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End of season Cycling Ireland A1 rankings in full; Sean Lacey on top

Sean Lacey takes a really strong win on the final... Read more...

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Irish teams well capable of pulling off a shock at World Champs

Sam Bennett got himself into serious shape 12 months ago... Read more...

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News Shorts: Riders paying own way to Worlds; Hincapie has gun pulled in road rage

Sam Bennett leads the Irish elite men’s road race team... Read more...

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Irish team named for World Champs; Bennett leads the charge

Sam Bennett’s performance at the UCI World Road Race Championships... Read more...

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The touching tributes paid to “leader, friend, mentor” Richie Byrne

Richie Byrne passed away after a year-long battle with cancer.... Read more...

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Video: Is this new TV advert victim-blaming cyclists hit by trucks?

In this video a truck overtakes a cyclist with horrible... Read more...

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Losing a legend: Irish cycling mourns death of Richie Byrne

Richie with Carol on their bikes. He was a huge... Read more...

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Huge cycling protest to target Minister Shane Ross’s Dublin office

Everyone who cycles – for whatever purpose – is being... Read more...

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Video: Sparks flew when Kimmage & Armstrong clashed before

Super doper Lance Armstrong with the doped up nodding dogs... Read more...

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Armstrong challenges Kimmage to public interview in Dublin

Lance Armstrong has challenged Paul Kimmage to interview him on... Read more...

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Rojas shares photos of scars after gruesome double leg break at Vuelta

José Joaquín Rojas shared this photo of his crazy leg... Read more...

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Video: Police moto hits civilian car head-on at Italian pro race

The police moto driver got a hammering in this crash;... Read more...

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Paul Kimmage shares reminder of lofty ethics at early Team Sky

The section of transcript from an interview Paul Kimmage did... Read more...

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Walsh: I’ve contacts in Sky now, Brailsford will regret inviting me in

David Walsh said while he may have been duped by... Read more...

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Brailsford: Team Sky could only publish TUEs with riders’ consent

Dave Brailsford – far right, with Chris Froome and Geraint... Read more...

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Where did the name come from?

A stickybottle, put simply, is the knackered cyclist’s best friend. As a rider is being dropped from a group, the team manager or support worker in a following car holds a bottle out the window to hand it up. As the handover is taking place, the rider grabs the bottle tight, as does whoever is handing it up, enabling the rider get a good tow and push from momentum of the car. It’s known as a stickybottle because it appears neither the rider nor the person handing it up is able to take their hand off the bottle; it looks stuck to their hands. But please don’t try this at home. We’ve been slyly cheating this way all our lives; it takes a while to perfect.

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