Clemens Fankhauser of the Austria Tirol Cycling Team scooped the biggest victory of his career in Skerries yesterday when he won the An Post Rás.

The route for Ireland’s showpiece cycling stage race — the eight-day An Post Rás — was unveiled yesterday with competitors set to fight it out over 1,260km and 36 categorised climbs from May 18-25.

It was all change on the An Post Rás yesterday as a seemingly flat second stage delivered a new stage winner and another Irish race leader into Nenagh.

Following the success of the An Post Rás last week, the action becomes more localised this weekend when one of Ireland’s most storied cycling clubs, Blarney CC, host their annual June Bank Holiday festival of racing.

THE number one ranked team in Ireland from 2011, namely The Edge Racing, will operate under a new name for the forthcoming season after Dan Morrissey/ Speedy Spokes cycles announced yesterday that they would co-sponsor the team.

AFTER their sensational performance in the An Post Rás, where they won the Best County team prize for the Carlow Dan Morrissey outfit, Timmy Barry and The Edge cycling team will be back on home territory this coming weekend when they compete in the Blarney Festival of Cycling.

Cyclists from far and wide are descending on Dunboyne, Co Meath this weekend for the annual An Post Rás event.

SEAN LACEY of the Edge Racing cycling team did what many deemed improbable when he claimed a sensational overall win at the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan in Killorglin yesterday.