Comments on: Sunny weekends biking http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/ Ireland's Premier Mountainbiking Club™ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Martin http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6253 Martin Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:45:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6253 nice one Ian! sse you sun! if its too windy we might just hit Djouce or somewhere sheltered!<br/><br/>great snaps from SCarr! nice one Ian! sse you sun! if its too windy we might just hit Djouce or somewhere sheltered!

great snaps from SCarr!

]]> By: Herald http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6252 Herald Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:02:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6252 Some piccies if you follow the link from sunday.<br/><br/>http://ianheald2500.fotopic.net/c1449910.html<br/><br/><br/>Great spin - martin if the weather stays fine Brockagh/Turloch/Camaderry is on, otherwise it would probably be best to save for another day where we can hang around regrouping. Some piccies if you follow the link from sunday.

http://ianheald2500.fotopic.net/c1449910.html

Great spin - martin if the weather stays fine Brockagh/Turloch/Camaderry is on, otherwise it would probably be best to save for another day where we can hang around regrouping.

]]> By: Paddy http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6251 Paddy Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:34:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6251 cheers tom .. good to be back out on it .. though i suspect this weekend might be a total loss again (in biking terms) due to boozing and women!<br/><br/>not that i'm complaining mind you!<br/><br/>;-) cheers tom .. good to be back out on it .. though i suspect this weekend might be a total loss again (in biking terms) due to boozing and women!

not that i’m complaining mind you!

;-)

]]> By: Nigel http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6250 Nigel Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:20:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6250 yeaaaaaaa monday night was great craic :)<br/><br/>felt great to get some descending in this time after I bailed from Ollie's Saturday Spin after the carpark!<br/><br/>:) yeaaaaaaa monday night was great craic :)

felt great to get some descending in this time after I bailed from Ollie’s Saturday Spin after the carpark!

:)

]]> By: Tom http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6249 Tom Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:21:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6249 God what a busy little club we are, it's great to see the reports flooding in...Good to hear your back out on the bike Paddy... God what a busy little club we are, it’s great to see the reports flooding in…Good to hear your back out on the bike Paddy…

]]> By: Paddy http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6248 Paddy Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6248 Just myself and Belgian Nigel out last night, nice easy pace on the uphills since we're both savage(ly unfit) followed by some great descents on nice mostly dry tracks, though they'll be nice and muddy again now i'd imagine.<br/><br/>That new track near the end of the boneshaker is mental .. thankfully am far too chicken to attempt anything without taking a good look first, otherwise i'd have ended up in a heap at the bottom of that gap jump!<br/><br/>Timed it all well too .. the lights died about 5 minutes into the road spin home Just myself and Belgian Nigel out last night, nice easy pace on the uphills since we’re both savage(ly unfit) followed by some great descents on nice mostly dry tracks, though they’ll be nice and muddy again now i’d imagine.

That new track near the end of the boneshaker is mental .. thankfully am far too chicken to attempt anything without taking a good look first, otherwise i’d have ended up in a heap at the bottom of that gap jump!

Timed it all well too .. the lights died about 5 minutes into the road spin home

]]> By: Martin http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6247 Martin Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:40:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6247 the nomads met in laragh and after a chat about the route and plan did scar and glendalough on Sunday and had a blast! set out form Laragh, up the side of Scarr (6km climb) to the top and pertched high for a few snaps, a epic blast style decent towards Glendalough, over by the lakes and down to the visitors centre, the nomads are pushing the distances lately and a few tired faces landed in laragh for a post spin grub! have to say it was great to see so many out on a sunday think it was 13! <br/><br/>plenty of thrills spills and belly aches! but all and all the nomads had a blast!<br/><br/>take the advice of the lads, eating is so important before a spin! fatigue kiks in fast!!<br/>Held and Ollie for leading the way and next week is Glendo and ewoks I think! if not somehthing a bit closer to home! the nomads met in laragh and after a chat about the route and plan did scar and glendalough on Sunday and had a blast! set out form Laragh, up the side of Scarr (6km climb) to the top and pertched high for a few snaps, a epic blast style decent towards Glendalough, over by the lakes and down to the visitors centre, the nomads are pushing the distances lately and a few tired faces landed in laragh for a post spin grub! have to say it was great to see so many out on a sunday think it was 13!

plenty of thrills spills and belly aches! but all and all the nomads had a blast!

take the advice of the lads, eating is so important before a spin! fatigue kiks in fast!!
Held and Ollie for leading the way and next week is Glendo and ewoks I think! if not somehthing a bit closer to home!

]]> By: Steve http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6246 Steve Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:03:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6246 Devestated (that a bit much? Nah....) not to get out. Weather on Sunday was incredible. Will be back for savageness gone deadly this week!!!! Devestated (that a bit much? Nah….) not to get out. Weather on Sunday was incredible. Will be back for savageness gone deadly this week!!!!

]]> By: Morgan http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6245 Morgan Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6245 The Connacht race was good fun. Really short course - 14 laps for seniors! Not very technical but there was a short climb, a short descent and a jump. Big ring for the entire race. Came 4th in the end, although I did an extra lap and thought I'd worked my way up to third. Alas.<br/>Thinking of heading to one of the Munster races now. We'll have to get some kind of club league going before the K-Capitals too. The Connacht race was good fun. Really short course - 14 laps for seniors! Not very technical but there was a short climb, a short descent and a jump. Big ring for the entire race. Came 4th in the end, although I did an extra lap and thought I’d worked my way up to third. Alas.
Thinking of heading to one of the Munster races now. We’ll have to get some kind of club league going before the K-Capitals too.

]]> By: Conor http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/2008/01/27/sunny-weekends-biking/#comment-6244 Conor Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.madmtb.com/wordpress/?p=785#comment-6244 Just to echo everybody, Saturday was great! Fair play to all who made it over the boardwalks to Ballinastoe in that wind, if it was calmer I would have joined yiz. Got a great boost to my morale when riding with Ryan and co. For a while there I was keeping up with them, then realised I was pedaling, but they were'nt! Still, whats seldom is wonderfull. <br/>By the time we got back to Taylors, I was wrecked but feeling kinda good. I think we managed 50+ kms, 5 1/2 hrs. Roll on the weekend! Just to echo everybody, Saturday was great! Fair play to all who made it over the boardwalks to Ballinastoe in that wind, if it was calmer I would have joined yiz. Got a great boost to my morale when riding with Ryan and co. For a while there I was keeping up with them, then realised I was pedaling, but they were’nt! Still, whats seldom is wonderfull.
By the time we got back to Taylors, I was wrecked but feeling kinda good. I think we managed 50+ kms, 5 1/2 hrs. Roll on the weekend!

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