Howth for a spin Sunday WTF is wrong with you ?

it’s not just bikers, weekend traffic in general is a PITA going into and coming out of Howth.

Don't they all go to the Summit Inn for a meet up? Pretty sure I've seen the local hell's angels hanging around there most Sundays

Once you're past the village the traffic eases up for most of the road around the hill

Maybe Fingal should just pedestrianise the whole village at weekends and enforce a one way system around the hill. That would free up a lot of traffic since the car drivers wouldn't be blocking up the roads 😉

Yeah I like pointing out to people that all their eircodes start with D13 😂

To be fair, it's a lovely bit of road for a drive

I do agree about the red mist, I don't understand people treating roads like a race track. Just take a breath and enjoy the scenery

I understand it can be frustrating getting stuck behind a slower driver, but there's smart places to overtake and there's places you can experience being turned into red paste

I was in the UK recently and a biker was giving me abuse for not pulling out of a junction fast enough. Yeah fine, I'm a tourist on an unfamiliar road, gimme a break.

I pulled in a bit up ahead to let him overtake before he did something stupid, and the guy spent the next 20 mins in front of us caught in slow moving cars along a rural road

Must have been ruining his Sunday ride because he was weaving around the road, driving one handed or no handed, looking everywhere except the road. Eventually he sped off at a roundabout, probably to end up as a headline on BBC 4 Wales

Again, I understand it can be frustrating, but getting aggressive and acting the fool is eventually going to backfire on you. Better to just learn to relax more, isn't that what leisure time is for?

A Dublin biker for 29 years now and I've only been around Howth once 😁 and it was OK, it wasn't all that.

Used to be over the Gap every Sunday morning back in the day, but even then there was a separation between the sane pilots and the insane pilots. Leave the latter on their way, as long as they overtake on the right I could not give a fook. (There was a Gixer twat who overtook me on the left at a junction once way down in south Wicklow, dickhead.)

I was in Howth on Sunday, just by chance. I was one of the ones causing the real problem — I got there by car for a non-optional social event where I definitely should have gone on the bike, even with the missus on pillion and what that would do to her hair.

The place was chockablock. The main drag was a car park for at least a mile; the actual car park was a pain. And not a squid in sight, as the weather was being Irish.

I can't speak for the hill, but if I had been there on two wheels sure we would have given it a go, and taken the long way home, even if the locals might not approve.

Never understood the obsession with going to places like Howth or Wicklow gap…. There are so many nice quiet roads if you venture out of West Dublin towards Meath etc

head out to Kilcock and then onto Summerhill, Trim, Navan and back to Dublin on the old Navan Road is one example

The gap is an incredible road with great views too.

That's one of my usual routes when I want to head out for a quick spin. Rarely any hassle. Thankfully they have fixed the road coming into Summerhill from Kilcock direction which was a bit dodgy.

It is but only during the week or very early on a Sunday morning. Too much traffic for my liking.