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FBD Insurance Rás 2008

  • 19-05-2008 11:34am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭


    Seems there were 110 riders in the peloton that crossed the line thereby all getting the same time. Does this leave things pretty much wide open? The time bonuses seem pretty meagre (1-3 seconds?) Have an interest as recently met an old classmate who only recently took up cycling and is now taking part in this ;-)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Wow Blorg,that must be a pretty talented classmate you have there,id say just to stay with the bunch is work in its self,i dont know how the timing system works though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Yeah, I am pretty impressed really, he only took up cycling three years ago- just met him in Joe Daly's around a month ago. Average speed over 142km: 45.68 kph :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Is he with the Dundrum Wheelers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Yes, Orwell Wheelers/Dundrum Town Centre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    blorg wrote: »
    Yeah, I am pretty impressed really, he only took up cycling three years ago- just met him in Joe Daly's around a month ago. Average speed over 142km: 45.68 kph :eek:
    Ah yeah but your friend was probaly an athlete before. I know a few cyclist who just took up cycling switching from Atheltics and Rowing and are already racing and scaring experienced competition.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Hey Blorg,im with Dundrum Wheelers,i think i know the guy, he only started racing three years ago, hes been doing vey well sincei ,Orwell put together a team for it,and if hes the one im thinking of,then hes in it,hes talented.Is his name S S ?.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    That's the one bunnygreen, Stephen Surdival - see he came 5th in the Tour of Ulster too.

    I found his mugshot halfway down on the Stage 1 pictures:

    ras08-s1-10.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    thats him,i saw him in action a couple of weeks ago at an orwell open race in Balbriggan,he was up at the front all the way around on a tough course,yep hes got it alright.By the way do you do the sunday spins with the orwells?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    I don't, I'm not a member but planning on joining next year when they re-open new membership (over the winter I think?) I did the recent Randonee though which was a nice spin.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Great,come along,i think they reopen membership in sept/oct,the sunday spins are good,look forward to seeing you there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Fair play to Stephen Gallagher today from the An Post team,great result and great for the team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Beached


    Very disappointed that RTE are not showing a highlights show of the ras at night. It is a disgracfull way to treat one of Irelands most important yearly event.. There is a huge history to the ras streatching back over 50 years which I never realised until buying Tim Daly's book a few years ago.

    Just going through the times in the ras website and its so obvious the gulf between the county riders and their international counterparts. Im still expecting a showing from Pezula boys, the way they dominated every event irish this year. And hopefully Paidi O' Brien will do something in the next few days. His youth teammate at An Post, Denis Dunworth riding for Kerry is also holding on well.

    Is there any plans by RTE to show the later stages???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Beached



    That article scared me when I read it. Thank god im a leisure cyclist, and any person who completes a ras is a legend in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Funkyzeit


    Beached wrote: »
    Very disappointed that RTE are not showing a highlights show of the ras at night. It is a disgracfull way to treat one of Irelands most important yearly event.


    Totally agree - very quiet lead up to the race aswell. How are Joe Public supposed to come to it and support it if they don't know it's on. Surely Tv3/Tg4 could have also stepped in?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    RTE did good coverage of the TOI last year.
    As for the Rás, I'll be cycling down to Wicklow and up to Skerries to catch some of the last two stages.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    I caught a small piece on the Sunday sports show on Newstalk,good interview with two of the Irish lads from the An Post/Sean Kelly team,other than that a tiny piece on RTE news at 6 after each stage.Remember the good old days whe Channel 4 showed daily highlights of the Tour De France at half 6,ahhh.It is a disgrace,but cycling is still a minority sport here in Ireland anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Collumbo


    Surdival has earned himself the ultimate nickname in the bunch: Survival. He's motoring this year and was super in the Tour of Ulster. Three of the riders ahead of him were pro, the guy who was 4th was a normal bloke who's back racing this year after a few years out, and Stephen was the next normal bloke in finishing in 5th. I can tell you it was a hard race from Day 1 and he was in the two key breakaways in the race on 1st and 2nd day.

    We have another guy on the Orwell Dundrum Town Centre Team riding the Rás who is a guest from another club, Con Collis. He's an ex-rower, and he is a bit of a beast. This is his first season racing and he was a 3rd category rider at the start of the year and won his first race just with his strength. You cannot bluff talent and that guy has it for sure. The team are doing very well - Shane Hurley was 1st "B" on Gen. Classification going into today's stage, and the team are currently 5th in the County Team competition. That is superb for a team of 2nd Category riders. [I got an awful hiding in the Rás last year... I mean... awful...]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭trek climber


    Beached wrote: »
    Very disappointed that RTE are not showing a highlights show of the ras at night. It is a disgracfull way to treat one of Irelands most important yearly event..

    Totally agree....cant believe that there isnt even highlights on at newstime.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Hey Collumbo,you nailed it,Stephen was amazing in the Tour of Ulster,hes on fire at the moment,ive seen Con Collis in action,yeah hes an animal,its great for the club and the Ras.If you were creamed last year in the Ras,fair play to you for being there in the first place,thats hard going,kudos to you.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    Great article, thanks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    bunnygreen wrote: »
    Hey Collumbo,you nailed it,Stephen was amazing in the Tour of Ulster,hes on fire at the moment,ive seen Con Collis in action,yeah hes an animal,its great for the club and the Ras.If you were creamed last year in the Ras,fair play to you for being there in the first place,thats hard going,kudos to you.

