Weekend Spins (13th and 14th)
After yet another weekend of some great spins, some more new people
trying out mountain biking for the first time (hope they all had a
great time) and fantastic weather on saturday we can only home for the
same this weekend.
And with that in mind here is whats planned!
Saturday Easy Pace spin, 10am at Palmers Golden Ball Pub - A nice easy
spin around the leadmines for everyone of every ability. Anyone
legging off at the front will be ridiculed and made do silly things.
Directions : The pub is on the Enniskerry road, near where Glenamuck
road joins Enniskerry road, turn left at the top of Glenamuck road
(you would take the Kilternan exit off the M50)
Map Link
Sunday long tiring savage cycle, Yellow House at 9 - One for the
budding racers trying to get their fitness and stamina up. The route
will be similar to what we did on saturday. 3 Rock - > Wocas - >
Prince Willies -> Crone and then one of two routes depending on
weather and exhaustion. Either Maulin, Djouce, Boardwalk, Lugala (POG
course), Ballinastoe (Blast Course), Djouce woods, Powerscourt and
home or a shorter route looping around the top of the waterfall and
back through djouce woods. You'll need to be able to handle a fair
pace for a good many hours to manage this spin, as we're gonna try and
not stop too much but there is a lot of drop out points along the way,
so come along and challange yourself and see how far you can make it.
Its best though if you know the roads around the area so that you can
find your way home if you do have to drop out.
**EDIT**
Please bring along some normal commuting lights for the road home just in case. Flashy LED lights would be perfect.
**EDIT**
Paddy
trying out mountain biking for the first time (hope they all had a
great time) and fantastic weather on saturday we can only home for the
same this weekend.
And with that in mind here is whats planned!
Saturday Easy Pace spin, 10am at Palmers Golden Ball Pub - A nice easy
spin around the leadmines for everyone of every ability. Anyone
legging off at the front will be ridiculed and made do silly things.
Directions : The pub is on the Enniskerry road, near where Glenamuck
road joins Enniskerry road, turn left at the top of Glenamuck road
(you would take the Kilternan exit off the M50)
Map Link
Sunday long tiring savage cycle, Yellow House at 9 - One for the
budding racers trying to get their fitness and stamina up. The route
will be similar to what we did on saturday. 3 Rock - > Wocas - >
Prince Willies -> Crone and then one of two routes depending on
weather and exhaustion. Either Maulin, Djouce, Boardwalk, Lugala (POG
course), Ballinastoe (Blast Course), Djouce woods, Powerscourt and
home or a shorter route looping around the top of the waterfall and
back through djouce woods. You'll need to be able to handle a fair
pace for a good many hours to manage this spin, as we're gonna try and
not stop too much but there is a lot of drop out points along the way,
so come along and challange yourself and see how far you can make it.
Its best though if you know the roads around the area so that you can
find your way home if you do have to drop out.
**EDIT**
Please bring along some normal commuting lights for the road home just in case. Flashy LED lights would be perfect.
**EDIT**
Paddy
Labels: spins
posted by Paddy @ 3:03 p.m.
20 Comments:
At 5:33 p.m.,
Paddy said…
Apologies folks, that map link only works properly if you use Internet Explorer. If you use Firefox you'll need to scroll up a fair bit on the map to find it
At 1:13 p.m.,
Paddy said…
Please bring along some normal commuting lights for the road home on Sunday just in case its getting dark when we're on the way home. Flashy LED lights would be perfect.
At 5:06 p.m.,
glenn-danzig (aka barry o'brien) said…
hey all,
any chance of a lift to palmers on saturday? i live in knocklyon but as usual can travel to anywhere.
cheers,
barry.
087 6449353
At 11:00 p.m.,
Chris said…
Hi...can I join along on the Sunday ride? Is it possible to train out there via Bray? Totally new here, but heavily motivated to train with the locals.
At 11:03 a.m.,
Anonymous said…
Hi all I will be meeting up on Saturday if anyone needs a lift let me know. Coming through Tallaght just after 9.
Darren
0872374448
At 11:13 a.m.,
Fear is a Factor said…
Hi all I will be meeting up on Saturday if anyone needs a lift let me know. Coming through Tallaght just after 9.
Darren
0872374448
11:03 AM
At 1:17 p.m.,
Morgan said…
Hi Chris,
Sunday will be a "big" ride - long in distance and time. If you think you're able for it then you're welcome to come along. You should try and make it to the Yellow House for the start of the spin - this may be awkward if you're coming from Bray and don't have transport. Try the mailing list if you need to arrange a lift.
At 11:59 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
big in pain too... : (
At 2:56 p.m.,
glenn-danzig (aka barry o'brien) said…
damn i really wanted to go to leadmines as i've never been there before, but alas i couldn't get a lift! maybe next time...
barry.
