Sean Kelly Tour of the Midlands

Sunday 13^th October 2013

The Irish Heart Foundation is calling on cycle enthusiasts to join Sean Kelly for his first ever Tour of the Midlands

Register now for €35 – Registration closes on Friday 4^th October

There will be three routes

120k Slieve Bloom

80k Kelly Cut

And 12k Family Spin

For additional information click Here

Cycling News Connacht

The AGM of Cycling Connacht will take place in the Dalton Inn Hotel Claremorris on Monday 4th November 2013 commencing at 8pm.

MOTIONS.

Motions for discussion at the AGM should be sent to me by e-mail or normal post to arrive not later than 6pm on Monday 7th October 2013.

DELEGATES

Each club affiliated to Cycling Connacht for more than 6 months is allowed 2 voting delegates at the AGM

Admission to the AGM is confined to persons with a current valid CI licence.

NOMINATIONS

Nominations are sought for the following positions

Chairman.  Secretary.  Treasurer. Technical Officer.  Sporting Rep.  Development Rep. Riders Rep. Mountainbike Rep.  Leisure Rep. and Underage Rep.

Nominations should be sent to me by e-mail or normal post to arrive not later than 6pm on Monday 7th. October 2013.

Nominations in order to be valid should contain the following information

1    The name of the person nominated.

2    The position that he/she is being nominated for.

3    His/her proposer

4    His/ her seconder.

5    A declaration that the person nominated is aware of the nomination and prepared to accept it

Connacht Hill Climb Championships will take place on

 Lallys Mountain Tourmakeady on

 Saturday next 14th. September

Sign on 10am to 11am

Start  11.15 am

Categories  U-12 to A1

Changing facilities at Tourmakeady GAA centre.

Time Trial courtesy of The Bike Shop

The Bike Shop Roscommon




One Cog,One Bike, One Hill
Part of the Knockcrochery fair, September 21st.
Time Trial, 100m dash up Corbooly Hill on a High Nelly.
First prize for the quickest climb is €50
There will also be spot prizes on the day

Swim Cycle Run

SwimCycleRun.com is an internet based multisport store set up in 2013 to supply sports equipment at prices to rival places like Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles. They are an Irish based company in Athy and are at present sponsoring a number of athletes. They give free next day delivery to Ireland and have contacted me offering Kilteevan Wheelers an additional 5% discount on their internet stock. All you need to avail of this discount is to contact either Kieran or myself to get the discount code. I will ask Kieran to forward the code on to everyone by email. I have had a quick look at the site and I believe I will be back to support them. I have to say I'm always up for supporting companies that give a little back to the community. For a link to their website click Here and pick up some bargains.

The Falling Leaves Tour

Takes place 22nd September in aid of the Irish Pilgrimage Trust. You can get some information on their activities by clicking Here

It's hard to get rid of a bad thing

Hi All Sorry for not keeping this blog up to date. I'm afraid I have not been cycling as much as I would have liked and putting information up depends on the information feed. For those of you that might be a little slow that means you need to feed me information if you want something more that my fanciful ramblings.

First off I must apologise to a couple of cyclists that turned up for the 1130 cycle last Sunday only to find themselves all alone. I'm afraid I went out a bit early (missed the 9am cycle, someone above was obviously looking out for me). Kilteevan cycling has been up in a heap over the last few weeks (The Gathering, Church celebrations and Cemetery Sunday) That said it should not have happened and hopefully will not happen again.

I have no doubt that the usual suspects will be out and about at 9am Sunday. I on the other hand will have more sense and make the 1130. Needless to say weather permitting and hoping that some other senseless cyclists will join me for a short 100k or so (short being 40k to 60k) or whatever we can fit in.

I would like to say a big Thank You to all those involved in organising the Baby Sandra cycle today. It was a great turn out and very well provisioned. It pains me to say that either I need more time in the saddle or a softer saddle.

Well that's enough of my rambling I will put up some details of the Falling Leaves Tour in the next day or two (it's on 22^nd September)