Galway Bay Cycling Two Wheels Good

The Galway Bay Cycling Club Race Committee is holding a meeting on Wednesday, 1st of February next week upstairs in the Dew Drop Inn at 8p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss upcoming racing for 2012.

Topics will include:

Club Racing - the Thursday night Summer League
Proposed Seven Spings / Black Rose / West Coast Wheelers / Galway Bay League
Goals for Racers this year
WCW races 27th Feb / 11th March
RAS Chonamara
Any other business

OnYerBike2012.jpg

See route on left for upcoming On Your Bike 2012 spin starting at the Brothers Of Charity, Kicornan, just after Clarinbridge village on the left through the gates. The shorter route will take a right for Bell Harbour and tehn drop down to Ballyvaughan for the food stop and then turn around for home heading back via New Quay on the same route as the longer spin.

Check it out on MapMyRide http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/64965406/

There will be a membership night on in the Kingfisher, NUIG (upstairs) next Tuesday night, 1oth of January, at 8:00 p.m. Please let all cycling contacts / acquaintances know. Please refer to the "Membership" section above for 2012 fees. Hope to see you all there!

There will also be the opportunity to purchase or order new gear on the night. We still have some sizes available for sale but will re order new gear if required.

OnYerBike2012.jpg

The 5th Annual On Your Bike Cycle will take place on January 29th, 2012. Get in some preparation for the new season with this excellent tour around South Galway / North Clare.

4Dec2011.png

4Dec2011-2.png

Today was one of those days where I wish I had stayed in bed! Instead I decided to cycle with 15 others from the club in strong westerly winds, driving rain and a temperature just 5 degrees - I couldn't change gears for most of the spin because I had lost all sensation in both hands after 5 minutes of cycling.

Keep your diaries free for next Friday night, 2nd of December for the Galway Bay Cycling Club Night Out, upstairs in The Dew Drop Inn, Cross St., at 8:00 pm. This is intended to act as a Membership Night and also to allow some riders in the club to be acknowledged for their efforts during the year. A couple of pints and / or orange shandies won't go amiss either and with a bit of grub thrown in, sure where would ya be goin'?!

Another breezy morning greeted GBCC cyclists for today's spin which left from the Kingfisher, NUIG at 9:05 a.m. Moderate westerly breezes made the first half of the spin tough as both groups headed out the coast road via Bearna and Spiddal.

Padraig Benson leading out a group on a 65 km route to the west of Galway. The 25 riders in the 100km group went in a similar direction taking in a spin Spiddal - Screeb - Casla - Maam - Moycullen.

kinvaragort.jpg

As usual two groups set out from the Kingfisher club at 9. In the longer spin 25 or so cyclists set off on their trek to Clare. Weather conditions were almost perfect with a slight south westerly wind as we headed down to Kinvara. We turned left at the bottom of the Corker and keep going straight until we hit the old main Ennis Galway road. We then turned left and and headed for Gort.

The Galway Bay Cycling Club membership night is on Friday week next, 2nd of December. In a departure from previous years we are getting ready for the new year ahead in advance.

We are also having an end-of-year social night where we will be wrapping up the year and presenting a couple of awards to a number of members who have made an impression this year. We also hope to set out the calendar for the coming year while at the same time kick back and have a few drinks!

So come along at 8:00 pm on Friday week and enjoy the evening (finger food included!)

Galway Bay's own Eoghan Clifford will give a talk on the influence of engineering on competitive cycling tomorrow evening in NUIG at ENG-2003, which is the building on the left on the way out to the main Newcastle road on the normal Sunday spin!