Our colleague Alex Darragh reports that the Waterford Greenway has been announced as the venue for the 3rd OldVelos Vintage Classic cycling event. The OldVelos Vintage Classic is open to riders on vintage steel racing bicycles from the 1900-1980’s.
This year’s event, on Sunday 10th September, will be based at the Coach House Café and Greenway Bike Hire on the workhouse in Kilmacthomas. Leisure riders can choose between 10 & 20 miles Greenway routes and for the sports riders there are more challenging Comeragh routes of 60-80 miles.
All bikes must be pre 1990 in age and cyclists are encouraged to wear their vintage racing woollens or high nelly tweeds.
For the public there will be a free vintage velo expo, including racing bikes from the 1920’s-1980’s as well as a special Irish interest section. For the riders there will be a Concours d’Elegance competition for best original and restored bicycles. We might even give a prize for the best dressed rider!!
Find out more on about the “Old Velos” phenonemon and register for your route at http://www.oldvelos.com/ as places are limited on all four routes.
Apologies. An error on Ed Hogan’s handicap necessitated a reprocessing of the result.
On what was one of the few decent days for TT’s this season a few fine balmy but breezy evening produced twelve beatings of handicap ( from a field of 25 riders ) with Ed Hogan taking the prestigious Al Fresco Shield and Ed. O’Brien and Pat Byrne in second and third places. Ed was way ahead with a magnificent improvement in form whilst the next three on handicap were covered by less than 1% difference in net improvement.
Similarly the next seven riders on handicap were also coved by less than 1%. Now that is what you call close competition!
Hugh Davis was winner on Age Standard with +11:36 followed by Pat Byrne
( +10:53) and Joe Sheehy +10:53 also the two being split in Pat’s favour by just 0.25 sec.
Fastest on the night was first time TTer with us, Fergal May, Welcome aboard in high fashion Fergal 🙂
A let down by three of the eight scheduled marshals without swaps being arranged was the only setback to the evening. In fact we should have had twelve for this course but the change of venue was the cause of that oversight .
Thanks as ever to Harry on the watch and also to Mrs Mongey who helped out as finish marshal, and of course to the five scheduled guys who did turn out.
Next TT, Saturday 29th July at Kilcock and hoping for a float morning. I live in unfulfilled hope !
Phil.
PS. Apologies for late result posting, bit of a medical crisis at home. All OK now.
Please be advised that
Sorry for error guys, picked a wrong copy of the results file.
Sorted now.
Phil.
Our last visit to the Hatchet for this season, always a good test but today turned out to be the best conditions of the season so far. Even so the light westerly made the return trip a gruelling ride as usual. In spite of this we have four beating handicap with the top spot going to William Parnell who we were pleased to see back at another TT. A near 4% improvement is a very commendable one, kudos. Also a special mention of Patsy Fitzsimons who shaved 8 seconds off his handicap. Never to old to improve eh? Youngsters take note 🙂
Although on a rare off day ( for him that means a long 21 !! ) Ian Cassidy is still away in a hack over a minute ahead on actual time. followed by Ken O’Neil, Joe Sheehy and Noel Conway, all with 22 minute rides,
On the age std. category it’s great to see competition so close, 37 seconds covering the first four, all with 3 minute plusses and the next four with 2 minute plusses. And riders from age 42 to 73 in the spread.
Best road bike Lenny Carrigan. Good to see that we had three or four road bikes there.
Thanks to Timekeeper Harry and marshal Deanne. No pusher off today so we had to make do with one of Harry’s road cones but it does work ok ( although I had a bit of a wobble with a chain slip on take off ).
Our next Saturday TT on 29th July will now be a 10 TT, held on the Kilcock course, in preference to the Rathcoffey course which saw only a very few out to ride.
Next TT in the calendar, Tuesday 18th July, is the Al Fresco 25 which, as previously announced has been moved to Moy Valley.
Please all make note of these changes.
Make the best of ten day TT’ing break now, plenty of R & R and some quality taper and peaking. 🙂
Phil.
