Paris-Roubaix 2015: Meeting le pavé

NORTHERN France's wind and cobbles called for a select troupe of five St. Tiernan's soldiers. Two weakly signed up for 30km of the infamous pavé, but a trio took aim for it all; 160km of riding, 50km of pavé, untold levels of suffering. Here David Corr, le patron of le troupe, recounts a damp day of commitment, ... More

‘Mud-caked cogs caused shifters to be manipulated with fists’

NORTH wind, rain, cobbles, hills - welcome to Ronde van Vlaanderen's cyclosportive. Here's former chair and seasoned Classicist Brian Kilbride's story. Two years ago Ronde van Vlaanderen was run off in near freezing conditions, this year was nearly as poor for the first four hours, followed by overcast skies and cold ... More

Historic map of 1988 Summer Tour unearthed

TWITTER has revealed an historic map of St. Tiernan's Adventure & Cycling Club's Summer Tour of 1988. The map, found in founding member Pat Feehan's tour diary, was unearthed by participant Rory O'Toole and details the 600-mile route and 10 stops as the group toured from Dublin, through Mullingar and Sligo and around ... More

Coast to coast challenge raises more than €1,200 for cancer unit

September 5, 2014 - Seven St. Tiernan's rider took on a coast-to-coast challenge last weekend that has raised in excess of €1,200 for the Denis Burkitt Cancer Unit at St James's Hospital. Lawrence Clifford, Barry Doyle, Dave Keane, Kevin McNamee, Daragh O'Toole, Louis Twomey and new recruit from UCD CC Gavin Haberlin ... More

Rush raids the Alps

August 11, 2014 - Peter Rush has featured here before; as a rebel of fashion. But he is also an unwavering rider keen to push himself, quietly, wherever possible. Here is his account of one such occasion, earlier this summer when he took on the Raid Alpine sportive with Marmot Tours. Thonon-les-Bains to Antibes. Six ... More

Kerrane sets new longest ride on Red Line, Red Lane audax

August 4, 2014 - A rider amongst us is the purest cyclist of them all. Helen Kerrane rides and rides and rides. She does not drive a car, her white Rose rarely leaves her side and her daughter Roisin is already clocking dangerous times on Strava segments.  In just over seven months she has ridden upwards of 8,000km, ... More

Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2014 Part 2

Continued from LBL 2014 Part 1 By the turn in Bastogne we had only one categorized climb ticked off. . However we were pacing ourselves, we were eating and drinking well and we were enjoying the beautiful rolling Ardennes hills. Old German and American tanks litter the route particularly around Bastogne were the Battle ... More

Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2014 Part 1

Eight St.Tiernan's riders took part in this years edition of the toughest sportive on the spring classics calendar replicating the course of the race the professionals would ride the following day. A long winter of well thought out training had us all setting out reasonably assured that this year that the road book and ... More