‘Paths to Peaks’ Spring – Summer Training Spins, wil l run every Saturday from 5th April up to the end of June, taking us all to new heights! We have groupings and distances to suit everyone! We welcome new and existing members and thank those who volunteer to lead. Please complete our sign-up invitation on WhatsApp. This poll will close on Friday, 21st March. Further details on groupings will follow once we receive responses from everybody. Finishes with: Paths to Peak

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23-Feb-2025 Contact Rachel for more info This trip is being organised by Paradise Cycling tours . Fiona, originally from the UK, lives in portugal the last 10 years running tours and has designed this trip for orwell   To sign up please contact Rachel The hotel is 4* Maria Nova Hotel, Tavira, plenty of rooms and capacity for bike storage. Check in: 24th May 2025 Check out: 31st May 2025 7 nights in total. Up to 6 days cycling if you wish Included in the package trip: ▹ Airpor

28-Jan-2025 Draft Plans

Photo Darragh Delaney/Audax Ireland 42 riders signed on at Joe Dalys in Dundrum to ride the Orwell Midlands 300km Audax on Sunday 6th April. It was nippy enough before dawn as they set off. The route is straightforward: Dundrum - Mountrath - Birr - Athlone - Dundrum and must be completed inside a timelimit of 20hrs. There is just one significant climb, the Wolftrap over the Slieve Blooms between Mountrath and Birr. It was a glorious sunny day, but there was a stiff h

19-Mar-2025 Week 3 of racing was a bumper Bank Holiday weekend, with racers traveling west on Sunday to the Galway Classic and then south to Sean Kelly Country for the Bobby Power Memorial. First up was the Lucan GP on Saturday. In great conditions, we had riders from U12 up to Masters competing. It was very special to see fathers and sons racing on the same day! Special mention to all our youth riders and parents for taking part. Week 3 of racing was a bumper Bank Holiday we

Week 2 - Boyne GP, Sliabh Luachra, John Haldane

02-Mar-2025 The 2025 @cyclingireland road racing season got underway last weekend, with Orwell Wheelers putting in a strong first outing featuring both new and familiar faces delivering stellar performances. The first National Grade Event — the Seamus Kennedy Memorial hosted by @navanroadclub Navan RC — had a massive turnout. In the C1 race, @joe.nathan_matar put in an excellent performance, finishing in 4th position after getting up the road early on. @evan.keane worked h

09 Mar 2025, 07:00 – 20:30 Enter this Audax event via Eventmaster (now closed) 200km route See comments for more....

What a day and what a course for the National cyclo-cross championships 2025 hosted by Ballinasloe Cycling Club! Orwell youths were there in force with 12 young riders representing the club. First up for our riders was Fiachra Connolly in the Under 8 category. A fearless display by Fiachra who made his way through the field on a shortened course. The finish line came too soon for him as he sprinted down the straight finishing a very impressive 3rd. Next up we had the under 10

Matt Scallon of Orwell on the left - photo from www.muse-ette.com/2014/01/from-archives1...-road-racing-in.html Matt Scallon (Orwell Wh), John Lackey (Tailteann RC), Sonny Cullen (Eagle CRC), Jim Kennedy (Eagle CRC), 1958 Thats Peter Crinnion, Michelles dad shaking Matts hand in the first photo.

Sunday spin roster.

Orwell Wheelers Cycling Club was only 3 years old when a man called Joe Daly opened a new cycling shop in Dundrum on the 19th of October, 1951 Club jerseys have changed over the years, members have come and gone but spins from Joe Daly Cycles are still a regular feature of club life as is the constant generous support the club received from Joe and now his son David Tansey. The photo shows Joe outside the original shop along with the first coin he ever earned!

12 years older and 10 kilos heavier, I don't think I'll be going quite that far this time round...

Found in the Joe Daly Cycles Archives today! Brian Ahern finishing second to Malcom Elliott on Stage 5 of the 2004 Ras and wearing the County Jersey on the presentation stage.

Irish Times interview with David Daly (Tansey) on the wellbeing of the club in 1998 on its 50th anniversary www.irishtimes.com/sport/my-club-orwell-wheelers-1.168141 Navan CC - U14s . One N. Roche of Orwell relaxed at start of race and later just about to win the sprint photos - from Willow Wheelers archive .

The first Inter club league At the end of the Kelly/Roche era racing numbers were already in precipitous decline, so in 1995 the decision was taken to merge the Orwell club league with the Irish Road Club, and so the "Bell Amev Irish Road Club league" was born. St. Tiernans CC and IMBRC had been taking part in the Orwell league for the previous few years, and so they both joined in with the new league. Run over 14 weeks, and with some of the top riders in the country competin