The big cycling news at the weekend was the Track event based at Sundrive Road in Dublin. This was the first time that Dublin had held a UCI ranked track event for 50 years so there was big excitement with riders from all over the world participating in the hope of gaining some precious UCI points. Rachel Mitchell was there… Read more »
This weekend saw the country’s top A2 and A3 cyclists head to Newry and Mourne for the Newry 3 day promoted by Newry Wheelers. The race, in its 26th year, had a full field and with some great racing guaranteed over 4 stages over 3 days around some of Ireland’s most beautiful countryside. As ever North Down was in the… Read more »
Place Name Club NDCC Pos 1 Glenn Kinning East Antrim 2 David Neill Phoenix 3 Mark Kane Dave Kane 4 Sean Carey 1st NDCC 5 Matty Blayney 2nd NDCC 6 Andrew Crothers Phoenix 7 Dave Watson 3rd NDCC 8 Phoenix 9 Liam Curran Curran 10 Brian Stewart Phoenix 11… Read more »
Saturday was a wild and wet day for the riders in the Bobby Crilly Classic race promoted by Phoenix CC. The event, now famous for its Divis mountain top finish, had three races, the combined A1 and A2 race, the A3 race and the A4 race. The A1 and A2 riders faced three laps of the 15-mile circuit that has… Read more »
25 Speed 1 Mark Kane 00:56:03 26.76 2 Alan Patterson 00:59:49 25.08 3 Paul Swenarton 01:00:35 24.76 4 John Rafferty 01:00:37 24.75 5 Paul Ferguson 01:01:55 24.23 6 Peter Nugent 01:02:45 23.90 7 Stephen Cousins 01:04:19 23.32 8 Keith Hooks 01:05:17 22.98 9 Mark McCaughey 01:05:37 22.86 10 Gary Swenarton 01:06:29 22.56 11 Colin Massey 01:07:14 22.31 12 James… Read more »
The organisers of Sunday’s Bangor Coastal Challenge Charity Cycle are asking road users to exercise caution and patience when a thousand cyclists will take to the Ards Peninsula this weekend. The Challenge is one of the biggest charity cycles in the country and this Sunday (16th) some 1000 cyclists plan to leave Bangor Sportsplex on the Old Belfast Rd from… Read more »