MAD Weekend Report (7th and 8th)

Saturday saw myself, Steve, Judith, Roddy, Louis and Shane heading out for the spin over Tibradden. Steve was the first casualty as he was feeling very ill on the climb up Kilmashogue and so decided to head for home. Roddy was next after damaging his frame at the seat tube. With a little persuasion (i.e. hitting it with rocks!) we got him back up and running, though he decided to head for home then rather than risk trying to mountian bike wihtout a saddle which, we can only imagine, could be a little painful. So the remaining 4 of us headed off down the Wocas until the turn off for tibradden where we headed upwards again all getting a good soaking of the feet in the big huge puddles/lakes on the track. The rocky descent off tibradden claimed two more victims, both of them, unfortunately, being me :( Luckily though after going over the bars i had the incredible presence of mind (sometimes known as luck) to land between the rocks, rather than on them, and so managed to cause only cosmetic damage to my hand, elbow and knee. That'll teach me for trying to keep up with Louis!

(and sundays report from Nigel)

Sunday saw Paddy, Maciek, Louis, Andrew, Juan and myself head for a spin. I met them up in ticknock car park and then off we went to Fairy Castle, and then down towards Wocca Wocca's. Then we set off for Prince Willie's but Paddy had to leave us at this stage due to an injury from a crash on Saturday. Followed the Wicklow Way looking for the descent through prince willies, but we couldn't find it so we headed for the descent through Cloon. Juan decided to leave us at this stage and headed back along the WW. Some felling has taken place at the top but we managed to get through. The descent through cloon is as good as ever so maybe it was a good thing that we missed the prince willies descent! Andrew and Louis left us here and headed towards Enniskerry for some well deserved food! Maciek and myself then set off for Crone via WW and that nice descent just before the steps with all the sheep. We made our way up to the car park and then decided that it would be best to head home. We both wanted to finish the day with a descent so we decided on heading back along Military Road and then down through Massies which was lovely and muddy!

I'll post up picures and also a video of Louis jumping on the Wocas tomorrow assuming i remember to bring my camera in to work with me.

Paddy