Day 7
NW200 main race day and in true Northern Ireland tradition the rain is fecking hammering it down. This isn't any of your English girly shirt lifter rain, the rain drops actually hurt you when the hit you. A whole family actually drowned in a single rain drop in East Belfast. True story bro.
Anyway, the rain eased off at about 0530 and i got on the bike and headed up the famous coast road (A2).
On a good day you can see Jockland while traveling the coast road, today visability was down to about 100 metres out to sea.
If you like little narrow nadgery roads with camber that seems designed to catch you out then come off the A2 by Cushendun onto Torr Road, This will lead you to Torr Head which again, on a good day will give excellent views out to the Irish Sea.
I have been up the coast road many times before so i thought a quick trip to Dark Hedges was in order. Dark Hedges is on Bregagh Road in Armoy and a lot of visitors to the Joey Dunlop memorial garden go there for a photo (see small photo of Michael Dunlop at Dark Hedges). Google Dark Hedges, loads of great shots.
Anyway, i got to Portrush, found myself a quality spot on the inside of Metropole bend and the rain came down worse than ever. I got to watch all two laps of the racing.
To make my day that much better i left my phone in my outer pocket of my water proofs and the pocket filled with water and destroyed the phone. Lost all my photographes that i took on the phone of the ENTIRE trip. I only used the phone on that day hence no photographes.
So after 2 hours of the race getting put back waiting for the weather to clear i gave up and went home in the torrential rain. Got home and a few hours later the whole race day was called off AGAIN. Proper dog **** day.
Not sure why google maps changed the route to straight lines rather than following roads but you can still see the route as its just riding up the coast.
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