News 2015

Tour of South Derry

The annual Tour of South Derry (ToSD) fundraising cycle will take place this year on Sunday, 11th October. Over the years, this event has raised more than £45K for Macmillan Cancer Care. In order to cover running costs, and thus maximize the amount we donate to Macmillan, we are most grateful to our sponsors. Can we ask everyone to consider companies/firms/groups/individual...

Juniour Tour of Ireland - Full Report

The Junior Tour of Ireland took place from 14-19th July in Ennis County Clare. Carn Wheelers racer Marc Heaney was lining up for his first Junior Tour and also his first outing as a National Team rider. 105 riders started the short but tricky individual TT, Marc posting a time of 8m.41s, just 43s off the winning time which placed him 26th overall on the GC. Wednesday saw the first of the road st...

Great results for Carn Wheelers at 2015 National mtb championships

The Carn Wheelers Mountain bikers were on their travels again this weekend to the biggest race of the year   the National Championships which were held in bike park Ireland which is in Roscrea co.Tipperary . The course was one of the toughest of the year with very long steep climbs some really technical sections making it a really tough challenge for the riders .As the day unfolded t...

Juniour Tour of Ireland

  Juniour  Tour of Ireland Well Done to Marc Heaney on his efforts in the Junior Tour of Ireland which took place during the week.   Marc was riding as part of the Irish Team who took the overall Team GC 1st Place. With a string of great results and 14th place overall on the Individual GC it was a great effort by Marc as a first year junior and should be very proud ...

Foyle GP

Sun, 19/07/15 - Foyle GP   A1/A2/A3 Race   Johnny Taylor, Joe McCrory, Barry Russel, Johnny McConomy, Gerard Scullion all lined up for the 6 laps of the 11 mile circuit, and when a break of 4 riders went early on and built up a gap of nealy 2 mins over the first few laps, it left the rest of the main field to try to attack to bridge the gap over.  After a few uns...

Wood Road Race Course

Thur, 16/07/15 - Wood Road course. Well Done to Tomas McElwee who took victory at Carn Wheelers Road Race on Thursday Night. It was a very wet and miserable evening, with the course shortened to 3 laps with only 2 groups setting off with a 4 min gap in between. Scratch group gradually closed the gap and starting the last lap it was down to 1min30sec. At this point Harvey Barnes of ETCC ...

*Calling all A4 Racers*

Message to all A4 racers at Carn Wheelers   As discussed at last months meeting there is interest within the club to enter a Race Team to Omagh 3 day coming up at the 2nd weekend in August 2015   With the growing number of racers within the club and the limited number of entries available for the race, the club would like to help in any way to organize a team and manager for this e...

Carn MTB Challenge

Carn Wheelers are proud to announce the 1st Carn MTB Challenge, in conjunction with Carntogher Community Association. Every year on 12th July the increasingly popular Run The Carn, 5km mountain run takes place, followed by BBQ and family fun day. This year, following the run, Carn Wheelers are staging a 10KM Mountain Bike Challenge. Race It, Ride It at your Leisure, either way....its you aga...

Weekly Round up of Road Racing News and Results

    Last week Carn wheelers we in the racing news as always with a string of results!   30/06/15 - Tue - Bann Valley - Gortmacrane Joe McCrory  6th and Gerard Scullion 9th both making it into the top 10 on a night when scratch started off in blistering pace and after a few attacks which came to nothing, it was down to the sprint which Jason Henry took in usual f...

A DATE FOR ALL THE OUR LADIES AND GIRLS

 Due to the recent success of our friday night youth and Ladies cycle Imelda Law is organising our very first ladies only bun run on saturday the 11th of july at  9am leaving Maghera Rec and doing a 15 mile loup around kilrea upperlands and swatragh and back to Maghera  the pace will be leisurely to encourage all of our ladies and youth girls to attend and on return to Maghera go ...