1986 Beechmount Cup Cycle Races - Some Video

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The Navan Road Club runs a lot of cycle races in Meath, the Beechmount Cup was a very popular race in the years past which took place ouside the Beechmount Hotel on the Trim road...

Mar 16, 1986 - 1:50:12 PM Read more

1986 Beechmount Cup Cycle Races in Navan

Posted in: Old Road Videos
The Navan Road Club runs a lot of cycle races in Meath, the Beechmount Cup was a very popular race in the years past which took place ouside the Beechmount Hotel on the Trim road...

Mar 15, 1986 - 5:46:19 PM Read more

1986 Jack Woodcock Memorial - Archive Video

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With the cycling season only weeks away, I resurrected this old video of what racing was like forty years ago, when the season opener was the Woodcock memorial in the Phoenix Park, sadly there is no cycle races in the park these days...

Mar 10, 1986 - 9:23:59 PM Read more

1983 Bank of Ireland GP - Cycle Race in Carrick-on-Suir

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Digging through old videos, I found this race, it was the 1983 season opener in Munster, the Bank of Ireland GP in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary...

Apr 10, 1983 - 5:50:01 PM Read more

1982 Beaver Bosch Race in the Phoenix Park

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The Garda Cycling Club promotion in the Phoenix Park Dublin. A massed start race covering 25 laps of the two mile circuit finishing on the Main road. Apologies for the picture quality...

Jan 7, 1983 - 5:06:41 PM Read more

1982 Carrick Wheelers Early Season Race - Video

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Here is some video of an early season race in the home of Sean Kelly back in 1982. Carrick-on-Suir was a hub of Irish cycling, when races were held the town shut down with great support from the locals...

Apr 30, 1982 - 2:46:20 PM Read more

1981 Coast to Coast 3 Day Cycle Race

Posted in: Old Road Videos, Road: Before 2000
This was a good stage race in it's day and great to see JJ McCormack, John Lackey and Ben McKenna, 3 men who contributed so much to the sport over the years who are with us no more...

Apr 7, 1981 - 3:24:46 PM Read more