Photo Rally 2012

[bogman]

priceless. The smile on everyone elses face when Hairnet got a special award for worst presentation was memorable.

Would have taken more interest if I knew that it was Hairnet who got that award, adding forum user name to the displayed photo might be worth considering, as if you hadn't enough work to do already, job well done again Gerry & Lorcan.

 

[Hairnet600]

If you want to meet for breakfast tomorrow in coleraine let me know. Fair play to you!

Was gonna buzz ya for a pint at joeys but it was 9.10 before I had something to eat so bit late the boss would beat ya heed in

 

[davidgibson999]

Was gonna buzz ya for a pint at joeys but it was 9.10 before I had something to eat so bit late the boss would beat ya heed in

No bother

 

[Hairnet600]

Well johann surprised me

In newry now heading south

 

[PeterNI]

Well johann surprised me

In newry now heading south

agh no ya forgot to call in

 

[GerryC]

Would have taken more interest if I knew that it was Hairnet who got that award, adding forum user name to the displayed photo might be worth considering, as if you hadn't enough work to do already.....................................

So if I do more work you pay more attention

 

[Hairnet600]

Laois kildare tipp and wicklaa done

Coupla things if ya heading for ballyknockan wicklaa theres a humped metal bridge where theyre doing some works gonna be scary in the wet

And the abbey at roscrea - keep to the right side of the boreen as the left side slopes towards the stream its beside in places and its a bit rough and very muddy

How many left?

Currently leaving your wonderful country after two extra days

Omeath def worth it excellent roads

 

[Bohsfc]

I have saved this years points as a GDB file so you can download it to your Garmin device or onto Mapsource just in case you can't (like me) open the GPX file.
Hope they are the right points

 

[Hairnet600]

boathouse lough derravaragh cavan

then monday.....

mullan village monaghan (description was just village so.....)

long woman grave omeath louth

on the way to omeath....

bloody weather (in 20 mins FFS )

on the way to strangford.......

boathouse at strangford co down (castlewellan to strang was fecked) got out as far as carryduff and fog cleared

headed to ballymoney to stay the night

tuesday

headed for limavady for carrick church.......

whats wrong with this pic???***

then onto cushendun

massive wtf at the subject but then fully understand when the inscription is read.......

thento newry to figure out if i could make the ferry...........

*** my sat nav is slightly outdated and was on the main road an knew i was close to the church when all of a sudden it shouts in 0.5 miles navigate off road (i LOVE those 3 words )

but its the main road to derry FFS

so i stop at a small turning to check

BUT in doing so the sat nag was UPSIDE DOWN (can you see where this was going)

so i ended up on a steep, muddy uphill nightmare boreen....

remember the pic of the hornet on the beach in clare ?? (unsuitable vehicles in odd places FTW )

it was like that but not as long

felt like an hour to do about 500 feet

the real turning for the church which the sat nag didnt tell me about was about 150 ft from where id stopped

castlederg all over again lol - happens every year

so after swearing my helmet for a bit and finding a nordy shop that did icebergers

made newry for 2pm and wondered if could make dub for 3 - 66 miles

i did or rather rathfarnam to steal some tea from a certain member

decided in newry to add today to the trip........

NEXT.......

 

[Hairnet600]

so left kildare this morning.......

ballyteige castle

oh and stupid eejit here took two hours from tipp to blessington cos i went to citywest and south instead of naas and cross country

enjoyed today apart from the boat wales home part



there seemed to be an awful lot of bridges between the castle and the main rd

then onto laois for the capard trig pillar thing

cos these things are here it means its FEKIN WINDY AND BLOODY COLD

sieve where??

jaysis

monaincha abbey tipp

whered the rest of the phot go?

that was at 11.20 and went back to dub - boat wasnt till 4

decided to do wicklaa also.....

on teh way to ballyknockan

14

bring on may for the southern ones

 

[Glenboy]

Well done Mark, a great start

I hope you get another award next year ... for enthusiasm

 

[Hairnet600]

better than a week in front of the tv although ive got forty hours taped to watch

 

[martinvrs]

Great start. Many miles you done already do you know?

 

[sojelade]

Hi Everyone,

It’s the crazy one here again this year. As I do not have the luxury of those of you on mainland Ireland I had to use any opportunity to cover as many site as I can. This year I have been able to cover 17 of them in three days and two of the days were fair but not biking days. On Tuesday the sun came out while I travelled to N. Ireland. I had some wonderful roads and had to get back to Dublin for dinner with friends so I could not complete the 20 that I planned for.


