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17.08.10: Members Only Trip - Ardnacrusha Run - Day: Friday 3rd September; Meet: Poitin Stil on N7 at 10.00; Coffee/Lunch: Finnegans Bar (Don't ask me where....just follow the link below!!) at 12.30; Arrive Ardnacrusha: 13.45 http://www.discoverireland.com/us/ireland-things-to-see-and-do/listings/product/?fid=FI_13684 ; Finally, Paul Dixon is the main man and Paul is hoping that as there is no charge for this tour people will make a donation to him for Nessa's Temple St Hospital appeal. Paul can be contacted on 0879678191

16.08.10: Date for the Way West Rally is set for 29th to 31st October. See ww10.html for details

12.08.10: Hi all, We had 112 Riders on Rally with 6 Pillions; Largest Club - Lupin MCC, Co. Down; Farthest Travelled - Bobby Sorenson & Jette Frederikson, Denmark; Smallest Bike - Liam Stapleton's; Oldest Bike - Sean Carroll's; Youngest Rider - Oisin Breathnach; Hard Luck - Myles Sheehy. Eamonn Waldron Memorial Trophy - 3 were presented ths year by Nessa to Eric Morton, Billy Redmond & Liam Stapleton to mark their achievement on riding the whole Rally on 50cc scooters to raise funds for the Cullen Kennedy Charity.

Here's a report on a 2-week 5000km Russian roadtrip to Georgia last April that intrigued me - "12-midnight, snow, ice around, and we're somewhere at an altitude of 2200m stuck in the middle of a 400 meter-tunnel, to go on is equivalent to madness"; guys, girls & Harleys. The Google translation is iffy, but the photos are beautiful!

Motorcycle Trip Moscow-Batumi-Moscow from ruriders on Vimeo.

19.02.10: Photo Rally 2010 locations released. DMTC were second in 2009 to the Club prize, will we do better in 2010?

19.10.09: Thanks to Paul of Motorcycle Rental Ireland for his newsletter, and links to The Great Ireland Roadtrip a motorcycle tour by Sundeep Gajjar, an Indian photo-journalist. "Within 4 hours of leaving almost any city in Europe, you can be at the MRI offices, loading up the bike of your choice ..." Sponsored by Castrol Power 1, Celtic Rider Motorcycle Rental, Ireland and Tourism Ireland.

The Motorcycle Safety Association has launched a training initiative for riders to improve their riding skills to an Advanced Level. Attached find document received which gives details of the training. For more information call MSA on 01 2940487. Press Release and MSA Website

Photo by Claudia

16.08.09: Claudia reminds me about her Riders Rally photos -"Would be great to see my pictures up - could be my 15 mins of fame". 35 shots of people and places can be seen at the DMTC Photo Centre.

3.8.9: Riders Rally Results, History, 2009 GPS route downloadable in a MapSource format from RR09 page.

Hint from JC - As we all carry mobile phones store the number of a contact person who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' (In Case Of Emergency)

Riding tips from 'Sport Rider.com' moved to the 3-minute check



It's either a famine or I get a truck load of great photos. I have added two pages of roads and maps of Newfoundland, Canada. Give them a read. Click Here Roads & Maps. Read Graham & Elaine Butler's Nova Scotia 2008 – Story and Photos – A tour over 10 weeks, through Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a total of 8,959 miles.

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