Cycling ’N Ireland

The South African Marathon Championship

Just a week ahead of the Absa Cape Epic, there was Burry Stander battling it out with Kevin Evans at the South African Marathon Mountain Biking Championships. The event was held on Sunday at the Inanda Dam located near Durban. It was a narrow win that Stander evicted from Evan and their form. Irrespective of who won or did not, it would be a great boost to both the cyclists for the forthcoming major event, the Cape Epic.

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The Various Sides to a Bicycle

The earliest form of cycling according to Bicycle Museum can be traced back to the early 18th century but the ‘machine'was not called a bicycle until 1870. Bicycles have become a part of the daily lives of many people with several advantages attached to it. Cycling has many advantages to health and well-being. It not only helps to burn fats but keeps the body in good shape as well. Cycling has gone beyond a mare means of transportation into more More

Cycling in Ireland – a pleasant if sometimes challenging pursuit

Cycling in Ireland can be a particularly rewarding activity, not least because of the stunning countryside in the Emerald Isle, but also because bikes are easy to transport via buses and trains for a relatively minor fee.

Many people who embark on long cycle holidays in the country decide to use their own bike. This can be a safe option because transporting bikes on a plane is not usually a problem and is not typically accompanied with an enormous price More

6 Reasons to Take Up Cycling

Cycling has become increasingly popular, like Enigin has during recent years. If you are considering taking up cycling yourself, you will find that it can provide you with a many great benefits. Here is a list of six reasons to take up cycling.

1. To improve your overall health

Cycling a few times a week will greatly increase your overall health. It is known to help greatly reduce the risk of heart disease. If More

How to develop the cycling skills of your child

Even today many parents consider bicycles to be first form of transportation for their child. The children also become interested in cycling when they see their friends riding a cycle outside, and thus owning a bicycle is just the thing they want, so that they can fit themselves with the crowd. As the child becomes older, he may develop a competitive spirit about cycle racing along with his friends on the neighborhood street, he may also want to decorate his More

Keep in shape over the winter by spinning.

Now that the winter in well and truly here you are probably not so motivated to get out there and carve up some trails at the weekends. I am making the most of it by putting my bike is for a new shop fitting. But if that was not bad enough with the holiday season fast approaching I know that my waistline is about to make a substantial increase, unless I do something about it soon.

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The cycling team for 2011

Even though the participant list of the Luxemburg Pro Cycling event has been finalised and announced officially, there is as yet no official sponsor for the event. To get the UCI Pro Team status this event is a very important one to be won and therefore the team that has been announced tops the UCI’s sporting hierarchy team for 2011. What means the management resorts to, for getting a sponsor for the event, is to be seen.

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Thousands will compete in the Highland Fling Marathon in Australia

The latest in the cycling news is that more than two thousand mountain bikers from Australia will take part in the race in the Highland Fling which is to be held on 14^th November in the Southern Highlands. All those who will take part in the race will have the option of taking part in either the 112 Km Full Fling, 100 Mile or 60 Km Half Fling along the single track that snakes down through the mountains, forests More

My Hero!

As a thirteen year old lad who had just discovered Hans Rey (for the ignorant, Hans was a legendary mountain bike trials rider who could hop over anything. And I do mean anything. He hopped over rocks, cars, old French maids – almost certainly – and anything else which you’d have never thought someone would bother hopping over, just because a lot of the stuff was out there in the desert. But no, Hans found it alright. He was good More

Manx Gold Looms In Delhi

The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi could witness a rare gold for the Isle of Man thanks to the flashing wheels of sprint supremo Mark Cavendish and his Manx team mates. (Not to mention their newton running shoes endorsed feet)

Cavendish has had his usual busy year. The Tour De France brought another haul of stage victories, as well as head banging controversy, that saw him stake his claim to be amongst the greatest sprint cyclists of the modern era.

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