A message from some Tour de France cyclists (VIDEO)
A video has been produced featuring a number of top cyclists, which hammers home the message to fans to exercise caution when spectating at races. The video features amongst others, Vincenzo Nibali, John Degenkolb, Tejay van Garderen, Nairo Quintana, Alberto Contador and Tom Boonen. The number of incidents occuring at top level races seems to be increasing year-on-year with a...
Watch the highlights of the final stage of An Post Rás
Aidis Kruopis (An Post Chain Reaction) stormed to a final stage victory on this year’s An Post Rás winning an electrifying sprint to the line ahead of Davide Vigano (Team IDEA) and county rider, Damian Shaw (Louth Team Asea), who finished in second and third place. The glory, however, belonged to Lukas Postlberger as the Tirol Cycling Team rider...
“Despite the pain and torture it’s been a great week” – Mick Leonard’s An Post Rás diary
By Mick Leonard Well, I'm glad to be sitting here as a Man of the Rás! As per usual, today was another tough fight. My neck is quite stiff from the many lineouts over the last few days where you're buried on the drops and pushing as hard as you can just to hold that wheel. The pace at which...
Kruopis sprints to final stage victory as Postlberger is crowned An Post Rás 2015 Champion
Aidis Kruopis (An Post Chain Reaction) stormed to a final stage victory on this year’s An Post Rás winning an electrifying sprint to the line ahead of Davide Vigano (Team IDEA) and county rider, Damian Shaw (Louth Team Asea), who finished in second and third place. The glory, however, belonged to Lukas Postlberger as the Tirol Cycling Team rider...
How much does a beard affect you on the bike?
We recently heard somebody asking the question as to how much having a beard increases drag on the bike. Facial hair has gotten more and more common, with the likes of Bradley Wiggins and Luca Paolini growing beards in recent years. Numerous aspect of bikes, clothing and position have been studied to try and develop the optimum position and equipment...
The Giro d’Italia winner who fought and died for his country
By Graham Healy One hundred years ago today, Italy became involved in World War One, when they fired their first shots at the Austro-Hungarian positions Cervignano del Friuli, which was captured a few hours later. An estimated 1,000,000 Italian soldiers and civilians would die during the war. Amongst those who would go and to fight and die for his country...
Massive win for Michael O’Loughlin in Trophée Centre Morbihan
Michael O'Loughlin of Nicolas Roche Performance Team Magnet.ie took an incredible victory this morning in the 2nd stage of the Trophée Centre Morbihan in Brittany. The race is one of the biggest junior races in the world. The stage was a 7.2-km time trial from Réguiny to Naizin, and the young Irishman won the stage by 1" from Russian Nikolai...
Watch highlights of Stage 7 of An Post Rás
Austrian rider Andreas Mueller (Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam) staved off a lung busting performance by Mullingar man Damien Shaw (Louth Team ASEA) to emerge victorious on stage seven of An Post Rás today in Drogheda. The duo jumped the lead breakaway of eight riders with only one kilometre to go, going head to head up the final ascent to the...
“A thousand quid hanging out the back pocket of the lad in front wouldn’t have gotten me over any quicker” – Mick Leonard’s An Post Rás diary
By Mick Leonard Today was another extremely hard day. It was probably the combination of the heat and it being the queen stage but it was a fight from the start. I would have loved a downpour as I was finding the heat unsustainable. I rode most of the stage with the jersey completely open - not very aero...
Austrian Mueller digs deep to hold off Irishman Shaw and claim stage seven An Post Rás Victory
Austrian rider Andreas Mueller (Hrinkow Advarics Cycleangteam) staved off a lung busting performance by Mullingar man Damien Shaw (Louth Team ASEA) to emerge victorious on stage seven of An Post Rás today in Drogheda. The duo jumped the lead breakaway of eight riders with only one kilometre to go, going head to head up the final ascent to the...
Mark Cavendish Tests the 2015 UCI Road World Championship Circuit (VIDEO)
Former World Champion Mark Cavendish went to Richmond to recon the 2015 UCI Road World Championship road circuit. He rode the course at dawn with a police escort after stopping on his way home from the Tour of California. "It's harder than Denmark," Cavendish told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "There’s a lot of 90 degree corners, which there wasn't so many...
Brazilian rider Murilo Fischer wears helmet in honour of Ayrton Senna
The eleventh stage of the Giro d'Italia finished at the motor racing track at Imola (Autodromo Ferrari), where the San Marino Grand Prix takes place. Twenty one years ago, tragedy struck at the Grand Prix. During qualifying on the Saturday, the Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger crashed head-on into a wall at over 310 km/h at the Villeneuve corner after his...