Well done Andy!

Congratulations to Andy ‘pocket rocket’ McCullough who came second on Saturday’s John Moore Memorial A4 road race. Also well done to Scott Maitland and Phil Doyle on their strong ride. Report on Sticky Bottle.

KCC at round 1 of the Ormeau Spring XC league

KCC were well represented today at XMTB Spring League at Ormeau Park. First off was Rudi in the Under 6’s, were he finished a well deserved 3rd. Next out was Reuben and Gracie in the Under 10’s where Reuben finished 1st and Gracie did well in her first Under 10 race. Then it was onto the Under 12’s were Andrew Croskery had his first race for KCC (no pics unfortunately) where he and Rory McBride Read more

KCC Ladies attend women’s MTB coaching day

The Woman’s Cycling Ulster MTB Training day was held on Saturday 13th February and two of the coveted spaces on the session were secured by KCC members Pauline Galway and Lyn Preece. The session started out at the Mary Peters track with introductions and a discussion on what to expect during the day and since no one was put off by what was to come, all 14 ladies headed off into the trail centre. With Read more

North Down Physio – Informative Evening

After a lot of chat/discussions from members and talking to Julia, KCC eventually got around to holding an information night in relation to cycling at Killinchy Community Hall. Julia Webster from North Down Physio along with Steve Spence, Brendan McCourt & Gary McKeagan all attending on the 22-2-16 to give us an insight to the different aspects of our preferred sport. The evening started with Julia giving us a brief introduction to the three speakers, Read more

The season has begun for our road racers (well for the two Andy’s)

Saturday 20/2/16 saw the opening round of the open road race season and with only one KCC member entered (Andy McCullough) all hopes were pinned on him to do well, and he didn’t disappoint as he sat at the front most of the race and worked hard(ish) even with his chest infection. However on the last lap and with a few 100 yards from the finish it all went wrong as some other rider tried Read more

Andy Evans – First Duathlon of 2016

14/2/16 report by Andy Evans. The first of three Lisburn duathlons took place, following the usual 2-10-2 (run-cycle-run)format it promised to be a good tough event. On the day although a little cool to start the sun was shining and wind behaving itself. Great turnout of around 102 athletes ranging from seasoned pros to first timers. At 10 o’clock after a race Briefing we were off! First two mile run on a flat course round Read more

A day trip not to forget – for some anyway

Sunday 8th January 2016 report by Joe Anne. ‘Lets get the train to Coleraine’ they said, ‘it will be an adventure’ they said, ‘the weather will be fine…honest’ they said. So a number of bike loving adventurers set off from Comber shortly after 8am. We arrived to the train station a little harassed, one was late and one had just suffered a large swelling in her tyre (This wasn’t code for something else). After debating Read more

KCC at Biking Blitz in Ballinastoe

Today was the first round of the Biking Blitz MTB series in Ballinastoe, County Wicklow where our latest KCC member Drew Armstrong headed down to stretch his legs for the racing season ahead.  This is Drew’s first year racing in the U16’s and true to form he romped home 1min 30 secs in front of the opposition!  This wasn’t enough for the young racing snake, he then entered the Baggies race which is the men’s & juniors Read more

Pre-race training has begun

Now the race season is drawing closer some of our members are using the reliabilities for training and the first of these was last Saturday at Ballymena CC, were the two Andy’s turned up to support the event. They were in the ‘A’ group that covered 75 miles at over 22+ average, so a big well done to these gents, and a nice way to break in your new Venge, however some other members still Read more

KCC well presented at Cycling Ulster Awards

We may only be a small club in comparison to many other clubs that are well established throughout the province, however we had members who worked hard, attended various disciplined categories of races throughout the seasons and WON. During the evening we had a three course meal (which saw Scott’s eyes bigger than his belly, or was it just Heather’s mash), and to finish the evening off we had tea/coffee during the awards. The awards Read more