Author: Martin Grimley

The Cycling Ulster Off-road Commission is now looking for expression of interest from riders who wish to join their cross-country development squad.  The aim of the squad is to improve riders through a set of coaching sessions.  The Commission will then select a team from the squad to compete at the British cross-country mountain bike series in 2019.  Age categories for the squad are 2nd year Under 16s, Junior and Under…

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Cycling Ulster Off-road Commission took place on Saturday 13 October 2018. Minutes here.      

The Cycling Ulster Cross-country team travelled to the last round of the British XC Series at the Royal Welsh showgrounds in Wales over the weekend 4/5 August 2018. A total of five riders had been selected for the team consisting of, Thomas Creighton, Lee Harvey, Niamh McKiverigan, Ben Wilson and Darcey Harkness.  The team was managed by Nicola McKiverigan and team Coach was Gareth McKee.

The 2018 Ulster Cross-country Mountain Bike Championships took place on Sunday 5 August at Castlewellan Forest Park in County Down. Host club Shimna Wheelers elected to run their event on the ‘old’ course which is located towards the Leitrim side of the lake.

Banbridge Cycling Club hosted the 2018 Irish National Cross-country Mountain Bike Championships on Sunday 22 July at Castlewellan Forest Park in County Down. This is the 5th year the club has been running mountain bike events in this part of the popular forest park which includes a mixture of grass field start in front of the castle, fire roads, trail centre sections, natural sections, bomb holes and technical descents. Riders…

The fifth and final round of the Ulster Cross-country series took place at Davagh Forest, County Tyrone, on Sunday 8 July 2018. This round also doubled up as the final round of the Irish Cross-country National Point Series (NPS). The forest is home to a popular trail centre and parts of the trail network were used today, along with the fireroads and some new natural sections through the trees thanks to…

The Youth Camp returns this year with 6 dates.  These sessions are for Under 8s, 10s and 12s.  Dates are as follows: Monday 23 July, Monday 30 July, Monday 6 August, Monday 13 August, Monday 20 August, Monday 27 August.  Time 7-8:30 pm.  Locations given below.

The Cycling Ulster Off-road Commission is launching the fourth of their training sessions for Under 14s and 16s on Saturday 7 July 2018 at Davagh Forest.  We are delighted to have a visiting coach from British Cycling at the event. This session is open to all riders in these age categories. Riders to meet at 10 am on site. The morning session will be skills based using the format of the Inter-regional Mountain…

The fifth and final round of the Ulster Cross-country Mountain Bike series takes place at Davagh Forest on Sunday 8 July 2018.  Details of the race and a link to registration is given here.

Phoenix Bike Park in Suffolk was the venue for Round 4 of the HSBC British National XC series which took place on the weekend of 9-10 June.   With Thomas Creighton sitting exams Cycling Ulster had a four rider team at this event.