Phoenix Cycling Club

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Phoenix Cycling Club is a club for cyclists who enjoy many different types of cycling activities. These include weekend club runs, leisure sportive type events, mountain bike runs (every Tuesday evening), club road races and time trials aswell as open road races and time trials. Phoenix Cycling Club is the home club of David McCann who won the Senior Irish Time Trial Championship in June for the fifth time and then went on to break the 16 year old British 25 mile Time Trial record originally held by Chris Boardman.

We are eager to encourage new cyclists to join the club and through the governing body, Cycling Ireland, have a special introductory offer of £19 for membership for the calendar year 2010.
The club organises two training runs at the weekend for road racers and leisure riders. These runs leave the House of Sport, Malone Road, Belfast, on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 9.30 am. There is also a Mountain Bike training run throughout the Winter months – usually on a Tuesday evening at 6pm.

If you are interested in joining Phoenix Cycling Club please come to one of our runs or contact us via the phone numbers shown on the left.

News and Events

Phoenix win the Ulster Team Trial Championships

On Tuesday 18th May the Phoenix A team of Mark Brown, Niall Shannon, James Gault and John Neill won the Ulster Team Trial Championships doing 25 miles in 50:13. Team Madigan were the runners up with the previous years winners East Antrim 3rd.

Wins for David McCann, Niall Shannon and Mark Brown

On Sunday 18th April Niall Shannon won the Bann Valley Classic A Race outsprinting his breakaway companions for an impressive win. This was followed a week later by a a very impressive win in the McCann Cup at Seskinore by Mark Brown who rode away from the field in the closing stages to win on his own, a great solo effort.

Meanwhile David McCann riding for the Giant Asia team had his third stage race win of the season winning the Melaka Governor cup to add to his wins in the Tours of Philipines and Taiwan.

David McCann wins the Tour of Taiwan

The highlight to a great start to the season for Phoenix members has been the win by David McCann in the 7 stage Tour of Taiwan that ended on Saturday 20th of March.

The season started with John Smythe getting 3rd place in the Annaclone B race, the following day at the Phoenix GP John placed 4th in the B race and Marty Henderson was 6th in the A race.  Not to be outdone by the men Tonya Moran was 3rd in the Womens race at the Phoenix GP. The next weekend (13th-14th March) saw more good results with Seamus Walshe winning the A4 Category prize in the John Moore Memorial at Temple.  The following day at Coalisland an early bold attack resulted in Finbarr Cummins getting 3rd place in the PJ Logan B race.  Once again our women riders also shone with Emma Kerr finishing 6th and Amy Brice 8th in the womens race.

David McCann on the Podium after Stage 6 in the Tour of Taiwan

Wheels in Action - Bike Aid for Africa

Phoenix members Maurice Ruddock, Brendan McCartan, Andy Rooke, and Antje Otto have been instrumental in setting up this very worthwhile charity.  They collect bikes and with the help of volunteers fix them up and send them to Africa to be used by aid workers, school children, orphanages and service providers.  They have a web site (click here) where you can get more information.  Every Wednesday evening they meet in Dundonald to fix up bikes and if you can go along and help it would be great.  You can get more details on their web site and on our message board. 

What's on this weekend?

Club Runs

Saturday - The club runs leave the House of Sport on the Upper Malone at 9.30, there should be a group to match your ability.

Sunday - The club run leaves the House of Sport on the Upper Malone Road at 9.30.

Club members who are interested in the history of our club and what some of our stalwarts looked like in the good old days of black and white photos should look at this nd white photos should look at this collection of photos and reminiscenses by Paddy Megahey it also pretty much sums up everything that is so fantastic about cycling.

If you need instructions for joining the club and getting a license click here

Some Information about our club

Phoenix was formed in 1951 by a group of cycling enthusiasts from north Belfast. The club has 100 members, and is one of the largest and oldest clubs in Ireland.

Club activites include

• road racing
• time trialling
• track racing
• mountain biking
• leisure cycling

Club runs (our core activity, catering to ALL levels of ability) take place every Saturday and Sunday, leaving from House of Sport, Upper Malone Road, Belfast, at 9.30 a.m. These vary in distance, duration, and intensity, depending upon ability, weather, and time of year. Average distances range from 40 to 60 miles.

Are you thinking of joining a cycling club? People who enjoy cycling are sometimes reluctant to join clubs because they feel that they will be left behind. Come along on a Saturday or Sunday morning, and we will ensure that there is a run to suit your ability.

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Club League

Phoenix runs an inter-club league from March to September. Members may participate in all club events, as well as all other events organised by our two governing bodies, Cycling Ulster and Cycling Ireland.

There is a strong social element in the club as well. Each year the club organises a club dinner, as well as the famous 'Juggin Run' on the last Sunday before Christmas.

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Contact Telephone Numbers for newcomers wishing to join our club runs:

Larry Sheeran:
02890 682382

Billy Smyth:
02890 962041