Well with all the talk of hurricane Tomás we weren’t sure what the day was going to hold for us but it wasn’t to be, we turned up at Rostrevor to a lovely sunny, but cold, start to the day. After hanging around the car park for about half an hour it was clear to see that a lot of people were happy to see us come up for a spin, with about 25 or 30 people showing up just for us………Maeve Baxter was kind to offer her guiding services for the day, but I think she even got a scare when see saw the numbers out.
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| And up and up we go |
Well we set out up the fireroad that most of us are more use to getting up lifts on rather than cycling up, and it wasn’t long before we were missing the transit vans badly. We continued up going past the start of the two downhill tracks and on towards the upper car park, before we hit the car park we turned up in the forest to take on some savage never ending climbs that finally brought us out onto the top of the mountain. A small bit of a hike a bike and we were ready for some downhill, well after Bruce decided to finally break his hanger, they were going to leave him for dead but decided that since most of the next bit was downhill that they drag him along.
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| Look at the happy head on him. |
Starting off the top of the hill we were down and up some grassy slopes where we then regrouped before one of the funniest decents you can get. Flat out down this wet grassy, steep, pumpy track that would challenge anything Glendalough has, by the end of this several peoples brakes had faded and a ditch at the bottom was a good catch net.
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| Some deadly people |
We continued down in a forest sections which had a great flowy fast sections with nice catchers in the corners where everyone came out smiling at the end. At this point we found a replacement hanger for Bruce so while he fixed that some of us cycled back up to redo the end section of the track we had just done.
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| Siliva being attacked by the jacket mosnter. |
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| Oh It's okay it's just Kamil |
After that we headed around the side of the hill where we found with a nice steep hike a bike which set us up for our next nice bit of downhill. After that people seemed hungry for more so off pedalling up the hill we went again.
After a quick stop near the top, and Sean trying to push this frosty bars on people again we headed off to do the last decent of the day a fast, rooty, ruff track that dropped us just below the main car park, all in all about 3 hours and a great day out on the bike was had. Thanks again to Maeve and co for the grand tour. We’ll be planning a few similar spins to this before Christmas so stay tuned.
Some more pics
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| Happy out |
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