Autumn MTBO/trailquest Events

News straight from the Trailblazers MTBO website:
Summer is nearly over and the new season of Mountainbike navigation events are coming around again.
The ever popular Dromara CC trailquests are taking place in the build-up to the new year, with events spread around County Down.
Our very own Trailblazers events will be taking place soon with the promise [read more...]

Trailblazer Event 3 - Ballintoy - Paul's Report

Planners – Jon Kay/ Ivan Park.

The north coast of Antrim was the location for the final round of the Trailblazer/MTBO trailquest series. Ballintoy was the event’s HQ and most competitors had a shock when they realized the length of the steep hill down to the harbour (they had to cycle back up it to get [read more...]

Trailblazer Event 1 Portaferry – Planner’s Report

Well, we got away with it! I woke up on Tuesday morning (the day after the event) and it was chucking it down. I was half expecting Noah and his ark of animals to slowly float pass the window, the rain was that heavy. So, from a planner’s point of view; how did it go? [read more...]

All Done! - Trailblazer/MTBO Trailquest - Portaferry

After all the heavy rain on Sunday night, Monday thankfully remained dry. However, it left a vicious wind, but was luckily not too cold. There were lots of smiles at the end, which is a good sign for any planner. A big thanks to everyone who turned up. There were 41 people making up 20 [read more...]

Trailblazers/MTBO Event 1 - Portaferry

The first of the Spring Trailblazers/MTBO trailquest series kicks off next week (Easter Monday 5th). Final details are below and it is looking like it will be a interesting area to explore. Fingers crossed that the weather improves, because the forecast for the rest of this week does not look very good . Further [read more...]

Is this a good time to get a Map Board?

With the growing popularity of the Dromara Winter Trailquest series and the up and coming Trailblazer series, this could be a good time to invest in a bike map board.
For adventure racing, trailquests and mountain bike orienteering, map boards have become an essential piece of kit in the navigator’s arsenal. Ok, you can do without [read more...]

TrailblazersMTBO announce dates for their 2010 Spring Series

Straight off the TrailblazersMTBO presses…..
Trailblazers spring trailquest series returns. Following the success of Trailblazers first spring series in 2009, we are pleased to announce a series of 3 events this April. 3 new planners are rearing to go and 3 new areas are being found for your enjoyment.
Trailquesting is a fun sport combining road/mountainbiking and [read more...]

New 25k NI Maps from Mapyx Quo

More good news on the digital map front. Mapyx Quo has just release their range of 1:25000 digital maps of Northern Ireland. The series include the Glens of Antrim, Mourne Mountains, Sperrins, Strangford Lough and Lough Erne. Even better news is that Mapyx Quo have their January sale on and are offering 25% discount on [read more...]

Dromara CC Winter TQ Series Round 6 - The Finale

The final round of the Dromara CC Trailquest Winter Series took placed yesterday and it was expected to be a hard fought race between the top four teams in the series standings as only 7 points separated them. ‘Retro Grouch’, ‘Nocturnal’, ‘The Losers’ and ‘Who the fox is that?’ had it all to play for, [read more...]

CCAR go 'kit-kat' and take a break

The Event Team at Causeway Coast AR have decided not to run their popular 1 day adventure racing series for 2010.
The main force behind the events Ivan Park and Steve Curry have agreed that after 4 years it was a good time to have a break from organising races. This will also give them time [read more...]

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