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2010 Offroad season preview
Jan 30
Here is a link to some photos taken at the 2009 Offroad AGM NPS presentation:
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| 2009 NPS trophy presentations |
Below are the riders who placed Top 5 in their respective categories in the 2009 XC NPS, who will be receiving their awards at the 2009 National Points Series Prize giving ceremony.
Additionally – special recognition trophies will be awarded will be presented to the following Sports riders (note that Sports category was not included in the overall league awards):
David Hickey (u/a) and Paul Barry (IMBRC) for their dedication in racing at all 7 events in 2009, and also to Mark McGauley (MADMTB) for his self-promotion from Sports after winning NPS Rnd.1 and his subsequent performance in Masters category where he improved on nearly every previous race result.
It is expected that riders who have performed well and gained experience in racing the Sports category in 2009 will proceed to enjoy racing in their various age categories in 2010 and subsequent years.
Congratulations to those riders for their excellent performances and big thanks to all riders for continuing to support the XC NPS. Looking forward to seeing you (and of course new bikers too!) racing in 2010.
Regards
Cycling Ireland Offroad Commission.
2009 XC NPS results Excel file
Elite Men – 1 – Peter Buggle – Rocky Mountain
Elite Men – 2 – Robin Seymour – WORC
Elite Men – 3 – Aidan McDonald – Revolution bike pure
Elite Men – 4 – Gerry McCabe – Cuchulainn CC
Elite Men – 5 – Evan Ryan – Team WORC
Master – 1 – Oisin Boydell – MAD MTB
Master – 2 – Robert Tobin – IMBRC
Master – 3 – Alfie Wallace – EPIC MTB
Master – 4 – Stuart Galloway – Team WORC
Master – 5 – Oscar Mac Ananey – EPIC MTB
Elite Ladies – 1 – Ciara McManus – U/A
Elite Ladies – 2 – Jackie O’Hagan – MAD MTB
Elite Ladies – 3 – Valerie O’Neill – Dromara CC
Elite Ladies – 4 – Silvia Gallagher – EPIC MTB
Elite Ladies – 5 – Melanie Spath – MAD MTB
Expert – 1 – Ray O’Shaughnessy – Bike Pure
Expert – 2 – Dave O’Brien – IMBRC
Expert – 3 – David O’Neill – Swords CC
Expert – 4 – Kevin Stanley – IMBRC
Expert – 5 – Luke Smaul – EPIC MTB
correction made to Junior results:
Junior – 1 – William Boyd – XMTB McConvey Cycles
Junior – 2 – Conal Higgins – Sorrento CC
Junior – 3 – Matthew Cosgrave – Sorrento CC
Junior – 4 – Nick Lannoote – MAD MTB
Junior – 5 – David McKenna – Sorrento CC
Veteran – 1 – William Mulligan – Banbridge CC
Veteran – 2 – Paul McMenamin – Leisure Lakes
Veteran – 3 – Robert Lamont – XMTB McConvey Cycles
Veteran – 4 – John O’Reilly – EPIC MTB
Veteran – 5 – Simon Curry – Banbridge CC
Ladies – 1 – Nicola Oldham – Banbridge CC
Ladies – 2 – Shona D’Arcy – EPIC MTB
Ladies – 3 – Jenny Kilbride – U/A
Ladies – 4 – Maeve O’Grady – EPIC MTB
Ladies – 5 – Julie Rea – Chain Reaction Cycles
U16 – 1 – Matthew Adair – Banbridge CC
U16 – 2 – Robert Scanlon – Team WORC
U16 – 3 – Claire Oakley – XMTB McConvey Cycles
U16 – 4 – Ben Gregory – IMBRC
U16 – 5 – Stuart Ballantine – XMTB McConvey Cycles
U14 – 1 – Chris Oakley – XMTB McConvey Cycles
U14 – 2 – Martin McGauley – Carn Wheelrs
U14 – 3 – Zak Hanna – Dromara CC
U14 – 4 – Dan Runciman – Banbridge CC
U14 – 5 – Robert Deegan – EPIC MTB
U12 – 1 – James Curry – Banbridge CC
U12 – 2 – Eoghan O’Reilly – EPIC MTB
U12 – 3 – Richard Baird – Banbridge CC
U12 – 4 – Joseph Baird – Banbridge CC
U12 – 5 – Shannon Buller – Banbridge CC
U10 – 1 – John Buller – Banbridge CC
U10 – 2 – Shenna McKiverigan – Banbridge CC
U10 – 3 – Ben Hanna – Dromara CC
U10 – 4 – Fergal McConvey – Newry Whs
U10 – 5 – Stuart Dunlop – Banbridge CC
U10 – 5 – Cian May – EPIC MTB
U8 – 1 – Mark Buller – Banbridge CC
U8 – 2 – Drew Armstrong – Dromara CC
U8 – 3 – Jack Baird – Banbridge CC
U8 – 4 – Niamh McKiverigan – Banbridge CC
U8 – 5 – Craig McCarthy – Castlereagh CC
2009 National Points Series Prize Giving
Cross Country & Downhill
Saturday 10th October, 7pm,
Residents lounge of the Cavan Crystal Hotel,
Dublin Road, Cavan Town, County Cavan
Prizes for top five in NPS Categories.
