Buck is looking strong

FBD Insurance Rás Stage 7: Rathdrum - Wicklow Town, 138 km Well the two hardest stages of this Rás have turned out to be Buck's two best stages... is our would be sprinter turning into a climber? Who'd have guessed...

Today's tough mountain stage featured seven categorized climbs--including the first category ascents of Slieveman, Sally Gap and Luggala. Oooof! Buck made what turned into the front group of 30 on this tough stage and came accross the line in 16th today. This has been an unlucky Ras for us, but also a great one, and we're hoping to finish it off strongly in Dublin tomorrow.

results

1 Morten Hegreberg (Nor) Sparebanken Vest 3.29.36
2 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Trinity Capital
3 Yanto Barker (GBr) Stena
4 John Tanner (GBr) Trinity Capital
5 Eugene Moriarty (Irl) cycleways.com
6 Simon Kelly (Irl) Nucleus
7 Sigvard Kukk (Est) Kalev Chocolate
8 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Grant Thornton
9 Robin Sharman (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
10 Chris Newton (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
11 Conor Murphy (Irl) Grant Thornton
12 Roger Aiken (Irl) Safe Cycling
13 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Scotland
14 Tim Barry (Irl) Dan Morrissey
15 Andrew Roche (Irl) Worldwide Cycles
16 Kevin Miller (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee
17 Rostislav Krotky (Cze) Elmarco KK
18 Alex Coutts (GBr) Scotland
19 Malte Urban (Ger) Stevens von Hacht
20 Jan Novak (Cze) Elmarco KK

69 Zach Bell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee
84 Andrew Randell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee
86 Mark Pozniak (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee

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