Mountainbiking Association of Dublin
Ireland’s Premier Mountainbiking Club™
Ticknock MTB Information Evening
Jul 12th
PUBLIC INFORMATION NOTICE
The DUBLIN MOUNTAINS PARTNERSHIP and COILLTE are hosting a public information evening about the proposed mountain bike trail system in Coillte Ticknock and Ballyedmonduff forests.
Details of the routes and plans for the area will be on show and managers will be available to discuss the project.
Date: 22nd July 2010
Time: 4.00 – 7.30pm
Location: Ticknock forest car park
www.dublinmountains.ie
www.coillteoutdoors.ie
XC NPS Course Update
Jul 1st
The MAD NPS crew have been busy all this week planning the season finale to the 2010 NPS.
From laptop programming to branch-lopping, all is going to plan! The bit of rain up on 3Rock this week is expected to have very little effect on the course we have designed and built for the race.
We have trimmed a few minutes of the original lap time by removing some climbs, accelerating/re-aligning some of the singletrack sections, and raking and smoothing out as many sections as we can.
Our intent is to provide the fastest and most fun course of 2010, and that you don’t even remember the climbs – just all the fun stuff! We are incorporating one of the driest forest sections in the whole of Ireland – Rock n Roll! This unique area never gets affected regardless of the weather and is currently dusty dry, a few slower corners have been by-passed to speed-up this whole section.
The open mountain/double track sections have had water channels cut-in and any puddles have been drained off down the hillside, we’ll also will be walking the course on the Saturday with mattocks and spades in hand to tend to any sections. More >
MAD NPS Course Preview
Jun 29th
The course is approximately 6.2 km long, taking about 28 minutes on a test lap for a fast Master (as ridden by test pilot Oisin ‘Bomber’ Boydell from Pronghorn Racing in dry conditions).
Start out on a short section of fireroad up from the carpark, then left and up the wide track and weave through the rooty short forest section and out onto the main ‘Strada Bianca’ fireroad. Hammer along this in the big ring, thinning-out the pack and trying to get a good lead on your opponents before slipping right and down the chute to ‘MX’.
Along MX, up the sharp short kicker and down the super-swoop, pop off the little jump at the bottom and on the gas again through ‘Back Breaker’ (digging this section nearly broke us!). Blast through the wide path and boost up the bank and into Rock n Roll!
Weave your way through this twisting fast & very dry forest, then out and up the short kicker of ‘Blue Oyster’ and onto the main fireroad climb. Crest the climb then left at the barrier and over the large slabs, left and along and down through the super-fast ‘T-Connector’ and warp down the sandy singletrack into upper ‘Rock n Roll’. More >
MAD Presents NPS Final Round
Jun 28th
The Mountainbiking Association of Dublin presents the final round of the 2010 cross country NPS on the 4th of July on Three Rock Mountain, Dublin. This will be an amazing race on a true MTB course featuring brand new superfast trails, courtesy of MAD Singletrack Engineering Dept. This race is also the fourth and final round of the 2010 Leinster XC League. Stay tuned for a course preview.
You’ll find further details of the event here - http://www.madmtb.com/nps2010
MAD Podiums at Dunmore NPS
Jun 28th
Dromara CC held the penultimate round of the XC NPS last Saturday and there were some great results in what some riders felt was the hardest race of the year so far.
Mel was first in Elite Women
New Training Startup from MAD Rider
May 24th
MAD member Ollie Castle starting a new company. Tribe Guru is an Irish startup aiming to provide turbo training videos for cyclists. They are currently in search of good quality video footage of any form of biking, from track racing to downhill, anything goes. Also, for a background track to peoples indoor suffering, they need music from up and coming bands or djs from any walk of life or genre.
If you think you might have something that is of intrest and want to become the next star of a turbo trainer video, please visit www.tribeguru.com for more information or drop them an email on applications@tribeguru.com.
Final Beginners Spin on Saturday
May 11th
MADmtb is running the third and final beginners spin of the year on Saturday 15th May at Three Rock, which is here
http://www.madmtb.com/maps/map_ticknock_carpark.htm
We will aim to leave the carparks at 10am sharp, so aim to be at the venue for about 9.45am to give yourself enough time to get ready for the off. The spins should last a couple of hours, but can vary depending on the riders in the group. The group will go as fast as the slowest person, so no one will be left behind. If there is a big difference in the groups ability we can split it up to suit.
Summer XC Development Series
May 10th
Kippure Estate invites you to join their Development Summer Series Mountain Bike Races to be held over the next few months on the estate.
The races are open to beginners and intermediate racers of all ages.
Entrance fee will be €10 (€5 for a one day race licence and €5 to cover costs) and any additional money raised will be used towards developing such things as a skills course and bike wash facility at Kippure to enable them to better host events for clubs in the future.
After the success for the XC Championships in 2008 and K-Capital Challenge Race Series final stage in 2009, Kippure Estate has entered into talks with Coillte, Wicklow County Tourism and Wicklow Rural Partnership to develop permanent mountain bike trails in the Athdown woods opposite the entrance to the estate. Coillte are very open to the idea and in conjunction with all parties a feasibility study is to be commissioned to look into the routes available, costing, etc.
MAD on the TV
May 6th
MAD was featured on RTE’s Capital D programme this evening as part of their coverage of activities in the Dublin mountains. You can watch the show here (until May 27th):
MAD on the Podium in Killarney
May 6th
There was a good attendance from MAD at the second round of the XC NPS in Killarney on Sunday April 25th and we were rewarded with a couple of hard-earned podium positions.
Fergal was fourth in Veterans
while Oisin took third place in Masters.
You can find the full race results and photos on Irishxcmtb.com and feedback in the club forum.
