The Irish cycling road racing season of 2025 started on Saturday 1st March, here is a video of the Dublin Wheelers Open Races run off around a circuit at Summerhill in county Meath.
Dublin Wheelers Cycling Club – Open Races
Held in Summerhill, Co Meath – Saturday 1st March 2025
RESULTS
Mick Lally Memorial for C1’s
Distance is 87.8K (3.9 laps)
1 Daire Feeley (Burren CC)
1 Luke Smith (Moynalty CC)
3 Patrick O’Loughlin (Panduit Carrick Wheelers)
4 Evan Keane (Orwell Wheelers)
5 Padraig O’Sullivan (Burren CC)
6 Ronan Killeen (Lucan CRC)
7 Ruairi Byrne (UCD Cycling Club)
8 Joe Nathan Matar (Orwell Wheelers)
9 Josh Callaly (Team Campana)
10 Jason Kenny (UCD Cycling Club)
Ian Gallahar Memorial for C2’s
Distance is 65.1K (2.9 laps)
1 Luca Holmes (Unattached)
2 Luke Kehoe (Lucan CRC)
3 Caoilin Considine (Bray Wheelers)
4 Barry Meade (O’Leary Stone Kanturk)
5 James Connolly (Dungarvan CC)
6 Max Fitzgerald (Jegg DJR)
7 Sean O’Leary (Lucan CRC)
8 John Priest (Lucan CRC)
9 Shane Baker (Usher IRC)
10 Craig Byrne (Bray Wheelers)
– Linda Kelly Spin the Bean (1st Lady)
Willie Marks Memorial Race for C3’s
Distance is 42.4K (1.9 laps)
1 Jack Woods Crabbe (DSTNY)
2 David Crooks (Roadman CC)
3 George Sevastopolo (Sundrive CC)
4 James Byrne (Dan Morrissey Carlow)
5 Killian Fox (Navan Road Club)
6 Luke Kearney (Orwell Wheelers)
7 Fran Brannigan (Cycologist Clonmel)
8 Sean Fitzgerald (Gorey Cycling Club)
9 Stephen Carry (Ardee CC)
10 Tadhg Keyes (Bray Wheelers)
Event promoted by the Dublin Wheelers Cycling Club
Video and Editing by Peter Purfield
0:00 ‘C1’ Race
8:11 ‘C2’ Race
13:11 ‘C3’ Race
16:03 Results
5 Comments
Bell ringer sounded keen! Hopefully no riders were seriously hurt in the crash.
Super job Peter. Thanks
On the wrong side of the road in the C3 race
Cycling today is so boring and shit to look at. Huge mushroom helmets, ulgy sloping top tube bikes that resemble mountain bikes. Every rider rides from beginning to end of race on the hoods. No other position. Its like looking at mountain bike race. Everyone using disc brakes which have no place in cycling. Wheels locking up is the number one cause of crashes. You all look like robots, mindless robots. The glamour is gone, the beautiful craftsmanship of the iltalian bike is gone and has been replaced by boring, cold communist looking grey carbon shit bikes from China. Huge mushroom helmets and skinny looking men who need to go away and eat some steaks.
Bring back the glory days of cycling, i never watched such boring cycling, ulgy bikes, one position cycling. You can't go down on the drops because of the frame angles and head tube angles. You're positioning is all wrong. All of these cyclists will have major back problems in years to come riding these mountain bikes.