Club Christmas Party and Cowperson Of The Year

Hey Everybody,
The Christmas party kicks off at 8pm in Doheny and Nesbitts.(Very top floor) on Saturday December 5th. Finger food will be served at 10pm and the cowgirl/ cowboy of the year will be announced during the course of the night!

We're looking for nominations for cowgirl/cowboy of the year.The award will be presented at the Christmas party.Nominees should have done something in the past year, to bring the club into disrepute. The much coveted award has been won by a woman the past two years and it looks like this years front runner is also a woman.....

Festive dress is encouraged so root out those Christmas jumpers from the back of your wardrobes and get them on for the night!

Looking forward to seeing everybody for fun and frolics :)

Front runners in the race so far

- An ex army officer put her military skills to good use by breaking and entering an apartment down at TKAS.

- A newcomer to the club league with a fondness for tuna steam pots. He reported on every single club league race in his 'secret diary of Adrian Mole' style blog! This guy doesn't hold back so if you hide at the back of the bunch all day you'll be named and shamed!

-The next nominee has a had a season of ups and downs. He really had his eyes set on capturing the Orwell hill climb TT title but unfortunately landed in a sorry heap on the ground just moments after he set off.

- This guy is easy to spot in the peloton with his year round tan and well defined calf muscles. Unfortunately he failed to follow rule 5 in a recent cyclocross race and was photographed tiptoeing around a puddle.

- Just because Orwell isn't your primary club doesn't mean you escape nomination. This young lady signed up for the Gorey 3 day and had planned to drive to and from each stage to relax in the comfort of her own home. She discovered two days beforehand that most of the stages start and finish in different places!


This will be decided based on who gets the most votes so get your nominations in. Text me on 087 9541716

Just when we thought the Murnanes couldn't possibly win any more this year....
Dave Murnane ( recent winner of best jacuzzi body) sent me this one!!

Orwell Wheelers organised 2 major open races this year, the Hammond TT and the Stephen Roche GP, and Sean managed to crash out of both.

His first crash was in the TT, on a straight road, going uphill!. A poor excuse about a mechanical fell on deaf ears, as most people were too busy laughing.

Sean’s parents were very concerned, as he ripped his new Orwell gear and cracked his helmet. The ambulance crew did a great job patching up the road rash and applying painkillers.



Sean slacked off on training for the next 5 days, letting the road hash heal a bit, until the Roche GP.

He got into a break on his new Scott Foil bike, raising the profile of our new sponsor - several feet into the air – before crashing down onto the pavement and planting his face in the grass verge.

The grass stuck between his braces and his teeth added another shade of green to match his Orwell kit, or what was left of it.

He stood up gamely, and asked to take a lap out, whereupon he immediately fainted, crashing back down onto the pavement.

Piling further shame on the family, his father abandoned his marshalling post, to demand why Sean was no longer in the break.

His mother had to be called, and was reassured to hear that his helmet was ok, and that he had landed on the exact same holes in the kit as last time.

Dr Donal O’Connor escorted Sean back to the ambulance crew (old friends by now), who re-upholstered the road rash that had opened up again.

Sean has put the two crashes behind him, and is already looking forward to next season, with talk of a three-in-a-row, and emulating his brother Conor’s success in breaking a collar bone.