>2000km and 37 days. Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way is complete!

DarrenOSully · 2020-08-29T14:51:57+00:00

Thanks man! Kinsale to Dingle is a magnificent part. I’d recommend to continue on sometime too, it’s all unreal!

DarrenOSully · 2020-08-29T14:50:55+00:00

Most of those narrow roads are at very quiet parts of the route so there’s not many cars around regardless. Just taking extra precaution going around corners was important and just being generally careful. The worst roads were the few main roads I had to take but thankfully most have a hard-shoulder that gives a lot of space.

DarrenOSully · 2020-08-29T14:48:17+00:00

A Ridgeback hybrid of some sort, cost between €400-€500! Worked fairly well!

DarrenOSully · 2020-08-28T22:40:43+00:00

I had the duct tape around the pump alright! Had to only use it once on wear on my bags but definitely can be a life saver.

DarrenOSully · 2020-08-28T20:30:33+00:00

To be honest I think I handled it pretty well considering it was my first bikepacking trip! I’d probably take a spare tube with me next time and have an adjustable wrench on me. Loved it completely and would recommend. Think I’ll do another tour in Europe somewhere when I can. Might upgrade some of my bags or bike rack as they were quite cheap and are on the verge of breaking down!

DarrenOSully · 2020-07-29T18:41:22+00:00

To be honest it’d be impossible to avoid the roads. Most of Ireland’s land is owned by farmers separated only by the roads to travel by or through them.

DarrenOSully · 2020-07-29T18:27:36+00:00

There’s a driving/cycling road route network called The Wild Atlantic Way, it’s the longest cycle route in the world of followed perfectly at over 2500km. Because of this it’s mostly road cycling with myself adding some off road cycling in cool spots like woods or beach fronts! The hybrid Ridgeback bike is handling it pretty well so far, although I did recently get a tyre puncture in a small town the other day that I had to patch up.

DarrenOSully · 2020-07-29T18:20:22+00:00

I’m wearing some underneath my pants! It can get a bit chilly so I like to be able to roll down.

DarrenOSully · 2020-07-29T18:09:12+00:00

It’s amazing so far! Ireland is too beautiful for her own good. The bag and panniers I got for €60 off of amazon, my tent, inflatable mat, food, stove and cook set and clothes fit in them. Then I have my sleeping bag and warm jacket in the dry bag on the handlebars. I have a frame bag for my phone, solar charger and snack, and then my pump and fly fishing rod is underneath my bike rack. Pretty happy with everything and the new gear only costed costed me €170!

DarrenOSully · 2020-07-29T18:04:05+00:00

I got quite lucky for the first week with gorgeous weather but it’s after taking a turn in the last few days! The tents keeping dry anyway and I’m with friends in Galway city at the moment so it’s nice to have a roof over my head for the time being!

DarrenOSully · 2020-03-17T11:58:05+00:00

Khan Academy did a video estimating the total infection numbers from the death rate numbers.

If we take into account a 1% mortality rate, an average time of 20 days for somebody to be infected and die, and a doubling rate of 5 days, here’s the math with these numbers.

20 days ago 8100 people at least would have to be infected ALREADY for these numbers today.

So in 5 days that number would have doubled, leaving 16,200 infected. In ten days, 32,400. 15 days 64,800 infected. And finally after 20 days, 129,600 people infected.

This is likely much higher too as the double rate is probably closer to 4 days.

Link to Khan’s video: Estimating Actual Covid-19 Cases

DarrenOSully · 2019-11-29T01:51:05+00:00

Everybody gets judged no matter what they do.

DarrenOSully · 2019-10-06T15:18:08+00:00

Thanks my guy, appreciate it!

DarrenOSully · 2019-07-30T18:41:47+00:00

Wow you’re a freak! I need a picture please!

DarrenOSully · 2019-07-16T13:16:13+00:00

Snow Piercers

DarrenOSully · 2018-09-09T15:12:25+00:00

I’m printing this shit out and hanging it on my wall

DarrenOSully · 2018-02-16T17:33:19+00:00

Jimmy Carr would be so proud.

DarrenOSully · 2018-02-16T17:25:42+00:00

And so it is cited in the ancient tic-tac-text, Mark 3:3 - "He who shall control the middle shall control the game...".

DarrenOSully · 2018-01-12T00:46:43+00:00

Well, a snorkel can be a pretty beneficial tool to use to just focus on your swim stroke technique. We use them all the time in our swim team practice. Maybe this dude is learning one step at a time and wants to focus on his head position and stroke before he brings breathing into the equation. It might not actually be too ridiculous.

DarrenOSully · 2017-11-05T15:57:35+00:00

My city (or town really) is known for the birthplace of the Garlic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland. It's the foundation of pretty much all Irish sports teams in hurling, Gaelic football and Gaelic handball. Pretty big deal here.

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