Finger food will be provided.
Cycling Irelands Championship Awards & Membership Awards will be taking place at 9:00 in the main banquet hall of the hotel. Followed by a Band & DJ.
Some bike related activities are being arranged during the day, details to follow.
Should anyone wish to stay over night in the Hotel they are offering a special rate of €75.00BB per person sharing. This rate will include a Full Irish Breakfast, complimentary use of luxurious bathrobes during your stay, full use of Zest Health & Fitness Club, Utopia Beauty Clinic & Azuma Hair Salon. (Ask for Riona when booking). www.cavancrystalhotel.com
There are other accommodation options available here: http://www.cavantourism.com/html/accom.asp
Any enquires to offroad.commission@gmail.com / seanherlihy38@googlemail.com
2009 XC NPS Round 8 Photos
Jul 13
- Arek’s photos on Picasa
- Dave’s photos on Picasa
- Lee’s photos in the EPIC gallery
- Shay Barry’s photos in the IMBRC gallery
Professional photographs from X-Eventsonline will be online soon.
The Cycling Ireland Offroad Commission is pleased announce that the D.U.R.T. laptop timing system introduced this year for NPS rider registration and race-timing has demonstrated excellent capability over the space of the past 4 NPS races where the hosting clubs (Madigan CC, MADMTB, XMTB, EPICMTB) have embraced and utilised the system very successfully.
As a measure of accuracy, in terms of recording of recording NPS lap times, a comparison of the lap-times from Red Tag Timing to those of the Senior categories lap times for NPS # 8 resulted in a match rate of 99.97% which is a very effective demonstration of capability.
I would like to extend our thanks firstly to Gav Doran from EPICMTB who originally sourced and demonstrated the sytem to the Offroad Commission, and of course the hosting clubs for adopting this new system and proving it’s value to the Irish XC NPS racing scene.
Gav also advised the Offroad Commission on the Active Europe on-line signon/registration system which again has been extremely valuable in saving clubs a lot of admin hours and hassle which has reduced the on-the-day registration by approx 60% over the past few NPS races which is a great help to the hosting clubs and also means reduced sign-on queues/wait times.
In review, there have been many great learnings from the 2009 XC NPS season which we intend to carry-through into 2010 and beyond and continue our drive to increase race numbers, promote XC MTB racing, and make every year even more successful and enjoyable for XC racers.
Special thanks to all the sponsors, hosting clubs and the racers who spend the time and effort to prepare, travel and attend the events!
Regards,
Fergal Kilkenny on behalf of Cycling Ireland Offroad Commission
offroad.commission@gmail.com
Great action and super organisation from the EPICMTB-hosted final round of the 2009 XC NPS.
See below PDF file links for the timing results-
Master/Elite men/ladies/Expert, Veteran, Junior
Under Age results:
Under 12:
James Curry
Richard Baird
Shannon Buller
Joe Baird
Under 10:
John Buller
Cian May
Shenna McKievergan
Under 8:
Mark Buller
Drew Armstrong
Jack Baird
Niamh McKievergan
Chris Curry
James Buller
Thanks and a huge well done to all who came out and raced today.
On-line sign-on is now open for this event!
