Photos taken on your cycle.

Raam · 13-03-2023 5:30pm

On the GC-60 in Gran Canaria

DaveyDave · 27-03-2023 3:43pm

Taking a breather at Ticknock.

Bought a set of stickers for the fork to match the colour of the frame, black stickers on a black fork are a bit boring. Never had money to add a bit of flair to my last MTB. The Marsh Guard is supposed to be sand colour like the frame but it's barely an off white. Need to replace the white zip ties, it's all I had on hand...

wanderer 22 · 02-04-2023 8:57pm

Nice spin around Minaun in Waterford today.

cletus · 17-04-2023 2:27pm

Work break spin. I'd seen this gate before, bagged it today. Little bit of hike a bike to get to it.

Also saw a heron sunning itself, newly hatched baby ducklings, and a swan that tried to bite me.

Roadtoad · 17-04-2023 8:34pm

@cletus

Is that the de Burg Estate in Naas?

cletus · 17-04-2023 8:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120489095#Comment_120489095

It is indeed. Or, more accurately, its outside the de Burgh estate looking in 😁

cletus · 23-04-2023 10:58am

I'll take any path that gets me off the road

A fantastic morning for a spin, even if it is a little tricky to figure out what to wear when you set out early

retalivity · 24-04-2023 9:08am

Snow on the Wicklow mountains, looking south from Luggala down towards the Lough Dan valley. Not sure if that's Lugnaquilla or one of the mountains in between

Snow on April 23rd!

Large bottle small glass · 24-04-2023 9:39am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513907#Comment_120513907

I remember my father talking about snow in Wicklow mountains in May 1963.

It was the 5th May, he was in Dublin for the National league final.

That snow may have survived from a proper harsh winter from Christmas to well into March

Mercian Pro · 24-04-2023 1:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513907#Comment_120513907

When hillwalking on Maulin yestewrday, snow could be seen clearly on Mullacleevaun so I'd imagine there's still some on Lugnaquilla as well.

Cabaal · 26-04-2023 9:44am

Kilkenny Castle...it has a gate so it counts 😁

cletus · 29-04-2023 10:58am

Gate...

Not gate...

Roadtoad · 30-04-2023 1:50am

B: Vickerstown

A: Don't tell me, I'll find it!

Roadtoad · 30-04-2023 1:55am

If you don't recognise this, you have more exploring of Leinster cycleways to enjoy!

cletus · 30-04-2023 6:48am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120537674#Comment_120537674

Correct on B.

I'll be really quite impressed if you recognise A

Alkers · 30-04-2023 5:50pm

B'stoe taken at the start of Junkers

Cabaal · 01-05-2023 5:09pm

This is technically two bikes (balance bike on the bike)....and another thatch cottage

Roadtoad · 02-05-2023 9:56pm

^ and ^^^

I bet we could do a far better job at nailing all the thatched cottages on the island than any state body, and it would be more interesting than photos of gates.

Not sure if it's fair on the owners/occupiers though, but they may well be used to randomers/ randonneurs being overly nosey, while pretending to catch their breaths.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 11:31am

So are thatched cottages a thing on here now as I've a idea for my route today so!

magicbastarder · 04-05-2023 11:33am

it's a thing if you want it to be a thing.

cletus · 04-05-2023 11:47am

I think they should be a thing, along with and not replacing, the gate thing.

The great thing about a gate is you never know when you'll see a good one out of the corner of your eye that you never saw before.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 4:04pm

Took a spin down around Caragh, Prosperous and Rathcoffey (between Naas and Maynooth) and got a few photos of thatched cottages (some with gates)...

...and this one but I didn't go in...

cletus · 04-05-2023 5:51pm

See, there's the problem with thatched cottages. Seth's after going and fūcking that entire area for the rest of us in one go...

Large bottle small glass · 04-05-2023 6:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120553627#Comment_120553627

It's all nostalgia in a way;farmers, mainly for cost reasons, left wrought iron behind in exchange for steel gates.

You would probably buy a half decent 4m galvanized gate for €150 or so; I'd be afraid to ask for a quote for a rivetted wrought iron gate today.

Likewise with thatch, if done well it's warm and keeps rain out but has downsides; continual maintenance, cost, fire risk and best of all rodent friendly 😄

Anyway here's a photo of one of the last places in Ireland still cutting and saving the reeds. He brings a lot onshore by row boat.

Winter work in marshy ground with hand tools, no place for soft lads.

Seth Brundle · 04-05-2023 6:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120555320#Comment_120555320

You could get the one in my last photo!

There are loads more around that neck of the woods anyhow!

Another "thing" I thought of was old non-thatched cottages. I passed quite a few today, most of which had tin roofs but I'd say the houses are in or around two centuries old.