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Orwell Wheelers Cycling Club

Founded in 1948, Orwell Wheelers is amongst the biggest and most famous cycling clubs in Ireland. Based in Dublin, we cater to all levels of fitness and ability - from beginners to elite riders, male and female from youth to veteran. The club had its roots in road racing but has become very active in many other areas including leisure riding, audaxing, randonnée events, cyclocross and track racing. We run organised weekly training spins most of the year.  From January 2022 we are delighted to be supported by our partner sponsor Pinergy

 

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The new season dawns as the various provinces have released their provisional calendars.

Orwell have historically had a great turnout across all age categories and genders so would be great to keep this reputation going. From a competitive perspective, our women have stormed the cyclocross scene in recent years with Beth McClusky (2016 and 2017) and Lara Gillespie (2018 and 2019) taking the Elite Women's National Titles.

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A beautiful August Saturday brought out a top class field for the Noel & Keiran Hammond TT.  Run over a new, flatter course this year and as part of the Cycling Ireland National TT League there were always going to be fast times!  Our congratulations to all those who raced and sincere thanks to all the organisers, marshals and helpers who gave up their morning to make the event happen. Read on for full results:

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A fantastic evening for Orwell Wheelers at the Leinster Hillclimb Championship -- three golds and a silver for the club on the night.

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We were back to a full set of National Championships after two COVID-impacted years. There were two days of racing, over three different disciplines, in Hamiltonsbawn, Co Armagh, hosted by Orchard CC. Orwell Wheelers had 17 riders taking part, and had someone in almost every single race. I got to drive neutral service in the road races, so got to see a good bit of the action, and nearly every race was tough, fast and fair.

 

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A big weekend of racing for kids from Ireland and abroad took place this weekend in Derry and Donegal. The biggest fields of the year so far (over 50 Under 16 boys, most other fields 20 or more) in Ireland, with a good smattering of riders from The Isle of Man and Britain, was a real festival of youth racing, and our Orwell Youths were a major part of it all.

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Three Orwells – Fran Brophy, Simon Kelehan and John McElligott - signed up for the 2022 Tour of Monaghan on 10th of July.  Fine weather was forecast, and while it was the weekend prior to the “glorious twelfth” over the border, this wasn’t a concern in County Monaghan where the route was excellent, the event well organised, the weather was perfect and the locals friendly.

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The Pinergy Orwell 2 day women’s stage points race will take place alongside the The Orwell Stage Race on Saturday June 4th and Sunday the 5th. Once again The Beehive Pub, Wicklow will be the Race HQ

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The TT is over and the results are in!  The final round of the Appleby Orwell Women's League took place on a beautiful night in Glencullen. Caoimhe May (A) and Abby Burke (B) were winners in the TT and overall league winners were Annalise Murphy (A) and Muirna Twomey (B)   

Read on for full results:

  1. Youth Tour of Scotland 2022
  2. Orwell CX Race 2021, Round Up & results
  3. Orwell CX Race 2021, R2 of the Leinster League of CX
  4. National Road Champs Episode 3: The Riders!