What a difference a year makes. Last year’s Irish Championships were held in Wicklow and only one determined North Down rider turned up to contest the coveted Irish Champion’s jersey. This year the club was represented in just about every senior category. Elite, Masters and Veterans were all there battling against Ireland’s best. After a fortnight of glorious weather the… Read more »
10 Speed 1 William Larmour EACC Men 00:22:36 26.55 2 Conor Hanna NDCC Men 00:22:53 26.22 3 Robin Millar Bikeworks Men 00:23:18 25.75 4 John Rafferty NDCC Men 00:23:24 25.64 5 Michael McMullan NDCC Men 00:23:35 25.44 6 Paul Ferguson NDCC Men 00:23:46 25.25 7 Peter Nugent NDCC Men 00:23:53 25.12 8 David Hamilton Curran Men 00:24:04… Read more »
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 »