MAD May weekend biking activities
Well now,
This weekend we have 2 spins on Saturday:
10am at Leadmines being organised by Martin, meet at:Palmers Golden Ball pub
4pm spin up 3 rock being led by Barry, meet at Taylors pub
I’ll be foraging through the undergrowth once again searching-out new trails
at 10am up 3 rock until approx 2pm, anyone who wants to join me is most welcome,call me on 087-792-7730.
My plan is to create a longer/alternate route from the new section (christened “rock-n-roll”). This route will meet-up with an existing trail which in turn will lead to the large lower section of forest.
Tools required are mainly loppers and rake, Lidl may still have some cheap loppers in stock.
On Sunday we have the 2nd round of the NPS XCO league in Ballinastoe.
No details received as yet about the race, but once I do get any info, I’ll post it at Irish XC MTB website.
Hope to see ye out at some stage
Fergal
May 4th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Hi,
If anyone has any car space on Sunday, myself (Tallaght/BallymountM50) and Ryan & Mel (Dundrum) are all looking for lifts.
Any help greatly appreciated by all.
Cheers,
Sean
May 4th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
All
I can provisionally give lifts on Sunday to 2 people but as race information is a bit thin on the ground I’m going to wait until tomorrow around 6 to say yay or nay.
John
May 4th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
oh and i’ll have room for 2 in the morning to leadmines.coming from city centre. text 0879800432
May 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
John, was that you in the white van who passed (a much bemused) me on Wednesday while flashing headlights and waving frantically?
I was expecting there to be aliens crossing around the next corner….
Sean
May 4th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
john,
i’ll bring your club shorts to the race on sunday
Paddy
May 4th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Sean
I don’t think it was me unless you drive a red taxi or a black BMW in which case I’m very sorry for the blaring of horns and hand gestures…
Hurrah for new shorts!!
May 4th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Is anyone heading out for a preride tomorrow? I wanted to get a headsup on the course so I can start quick
Let me know (email is always good) if anyone can offer a lift… (I hate not having a car!!!)
May 5th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
does anyone know wat time the sign in is at for the race tomorrow?
May 5th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I’m assuming 10 oclock or so, same as other races.
I still have a lift on offer if anyone wants it.
May 6th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Not sure of today’s placing in the B’stoe NPS but both Shane and Inga scored 3rd places so great racing there!!
Well done to eveyone else who raced
- wow, there was a serious amount of punctures, mechanicals, and blood-letting, nearly glad I missed it!!
Me like an eejit thought it was all over when people started heading off, but they actually had the results available so they did the prize giving etc…sorry Inga!
Heard there was some dispute re; incorrect Sports results but we’ll wait on Andy Potts official report/results and see what the craic was.
I was bottle boy for the day with a broken bike
Rob H, Robb and myself got some good work done on Saturday up 3 rock extending the new MAD trail, a small bridge needs to be built but pretty much all of the rest of it is finished - looking forward to a spin on it soon!!
May 7th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Results from yesterday
http://www.irishcycling.com/publish/news/art_2345.shtml
May 8th, 2007 at 9:25 am
some fantastic results there people.
ryan 2nd elite men, inga 3rd and mel 4th in elite women, Oisin and Sean 5th and 7th in experts, Noel 5th in masters, Daniel 4th in sports, with Arek in 9th, graham in 13th (again!) and conor taking 21st in his first ever race followed closely by nigel and cormac.
Well done to everyone who raced … i’m off to find a witch-doctor in the golden pages to get this damn leg fixed
May 8th, 2007 at 10:22 am
ah yeah mention everyone bar me
May 8th, 2007 at 10:40 am
sorry shane, only noticed now that the results thread on mtbireland doesn’t have the underage result on it.
well done!
May 8th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
actually Shane has been the best performing MADster of late! full credit age or not!
Well Done Kiddo!
A force to be reckoned with in the future.
May 8th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
great report on cycling ulster from andy potts.
http://www.cyclingulster.com/index.php?thenewsid=2084&newstable=news
The onyl problem is that now i’m even more annoyed at missing it
May 8th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Some photos from the race on sunday.
http://picasaweb.google.com/cnahern/NPSBallinastoe
May 8th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
And a couple more from saturday
http://picasaweb.google.com/cnahern/Leadmines050507