News 2014

Club Road Race Results

Tonight saw the next round of the club road race take place on the Wood Road Circuit in Tobermore. 40 Riders lined up for the 4 laps of the 7 mile circuit on a perfect summers evening for racing where 3 groups set off, with Group 1 and 2 coming together just before the last lap, but Scratch not able to bridge the gap. Big thanks to all the turned out to race, all themarshals and lead car dri...

Marc Heaney - Cycling Ulster squad for Track cycling team

Carn Wheelers U16 rider Marc Heaney has been selected to represent Ulster at the Sainsbury's 2014 UK Schools Games in Manchester from 4th-7th September. He is to represent his province in the Track Cycling events at the Manchester Velodrome as part of a 4 man U16 squad.  As part of the teams preparations for the games they will contest the Irish National Track Championships this Saturda...

Round 4 16th July 2014

Well done to Mairead McGurk (4th) and Gerard Scullion (3rd) in their respective categories at the Interclub race, hosted by Ballymena on 16th July. Well done to all our competitors in this race.   After 4 rounds, there are two Carn Wheelers in the top 10 mens league (Stephen H and Nicky), and Mairead is 4th in the ladies. The Carn Wheelers men’s team...

Sunday Cycle 13th July 2014

Sunday Cycle  13th July 2014   A great turn out of over  two dozen cyclists this week. Too big for just one group, so we set off as two. The general route was Garvagh, Kilrea, Portglenone, Bellaghy, Hillhead, Castledawnson, Magherafelt, Destermartin, Draperstown, Moneyneena, Tobermore and home to Maghera,   although some intrepids did take a de...

No Club Cycle this Friday or Saturday

Folks,  sorry for any disappointment, but there will be no Youth&Ladies cycle on this Friday (11th July), and no Kids MTB spin on Saturday (12th July). ...

MTB Epic this Sunday

A few guys are heading off to do a MTB epic day in the Sperrins this Sunday (13th July) meeting at the Leisure Centre at 8.30am. Contact Gareth for details....

Our Latest Club members Ironmen

Congratulations to club members Ali Gribbon, Nicky Gormley, Peter Kelly and Tony O’Doherty who all completed the Ironman challenge in Frankfurt, on Sunday 6th July. Well done lads....

Carn Wheelers on the Podium at Bellurgan Park

On Sunday the 6th of July the Carn Wheelers MTB squad made the journey to round 6 of the NPS MTB league 2014, which was hosted by Cuchulainn c.c. in Belurgan Park which is private estate near Dundalk. The estate is an excellent venue and with many club members having been there before we were all looking forward to a great days racing .   The racing as always started with the &n...

Sunday Cycle 6th July 2014

Sunday Cycle  6th July 2014   A great turn out of about two dozen cyclists this week. We first travelled to Tobermore.  The original intention was to then head to Draperstown,  but Pat said "Nay, we’ll horse her on into Magherafelt”. And so we did.   Then the back road to Toome, up round Lough Beg onto Ahogh...

Inishowen 100 2014

The Inishowen 100 is an annual cycling event run by the Foyle Cycling Club.  The route covers 104 miles around the Inishowen peninsula,  with approx. 7500 feet of climbing.  This year’s event is on Sunday, 17th August.   On-line entry is available from the Foyle website (http://www.foylecycling.net).  If you enter early (before 3rd August) the ...