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Fridays stage saw another resounding victory for Team Columbia’s Mark Cavendish, who made it 3 out of 3 but Saturday’s grueling stage put an end to his dominance.

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Saturday sees the start of the last of the Grand Tours for 2008, the Vuelta a Espana. With last years winner, Denis Menchov staying away due to exhaustion and Cadel Evans out with an injury all the attention is on 2008 Giro winner and 2007 Tour champion Alberto Contador of Team Astana.

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Stage 2 of the Tour of Ireland saw a sprint finish again and Columbia rider Mark Cavendish again showed why he s rapidly becoming the man to beat in the pro peloton.

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This weekend Canberra, Australia will host the penultimate round of the World Cup with races in cross country, downhill and 4 cross on the 2009 World Championship course.

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Mark Cavendish of the Columbia team, continued his dream season by adding the first stage of the Tour of Ireland and yellow jersey to his four stage wins from the Tour de France.

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Wednesday marks the start of the 2008 edition of the 5 stage Tour of Ireland. Columbia and Garmin-Chipotle are two of the nineteen teams who will be lining up for the off in Dublin. Ahead lies 900 km of racing leading to the final 4 laps of Patrick’s Hill in Cork on [...]

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Recently arrived from Continental are two sets of tyres - Speed Kings and Race Kings. Speed Kings are a wet or dry tyre with the Race Kings purely for the dry. These are the Supersonic versions, which are ultra light at a mere 400grams and 430 grams respectively. Its easy to see why [...]

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In fantastic sun shine the National Marathon Championships took place accross the mountains of West Wicklow and Dublin.

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All eyes were on the Laoshan mountain bike course this morning as the male and female riders fought out their races amid searing heat.

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All eyes were on the Olympic BMX track this morning where several top mountain bikers were duking it out with BMX World Champions for Olympic glory.  

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Fresh from the biggest win of his career at the Tour of Limousin, Nicolas Roche has just signed for French team AG2R La Mondiale.  The Irish Olympian was due to be without a team after his current squad Credit Agricole announced that they would be ceasing operations at the end of the season.

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On Saturday the Olympics turns its attention to cross country Mountain biking. Much has been written about the course, conditions and competition but we felt it was best to get our information from the best source - a rider. Ireland is represented by 15 time National Champion and 3 time Olympian Robin Seymour [...]

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Fresh through the post box today was a nice box of tyres from Kenda.

First up is the all rounder Kenda Karma, then the John Tomac series Kenda Small Block Eight, the awesome Nevegal and finally the Tinker Juarez designed Dred Tread. All are quite different in their own right and all four are tubeless. [...]

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Marshalls are urgently needed for this Sunday’s National Marathon champs. If you are racing why not get your family to lend a hand. The course runs over some very picturesque countryside and with two laps for most riders they will get to see you twice.
If you think you can help contact the IMBRC [...]

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Magura is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of mountain bike components so when we received these disc brakes on test I was very interested to see how they measured up.

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The National Marathon championships will take place on Sunday the 24th August taking in two counties in the Kilbride area of Wicklow and Dublin. Run by the IMBRC club, this years edition features a number of novel features, guaranteed to make the race fun for serious competitiors and those looking for [...]

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Word has just reached us that due to the adverse weather conditions, tomorrows race has had to be called off for safety reasons. Below is the press release from Banbridge Cycling Club. On the plus side they are hopeful that they can go ahead with the race before the end of September.

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On the 14th September the EPIC Blast returns to Ballinastoe Woods. The race was first run in 2005 out of a wish by Richie Byrne and Sean Herlihy to do something different, not XC, not DH but in the middle.

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Fabian Cancellara came into this race with a bronze from the road race but this was the medal that the double Time Trial World Champion came for.

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Roel Paulissen, Jakob Fuglsang and Kashi Leuchs of the Cannondale-Vredestein Mountain Bike Racing Team will all line up for the Olympic Cross Country event aboard this special superlight Olympic Edition Scalpel.

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In our third look at the new Magura products for 2009 we turn our attention to braking.

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Further details have just been released for the last round of the NPS to be held this weekend in Castlewellan.

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In a wet and wild Beijing, Nicole Cooke out-sprinted her rivals to claim Britain’s first Olympic Gold.

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Joining the 1000 racers on the start line for the Leadville 100, Lance Armstrong set out to beat returning champion Dave Wiens

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The Olympic cycling events kicked of today in Beijing with a fascinating race for the mens gold. Packed full of attacks and breakaways the race was never dull as the riders hauled themselves up the fierce Great Wall climb seven times amid high humidity.

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This Saturday the Worlds best road riders will take to the streets of Beijing in pursuit of Olympic gold.

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This weekend sees the start of one of the hardest endurance mountain bike races, the TransRockies.

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