It's Like It Was A Rendez-Vous (only not)
I have a few routes I can take to work. The most boring, and probably slowest one is from Shankill to Dun Laoghaire through Ballybrack. There’s traffic lights and boring bits of really straight roads with 50km/h speed limits. I almost never take that route.
The other one, which is quite nice, is straight over Killiney Hill on the Killiney Hill road and Dalkey Avenue, through Dalkey and onto Ulverton Road. I take that one mostly. It’s not a bad drive, and probably the quickest route. But there’s some horrible speed bumps. And there’s been road works on it for the past two weeks.
The best route, which is FUCKING AWESOME, is this one (you may have to scroll a bit):
I’ve driven this one a few times in the past week. It has magnificent views, hairpins, switchbacks, narrow, twisty bits with walls on both sides, blind corners nice straights, and the road surface is almost entirely perfect (which is rare for Ireland).
The thing is, if you drive it at the speed limit, it’s very nice, but I would so love to cane it the entire way with a camera strapped to the front bumper, like this:
I’ve done the straightest, safest bits at what would be described as “naughty speeds”, but only at night, and only when I can see that the road is completely clear. If I see a pedestrian or even the glint of another car in the far distance, it’s 50km/h all the way (well, maybe 55…).
It would be awesome though. The only problems I could see would be
- I would most probably die.
- If I didn’t die, someone else definitely would
- If neither me nor anybody else died, I would almost definitely end up wrapped around something, but still alive and then
- I would be arrested, but if I had managed to not completely fuck up the route because of the crash
- I would still put the video on YouTube, and become a legend, or
- Nikki would kill me
Or very possibly not. I think I’ll stick to 50km/h (or 55-ish even…)
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Comments
I have a good mind to kill you for even suggesting it.
Go to Mondello and get it out of your system.
Posted by: NKL | April 28, 2008 8:33 PM
:-P
Posted by: Matt | April 28, 2008 9:40 PM
That's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen and yet I can't help thinking I'd like to give it a shot. What a nutjob!
Posted by: andy | May 1, 2008 4:47 PM
Ooh I want in, I will race you in Muriel!! I am a speed demon remember? And the speed limits here are sooo pants as are the cars I have been driving (a 1.4L auto Toyota Corolla which was pants and an even shitter Hyundai Alantra from the dark ages which sounded like it was struggling up at 45 degree incline on a flat surface, oh and a deadly Ute but that was for 5 mins and it was too big!!)
Posted by: Babs | May 7, 2008 4:08 AM