Off road routes in Dublin/Louth/Meath

[Barry]

Hi all
Just looking through Grumpy One's pictures of his off road trip around the Donegal hills and it makes me want to get off tarmac immediately.

Last week I rode my GSA from Bray to Skerries completely along the coast road. Briefly got off road taking to the beach/dirt track from Balleally landfill to Rush along a sandy/gravel path that gets covered by the sea every high tide. Duly dropped the bike as soon as I hit the first pile of seaweed (which made for a very soft landing) and just could not get over the immense fun of being able to drop a motorbike, pick it back up and keep going (having come from years and years on sportsbikes this is alien to me!).

Anyway I'm just wondering does anyone know of any off road routes in Dublin (north), Meath, Louth area? Given that I am a total novice and on road tyres they would have to be pretty easy, but I'd love to know if there was anywhere in that general vicinity that I could practice what a GSA was really made for....

Apologies for the rambling message... thanks in advance for any help.

Regards
Barry.

 

[Buttso]

Hey Barry

the Ordinance survey maps of Ireland are used quite extensively to find routes
(correct me if I am wrong anyone)

I bought some myself recently and strapped them to the tank and went off exploring.. found a load of boreens, which sometimes end up bringing you to cow tracks which can lead to all sorts of things.. paths, hiking trails etc..

http://www.osi.ie/

 

[*John*]

you might like to have a go at this
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244686