Mountain Bike ULTaming Gravity since 1998

Club Events• Regular cross-country cycles, downhill trips, and trials

and street sessions • Monthly trips to the Galtees, Slievenamuck, the

Ballyhouras Mountains and Carlingford. • Training session with pro-downhiller Glyn O’Brien. • Subsidised trip to the Alps.• Trials trip to Liverpool (Last Weekend).• Future plans: weekend trip in the Wicklow Mountains,

an intervarsity race, National Points Series race in June, two week trip to Les Gets and a twenty-four hour enduro race during the summer.

Excellence Achieved

• Success in various disciplines.• Derek O’Donoghue gained second place in

the recent Winter Downhill League • Cormac Eason ranked highly in the recent

provincial Winter League.• The first female racer, Dawn Steacy, won

her two recent races, winning the first victory in racing for the club.

Club and Committee• Undergraduates, postgraduates, and alumni all

represented in the club and committee. • Various disciplines within mountain biking, from cross-

country, street, trials, downhill, marathon racing and dirt-jumping promoted in the club

• New committee members have been elected into positions of importance.

• High rate of active membership.• Busy club forum where meetings and events are

arranged or discussed. • As part of the club’s ongoing development, a plan was

drawn up by the committee for the activities during the year.

Logistics• The committee and club members have

collaborated in organising the club for the past seven months, and only through their efforts have trips like Les Gets and Carlingford been successful. Many members have devoted their time and energy to events like the NPS race, trail-building and researching and booking details for club trips.

• First year for MBUL to have a race jersey, sponsored by local Limerick businesses.

PromotionPromotion

• PPostering campaign in the first few weeks ostering campaign in the first few weeks of the first semester. of the first semester.

• Emails are also sent out by the members Emails are also sent out by the members email list. email list.

• Links with national forums have been Links with national forums have been established. established.

• Visibility on campus is increased by street Visibility on campus is increased by street and trials session. and trials session.

Track RecordTrack Record

• The The club has been central to the club has been central to the establishment of the sport within Munster establishment of the sport within Munster as the only club running a National Points as the only club running a National Points Series race this year, collaboration with the Series race this year, collaboration with the development of a mountain bike park in development of a mountain bike park in the Ballyhouras Mountains and until last the Ballyhouras Mountains and until last winter the only club with Limerick, winter the only club with Limerick, helping in the formation of the recently helping in the formation of the recently founded LMTB.founded LMTB.