Orwell Wheelers

Overview

Founded in 1948, Orwell Wheelers is amongst the biggest and most famous cycling clubs in Ireland. Based in Dublin, we cater for a range of fitness levels of fitness and ability - from new members 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.

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Orwell 1000 (2021)

Date: Friday 27th August 2021 Organisers: Orwell Wheelers CC Entry on Eventmaster: https://eventmaster.ie/event/rLB5CPmS9y Closing date: Friday 20th August 2021. Venue and Start location: Joe Daly Cycles, Dundrum, Dublin 14, D14 A9W7. Start time: 06:00 am (Venue opens: 05:30 am) Facilities: Toilets, changing room and bag storage available at venue opening time. Bags may be collected at time of event completion. Outline of event: A 1,000 km Audax event broadly based on combining 3 traditional audax routes into a single 1,000 km event in the following order: 1. Virginia 300 2. National 400 3. Midlands 300 Note, the final route may deviate from the traditional routes mentioned. The time limit for completing this event is 75 hours. Finalised route sheets and GPS files will be emailed to participants prior to the event. Mandatory: Cycling Ireland Licence, helmet and good lights. A One-day licence is available through Eventmaster for those riders who do not have a Cycling Ireland licence.

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