Mountainbiking Association of Dublin

From the keyboard of Sean……..

Hi all,
firstly, sorry about the short notice on this one, the week seems to have passed me by.
This Saturday MAD will have a short and easy ride towards the Hellfire Club and Massies Wood. Everyone is welcome on this ride, especially beginners.
You will need a helmet, water, food and especially important, warm clothes!
Meet at the Yellow House, Rathfarnham at 10am.
As always, mail back to this address or call or text 086 3354576 if you would like more info or directions or a even friendly chat.

See you Saturday,
Sean

good evening folks,
Since Morgan, Paddy, Mick, Sean and possibly Bjoern are racing, working, or somewhere else, i’m going to take a spin from the Yellow House at 10am on Sunday morning.

I’m planning on going up through Kilmashogue following parts of the Wicklow Way and then down the woca wocas then over to Prince Willies…..and then we can decide to go somewhere else afterwards depending on how everyone is feeling!

So in summary……..10 am Yellow House on Sunday.
see you all there!
Nigel,
087 9335 403

Thanks to everybody who made it along to the AGM last Friday night. Ironically, it was the first meeting this year where the beer was free, and also the first where no beer was consumed…

The committee remains the same for 2006:
Chairperson : Morgan O’Connell
Secretary : Mick O’Dowd
Treasurer : Paddy O’Brien

MAD has also created the role of a ride leader, thanks to Nigel Shekleton, Sean Downey and Bjorn Pils agreeing to take on this responsibility. We are not limited to just three ride leaders, please contact Mick if you’re interested in taking up the challenge, or finding out more.

There will be a more formal structure to the club to facilitate the growth we plan in 2006. This will have a few implications for everybody: we’ll expect people to actually sign up as members after three spins, it will no longer be acceptable to simply tag along indefinitely. Membership forms will be available on all spins, so there’ll be plenty of opportunity to join.

Full details of the AGM will be distributed to all members during the week.

Cracking day on sunday, wiht lovely weather, apart from the cold, strong wind. Nigel, Sean, Raul, Alexandre, Shane and myself headed up towards ticknock and then on up through the forest to the boneshaker. At this point poor Shane realized that 3 months of no exercise really takes its toll and decided to head for home with a severe case of the jelly legs. The rest of us then headed up the boneshaker to the masts, onwards towards fairy castle turning right towards Kilmashogue halfway up. Then along the side of two rock and out onto the Woca Wocas for some good old fashioned high speed jumpy fun. When we reached the road at the bottom we make an executive decision that the road home from Enniskerry would be no fun in that wind and so headed off right till we got to tibradden and did a few tracks there before heading off into cruagh wiht a little stream crossing that left us all wiht wet feet (Raul nearly fell in, and Alex went over the bars on his way across!). A few muddly tracks in Cruagh later and Seans bike was left standing artistically on its handlebars as he tumbled over them on the drop into the carpark. My kingdom for a camera!

Next we headed for masseys for a few jumps and drops where comedy/style moment of the day went to Alex who went over the bars at the top of one drop, yet somehow managed to land on his feet and continue running the rest of the way down! Very impressive composure give that the rest of us normally land on our faces!

All in all a great day out with no rain, injuries or breakages to report.

Paddy

Hey all,

Due to the usual inability to decide beforehand, we’re continuing the trend of having a magical mytery tour on sunday. The only decision made so far is that we’re meeting at the yellow house at 10am and will take it from there.

Bring enough food and water to keep you goign for the day in case we decide to make it a long trip, or even in case in just turns into a long trip! Either way there should be opportunities to turn for home at various points along the way if you get tired or don;t have the time for a full days ride.

Hope to see lots of you there. This should also see the return of the man known by some as Shane (well ..known by all as Shane actually). He’ll have many tales to tell of hospital waiting rooms, stitches and also frightening stuff about solicitors fees when moving house.

Paddy

Hey everybody,

There will be a Saturday spin on the 5th of November! Steve and Bjoern
will lead a hopefully big group!

If its rainy, we will just do a small spin, staying in the forests as
much as possible. The spin is suitable for everyone! We really would
like to have everybody out this saturday,so that we can show the weather
and the mountains, that it cant stop MADmtb! If the weather is nice,
warm or just not wet, we will go up to fairy castle and decide how
adventurous we are feeling from there. This will be great fun! Remember
the day, when Steve got stuck into a deep Mud hole!

Meeting will be as usual 10 am at the yellow house or 10:45 ticknock car
park, for those people with heavy kona bikes

For any Questions or a chat you can contact Bjoern 087 6918087

Looking forward to see you ALL out there,

Steve and Bjoern

We’re going to head to Kippure on Sunday - haven’t decided on the route yet but it’s mostly “up”. If you don’t feel up to that you can come along for the first half of the spin with will be over Tibradden or Masseys - that’ll be manageable for everyone. Either way we’ll meet at the Yellow House at 10am and take it from there. There are rumours that “Nashville” O’ Dowd will be making a special appearance on the day.

Nigel is leading our club ride this Sunday. It’ll be a fairly long spin but people can opt out halfway if you like (except Steve). It’ll start in Masseys Wood, then up over Cruagh to the Military Road. From there the route is along the side of Glencree Valley to Cloon Wood and finally on to Crone Wood. Probably taking the easy route back on the road. Meet up at the Yellow House at 10am and contact Nigel with any questions.