Click HERE to sign-on.
Please ensure to enter online as this helps the hosting club a huge amount in the administration and organisation of the race.
EPIC will be running an Introduction to XC racing in Djouce Woods on 12th july 2009.
Its one lap of the NPS course.
Its approx 7k long, technical and extremely enjoyable.
It will kick off at 12.00 along with the Sports racers.
Its €5 to enter, but you must get a one day licence on the day which is €15 .
This event is designed to test yourself and your ability to race or just have the craic, bear in mind that it this course is one of the most challenging XC NPS courses. Djouce being one of the finest places to ride your mountainbike.
Don’t miss it!
There might even be Prizes !!
Sign-on starts at 9.00 on the day.
EPICMTB
UPDATE:
On-line sign-on is now open for this event- click HERE.
Please ensure to enter online as this helps the hosting club a huge amount in the administration and organisation of the race.
The final XC NPS race of the year (NPS round Eight) is being ran in Djouce Woods, Co Wicklow by EPICMTB on July 12th 2009.
The 2009 NPS has been the most successful and hotly contested XC NPS in years and all riders are focussing their energies on putting their best performances in for this last race.
Richie Byrne and his team of expert trailbuilders have been very busy mattocking, raking, lopping and shovelling some amazing additions and extensions to an already excellent MTB venue that is Djouce woods.
Djouce is undoubtedly one of the best venues in Ireland to ride and race your mountainbike, and this year’s course is will pay testament to that.
The course for NPS 8 is a different one to previous years, with the emphasis as usual on technical riding and almost DH style descents.
EPICMTB believe if it’s not hard and it’s not fun, then it’s not worth doing.
This course is 100% rideable, fast and twisty in places with only one handy fireroad and the hard-working club have built at least 4 new sections.
You will love it.
EPICMTB are also running a one lap Introductory category alongside the sports race for complete beginners.
The start will be in farmer Keegan’s adjacent to the lower car park, big thanks to Michael Keegan for letting the club use his field again.
Red Tag Timing will once again be looking after the timing, MTB Philanthropist Mark Kenny and K Capital Source are sponsoring the event.
Course preview:
From the field, the course will take you up XTC and left to the middle car park, then over the humps beside the road, Robin used for his Djouce Trail Challenge, then there’s a right hander into a new stretch of single track called Vertex.
This twists through the trees and comes back out on to part of the existing trail but straight away turns right onto the start of one of the fastest singletrack anywhere.
After a good long blast you come onto Robin’s Catskin trail – a bit of off camber mayhem and then on to the double track on the side of the dried up lake.
Then its rightwards and onto the walking track with the short steep climb, then a hairpin right on to an old, old singletrack that leads you to a bit of a fierce singletrack climb, this is the start of Supernova, which will bring you up and on to an area of felled forest
Across this at a gallop until a fast descent brings you back own on to the walking track, then its a lefthander back along the walking track and then a handy right on to an old DH track built by either Ross Rosengrave or Keith Brock or maybe both.
Its deadly, watch the roots.
Then back on to another old track, called Gwangi..along this and up towards the middle car park before turning left on to LimeJuicer hold on to your hats!
Then right back on to Gwangi at warp speed, before a sketchy fast left turn on to steep track with another almost immediate left hand turn and in to Fartknocker.
Take the turns fast and drifty till you drop steeply on to a fireroad, then right away on to the savage climb made famous by the K Cap Cup last year, up over the jump and back on to Gwangi again, then down on to the fireroad climb for a rest.
Up towards the lower car park before hanging a right beneath XTC and up the double track..then onto another Robin trail Bulldog but only for a short time before you take a quick left and on to Screwtop and a singletrack climb back up on to the doubletrack, and away you go back up to the finish line.
You have to do this race even just to ride the amazing course.
Sign on will be available online and on the day from 9:00am
Schedule:
Sign-on opens at 9.00am
Youth races start at 11.00
Sports, Under 14, under 16 and Introductobots at 12.00
Elite men 1.30
Elite ladies 1.31
Experts 1.32
Juniors 1.33
Vets 1.34
Masters 1.35
Thanks to the Offroad Commission of Cycling Ireland, Coillte, Mark Kenny, Grange Motors for their support in running this event.
