North Tipperary Wheelers

The road race held on Sunday 24th July was held in rather miserable conditions although it did manage to stop raining for the actual race. The route was from Birdhill to the Five Alley and the riders left in three groups according to current ability. The ever-improving Mikey Connors took third place while Duncan Hodgins just lost out to John Spillane in a very exciting final sprint. This was John’s first win for a while and we were all delighted to see it. Once again, well done to all those who took part after turning out on such a dirty […]

With six hard fought races done and dusted, it was time to do the calculations and see who the overall winner might be. With four races to count, the first stage was to eliminate the two worst times from those who had completed six and one from those who had ridden five. Sadly, those who rode just the four had to put up with just those times. Then as the TTs were of different lengths this year, we brought the times down to minutes per mile which were added and divided by four to give a fair result. The stages […]