Paddy Dakar - 24 - 27th Sept 2015

[Steve T]

Thought I'd fire this event up here, seeing as entries have recently opened:-

http://www.paddydakar.com/index.html

Sort of planned attendance a few years ago, but things didn't seem to fall into palce. Maybe this year!?

Steve T

 

[Lowflyer]

Ok,

I'll go if you navigate

Seriously, always fancied this against the Taffy Dakar.
Ditch the Beemer, take the AT

I have a pass

I'm in

 

[Steve T]

OK Jonboy, your on.

Little plan circulating round my little cranium - do LWR's Argyle rally the weekend before the PD, saunter over to the ferry terminal the following Monday, take a little tour of NI & Eire on the way to the PD location, do the PD and survive the craic, take a leisurley wander back to the ferry and home

Talk soon

Steve T

 

[Lowflyer]

Brilliant

Phone you later on

 

[Lutin]

You'll have to drop by on the way.

 

[outrunner]

Funnily enough, I have been spending a lot of time on this here laptop sort of planning a trip to the Emerald Isle. Well, to say I have a plan would perhaps be a bit over the top, but I will be going over...............soon.

My intention is to take the ferry to Larne, turn right and keep going along the coast, taking in the Wild Atlantic Way and ending back up at Larne, easy peasy innit? I know it is a lot of miles, but as I am no longer a "wage slave" I can take as long as it takes, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, a month, who cares? Tony, be afraid, I am coming your way!


Andy.

 

[Lutin]

Tony, be afraid, I am coming your way!

Andy.

Not a problem, Andy. Have you any plan at all other than going around anti-clockwise? I could show you some fairly out of the way places - and some great views as well.

 

[outrunner]

Have you any plan at all other than going around anti-clockwise? I could show you some fairly out of the way places - and some great views as well.

No, not a "real" plan, just get off the boat, turn right keeping the coast on the right, I mean, how hard can it be?
I will take you up on your kind offer, nothing beats local knowledge. I don't know exactly when I am starting this trip, one day soon I will just go to Cairnryan and buy a ticket, no return as I do not know when I will be sailing back.


Andy.

 

[Lutin]

No, not a "real" plan, just get off the boat, turn right keeping the coast on the right, I mean, how hard can it be? I will take you up on your kind offer, nothing beats local knowledge. I don't know exactly when I am starting this trip, one day soon I will just go to Cairnryan and buy a ticket, no return as I do not know when I will be sailing back.

Andy.

Sounds like a plan to me. I'll have to have a squint at the Wild Atlantic Way to see if there's anything else that's worth a look at while your passing.

 

[Steve T]

Ok, I'll go if you navigate
Seriously, always fancied this against the Taffy Dakar. Ditch the Beemer, take the AT
I have a pass I'm in

John - the entries are in and accepted

I have copied you into the e-mails I've sent / received from the organiser. Just got to get you to pay up now

Talk soon.

Steve T

 

[Lowflyer]

Woo hooooo

Got your mails, phone you later on
I have paypal

 

[Alba]

I've heard the PD is tough one, good on the pair of you .....

Sent from my rotary phone using fat fingers

 

[Lowflyer]

I've heard the PD is tough one, good on the pair of you .....

Sent from my rotary phone using fat fingers

Is it ????

No worries, be a doddle

Steve my boy, PayPal sent off today for entry fees.
No going back now

 

[Steve T]

Well, thats the Caladonian Shufflebums on the enrty list, the boat booked and the knobblies have arrived (getting them fitted tomorrow).

Tomorrow is scrubbing in day, so I'll have to find some suitably mucky bit of Jockland to experiment on . Lowflyer is off swinging his pants at some hippy festival, so it'll be a team of one getting dirty tomorrow

Pictures of dirty tyres as soon as they've been dirtied

Steve T

 

[Paul-S]

What tyres did you go for in the end Steve?

 

[Steve T]

What tyres did you go for in the end Steve?

Wot you recommended Paul

Fronts a straight E09, whilst the rear is the Dakar version of the same tyre. I can sit on the rear tyre and it doesn't flex, such is it's stiffness

Hoping my ridings up the the standard of these tyre Paul, cos they look well knarly

Steve T

 

[Steve T]

Well, after getting the Mitas E09 fitted this morning, I felt I just had to go out and firstly scrub them in, then test them of the surfaces they were designed for.

Front Tyre


Rear Tyre


Scenic shots






First impressions - on road the front is very compresable under braking, and squirms a little when "pushed" around bends . The rear is SO hard. you feel every single knobbly as the tyre rotates

On the dirt (dry this morning), they do wot it say's on the sidewall - enduro tyre , that lets you push into bends and scrabble the rear out of them .

Steve T

 

[Paul-S]

Glad you're liking them Steve

I love them but they're not everyones taste

Like riding over a motorway rumble strip till you get above 40mph

For a knobbly as they are they can be pushed really hard on the road too in short bursts

 

[Lowflyer]

Well, thats the Caladonian Shufflebums on the enrty list, the boat booked and the knobblies have arrived (getting them fitted tomorrow).

Tomorrow is scrubbing in day, so I'll have to find some suitably mucky bit of Jockland to experiment on . Lowflyer is off swinging his pants at some hippy festival, so it'll be a team of one getting dirty tomorrow

Pictures of dirty tyres as soon as they've been dirtied

Steve T

Yep, said Lowflyer back from this http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk/ three day event, commonly known as the Whisky Olympics
Got today off work thank god,still feeling a little sketchy

Steve, my tyres are coming up end of the week, maybe try and get them fitted by the weekend.
Ferries booked also, thinking of spending one night at a site near Dublin, see how it goes.

oh, nice pics by the way, those new boots look well handy

 

[Alba]

Yep, said Lowflyer back from this http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk/ three day event, commonly known as the Whisky Olympics
Got today off work thank god,still feeling a little sketchy

I hope you are not leading the youth of today astray by introducing them to your whiskey antics .....