Tipperary bound
It looked like there’d be 5 of us going for what I’d describe as an exploratory spin. Some good trails, some known terrain, but in an area we don’t often visit, so it was always going to double up as both a trail ride, and […]
Category: Rides / Daytrips
Summer Trail Rides :o)
We’ve organised a group trail ride every week for the past 4 weeks in a row now, and each time it’s been to a new destination. It’s normally a mix of forestry roads, trails, tracks and some gnarly single track too. Road miles are kept […]
For the evening that’s in it
Working all day till 6pm. Looking out the window at the sun splitting the stones. 28°C But still stuck in work. Got home in time to fuel up the custom cub, pump the tyres, and hit the road. What started as a spin around the […]
xTrainer solo woods spin
What a glorious evening. There was no time really to arrange a spin, but it’s so amazing out there this evening, it’d nearly be wrong not to go. The baby GM1 + Leica 15mm combo were stuffed into a small backpack .. and the baby […]
Trail Clearing
The last few spins in Clare, Limerick and Tipperary have all been interrupted and delayed by fallen trees. It’s not normally a big deal, we just get past them and keep going .. but when there’s a group of 5 or 6 riders it delays […]
Evening Antics
An unexpected ‘who’s going for a spin later?’ message in our WhatsApp group led to the biggest (and most spontaneous) woods spin in ages as SEVEN of us arrived out to see how well our bike lights lit up the path under this magic canopy of trees. […]
Husky’s away. Beta for play ?
The TE300 has been away the past few weeks for an engine rebuild, so the xTrainer got a chance to take over as king of the garage for a while. There were two spins in the past two weeks. First up, a journey to the […]
Exploring East Clare
Not been up around the Lough Atorick area ever, and had a day to spare. The TE300 is going in for an engine rebuild soon so took her out on one last spin before the maintenance. For a first day in a new area I […]
Thursday Trails
So, my mission to go out at least once a week in 2019 nearly had it’s first fail, after spending too much time laying skirting boards in a bedroom yesterday, and not enough time on fun things.. Never mind though. I took a notion and […]
New Trail?
Recce for a new Trail? Exploring and testing a new woods loop :o) managed to eat a bug too tasty
Exploring Tinahely
An overlanders open day and a presentation on the Hellas rally and roadbook navigation tempted us to Wexford recently. The roadbook route looked to be mostly road based so we decided to have fun on some local trails instead. The roads seemed a bit slippy […]
Recce Runs
It was a miserable Wednesday, and the only thing to brighten it up was to take a spin. Seeing as it was a solo spin I figured I’d take it easy and bring a couple of old cameras to record a short video from different […]
End of year LDNT run
Doon bound again for the 2018 end of year run with the Long Distance Navigation Trials guys. 78km of a loop. A bit of enduro, some grasstrack, some woods.. it had everything. A great day by all accounts!!
October Bank Holiday
The run that very very nearly didn’t happen!! Between the solo recce on Friday, and the actual run on Monday, some bike issues were discovered. The rear of the airbox had separated from the left subframe rail. Rear wheel bearings on brake side were goosed. […]
Summer Roadbook Navigation
Had a great day out at this ‘Roadbook’ event. There were fast sections, technically challenging obstacles, punctures, and some laughs too. Great bunch of guys n girls and a great event. Huge thanks to all the organisers :o)