Too Cold (or dark) for Pictures ......

On a 36 degree day, only myself and the postman were out in the elements. I took this picture not far from where I began my 7-mile  ride.  It has been so frigid here of late that when I do get a day ride in, I'm usually too  cold by the time I have a few miles in my legs to stop and take a photograph. Or for that matter, while I am still on the bike, I don't want to expend the extra energy needed to reach into my pocket for my  camera phone.

The above should explain why you see so few pictures of Ireland in here any more. All compounded by the fact that my Mayors' Ride work and Cayo find me getting my miles in the dark.....

An Irish Reminder to Car (& Bike) Tourists

History of Driving on Right (66%) v Left (Ireland, UK) 34% 

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Castlebar Mayor to Send Padraig Marrey to Dublin for Mayors' Ride Start

Rolled by Castlebar Mayor Brendon Henaghan's (pictured with his son, Tom) health food store to

firm up the location  for  the send off ceremony we are doing for Padraig Marrey on Fri. April 26, when Padraig leads a team of cyclists 160 miles to Dublin City Hall the following day. We determined that Castlebar City Hall would be the best way to give face to Brendon's town and its connection to the Great Western Greenway. Tho, the world class bikeway at nearby Lake Lannagh stands out as a trophy endpoint for the route we foresee from Dublin to the Great Western Greenway, we both agreed that his City Hall was more consistent with the fact that this is a Mayors' Ride.

We also found out on Friday when the Irish Taoseach's (Prime Minister) Castlebar point person, Ger Deere, was in Brendon's store, that Enda will have a proclamation to send Padraig off, but that Enda is not guaranteed for that day. Tho he wants to be there since he is a genuine cyclist, he may be out of the country on official business that day. And yet if he can't make it, Jerry  says he will read Enda's message  into the record.


Btw: Exciting to see that even in Europe, health food stores are going mainstream. The fact that the mayor of a small Irish town  owns one speaks to this fact.

Winter Woodland Walk, Raheens on the S&B

Rode to this "walking" site today at the edge of Castlebar. Clearly not fit for the Eagle, I did it on the 'Bent.  I think it is called Winter Woodland Walk, Raheens, which you can read about HERE.

A mile in length, I more had fun talking to the people on it than I did very carefully riding it. I even learned about this monument, called a cenotaph. The man that told me it was built to honor the landowner's wife, said that it used to be surrounded by trees until the property changed hands and the forest was cleared. At 80 feet in height, it clearly does not fit in with its surroundings. HERE is more about this unusual structure.

Ed Cox to Lead Am. River HiWheel Ride 5/19

We just got the interview we did with Ed Cox, the Sacramento bike coordinator, on line. And talk about a powerhouse for all matters bicycle, I am excited to be able to share just some of how this man has helped to impregnate an entire region with two wheel transportation consciousness. I exhort you to go get a listen and see the slides from the show that resulted HERE.

We are telling you this because not only will Ed be leading our first ever Tour of Sacramento on Sat May 18, the next day he will be showing off more of his turf when he leads our 6th annual American River Parkway HiWheel Ride from Sacramento to the historic town of Folsom on Sunday May 19.  If you are interested in riding most arguably the topmost bikeway in America,  for 26 and want to be a part of the magic as you ride amongst Hiwheel bikes from the 19th Century in calling for an interconnected network of bikeable roads and paths that span the USA, the Nat Bicycle Greenway,  learn more and/or sign up for the ride at our PinggVite HERE.

See also the schedule/scorecard  for our now International Mayors' Ride at this Link. After  Steve Stevens  kicks off our campaign in Colorado Springs, there is a lot going on. Besides our HiWheel River Ride, the above schedule/scorecard shows all of what we will also be doing with San Jose, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Davis on a ride that starts when celebrated Irish racer Padraig Marrey  leaves Castlebar in the west of Ireland for the first annual Tour of Dublin led by international HiWheel trick-riding champion  Peter Matthews.

Ed on the Parkway

As Irish as it Gets......

An Irish pub, in between a Catholic church and a Catholic grade school. 

With a sign that reads:

Back on the Irish Eagle Road Again!!

In case you missed this tweet, I rode the Eagle for 12 ms. today!! What an incredible feeling. So many people here in Ireland and back in the States to thank. So exciting. 

THX 4 all of U!!

          WOW!

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Martin & Virginia Krieg

Martin Krieg  Author "Awake Again" 

'79 TransCon Upright '86 TransCon 'Bent

 '09 Eagle SF to Salt Lake City 

Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor  

NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist

Riding only active Eagle in world 

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