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Winter weekends biking – tell us your stories!
154 years ago
by Fergal
in Uncategorized
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…
Sunny weekends biking
164 years ago
by Fergal
in Uncategorized
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…
Ladies XC MTB training course!
04 years ago
by Fergal
in Uncategorized
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.
Spins this week: The return of Nigel!!
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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
First Trailbuilding Session of 2008
164 years ago
by Fergal
in trailbuilding
I knew you were all waiting eagerly for this one so here we go.
If we don’t get something like the picture above built I’ll be very disappointed.
Well, not really but we’ll get as much done as we can.
Venue is 3rock and the date is Saturday 19 Jan 2008.
People will likely be making it up at different times so whenever you can make it up that’d be great, just don’t wait until it’s dark!
We’ll be toughening up some sections near the upper aerials (eg; Satellite Run) to make them more schlomp-free so they remain usable even in soggy conditions.
Depending on availability of wood, there’ll be some woodwork required too, the lead-in to the trail that Scrivo & Cormac & the lads built is fairly wrecked so could do with an extension of the bridge they built – we’ll see how it goes.
There’s amap below showing the various locations – just to be clear, we’ll target getting Locations 1 and 2 done on Saturday.
Tools of the day will be buckets, shovel, rake.
Check out the work locations map here
Thanks for your help!
Fergal
MAD Club Champs 2007 video
114 years ago
by Fergal
in Uncategorized
Well, here it is, it has driven me into near-dementia trying to put it together
as my editing software is rubbish, so this is as much as I can put together without throwing the computer outta the window.
I tried the YouTube route and the video ends up looking rubbish so it is linked-off the picture below.
Give it time to download and then watch it.
Alternatively, download the AVI file here, but note it will expire on Thurs 8th Jan.
If someone wants to upload the file to a faster server then by all means give it a go.
If you don’t see yourself in it, then you were obviously going way too fast, slow down, have a mince pie….
Fergal
MAD Club Champs 2007
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You voted, we listened, and Saturday Dec 1st will be the day for the ultimate MTB & mince pie event of the year! Meet at Taylors car park at 10.30 for a leisurely ride up to the race venue.
Checkout the Race Route here
The event will consist of a wickedly handicapped race with various challenges afterwards. Fancy dress is encouraged and will be worth your while. Anyone who shows up on an incorrect bike (BMX, shopper, recumbent etc.) will also be richly rewarded.
We will then be retiring to Taylors Three Rock pub for some finger-food (food made from real fingers) and refreshments.
After we’ve been cocktail-sausaged-up, we’ll be having our AGM, where we’ll be reviewing the year, previewing next year, and of course, handing over the Club Champs trophy to the worthy winner, we’ll also be giving out prizes for various ‘acheivements’ throughout the year.
We look forward to seeing you there on the day, and on the night also, when we’ll be meeting in the Bull and Castle pub at approx. 8pm for a night of talking about how most of us were crually denied our opportunity to be Club Champs and othersuch guff.
Trailbuilding for Club Champs: Sat 17th Nov
154 years ago
by Fergal
in trailbuilding
New section added by Richie and Fergal today – think we’ll call it “satellite run” after the dish we found there:
It’s just down from the upper aerials, veer into the right as you approach the large aerial and over the hump and into the left.
We did some work on an existing section just down from this new section – cleared the trail a bit and added some hardcore in soft areas.
If anyone is looking to do some trailbuilding over the weekend – the lower trail could do with some more hardcore in the muddy areas, also the “satellite run” trail could do with some hardcore added just near the end of the singletrack where it soft/muddy.
Howdy all,
Part 2 of our trailbuilding escapades sees us prepaing a course section for our Club Champs. Appreciate if you can make it out for a few hours, we got a great two sections done the last time so hopefully we’ll add another option or two to the list.
Tools:
Mostly strong/yard brushes and rakes.
Spade, loppers also useful.
I’ll be up there from approx 9am
Put a post here or text me on 087-792-7730 if you can make it out
Thanks
Fergal
Week & Weekends biking
12Ok MAD
drop us a comment and let us know what ye got up to.
Graham – send me a pic of that monster dog please, that was one of the spin highlights – all 20 stone of fur and droopy eyes and wobbly jowels on him —
and the sideways face shredding hail and wind and sleet blowing us off the sleepers -
can’t wait to see that pic…
See everyone?
See the cool stuff you miss out on when you don’t go out on weekend spins??!!!
…and your week-spins too…..put them here…
