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Bangkok. Thailand, yesterday.

Gulp.

D writes:

Aidan Murphy and his best friend Paul Quinn are almost finished on their 15,000km cycle from Dublin to Sydney to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society and the Alzheimers Society (€24k raised to date). They have been cycling for almost 7 months now and they are due to reach Sydney on the 20th of April 2013.
On reaching Bangkok, the boys got a bit emotional about the whole thing. At some ungodly hour, it was decided to mark the occasion with a tattoo on Paul’s left a*s cheek. The next (seriously hungover) morning both faces and bum cheeks were red when reasilation hit home as to what they had done… We are trying to help raise as much money for their two charities before the trip ends. The trip is entirely funded by Paul and Aidan’s own funds so every single cent is going to the charities.

 

Donate here.

Paul and Aidan’s Facebook Page

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…but it’s fine for cyclists.

This year’s NUIM Galway Cycle , in aid of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation,  is currently taking place .

Which means high winds, moist lycra and some nasty chafing.

You can track their progress on Endomondo or donate a soggy fiver to the cause.

Photos via Colm Austin (on the right in the top picture with Rory Tierney).

Gnarly.

Dublin Cycling Campaign writes:

Here is traffic through Main Street, Donnybrook (N11) outbound [last night] at the notorious ‘hip’ on the left bend at Kiely’s Pub.

Most drivers take the ‘hip’ at a tangent to the curve thus cutting the corner so woebetide any cyclist on the inside. Drivers should be following the circumference so as not to cut the corner.

Few drivers understand how not doing it this way might endanger a cyclist on the inside.

 

Dublin Cycling Campaign (Facebook)

Not Lance.

Pat McQuaid

Current president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)

“Pat McQuaid’s comments expose the hypocrisy of this leadership and demonstrate why he is incapable of any meaningful change,” said [Tyler] Hamilton.

“Instead of seizing the opportunity to instill hope for the next generation of cyclists, he continues to point fingers, shift blame and attack those who speak out. Tactics that are no longer effective. Pat McQuaid has no place in cycling.”

 

Tyler Hamilton Says ‘Pat McQuaid Has No Place In Cycling’ As UCI Chief Brands Armstrong Whistleblowers ‘Scumbags’ (Telegraph)

Kimmage and Walsh let rip at McQuaid (Daragh Ó Conchúir, Irish Examiner)

 

 

The ‘Cycling With’ people are back.

Paddy Cahill writes:

Ellen Rowley is an Architectural Historian who lives with her family in Ballybough, Dublin. We went for a cycle with Ellen and looked at the architectural heritage around parts of Dublin that often goes ignored, the architecture of the 20th Century and her special interest, the social housing schemes by the former prolific city architect Herbert Simms. For more Cycling with… videos check out our blog Cyclingwith.com and please like us at Cycling With (Facebook)

 

Previously: Cycling With Ollie

Cycling With Ally