I will have to say that Gerry has done us GS riders proud again this year and I will be interested to see how some of the sport bikes/three wheeler gets to some of these sites. I will try and upload the photos but if I cannot you will be able to access them on photobucket. I have also included the state of my bike when I got home just to let people know that it will be better to wait till summer to tackle some of the goat tracks called roads. Kerry was interesting as I was starting to wonder if I am ever going to get to the valley. Just hope a tractor is not coming the other way as even my GS has not got a reverse gear contrary to popular believe.

I have greatly enjoyed the riding again this year and I was very lucky that I could make it to the presentation considering the weather we have had over here. I also missed the bad weather on the way back yesterday and today it has start to snowing again.

Link to photos.

http://s1190.photobucket.com/albums/z441/sojelade/Irish Photo Rally 2012/

http://s1190.photobucket.com/albums/z441/sojelade/Irish%20Photo%20Rally%202012/

Hope to see some of you again next year but I guess I will be coming by car to allow someone else to win the the crazy one trophy.

Travel Log
Millage Time Temperature Date
Kings Lynn 23950 07:10 1.00 03/02/2012
Hollyhead 24221 13:01 4.00
Atlhlone 24330 19:40 5.00

Athlone 24330 09:10 3.50 05/02/2012
23 Roscommon: Derrycahil bridge; River Suck - S of Ballyforan 10:10
24 Galway: The stone cross (Siléar) - junction - N of Rosmuck Chapel 24437 11:21 10.20
14 Clare: Dysert O'Dea castle; 5K S of Corofin 24520 13:36 13.50
19 Kerry: Lough Brin boathouse - 10K W of Molls Gap 24647 16:28 0.69
18 Jerry Horgan plough monument, Ballinagree; 10K NE of Macroom 24704 18:26 10.00
15 Limerick: The old creamery - 2K S of Doon 24783 20:45


Athlone 24876 09:06 12.00 06/02/2012
07 7 L’ford/W’meath: Boathouse 4K S of Coole (Lough Derravaragh) 24917 10:29 11.90
13 Laois/Offaly: Capard ridge trig pillar (near the masts) 10K W of Mountmellick 24980 12:10 10.10
16 Tipperary: Monaincha abbey; 3K E of Roscrea 25008 12.20 13:07
17 Waterford: Durrow rail viaduct - 5K SE of Lemybrien 25089 15:04
11 Wexford: Evoy's forge; 4K N of Newbawn 25136 16:21 12.20
12 C’low/K’kenny: St Laserian cathedral gates, Old Leighlin - 3K W of Leighlinbridge 25174 17:47 10.20
Travelodge Dublin 25250 04:30

Travelodge Dublin 25250 08:45 6.50 07/02/2012
08 Louth/Meath: Long woman’s grave; 4K SW of Omeath 25308 09:27 7.60
04 Down/Armagh: Boathouse (Ulster way) E of Strangford - via Audleystown & Park rds 25365 11:25 8.50
05 Cavan/Monagh: Mullan village; 5 K NE of Emyvale 25441 13:17 11.30
06 Ferman/Tyrone: Holy Trinity Church overlooking L Erne - 10K SW of Derrylin 25488 14:40 11.00
09 Dublin/Kildare: Ballyteige castle; 4K W of Robinstown 25892 10:33 7.80
Travelodge Dublin 18:20 8.40


Sojelade

 

[Hairnet600]

Soji nutter

Glad im not doin the kerry one till may some lap omeath to the kingdom then back to norfaaaaaaaaaaaaaak

Martin about 1400 miles far north as cushendun and south as roscrea

 

[GSDGS]

Soji's Spin

wow you don't let any grass grow under your wheels

you clearly need more of a challenge and have outgrown this little island

Great work and you didn't even need heated gear

 

[Ravenbyrne]

Hi Everyone,

It’s the crazy one here again this year. As I do not have the luxury of those of you on mainland Ireland I had to use any opportunity to cover as many site as I can. This year I have been able to cover 17 of them in three days and two of the days were fair but not biking days. On Tuesday the sun came out while I travelled to N. Ireland. I had some wonderful roads and had to get back to Dublin for dinner with friends so I could not complete the 20 that I planned for.


I will have to say that Gerry has done us GS riders proud again this year and I will be interested to see how some of the sport bikes/three wheeler gets to some of these sites. I will try and upload the photos but if I cannot you will be able to access them on photobucket. I have also included the state of my bike when I got home just to let people know that it will be better to wait till summer to tackle some of the goat tracks called roads. Kerry was interesting as I was starting to wonder if I am ever going to get to the valley. Just hope a tractor is not coming the other way as even my GS has not got a reverse gear contrary to popular believe.

