Cork run, fun & sun

GerryC · Sep 9, 2007

Man 1 has an idea, perhaps not a clue but an idea, well yes. Man 2 makes it happen. Over 500 K of narrow twisting gravel strewn roads and a good share of unpaved track. Man what a weekend, what weather. It's been a strange summer; it happened in April & Sept?
I'll allow the photos tell the story; thanks Daithi for delegating - abdicating?
Thanks Grumpy for delivering.

GerryC · Sep 9, 2007

More

Last photo has a dear Santa feel to it.

GerryC · Sep 9, 2007

And more

Upon reflection it was a good as the pictures say.

Mandylicious · Sep 9, 2007

GerryC said:
Upon reflection it was a good as the pictures say.

Great pics Gerry, looks like a good time was had by all

What's that one doing lurking in the trees :confused:

GerryC · Sep 9, 2007

Mandylicious said:
Great pics Gerry, looks like a good time was had by all

What's that one doing lurking in the trees

Mandy

Not what you might think but then who am I to suppose what you'd be thinking?
He took to the off road thing big time; looks like he'll be writing to Santa for a HP2. I'll leave you with an on road shot and him with his serious face on.

Mandylicious · Sep 9, 2007

GerryC said:
Mandy

Not what you might think but then who am I to suppose what you'd be thinking?
He took to the off road thing big time; looks like he'll be writing to Santa for a HP2. I'll leave you with an on road shot and him with his serious face on.

Yeah he was telling me he really enjoyed the off road yesterday and today.
Santa will need more than a request written on a piece of paper

Daithi · Sep 10, 2007

GerryC · Sep 10, 2007

Another few

Some more

kyle · Sep 10, 2007

Mandylicious said:
Yeah he was telling me he really enjoyed the off road yesterday and today.
Santa will need more than a request written on a piece of paper

never thought i'd hear that said about aidan tho he suits the hp2

nice looking trails :thumb2

bb1 · Sep 10, 2007

Many thanks to Daithi, Jimmy and Phil for a "flipping" Great weekend.

:clap

de crowe · Sep 10, 2007

thanks to Grumpy One and Daithi for a fantastic days riding hope everyone got home safe

willsuds · Sep 10, 2007

Great day

Thanks to Jimmy and Dave for the great days spin. Couldnt make the sunday spin, but really enjoyed the sat. Great to finally put faces to names

pity about that pebble on the south ring road that bust my side stand interlock switch :augie

..

till next time.

Jockser · Sep 10, 2007

It was a sh1te weekend !!! :thedummy

Too much sun, too many bends, too much scenery & way too many tossers :augie

Having said that, I quite enjoyed it

Well done to Daithi for suggesting / posting the run & a huge 'thank you' to the Grumpy fella for executing it so well :clap

Aidan & bb1 came to my place on Friday evening & after a quick cuppa we set off south. A good brisk run on a lovely late summers evening with only one fuel / cig stop brought us to the southern capital by 8.30. Daithi joined us shortly after arrival & we had a bit of dinner together. After watching the rugby the langer headed home & we went to bed.

Saturday morning dawned clear & bright in the city but it was a bit misty in the hills for the first hour or so until the sun burnt it off. This mornings group consisted of the 3 of us, Grumpy (who cheated by turning up on a TTR :nono

), Daithi, Padge, Willsuds, DaveR & GerryC. Gunner turned up on the HP2 to wave us off

We spent 9 hours on the bikes on Saturday with a lunch stop in Millstreet & a few (grudgingly allowed) cig stops :augie

. We covered almost 250km of which a large proportion was tracks. In addition to the tracks across the hills & bogs Grumpy had also arranged access to some private stuff :clap

Saturday evening saw the non-Cork contingent in the Muskerry Arms, Blarney which was our abode for the night. It's clean & pleasant with friendly staff & good food. After a long shower to get rid of some of the dust I joined the others in the bar for a drink before we all, plus Daithi, had the grub. Aidan insisted we have a wee constitutional before turning in so we walked down to the castle & back again before hitting the hay.

