Real Cycles Adventure Race Series
organised by Causeway Coast Adventure Racing

Real Cycles is pleased to be associated with the 06/07 NI Adventure Race Series. As title sponsor we will be at all the coming events offering backup to the racers. We are also putting up over a £1000 in prizes. For full details about the series visit the CCAR website.

This part of our blog will carry all the latest news and pictures from the series.

As well as sponsoring their race race series Real Cycles is also proud to Sponsor the Causeway Coast Adventure Race team. Yes that's right in between organising and running Northern Irelands biggest Adventure Race series Ivan and the boys (and girl) also race competitively.

The guys all race on Commencals stunning Meta4.2 full susser, and boy do they race them, well enough to get into the World Champs!

More on this exciting news next week but in the meantime, well done to all the CCAR / Real Cycles team.

Website updated 28/12/06 www.causewaycoastar.co.uk

Teams Entered:
A list of teams already entered is now up on the revamped website and anyone looking to enter a team can do so on the website using the online entry system. We still have places left but expect to fill these before race day.

Banagher Race Pictures are still available on the sleepmonsters website and will be no longer available after 27/01/07 http://www.sleepmonsters.co.uk/photoshop.php?basket_ID=1163070919&event_id=3831

Read on for info on the next race at Castlewellan...   more »

Things are sure moving on at a fast pace, it's almost 3 weeks since Causeway Coast Adventure Racing held the first race in the Realcycles Adventure Race Series.

Race Report

The first race took place in Banagher forest on the 21st October, 28 pairs took part in a race which turned out to be harder than most teams were expecting. The race route had been changed several times on the run up to the big day due to access restrictions, with the final route decided on the Wednesday before, when the Water Service finally give us permission to use the reservoir within the forest. All the competitors agreed the kayak section on the reservoir was one of the highlights of the race, even if it did see a handful of them take cramp.

Teams lined up at the start in the middle of one of the heaviest showers of rain we had during the month of October, as they headed of from the start they were still unsure what lay ahead of them until they arrived at the map give out point, all they knew was they were starting on bikes. The bike section was a short loop around the south section of Banagher forest.   more »

Report courtesy of www.notthesundayrun.com

On Saturday 21 October the first in a series of six adventure races, organized by Team CCAR (www.causewaycoastar.com) and sponsored by Real Cycles in Carryduff (www.realcycles.com), took place in Banagher Glen. The races are a mix of mountain biking, mountain running, navigation, kayaking and some “special tasks” which are kept a secret until arriving at the relative checkpoint. Not the Sunday Run regular Rowan made the long journey to the event where he teamed up with Paul McArthur for the day. Other locals taking part in the event included Eddie and Brendan O’Hagan and Kookie and Sonia O’Hagan   more »