Mountainbiking Association of Dublin

The AGM of the Cycling Ireland Offroad Commission will take place at 1pm on December 9th at the Glenn Cormac Inn, Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow.

Any club wishing to submit a motion to the AGM must do so in writing or by email. Motions must be received by the chairman at least one week prior to the AGM (Saturday 1st December).

The proposed agenda is as follows

1. Chairman’s welcome
2. Minutes of 2006 AGM
3. Matters arising from 2006 minutes
4. Off Road Commission Reports
5. Questions regarding reports
6. Elections
7. Motions
8. AOB

See the full announcement and minutes of last years meeting below.

Before the AGM. All attending are invited to take part in a ride out to celebrate the opening of the new trails at Ballinastoe. Anyone interested should meet at the car park at 10am.

Every year, about this time, people start to ask for advice on which lights to buy. I’ve put a page on the website giving an overview of the technologies available - but we need your help. We’d like you to review your own lights and send us your honest opinions - what’s good, what’s OK and what should be avoided at all costs.

I expect to AT LEAST hear back from Oliver, Martin, Ronan, Fergal, both Steves and Paddy.

Please send on the following details:

I’ve added a review of my own to get things started:
http://www.madmtb.com/night_rides.html#reviews

Well folks,

While some are off to scotland battling their way through haggis, deep fried pizza and cans of Iron Bru, a rival idea has sprung up regarding a trip to the alps. We’ve actually been thinking of it for ages but lazyness and procrastination mean we’re only trying to get it organised now.

Info as follows:
Dates: 1st Sept till the 8th or 9th (return not yet confirmed).
Flights: Aer Lingus to Geneva (looking around 170 or 180 euro each including taxes)
Bikes: Think its an extra 30 euro each way.
Types of bikes: Bouncy full sus type bikes would be best
Accomodation: Some form of self catering chalet thing. Depends on numbers. Maybe 100 - 150 for the week.
Transfers: Again .. around 30 euro each way or something.
Food and Drink: we’ll probably consume lots of it

So far its myself, Oisin and Dutch Robb confirmed. (note that i’ll be much slower than the other two so it doesn’t matter what level you’re at)

Can anyone seriously interested in coming along let me know by email ASAP. All levels welcome. There’s ski lifts to take us uphill and gravity to take us back down so we can just keep hooning around all week and meet up in cafes/pubs/medical centres etc.

Paddy

The latest batch of jerseys have been delivered. I hope to distribute these to everyone over the next week or so.

IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID YET PLEASE DO SO TODAY!!!

For a preview of the final round of the KCapital Cup series,
checkout the homepage of the soon-to-be-officially-released Irish XC MTB website!

None other than your MADMTB Club Secretary is the webmaster for this site, so please drop me a mail if you think there’s information that you would like to see on this site.

Cheers
Fergal

Hi,

The deadline for ordering and paying your deposits was yesterday, so thanks to all who have done so already.
As we’re still short on fleece orders, I’m offering one last chance to everyone, extending the deadline until this evening (Monday) to order either fleeces or hoodies.

Order will be placed first thing tomorrow morning!

Don’t forget, you can also order your club jersies from Morgan.

Sean
Email me!

Due to overwhelming demand we are going to place another MAD jersey order. The available styles are long sleeved (as modelled by Sean above), short sleeved, Billy-Ray Cyrus style sleeveless and a new windproof version. You also have the option of custom text on the back.

Update: a downhill style jersey is also available in long and short sleeved versions, looking something like this (warning, contains students).

If you’re unsure of your size I’d recommend trying on someones jersey to check. Unfortunately Owayo are not doing a womens-specific cut yet. The final cost will depend on the number of jerseys ordered but should be in the region of €45 (or less).

If you’d like to order please send me the following details by Tuesday, March 27th.

Name:
Phone number:
Email address:
Style: long XC / short XC / sleeveless / windproof / long DH / short DH (style info)
Size: S / M / L / XL / XXL / 3XL / 4XL (sizing info)
Text: Anything you like, one per jersey

For post-riding wear, don’t forget to check out Sean’s hoodies and fleeces below.

Hello,

With the spring racing season upon us, we’ve finally got around to organising something which has been asked about for a while - club fleeces and hoodies.

The apparel will be black in colour, with the logo of your club embroidered on it for a high class finish.
Sizes XS to 3XL are available, and garments are of the “unisex” variety.
Fleeces will have a full length zip.

Prices will likely be in the region of €35 for hoodies and €45 for the fleeces.
A deposit of €25 will be required per garment, to be collected at the rides and race this weekend.
Orders will be taken by email this week, and in person (Me!) at the race on Sunday.
Closing date for orders will be Sunday 25th March next.

As usual, production can only take place if we order a sufficient amount, and the more we order, the cheaper they become for everybody.
Regards,

Sean

woohoo.downey@gmail.com

a near perfect imprint of my watch on my wrist! Seriously though, i’m very lucky as it could have been a lot worse especailly if i hadn’t worn my helmet as i landed head and face first.

Thanks for all the messages etc … will reply when i get a chance but it turns out i’m highly non ambidextrous so it’ll take some time. Paddy

*** EDIT ***
more photos now up here