This month’s route features lots of stunning steep and quiet climbs, ferociously fast descents, delicious bakes, and the odd Marian apparition – what more could you possibly want? cycling sponsored
As I turn away from my computer and peer out the window of my home office, the skyline is dominated by Slieve Croob: the crown jewel of the Dromara Hills, the source of the river Lagan that flows into the Irish Sea at Belfast Lough, and my all-time favourite cycling stomping ground.
And after hauling yourself up the last pesky incline, you’ll have definitely earned a coffee and a traybake back in the relative flatlands of Ballynahinch, where you can park up at one of my favourite post-ride haunts, the bike-friendly café-cum-garden centre Blue Cedar, for a spot of lunch and a homemade bun.
Its toughness is legendary. Years ago, I asked one of my clubmates, a veteran of the Tour of the North stage race – a frequent visitor to Dree Hill – what it was like, sprinting up the climb in the middle of a charging peloton. “I don’t know,” came the reply. “I usually black out.
Following your mid-ride ancient history lesson, another left turn spits you unceremoniously onto the brilliantly named Windy Gap – a steep, grippy climb that ascends in ever-worsening steps to the summit. Once you’ve wrestled your bike up that last brutal ramp, you’ll come across a shrine to the Virgin Mary , who purportedly appeared to 150 people on the hill in 1954. I’m not sure if she rode her bike to the top, however.
Or you can do what I did, and turn left, past the GAA club that hosts the Dromara Hilly’s tea stop and towards the southern side of Slieve Croob, on a narrow, rural road punctuated with diverting views of the Mourne Mountains and the coast to your right.
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