{"id":7479,"date":"2013-12-16T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:56","slug":"why-ireland-on-the-eagle-is-like-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/12\/16\/why-ireland-on-the-eagle-is-like-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ireland on the Eagle is Like Flying!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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B<\/span>eing forced off the Eagle \u00a0by last week’s pothole and forced to see the Irish back roads the same way cars see them on my recumbent these last few days, the magic is definitely \u00a0gone from my rides. \u00a0People ask me all the time why I ride such a seemingly old and unwieldy machine, my Eagle<\/a>. Well missing from my two-wheel time on the road now \u00a0is not only the view over the hedges that line pretty much all the roads over here but the vast panorama that let’s me see Ireland as the storybook checkerboard of many different agricultural parcels that make it what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is from my high perch that I can see what is meant when people say the Emerald Isle has a hundred different shades of green. Not to mention all the patchwork \u00a0 of ditches that keep these lands drained that the car driver or conventional \u00a0bike rider do not even know to exist. \u00a0This as I also \u00a0get a look at all the many farm animals that seem to prefer to stay away from the front lines<\/span><\/p>\n

The way I see Ireland on the Eagle \u00a0is almost how it looks to me when I fly In from America Unlike the 500 mph \u00a0view I get when I look out the Jet window, on my HiWheel machine from yesteryear, the real Ireland \u00a0envelops my senses \u00a0All at 10 miles an hour! On the Eagle I smell the farms at work. I feell the cooling \u00a0moisture that almost always fills the air and the numbing drone of an airliner’s engines is replaced by the deliciousness of quiet that the infrequent car or tractor interrupts.<\/span><\/p>\n

btw: I do have to admit, however, it is a lot easier to stop and take pictures like the one above when I am on my recumbent or Mtn. bike…..<\/span><\/p>\n

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Being forced off the Eagle \u00a0by last week’s pothole and forced to see the Irish back roads the same way… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9,1,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eagle-hiwheel","category-ireland","category-uncategorized","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1WD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":339,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/03\/23\/irish-road-punishment\/","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":0},"title":"Irish Road Punishment","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"March 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The roads of Ireland have been hard on my bikes. 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