XCO NPS Round 5- Killaoe
Mountain Bike UL will host Round 5 of the National Points Series in Ballycuggaran Woods near Killaloe, Co. Clare on Saturday, 16th June.
Practice and sign on begin at 10am. The U14, U16, Juniors, Ladies Sports and Mens Sports races start at 12pm while the Mens Elites, Ladies Elites, Expert, Masters and Veteran races will set off at 1.30pm.
Refreshments will be provided after the race and we hope to have access to the University of Limerick Activity Centre facilities for showers, refreshments and prize-giving.
Parking is available this year in the carpark in the woods and in the carpark opposite the forest entrance. Parking on the fireroad up to the carpark is prohibited.
Map to get to the course is here:
http://www.skynet.ie/~mtbclub/posters/Map_To_Killaloe.gif
Looking forward to a strong MAD turnout and performances!!!
June 4th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
The climb last year was metal but thankfully they’ve taken-off one third of it, sounds like a good course, improved a lot from last year, hope to see ye there!
June 5th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I’ll be there anyway. The course was very different (from everything else) last year. A dirty great big climb followed by an amazing descent. The rain came out for my race last year which meant it was one of the sketchiest descents I’ve done on an XC bike. I think they took a lot of the input from the people who raced last year on board and it should be a great days racing. It’s not *that* far either. About 2:15/2:30 from the south side…
June 5th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Ehh Ryan, what chance do I have if you call it a “dirty great big climb”?!? I’ll be there anyway, walking me thinks! 2 down, going for the hat trick.
Fergal, I found a nice 10ft length of timber fence, should make a cool bridge. Still working on the last few pallets.Salvaged 50+ nails as well so far!
June 6th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Hope to show there up as well, I haven’t been on a single race this year so far…
June 7th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
The climb was actually fine (as in, it wasn’t too steep or technical) it was just that it was pretty long. Although 1/3 of it is chopped off so it will be much much easier
The descent was simply amazing though - I had a huge smile on my face each time down in 
June 7th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
RED BULL Rampage 2004 on Extreme Channel 422 at 10pm tonight Thursday, watch it…
June 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
ok racers - who’s going to this?
this looks like it’s gonna be a good one and we’ll look just sooooper in our shiny new gear, so looking forward to seeing a lot of you on the day!
June 15th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
am i able to become a member of the club at the race tomorrow?
June 16th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I doubt any of the lads will have brought forms with them to the race, but you never know. Of course this information might be of no use since you might be at the race!
June 26th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Photos from XCO NPS Round 5 Killaloe
I have just uploaded them and you can see some here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9275205@N06/