Meeting Place: Crone Carpark
Time: 9.30
Day: Sunday 2nd
Route: Climb to the top of Crone, Ride the sleepers (wind permitting), Maulin, Powerscourt, Djouce and Balinatoe all in there somewhere.
Pace: Savage 4-5 hours
Steve: 0861653925
This is a great offer - I’ve often had over 4grands worth of bikes on the back of my car and always hope no uninsured eejit runs into the back of me, or hope no one steals my bike from a race venue etc.. as has happened before - this offer will set my mind at ease!
Fergal
Click on the image below to view the offer.
The Mountain Biking Ireland AGM will take place at Kilfinane, Co Limerick on Saturday March 1st. The itinerary for the weekend is as follows:
10am - meet main forest car park for a spin around the new trails (3 hours)
1.30pm - lunch/showers
3pm - AGM Ballyhoura forest lodges, Ballyorgan
5pm - Dinner/Social evening
On Sunday there are two events nearby, a duathlon in Limerick city or an XC race in Tracton wood, or another spin around the trails.There is accommodation available in the Ballyhoura forest lodges at €55 - €65 per person for two nights accommodation. Everyone is welcome.
There are plenty of B&B’s also available locally.
The agenda for the AGM is as follows :
MBI AGM Agenda
Contact Elizabeth.mccluskey@dit.ie with any questions.
The new MAD website went live today. It doesn’t look very different, but the new site will make it much easier for us to keep our information up to date and add new articles. There’s also a new discussion forum where you can express your deepest thoughts. Let us know how you get on with the new setup.
It was a combination of cold, sunny, windy, rainy, icy, crunchy-mucky, misty, snowy and downright miserable weather on Saturday and Sunday (though Saturday was pretty nice in fairness) but that was no reason not to be out biking!
Drop a line in the blog and let us know how you got on…
There was a fair bit of it, especially Saturday with the spin across to Ballinastoe,
then there was the Awesome Club Chairman racing over in the west….
Drop a line in the blog and let us know how you got on…
From CoillteOutdoors.ie
Sections of the Ballinastoe Mountain Bike Trails will be closed from Monday 21st January 2008 for a period of about three weeks. This is to facilitate the closing works which need to be carried out to ensure that the trails are finished to the highest quality standards. We would ask all trail users to respect the section closure and re-routing signs. Your cooperation with these temporary section closures will ultimately result in a better mountain biking experience.
Beth McCluskey and Richie Byrne from EPIC are looking to run some Women-Specific mountainbiking training days with Glyn O’Brien.
Glyn is a very skilled and succesful MTB’er who runs training courses at all levels for various MTB disciplines - this will be for intermediate XC/cross-country skills training.
The proposed dates are either 9th February or 8th of March, both are Saturdays.
This kind of training is very beneficial both for casual biking and also for racing as your new found skills and awareness will help you overcome technical/difficult terrain and thus increase your sense of achievement and enjoyment of mountainbiking.
For further detail please contact Richie Byrne at richie.byrne@gmail.com or ring him on 0876376065.
This week sees the return of Nigel (above sporting the latest in uber-chic Belgian hairstyles) after a long absence from biking so there’s going to be a spin on Sunday in his honour.
The venue will be a riotous rip ’round the Sugarloaf.
Meeting time/location is Kindlestown at 10am (for a few warm-up laps) and heading from there.
In other spin news, Shane Lavelle is running a lively gallop around the Leadmines on Thurs night-meeting at Palmers Pub in Kilternan at 7.00/7.15pm.
Plan is to do the course three or so times at a moderate pace.
Lights and usual kit essential. contact Shane at: 0863195936
Also on Thursday night The Power is going to be brought-on with a lactic-acid boiler of a spin around Ballinastoe with Ireland’s Olympic XC (very) hopefuls Tom and Fergal.
Meet at the Ballinastoe car park at 7:30pm.
Pace will be blistering and will be excellent training for the K-Capital Cup which is inching ever-closer!
No spins are arranged for Saturday as this is an official club trailbuilding day and it’d be great to see people out helping-remember this is a great way to familiarise yourself with trails that you’d never find on your own!
Any other spin info let me know and I’ll update this post.
Fergal
087-792-7730
I’m selling my 2007 Specialized S-Works Epic. It was my race machine from last year and was built up in March 2007. I used it primarily for racing and very little for training (and if so, only in the dry!) – it’s been sitting in my bike room since the Irish Marathon Champs (except for one spin and the MAD club champs in December). The bike is the best bike I’ve ever ridden and I will be racing on a very similar one next year. The bike did me really well (see 2007 results)
I basically built up the bike from separates as closely too the Specialized Factory Team bikes as was feasible. (They use some components that are just not durable enough or that simply can not be bought). Complete bike weight is sub 10kg. In comparison – a stock 2007 S-Works built bike weighs in at 11.4kg without pedals.
The components are as follows:
It also has brand new brake pads, KMC X9 chain, XTR Cassette, cables and a choice of tires.
I have lots of photos here which includes weights for many of the individual components as well as the original article I wrote about it here and some general bits and bobs here.
This is a pro level bike with only the best components used – it cost about 6.5k to build. I’m selling it for 3,500e. I have receipts etc… for everything.
I’m out in Dundrum and can meet up at anytime to show it off.
Please email me ( forsale (at) ryansherlock (dot) com ) for more details.
Ryan
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