Monthly Archives: April 2009

  • Bill Hyland Race Video

    Jonathan Ryan of www.tipperaryphotos.com put together a great video of the 2009 Bill Hyland memorial promoted by www.clonmelcc.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRnXrjGuTtc] an here's another one from www.dungarvancyclingclub.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vliPHzKtlRg] Barry www.worldwidecycles.com

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  • A tale of two races !

    Yesterday Clonmel Cycling Club ran yet another very successful series of races . The circuit chosen was good enough to be a National Championship circuit , and as Ray said all week ' The strongest rider on the day would win the race ' . The days racing began with the underage riders testing out…

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  • L’Etape Diary part 3 – Camp Kenmare !

    With only 13 weeks remaining until this years Etape du Tour Sean O'Leary of www.trail-seekers.com organised a training weekend in Kenmare Co. Kerry for some of the participants . Base camp was the Kenmare bay hotel where Sean had booked a number of the newly built attached holiday homes . The very best of local Kerry…

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  • 93 Reasons to keep cycling

    No two days standing behind the counter of a bike shop are the same , and no 2 customers are the same . Our youngest customer to hand over their euros at the till was a 3 year old girl who bought her own bell , with plenty of confidence and self assurance . Our oldest…

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  • Tubeless Tyres

    When I was building up my new Viner Maxima I once again became infatuated with every type of new technology that was available for bike builds . In my humble opinion the Maxima frameset is the pinnacle of what is available at present . Marcel Wust did seem to concur during his test in Pro…

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  • ‘We sell headstones dot com ‘

    This morning as I threw my leg over the bike at the back door looking at the orange hue of the sun rising over the Comeraghs I inhaled a deep breath of crisp air and thought that this was a great day to be alive . And what better way to get it off to…

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  • Asking for directions !

    One weekend recently , a group of leisure cyclists from Cork decided to visit Dungarvan Co. Waterford for the weekend and ride parts of the route of the Sean Kelly tour . They were well organised and had even gone to the trouble of printing off the route map online . ( soon this will…

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  • Carrick Wheelers on TV

    Setanta Ireland are showing a programme called 'Wheel of Dreams ' on Tuesday night next 7/4/09 at 10 pm . The show will revolve around the Carrick Wheelers cycling club and will include footage of events such as The Sean Kelly tour . There will also be interviews and profiles of local legends such as…

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