Gran Fondo Giro D’Italia Northern Ireland 21st June 2015

[johnyward]

We already have a few members signed up to "Team DromaraCC" for the Giro

This Sunday 7th June to register here;
endurancecui.active.com/event-reg/select-race?e=14192354&locale=en_gb

Select Team entry (Most are doing the 173km route)

You need a PW and it is square1

This is also capped at 4000 riders and is near full now. You might as well join in as the roads of the course will be closed

to traffic on the day making it hard to get around by car or bike as only bikes with event numbers will be allowed on the roads!

Click for info

173km Route

[johnyward]

Just a quick note that anyone who has joined as an individual can get it changed over to the Team by emailing the organisers @

[e-mail] and tell them you wish to be on Team "Dromara Cycling Club"

[slowcoach]

Jun 15, 2015 3:48:05 GMT 1 johnyward said:

Just a quick note that anyone who has joined as an individual can get it changed over to the Team by emailing the organisers @

[e-mail] and tell them you wish to be on Team "Dromara Cycling Club"

Lets get on to this folks, we could all ride this together as a club, i know a lot of u guys rode the BIBR last year + everyone enjoyed it by all acounts

Could everyone that has signed up please leave their name on this thread + if they havnt already done so please amend their registration to join Team 'Dromara Cycling Club' as there are team prizes involved etc.

[Derek g]

Hi there, I'm signed up for 173km route and have requested my entry change for the team. Is there a meeting up point for the club on Sunday morning? Derek g

[Graham B]

I'm signed up.

Can anyone remember if we were asked to predict our average speed when we signed up? Apparently they are setting riders off in groups of similar predicted speed, so if we want to get away together & early we should be optimistic about our speed and all quote the same figure. The fastest category is "20mph +"

Jun 15, 2015 9:23:05 GMT 1 Derek g said:

Is there a meeting up point for the club on Sunday morning? Derek g

We'll sort out a meeting place/time nearer to Sunday Derek.

[slowcoach]

Graham i wasnt asked about a potential avg speed when i registered, although i do remember this being asked when entering the BIBR last year. Maybe it will be mentioned when we are down there lifting our registration packs on Saturday
Hopefully we can all leave in the same group.

[johnyward]

No they didn't ask for a predicted time, I pre-pose meeting at the SS Nomadic (on the left before Titanic building) at 0630-0645

[slowcoach]

Sounds good to me Johny, any chance u could put up a map of the area to show where this all is? Thanks.

[johnyward]

Here's a map of parking and you can see across the road from Car park marked "P2" that's the Nomadic, Its a big white boat hard to miss 

Ohh and who's going down when on Saturday for pack collection? might be good craic to dander round the Expo together "Carb Loading" as we go!