    Didnt Con collins only take up cycling recently??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    Thats right


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    Just heard that Cassidy's out of the Ras - suspected fractured elbow after a bunch crash


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    “The Cassidy family would like to thank all the bunch for their respect for Mark when he crashed. I just spoke to him in the ambulance and he has a suspected broken elbow, but thank God he will be okay and will live to fight another day! He is in good spirits given the situation.

    “That’s what makes the sport of cycling so great as you can never tell what is going to happen next. We are all very proud of him and glad he is okay.”

    cassidy father philip said the above a previous winner himelf


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭bunnygreen


    What other sport would slow down to let the leader get back on?.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭cyclopath2001


    Raam wrote: »
    RTE did good coverage of the TOI last year.
    The organiser had pay for it. Cost was in excess of 300k.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭dave2pvd


    117th! What happened to Dolly today?

    Not a good day for Pezula. At least, not by their standards.

    Power was best in 61st.

    They may be out of contention....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭quietobserver


    Beached wrote: »
    Very disappointed that RTE are not showing a highlights show of the ras at night. It is a disgracfull way to treat one of Irelands most important yearly event.. There is a huge history to the ras streatching back over 50 years which I never realised until buying Tim Daly's book a few years ago.

    Just going through the times in the ras website and its so obvious the gulf between the county riders and their international counterparts. Im still expecting a showing from Pezula boys, the way they dominated every event irish this year. And hopefully Paidi O' Brien will do something in the next few days. His youth teammate at An Post, Denis Dunworth riding for Kerry is also holding on well.

    Is there any plans by RTE to show the later stages???


    rte will probably have a programme being shown on sunday evening for 30 minutes as they have in previous years, summarising the whole week, and making whats a massive achievement for even the best riders look like a leisurely fun cycle around ireland. last year guy i know did the ras and his boss wouldnt give him the following monday off reckoning he didnt need it, three others in the office got the time off on the monday for having completed the CROI fundraising cycle. Now i wonder if rte showed the grueling side of it or even Mark Cassidys crash today would his boss maybe consider giving him the monday off this year??? hmmm


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Quigs Snr


    Bad for Pezula alright. I know that Ciaran has been ill for the last 2 days and is far from his best, even if he gets better I think it will be difficult now. Shame. But its an exciting race this year, fingers crossed for an Irish winner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Quigs Snr wrote: »
    fingers crossed for an Irish winner.

    Here's hoping. I see Tony Martin, last years winner, is hanging in there in the Giro. 131st after stage 11
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/giro08/?id=results/giro0811
    General classification after stage 11

    1 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 49.00.17
    2 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes 5.50
    3 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana 6.59
    ...
    131 Tony Martin (Ger) Team High Road 1.22.13


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭cyclopath2001


    rte will probably have a programme being shown on sunday evening for 30 minutes as they have in previous years, summarising the whole week, and making whats a massive achievement for even the best riders look like a leisurely fun cycle around ireland.
    No point in complaining to RTE, they don't make the program. They just show it (for a fee). I think the program is made by TeleGael.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    Anothe dissapointing day for Pezula with o'loughin puncturing within the last 3 km


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Funkyzeit


    Hi Folks
    Anyone know what rough times they are due in Mallow tomorrow - heading Lim to Cork and would love to get it in. No sign of expected times on the site?

    Slan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 animal


    http://www.fbdinsuranceras.com/event/fbdras_367.shtml
    13:04 going at 48kph avg
    13:29 going at 40kph

    They wont be going any slower than that! The starts are usually hectic enough so id be thinkin about 10 past 1.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭kilns


    Any idea when they should be getting into Skerries on Sunday? The same time roughly?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭crashoveroid


    Just looking at some of the pics from this year and i have to say out of all the different gear this year the Kerry team has the nicest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    Just looking at some of the pics from this year and i have to say out of all the different gear this year the Kerry team has the nicest.

    I'm a big fan of the Rapha Condor team's kit, but that's possibly due to me lusting after some Rapha kit...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Funkyzeit


    animal wrote: »
    http://www.fbdinsuranceras.com/event/fbdras_367.shtml
    13:04 going at 48kph avg
    13:29 going at 40kph

    They wont be going any slower than that! The starts are usually hectic enough so id be thinkin about 10 past 1.

    Ta . Caught them perfectly. Good to see the boys in Green in front trying to reel the breakaway back. Very few people out though in Mallow. As I said earlier not very well promoted IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    I was going to take a spin up along the coast from the city centre up towards ballbriggan tomorrow but I see the RAS is finishing in skerries. I know they're starting from roundwood and circling around to Skerries but just want to avoid any spectators / traffic. Any idea what time they'll be finishing at? Would like to leave early and be on my way back before any crowds start to gather. What roads will be unavailable at what times?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭cyclopath2001


    clown bag wrote: »
    I was going to take a spin up along the coast from the city centre up towards ballbriggan tomorrow but I see the RAS is finishing in skerries. I know they're starting from roundwood and circling around to Skerries but just want to avoid any spectators / traffic. Any idea what time they'll be finishing at? Would like to leave early and be on my way back before any crowds start to gather. What roads will be unavailable at what times?
    It's starting in Newbridge and should reach Skerries around 3pm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    Nice to see David O’Loughlin (Pezula Racing) finnaly getting his stage win today, and great to see an Irish winner Stephen Gallagher (An post team)


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