Archive for category NPS

Photos from XC NPS Round 7 – MAD

Phil McDonagh’s photos

Chris Byrne’s photos

Steve’s photos

Racing 795′s photos

Shane Lavelle’s photos

Tomek’s photos

Ollie Castle’s photos (more)

Aine and Conor’s photos

Irish XC NPS 2010 Rnd. 7 results

Please see link(s) to results:

COMBINED PDF results here

COMBINED Excel results here

U12 results to be posted asap.

Excel file will be supplied when available.
These are provisional results only and have not been adjusted for lapped riders etc..
Further adjustments may be required to the results, when the results are confirmed this post will be updated to advise.

The overall NPS winners will be presented with trophies at the 2010 OffroadAGM.

Irish XC NPS 2010 Rnd. 6 results

Please see link to results here.
PDF version here.

XC NPS 7 course update MADMTB

The MADMTB NPS crew have been busy all this week planning the season finale to the 2010 NPS.
From laptop programming to branch-lopping, all is going to plan!
The bit of rain up on 3Rock this week is expected to have very little effect on the course we
have designed and built for the race.
We have trimmed a few minutes of the original lap time by removing some climbs, accelerating/re-aligning some of the singletrack sections, and raking and smoothing out as many sections as we can.
Our intent is to provide the fastest and most fun course of 2010, and that you don’t even remember the climbs – just all the fun stuff!
We are incorporating one of the driest forest sections in the whole of Ireland – Rock n Roll!
This unique area never gets affected regardless of the weather and is currently dusty dry, a few slower corners have been by-passed to speed-up this whole section.
The open mountain/double track sections have had water channels cut-in and any puddles have been drained off down the hillside, we’ll also will be walking the course on the Saturday with mattocks and spades in hand to tend to any sections.


There is a great variety of trail on offer – rocky techy shallow climb, fast twisting super-dry forest singletrack, a very fast peaty descent through a parted sea of gorse onto downhill sandy singletrack, big wide doubletrack for the overtaking & the rider-up! lark, short sharp kickers to boost you up a bit, darker rooty singletrack bits, roosty bermy sections that you pedal all the way into and out of keeping ‘er on the gas, flat out double-to-singletrack over open mountain with a great view to the Sugarloaf mountain in Wicklow, and a bit of oul flat & climb fireroad for the recovery and energy-gel gulping, I really don’t think we’ve missed a thing!
Just be there!

XC NPS 7 starting grids

Below are the top 10 rider starting grids for NPS Rnd 7 (based off League tables results to date).
Riders will form 2 lines of 5 riders in sequence.

The race commissaire is responsible for using this reference to call riders to their appropriate positions on the grid.

ELITE MEN Grid position: 1= Joseph Mccall ( Best 6 races: 129 points. Total points: 129 0 points behind category leader)
ELITE MEN Grid position: 2= Evan Ryan ( Best 6 races: 104 points. Total points: 104 25 points behind category leader)
ELITE MEN Grid position: 3= Richard Felle ( Best 6 races: 82 points. Total points: 82 47 points behind category leader) Read the rest of this entry »

Irish XC NPS Round 7 MADMTB preview

The 7th and final round of the 2010 Irish XC NPS takes place on Sunday 4th July in the birthplace of Irish mountainbiking – 3Rock Dublin.
3Rock was the place where the Dublin-based legends of the sport, many of them original MADMTB members – Robin Seymour, Darragh Mortimer, Sean Herlihy, Joe McCall, John Pennefather, Rory Walsh, Richie Byrne, Peter Purfield and others – thrashed, crashed and jumped their way into the Hallowed Bible of Irish Offroad Legends.

Back in the day, they ripped around the trails like possessed maniacs, thinking only about the next 30 seconds of trail coming at them, with not a thought that  20 years into the future, most of them would still be at it (maybe less crashing but just as manic).
In recent years, MADMTB has spent many long days and evenings up 3 Rock in all types of brutal and wonderful weather, digging, lopping and clearing new and existing trails by hand to provide top-class singletrack thrills for the Dublin locals and visiting MTBers.
This year, MADMTB have a brand new race course – (no dual-way fireroad this time).
We’ve added some great new superfast singletrack, the combined ‘Sprint’ and ‘Turf Surfer’ trails in particular are very likely the longest and fastest trail section you will ever have raced on in an NPS! (check the video!)


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Photos from XC NPS Round 6 – Dunmore

Owen McManus’ photos

Gavin Magowan’s photos

Vanessa Grimley’s photos

Alan Carolan’s photos

Shane Lavelle’s photos

Online Registration now open for NPS 7 MADMTB

Online Registration is now open for Irish XC NPS 2010 Rnd. 7 on 3Rock mountain Co. Dublin on Sunday 4th July.
Race preview to follow soon, but needless to say, it will be an amazing race on a true MTB course featuring brand new superfast trails, courtesy of MAD Singletrack Engineering Dept.

Click this link or use the form below:


<a href="http://fs17.formsite.com/offroadeventsreg/XCevent/index.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','fs17.formsite.com']);">Click here to complete: XC Event Registration</a>

Irish XC NPS Round 6 details

All the race details are here.
Don’t forget to register online here!

Online Reg. now open for XC NPS 6

Online Registration is now open for Irish XC NPS 2010 Rnd. 6 in Dunmore Mtn, Ballynahinch, Co. Down SATURDAY 26 Jun 2010.
Race preview to follow soon.

Click this link or use the form below:


<a href="http://fs17.formsite.com/offroadeventsreg/XCevent/index.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','fs17.formsite.com']);">Click here to complete: XC Event Registration</a>