DH Racing 2025

A page offering resources for riders and those who are supporting them to ride DH internationally in 2025.

After the online meeting facilitated by the Off Road Commission and Cycling Ireland (January 2025) one of the key outcomes was the recommendation for riders, their parents, and any other relevant supporters to work more closely together to try and make the ambition to race DH internationally as feasible, and as successful, as possible.

A WhatsApp group was started the day after this meeting, and this web page is intended to record some of the key information shared in the WhatsApp group so that everything is collected in one central point, and so that new members of the WhatsApp group can get up to speed despite not being able to see older messages in the group chat.

Tom Scott, parent to rider Isaac Scott and a bike phootgrapher, offered to host this on his site so that there was no need to pay for a standalone site just to share this information.

Updates will be made as often as possible. If you spot anything incorrect or that needs updating, please just let Tom know - hello@atomcreates.com

The FAQs will be added as the group works through different questions and works out answers.

This page is set to public, but is not listed in the tomscottphotos.com site menu.


FAQs

Question: What is the Off Road Commission?

Answer: The Off Road Commission is a Cycling Ireland committee made up of volunteers whose responsibility it is to organise off road disciplines of cycling, such as: XC (cross country); CX (Cyclocross); Enduro; and DH (Downhill).

Question: What support is on offer for DH riders from Cycling Ireland?

Answer: Cycling Ireland offers the following to DH riders: (1) CI sanctions the required permission to enter certain races which allow or require the wearing of the Ireland jersey. (2) CI encourages the Off Road Commission to increase interaction between DH riders and those who support them, for example encouraging the Off Road Commission to organise training sessions, Q&A sessions with experienced riders, advise on getting sponsorship, etc.

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