At 4:40 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
Are you on the mad mailing list, i sent an offer of lifts out last evening?....Tom
At 1:27 a.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
mmm erdinger is nice, possibly too nice : ).....
At 7:06 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
Well what can i say, i started of the day having to walk up most of the way to the aerials on 3rock as i just felt really weak for some reason (was having deluded thougts that i was going to drop dead there on the spot , I could see the front page news, photos of loads of chicks crying and the headlines-Sexy Tom Drops Dead) and later doctors would have recognised from the post mortem that i was a miracle of human endeavour to have been even standing let alone biking, with the undiagnosed ********..whatever illness i imagined myself to have)....
Eenyway back in the real world- somehow i got up to the rocky route leading to the woca wocas and let rip and felt a hell of a lot better, even popping some uncharacteristic air, oisin was hot on my tail and the rush of adrenalin left us grinning big time!..
Then paddy changed his tube and we hit for prince willies, cue laborious climbing( happy sean and chris) we then hit down the other side, and were hitting about 50kmh on the fireroad, according to cormacs digi thing. Suddenly a rough braking area into a bend sent mo/e? into the bank and his wheel into a hoop, he escaped relatively unscathed, after dabbling in some blacksmithing and in true sporting spirit he soldiered on.
The next few k's are a bit of a blur but we got to ride some savage singletrack -XTC and some other one...Sean (AKA mother superior) dished out some charlie to keep us all pepped up, while refuelling outside enniskerry gave us all a much needed burst of energy for the trudge home, which was not too bad all things considered...
A great days biking, well done all and thanks for the company a real good group of guys,...The weather played its part in things by staying dry, and i didn't mind waiting for the slower guys climbing,sometimes i even hung around near the back just to keep morale up ; )
At 10:02 p.m.,
Sean said…
Tom,
You're a legend....
Tell me, had you really drunk your entire 3L Camelbak dry and moved onto the bottle which you lost by that stage, or was it a ploy to score some of my go-faster juice?
If you were dry by that stage, I had taken in only 400ml of liquid, compared to your 3L?
I made it home without actually feeling like I'd done anything more than ride to the shops :-)
There was far too much stopping on that spin for it to count as "One for the budding racers trying to get their fitness and stamina up." But I'm saying nothing.
Sean
At 10:30 p.m.,
Stephen said…
Think you already said something Sean... Really sorry to miss that spin :( The new bike woulda loved the Wocas as much as me I'd say. Took my dad on a lovely spin around the Phoneix Park made uber extreme by the dodging of hundreds of people.
Roll on next weekend!
P.S. Anybody up for a DH race? Was looking at the pics from the Moneyscalp one and it looks like deadly craic, everything rollable,so easily done on the XC steed I think..
At 3:06 a.m.,
Fergal said…
I'd love a DH race Steve when I get back, I have a route or two in mind up 3 rock, and I hear Cloon is looking good these days thanks to the EPIC DH'ers, let's see who else we can rope in...
At 9:38 a.m.,
Oisin said…
That was the best weather yesterday I've mountainbiked in for a good while. It was a great spin - good distance and loads of decent off-road.
About the DH - I'd be on for giving it a go. Hopefully my bike will survive the abuse though.
At 10:12 a.m.,
Paddy said…
"One for the budding racers trying to get their fitness and stamina up." ... now sean, thats exactly what it was .. for those wishing to get into the racing and to improve their performance and stamina etc. And thats exactly what it will have done.
No where did it specify, "for people who have being doing lots of secret training spins wihtout telling anyone else about them"
;-)
And i'll finish wiht a little jibe about how some of them descents had far too little speed and far too many stops for my liking!
At 12:08 p.m.,
Ryan Sherlock said…
The DH over in Cloon is great. I did the course on both my XC bike and the Enduro and it's a lot of fun. Any of your bikes would be fit for it. Just go around the gap jumps :) (I will be) If you want to race - it's best to go out there and have a few sessions on the course first. In the actual race you'll be pushing yourself down the course faster then you thought possible.
The Sport DH class would be good too as an intro... You probably wont come last :)
At 7:39 p.m.,
Stephen said…
Ok guys, sounds good! As a provisional date, i say we head up this Saturday, fairly early and session the hell out of that Cloon course. Epic are having their NPS on the 28th so I reckon if we do some good training on the course, we might be able to show them that we are THE PREMIER CLUB, for all disciplines. Full lycra MAD kit compulsary for the race though ;)
So everybody keep this Saturday clear!
At 10:30 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
DH sound like some crazy fun alright. Was at epics DH race there last summer and was well impressed. I just hope my little kona survives it. I'll be there on saturday if thats the plan !!!
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