I have greatly enjoyed the riding again this year and I was very lucky that I could make it to the presentation considering the weather we have had over here. I also missed the bad weather on the way back yesterday and today it has start to snowing again.

Link to photos.

http://s1190.photobucket.com/albums/z441/sojelade/Irish Photo Rally 2012/

http://s1190.photobucket.com/albums/z441/sojelade/Irish%20Photo%20Rally%202012/

Hope to see some of you again next year but I guess I will be coming by car to allow someone else to win the the crazy one trophy.

Travel Log
Millage Time Temperature Date
Kings Lynn 23950 07:10 1.00 03/02/2012
Hollyhead 24221 13:01 4.00
Atlhlone 24330 19:40 5.00

Athlone 24330 09:10 3.50 05/02/2012
23 Roscommon: Derrycahil bridge; River Suck - S of Ballyforan 10:10
24 Galway: The stone cross (Siléar) - junction - N of Rosmuck Chapel 24437 11:21 10.20
14 Clare: Dysert O'Dea castle; 5K S of Corofin 24520 13:36 13.50
19 Kerry: Lough Brin boathouse - 10K W of Molls Gap 24647 16:28 0.69
18 Jerry Horgan plough monument, Ballinagree; 10K NE of Macroom 24704 18:26 10.00
15 Limerick: The old creamery - 2K S of Doon 24783 20:45


Athlone 24876 09:06 12.00 06/02/2012
07 7 L’ford/W’meath: Boathouse 4K S of Coole (Lough Derravaragh) 24917 10:29 11.90
13 Laois/Offaly: Capard ridge trig pillar (near the masts) 10K W of Mountmellick 24980 12:10 10.10
16 Tipperary: Monaincha abbey; 3K E of Roscrea 25008 12.20 13:07
17 Waterford: Durrow rail viaduct - 5K SE of Lemybrien 25089 15:04
11 Wexford: Evoy's forge; 4K N of Newbawn 25136 16:21 12.20
12 C’low/K’kenny: St Laserian cathedral gates, Old Leighlin - 3K W of Leighlinbridge 25174 17:47 10.20
Travelodge Dublin 25250 04:30

Travelodge Dublin 25250 08:45 6.50 07/02/2012
08 Louth/Meath: Long woman’s grave; 4K SW of Omeath 25308 09:27 7.60
04 Down/Armagh: Boathouse (Ulster way) E of Strangford - via Audleystown & Park rds 25365 11:25 8.50
05 Cavan/Monagh: Mullan village; 5 K NE of Emyvale 25441 13:17 11.30
06 Ferman/Tyrone: Holy Trinity Church overlooking L Erne - 10K SW of Derrylin 25488 14:40 11.00
09 Dublin/Kildare: Ballyteige castle; 4K W of Robinstown 25892 10:33 7.80
Travelodge Dublin 18:20 8.40


Sojelade

Well done Sojelade, although it's a complete mystery as to how you managed to find any of the photo points given that you seem to be unable to follow the directions for putting your socks on....

 

[Jockser]

Got 2 more done at the weekend while out with Brian & Geraldine doing a recce for the Wexford run
Saturday was damp all day so we cut it short at 5 & headed to the B&B.

12 C’low/K’kenny: St Laserian cathedral gates

Sunday was much better, drier & brighter
Was hoping to get Wicklow on the way home but we ran out of time and beelined it home from Kilmore Quay.

11 Wexford: Evoy's forge

 

[Hairnet600]

oh the rest will get done first week of may.........

planning route now -

 

[nud1e]

a little stretch of the legs

It being a dry, bright and relatively warm day, I made a start.

The Limerick point is only 10 mins from home. Took me most of the morning to get ready, searching for the connector for my heated waistcoat.

An easy run through the tunnel under the Shannon and 45 mins to the Clare point, before heading back home for lunch.

Coming close to Clare Inn on the M18 saw a helicopter circling and then had to do some emergency braking as 2 Traffic Corps bikes suddenly shut down the motorway. Waited for minutes while traffic continued to come down the slip road and then the Chinese vice president motorcade appeared and we were off. There were 3 lunatic drivers who came racing up the outside lane to discover a Garda bike in front of them, it would seem that the dayglo belts and the flashing blue lights can't be seen at any distance.

Anyways, 2 down, 22 to go.