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Niall Davis in pleasing city centre-Dublin Mountains pro-cycling propaganda.

Daniel Gray, of Visit Dublin, writes;

We invited Niall Davis of biking.ie to get from the city centre to Ticknock on his pair of wheels. Follow him through the winding streets of Dublin up to the forested mountains as he gets to grips with some serious mountain biking.

 

Visit Dublin

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slieve martin

“The weatherbeaten slopes of Slieve Martin, County Down team with hundreds of scarlet clad figures. 400 mountain bikers think they can outfox Gee Atherton in the 2013 Redbull Foxhunt which turns the fear and ecstasy of a hunt in on itself, making prey of the hunters.”

Yikes.

TJ O’Grady Peyton writes:

Just wanted to share a video that I directed last weekend. It’s an annual race for 400 mountain bike racers who get the chance to race a pro (Gee Atherton). It’s called Foxhunt.  FYI – It’s sponsored by Redbull, but hopefully it may be of interested to some people out there..

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The just-announced Irish legs of the Giro d’Italia 2014.

Kevin Moore writes:

  The Grand Tour cycling race, one of the world’s biggest sporting spectacles, begins in Belfast with the Grand Partenza, the ‘Big Start’, on Friday 9th May and finishes in Dublin on Sunday 11th May 2014.

The Grand Partenza route will take in locations in Northern Ireland including Titanic Belfast, Parliament Buildings, the Giants Causeway and the Causeway Coast Road before moving on to Armagh and south through Dundalk and Drogheda and then Dublin, with a finish in Upper Merrion Street.

There will be a special Giro Festival taking place in Merrion Square on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May 2014. The festival will include the “Irish Cycling Show” consumer expo and an Italian food and wine market.

 

Giro Italia 2014

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There have been a total of 121 traffic fatalities so far this year which also includes pedestrians, drivers and motorcyclists with ten of the fatalities occurring this month.
Half of all cyclists are hit by private cars and 30 per cent are hit by heavy goods vehicles according to Communications Officer of the Road Safety Authority Brian Farrell.
Two out of five of cyclists are killed or seriously injured at an intersection.
‘‘Drivers need to take special care and understand that cyclists are entitled to road space as much as any other vehicle on the road. It’s important that drivers anticipate cyclists at blind spots and to give at least a 1.5m clearance when overtaking a cyclist,’’ he said.

 

Half?

Cyclists urged to exercise caution following death of Louise Butler (Independent.ie)

Thanks Neil Houlihan

HappyCyclists1-1Evidence that choosing to cycle in Dublin results in an overall higher level of happiness.

Until your bicycle gets lifted.

Niamh Rabbit from Research in the City, writes:

The graph above is based on the 792 people (workers/students and based in Dublin) who chose cycling as a realistic way they could travel to work/college. They’re people who consider themselves healthy and fit enough to cycle on a regular basis.

Of the 792 people polled:

453 hadn’t cycled at all in the previous two weeks. They had an average happiness level of 14.2/25

98 people had cycled 1 – 9 times in the previous two weeks. They had an average happiness level of 13.9/25

241 people cycled more than 10 times in the previous two weeks. They had an average happiness level of 15.5/25

 

See?

Want To be Happier? Cycle (Niamh Rabbit, ResearchInTheCity)