A few pics

This is Grumpy in full flight

Group shot when we got to the gravel

My travelling companions - the Big Bollix & bb1

Eric Estrada, eat your heart out

"The rock was this big" says DaveR

Padge going up & over

bb1 says "so that's how it's supposed to be done"

Aidan in the muck

Loads of concentration required

bb1 & Padge lookin' relaxed

Langer alert

Aidan & Daithi

Here they come

DaveR & Padge

Willsuds

More off-roading from Aidan

Wrong way up - we were actually heading downhill :blast

Grumpy in The Paps

Smoke break

And a bit of scenery

Jockser · Sep 10, 2007

Sunday

We lost Willsuds & DaveR off Sundays run as both had other commitments. But we gained De Crowe, Gunner & Yiri, a friend of Padges.

Once again we were out all day covering about 280km of minor roads & boreens in West Cork & Kerry. We did Priests Leap, Bunone (?) Valley, Barley Lake & the highest pub in Ireland (allegedly

) among others. We finished up about 6.30 just west of Cork City from where we all went our seperate ways.

De Crowe & GerryC

At the top of Priests Leap

Three wise men (and bb1 )

Group shot

Padge & Daithi go playing

And Padge gets stuck

GerryC trying to get closer to the view

Yiri stalled his DR650 & couldn't kickstart it. Padge to the rescue :clap

The view down the other side

If you go down to the woods today ..... :eek

The group at Barley Lake

Gunner & the Langer

GerryC telling more tall tales

Yes, the community should be alert for this man

Yiri on his DR650

And finally, a happy Langer

DaveR · Sep 10, 2007

As has already been said many thanks to Daithi and the grumpy one for a top weekend.Could only stay for Sat but a really enjoyable spin through some fab scenery with good company and brilliant sunshine :clap

w00kie · Sep 10, 2007

Great Pics guys and looks like great weather (I didn't go because I'd booked a place at the Astronomy Ireland annual open night and we were covered in clouds the whole time

)

Now, I see one bike 'taking a rest on its side' so far. Is that it??? Have you guys suddenly learned to stay upright?? :confused:

Daithi · Sep 10, 2007

First off, I deserve no credit whatsoever for the run, but thanks anyway.

Thank you very much Jimmy for what is my brand new best weekend on a bike. :clap

The pic below is where I had a massive off and some UNSCRUPULOUS tosser had to take a pic.

Bastward !

The next one is why we suggested no panniers.

BB1 scooting down through some of the best riding country in Ireland.

A rare chance for a fag.

The sites new off-road god ! Aidan1150 :clap

And here's the man we have to blame for the lousey weather and the crappy spin. :clap

The scenery was spectacular, massive distance covered without seeing any tarmac.

Obviously too much for some, you'll be pleased to hear he made a full recovery.

But this poor man was not so lucky.

..................

No stopping the the big fella, like a duck to water.

Jimmy even provided the select few with a bit of extreme off road.
Was Padge's bike on the side-stand ? ? ? ?

It was a teriffic weekend with grins on all the faces, again thanks James.

And thanks to all who did either or both days, with comiserations to the lads who missed it.

FECKIN GREAT WEEKEND. :clap

Padge · Sep 10, 2007

How to describe the weekend?
...Perfection...

The recipe:
One Day of Off road trails, melted together seamlessly
One Day of the most scenic roads in the country
A gaggle of the finest tossers
Garnished with the best weather of the year.

Served up by master chef Jimmy and all organsied by Tosser concierge Daithi.

Just fantastic.

Few shots of the priests leap & DeCrowe gazing over barley lake.

Grumpy one · Sep 11, 2007

Apologies for Sunday

Daithi · Sep 11, 2007

Great photos Jim, you don't have a picture of me falling off do ya ? :nenau

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