any sort of organised cycle, done the 60km one and absolutely loved it.
Just seen one downed cyclist on the Ratoath Rd at the junction into Scribblestown. She was sitting up and moving but in a lot of pain and there must have been some cuts.
I seen that on my way home.

Wishbone Ash · 30-09-2019 10:14pm

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Nope - Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Malahide, Swords, last year also - nowhere near the N32.

Hal3000 wrote: »

Sorry that’s not true. It may have been the year before last but I definitely saw them on the N32.

Effects wrote: »

I think you're just confused. I checked back over my Strava from GDBR from last year and it did go via the N32/R139.

My Strava from last year.

Myself and thousands of others must have taken the wrong route then so! :pac:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1860484319

deconduo · 01-10-2019 7:02am

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

My Strava from last year.

Myself and thousands of others must have taken the wrong route then so! :pac:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1860484319

60k vs 100k route is the difference I assume.

Eamonnator · 01-10-2019 7:52am

Never mind all that, I want to know, is the N32 really a dump of a road?

07Lapierre · 01-10-2019 8:02am

Eamonnator wrote: »

Never mind all that, I want to know, is the N32 really a dump of a road?

It is if your cycling yes. In a car its a two lane drag strip!

(BTW its now called the R139)

https://goo.gl/maps/6L1bW1dwFj6iKcWy6

magicbastarder · 01-10-2019 8:14am

it's not pleasant to drive, let alone cycle. however, i would hope the marshalling/garda presence on the GDBR might make it a bit more sane to cycle on than normal.

plodder · 01-10-2019 8:19am

Eamonnator wrote: »

Never mind all that, I want to know, is the N32 really a dump of a road?

Its main claims to fame are: it's very straight, and for years it had bus lanes painted on the road, but no bus services (still has no bus services afaik).

Effects · 01-10-2019 8:30am

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

My Strava from last year.

Myself and thousands of others must have taken the wrong route then so! :pac:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1860484319

Yeah, you're still confused. There was two different routes, with different distances. The shorter route took the N32. So you'll have to retract your statement.

Effects · 01-10-2019 8:34am

Eamonnator wrote: »

Never mind all that, I want to know, is the N32 really a dump of a road?

Horrible road. I wouldn't cycle it by choice. As mentioned, cars drive fairly fast on it and you'd get a lot of close passes.
A lot of dumping goes on along a stretch of it as well, so not pleasant to look at.

07Lapierre · 01-10-2019 8:34am

I used to cycle along it as part of my commute. Hated it!

Cycling from west (airport) to East (Malahide road), if the traffic lights at the westend of the road were red, all the cars had to stop. Once the lights went green, it was like the "charge of the light brigade" as about 20 or 30 cars came barrelling along at 100+k behind me! A close pass at 30-40kph is bad, but at 100+k its terrifying!

deandean · 01-10-2019 9:20am

Photos now available on Finisherpix

https://www.finisherpix.com/events/single-view/great-dublin-bike-ride-2019.html

Utter Consternation · 01-10-2019 9:21am

What's the story with all the photos that were taken at the start? Are they posted somewhere online? There were a lot of paparazzi out.

Boom_Bap · 01-10-2019 9:45am

I got an email yesterday evening with a link to my pics

LollipopJimmy · 01-10-2019 9:59am

I got an email with a link to somebody else's pics, the number is wrong. I put my number on my seatpost and it was only when I saw how they do the pics that I see why they wanted them on the handlebars. I'm not that concerned

lochdara · 01-10-2019 7:25pm

you will find your pics in the lost and found section.. just scroll through a lot of pics and you can tag your number

Eamonnator · 01-10-2019 9:37pm

There are 2649 pages of photographs, with 16 photos per page, in the lost and found section.
I suspect, there may have been something amiss with their number recognition system.

triggermortis · 02-10-2019 2:49pm

I didn't get an email, and I also put the number on my seatpost as it was in the way on the handlebars so I doubt I'll ever find any pictures.
If you could advance through the pictures it might be better, but I don't have the time or patience to click on each picture in turn to find a picture of me with my eyes closed, or looking away...

Boom_Bap · 02-10-2019 2:54pm

A colleague of mine bought the pictures and somehow ended up with a few snaps of me

Effects · 02-10-2019 2:54pm

Is there any form of facial recognition that can search, similar to facebook, or how the iPhone groups your photos cased on the person in it?

DaveyDave · 04-10-2019 1:43am

How do these events cope with traffic or busy/possibly hazardous roads like the R139 mentioned?

Apart from the lack of some safety signs and crappy food for the money, I would have liked to have participated in the 60km. Hoping to do a few easier sportives next year, I'll probably keep an eye on the next one.

Dow99 · 04-10-2019 8:29am

I'm probably going to offend somebody here, but why on why were we taken to through one of the worst areas of Dublin in the final few kms.
Surely we should be using this event to attract oversea's tourist entries???

Ride London can close down all the roads in London for their event (which is 160km) & Dublin cant.

lochdara · 04-10-2019 8:55am

To be honest Gdbr are not evening listening. They responded to 2 positive comments on thread and ignored the rest that were negative. They gave a discount code a few days before the event and are now selling off their stock of jerseys. Next year they wont put a year on them so they can re use for 2021. Those jerseys probably cost them a tenner based on the quantity they ordered and the original price was 50 euro. If they want people next year they need to reduce the price or seriously up their game.

magicbastarder · 04-10-2019 9:01am

Effects wrote: »

Is there any form of facial recognition that can search, similar to facebook, or how the iPhone groups your photos cased on the person in it?

a) bleedin' expensive
b) you need a database of known faces already, to search against. i.e. it'd be easy enough to say 'this is a face' but you also need to know whose face it is to perform a match, and it's access to that info which would be the issue.

ednwireland · 04-10-2019 9:10am

lochdara wrote: »

To be honest Gdbr are not evening listening. They responded to 2 positive comments on thread and ignored the rest that were negative. They gave a discount code a few days before the event and are now selling off their stock of jerseys. Next year they wont put a year on them so they can re use for 2021. Those jerseys probably cost them a tenner based on the quantity they ordered and the original price was 50 euro. If they want people next year they need to reduce the price or seriously up their game.

didnt Cycling ireland bail it out 2 years ago ? last year i think it made money, i supsect with the offers running to this years event it wasnt even close to a sell out , guess we will find out at the agm.

mind i was at the worlds in harrogate that weekend and they were reducing the t-shirt prices on the saturday (still too expensive mind)

magicbastarder · 04-10-2019 9:24am

they picked a bad weekend to try to sell t-shirts in harrogate.

Great Dublin Bike Ride 2019 - 29/09/19

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