On your bike for Cork cycling festival

A ‘wheelie’ good time is in store in Cork as the annual cycling festival rolls in to the city and its environs over the next nine days.

The festival starts at 5.30pm today when cyclists will leave the festival headquarters on Grand Parade and descends on the Half Door Cafe on French Church St for an exhibition.

Darren McAdam-O’Connell, a member of the festival’s organising committee, said the dozens of free events planned for the nine days of the festival will cater for cyclists of all interests, and vary from day-long excursions to lunchtime and evening trips.