The Road Condition Warning thread

You'd almost start to think that this is their objective. Imagine what a fantastic cycling destination the Wicklow/ Dublin mountains could be with a half decent road surface. Anyway, pipe dream stuff.

Good article about Wicklow Co Co ruining the roads for cyclists in last Saturday's Irish Times. Ian O'Riordan does a fair bit of hill cycling as well as running and knows what he's talking about.

Yeah lot of roads about the place done by Meath.

That Tara to rathfeidh Rd.

Balrath towards duleek for couple km.

Slane Donore down that bit of a hill before the carpark at Ros na RI.

Little tiny Rd over past Eureka trailers.

Road up on top of rathbran. Say headed for the rock from the n2.

Few more about hard to remember them all ....

The busier ones as fine. The quiet ones be dodgy firba while.

Also the geniuses have fired grit on the road at a few junctions. I'm assuming they are places the tar melted last year. But for now it's just shovels of grit sitting on the road. Swans Skryne. Rathfeidh school. Mill cross rathfeidh....

Any update on the road conditions around Wicklow at the moment? Ian O'Riordan in the article reckoned it would be a month or so for the works to be complete, and it was published on 9th July.

I was hoping to get out there in the next few days, but there is no point if it is dangerous or just too difficult to cycle on.

Road over the back of Downs Hill / Calary (from the Sugar Loaf to the top of Altidore) has been chipped.

In better news the road from Greystones up to towards Belmont has been properly resurfaced and is a dream to cycle on (they'll probably be back to chip it in a few months, that seems to be their current M.O.)

Thanks all for the updates. I don't really know the area, so I'll have to check the route and plan accordingly. Safe cycles everyone, see you on the road. :-)

I was up there last weekend - yes, the chip and tarred what was the lovely smooth base layer. Saturday morning it was no issue anyway, well bedded in.

I cycled a few mountain passes in Italy last month - roads up to 2,800m elevation were basically perfect, even those that get less motor traffic. Then you come back to the bone rattlers here...

They have them in Cork too. I went down in one a few years back. Wrote to the council and it took about 6 months but was replaced with a safer version.

Bloody cyclists, you install bike stands for them and they're still not happy.

I forgot to report back on the road condition around Roundwood / Sally Gap / Military Road after my ride last weekend.

I don't know the names of all the roads, but Military Road was the only one that had been loosley gritted in a couple of sections. However, as previously reported by others the grit was small grit rather than the more dangerous larger grit, so the road surace was fine really. Care is needed when cornering, particularly on descents, due to the loose grit but other than that the surface was fine, and the route was fantastic.

The surface between Clara Lara and Laragh / Glendalough car park was really rough in places, but this was not due to works, it's just a bad surface.