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I reckon I'll be heading for a spin there again today

Feel free to come over to South Dublin or North Wicklow, we won't bite.

Ah, but the Phoenix Park is so nice on sunny days and is less the 2 minutes away from my house :D

Ah, but the Phoenix Park is so nice on sunny days and is less the 2 minutes away from my house :D

i was there sunday too. drop me a text next time your there 0862085014

The Phoenix park is nice, but I'd go out of mind going round in circles and encountering not hills or proper traffic.

Peace

The hill from the mag fort up to the Popes cross is a difficult one full pelt.
Its very long and steep enough, I barely got up it half way through my alleycat there.

There are quite a lot of hills in the park, both up and down.

And I showed Stein a really nice cycle yesterday, starts in the park and ends down in the strawberry beds, with a nice sunny spot for some relaxing and beers, there is also one serious hill as well for some hill training if you want.

If it's sunny I'll be heading there on Saturday morningish if anyone wants to join me

There are quite a lot of hills in the park, both up and down.

Holy shit, you guys have hills that go up and down now!!

We have to get ourselves some of that good shit.

The hill from the mag fort up to the Popes cross is a difficult one full pelt.
Its very long and steep enough, I barely got up it half way through my alleycat there.

It's posts like that that make me think your WW200 attempt is doomed.

Ah here, hardly the same, I was after literally sprinting as fast as I could for about half an hour or more before I reached that hill.
Long distance cant be compared to an alleycat, especially one with a gale force headwinds.

Ah here, hardly the same, I was after literally sprinting as fast as I could for about half an hour or more before I reached that hill.
Long distance cant be compared to an alleycat, especially one with a gale force headwinds.

slieve mann, with 150km already in your legs, will make an alley cat seem like a gentle nap.

slieve mann, with 150km already in your legs, will make an alley cat seem like a gentle nap.

Yeah it will but consider the time you put your energy in, over 13 hoursish, or all your energy in 30mins to an hour. It's no doubt that long distance and large hills are amazingly hard, but alleycats are a different game all together. You went out of your way to post up about Stein, without even knowing him may I add.

Yeah it will but consider the time you put your energy in, over 13 hoursish, or all your energy in 30mins to an hour. It's no doubt that long distance and large hills are amazingly hard, but alleycats are a different game all together. You went out of your way to post up about Stein, without even knowing him may I add.

I gotta agree with Tom I'm afraid. It's nothing personal on Stein, but Slieve Maan on it's own would be tough on a fixie, but doing it after 150k, and then going pretty much straight onto Shay Elliott is a different proposition altogether, and nothing like an Alleycat. If you're finding the Magazine Fort hill hard, you will be in major trouble on the 200

(and yes, I do know Stein, have done the Wicklow200, and have done plenty of Alleycats in my time)

La la la, I like bicycles

La la la, I like bicycles

Hahah, good point..
Feck it, sure if I have to push my bike up Slieve Maan I dont care, you are both probably right but I want to give it a go.

La la la, I like bicycles

me too!

Yeah it will but consider the time you put your energy in, over 13 hoursish, or all your energy in 30mins to an hour. It's no doubt that long distance and large hills are amazingly hard, but alleycats are a different game all together. You went out of your way to post up about Stein, without even knowing him may I add.

13 hours? I fucking hope not.

No, I don't know stein personally, but I've seen enough of his posts, both here and on boards to have an idea of what he's like. Seems like a nice guy who loves riding his bike. Cool. This is the internet though, do you think that formal introductions are really necessary before I can give an opinion?

I'm just trying to see if he really knows what he's at - if I see someone getting themselves into a situation that could end in pain and embarrassment for them I tend to ask them, dude, do you really want to do this? That's all I'm doing here. No harm in it.

bikes are ok, I guess...

How do you do niceonetom?
Haha

very well kind sir, and you?

Jolly good, jolly good.
Now you can rip into me:P.

I gotta agree with Tom I'm afraid. It's nothing personal on Stein, but Slieve Maan on it's own would be tough on a fixie, but doing it after 150k, and then going pretty much straight onto Shay Elliott is a different proposition altogether, and nothing like an Alleycat. If you're finding the Magazine Fort hill hard, you will be in major trouble on the 200

(and yes, I do know Stein, have done the Wicklow200, and have done plenty of Alleycats in my time)

No, my point is that the two are completely different and tiring in their own way

Most amazing fun thing ever, so I was cycling into town about half an hour ago and I was coming upto the lights at Trinity at the end of Pearse Street and I see two bike cops...

I slow down as there's a red light and I wait and when they catch up beside me one of them gives me a cheeky nod and they pump through the lights...

So I decided it was on and hopped the curb to get by a taxi and jumped back into the street beside them and went for it hell for leather...

Giving it everything and smokked them to the bottom of Grafton Street where I dismounted... (I've been given out shit to by cops before for cycling up Grafton Street)

The two lads cycle by having a laugh and both give me a nod...

Absolute legends!! My faith is restored in the Garda Siochana after these guys, great fun!

With the disk?:O

Lol, no disc, if I'd been curb hopping with the disc I probably would have erupted into a ball of flame or somesuch ;)