Ride in the Sun with Sean Kelly
You don’t want to miss this. Ride in Mallorca this October and escape the winter blues. (sponsored article) The tour is for those that want an end of season cycling training camp and for those that want to escape the rain of October and enjoy guided cycling rides. You can also get a chance to ride […]
How To Pedal Like a Pro by Paddy Doran
Paddy Doran, High performance cycling coach and tutor. Trainer to multiple winner of Ras Tailteann, Ras Mumhan, Tour of Ulster, International and professional riders. When you look at the Tour de France or other great bike races do you notice how smoothly the riders pedal? Most of the great cyclists have the ability to spin the pedals at […]
Mont Ventoux Challenge
You’ve completed all the usual events on home soil and you’re looking for something a little bit different, a new challenge. Mont Ventoux, in the south of France, might just be the mountain you’re looking for. (Sponsored Article.) Featured fifteen times in the Tour de France, The Giant of Provence, as it is known, is […]
Rás Tailtean
One Saturday afternoon in September 1953, 52 riders lined up for the start of the first Rás. As they took to the roads, the concept of a national Irish bike race became a reality. The race has developed into a much sought after event by professional and amateur teams from many parts of the world. […]
What To Expect on Your First Sportive
So, you’ve bought the bike and all the gear, you’ve achieved a reasonable level of fitness and competence on the bike and the saddle has finally moulded itself to the contours of your butt. Now you want to take it to the next level. Maybe it’s time to enter your first sportive. A sportive is […]
Achieve Your Cycling Goals With Coach Paddy Doran
Paddy Doran is a level 3 cycling Ireland coach and Level 2 Coach tutor. A former Cycling Ireland Coach of the year and Coaching Ireland Tutor of the year. Recently he was head coach of the very successful Cycling Ireland High performance development coaching programme. He has recently produced an excellent booklet, Introduction To […]
Mike “Iron Man” Murphy
Legend of the Rás Tailtean, Mike “Iron man” Murphy ate raw steak and drank cows blood, sometimes during a race. He slept in haybarns and worked out with home made weights made from rocks. A fire eater, wrestler, bricklayer and all round circus performer, he won the Rás Tailtean – in those days a major […]
Set & achieve your cycling goals for 2019
Most of us start the New year with the best of intentions. Gyms are at their busiest at the start of January every year, but as the month goes on the numbers get gradually fewer and fewer as people lose their motivation. Goal setting has been shown to help athletes stay motivated and indeed, perform […]
Q & A with Bike Fitter Aidan Hammond
Aidan Hammond is one of the country’s most experienced bike-fitters, with over 20 years’ experience. He is also a qualified Physical Therapist and Level 3 Cycling Ireland Coach and Tutor. Aidan, from your experience both as a Physical Therapist and a bike fitter, who do you think would benefit from a bike fit? Pretty much […]
Waterford Greenway First Impressions
Build it and they will come. That’s the message we took away from our first visit to Waterford’s impressive new Greenway. There were gangs of Scouts on bikes, daddys’ showing their kids how to cycle safely, mums pulling kids on bike trailers, cyclists and hikers of all ages. Granted, the sun was splitting the stones when we […]
Cycling In Riccione, Italy.
After years of talking about it and more than one false start, myself and a couple of cycling buddies finally got our act together and ticked one more thing off our bucket list: a cycling holiday in sunnier climes. It was to Italy we headed, or more specifically to Riccione, on the Adriatic Coast. […]
It’s Time To Challenge Media Bias Against Cyclists
We simply cannot allow the media bias against cyclists to go unchallenged. It is costing lives. In 2015 over 28,000 people were detected by Gardai holding a mobile phone while driving a motor vehicle. That’s an average 76 people every day. You are 4 times more likely to have an accident if holding a phone while driving. […]