The Cycle Inn, (Tallaght and the Bikeworld complex on the Long Mile Road) is proud sponsor of Ireland's only Red Bull Road Rage competitor Janos Köhler.  Janos grew up cycling mountain bikes in the Wicklow mountains in the early 90's. A series of encouraging underage and Junior results in the fledgling Irish DH scene (when 3 inches on the front and none on the back was a downhill machine) saw him come 2nd (Junior) in the inaugural Irish Downhill Championships and consistently post top times, which would have been competitive in the elite catagory.

A series of big injuries meant that his downhill career stalled before it could really get started. Recently focusing on endurance events such as the Ötztal Cycle Marathon a 238km over the Alps in Austria (where he broke the speed trap with the fastest speed of anyone... a touch over 115kph), Janos, with the help of Mick Jordan of The Cycle Inn, has decided to dust off the body armour and try his hand at the Red Bull Road Rage event in the Pyrenees.

Lining up along-side the downhill mountain bike legend Cédric Gracia and Tour de France Stage winners Frédéric Moncassin and Cédric Vasseur, along with previous podium finishers of the Red Bull Road Rage events in Italy and Switzerland Guillaume Gualandy and Fred Mazières, Janos will finally realise his dream of competing with the best on the steepest slopes in Europe. Watch this space.

 

You can follow Janos's Road Rage Weekend on his Twitter - twitter.com/tutschel . Janos and the Cycle Inn are supporters of the Livestrong Foundation for cancer awareness.