(delays do not apply to cyclists)
Secure, all-day bike parking was available up to encourage more people to cycle to work on Bike To Work Day. Also, free breakfast!
Cycle commuters relaxing and enjoying the breakfast of sausage and bacon rolls, sandwiches and tea.
Get yer sausage baps here!
mmmm bacon
Construction of the hospitality tent (began on Friday)
Finish line, race control and and commentary box
The Tour Manager's car
Before the main event, there was a fun Commuter Challenge Relay race.
Commuter Challenge Relay
Conor Murphy MLA MP...
...presented the award to the Commuter Challenge Relay winners, Phoenix Gas (the only all-male team)
The main event. Get ready...
...and they're off! 5 laps to warm up and get used to the course.
An early solo breakaway by team An Post Sean Kelly...
...was soon reeled in by the peloton.
Up close and personal with the riders!
Wave at Team Raleigh (in the white) !
This breakaway group of five held on to their gap for a while
Dan Martin of the pro Garmin-Slipstream team was a "team of one" on the night
Some riders were quickly left behind by the fast pace of the race
Another, longer lived, breakaway...
...and the chasing main group
Dan Martin leads the main group again
Near the end, Dan Martin made an heroic solo effort to cross the gap to a leading group of 12, dragging the peloton along with him.
Good crowds lined the course, despite there being an (apparently) important football match on at the same time.
Down in the Team Car area
Team Raleigh's support car. Bike pr0n!
Tony Gibb of team Cycle Premier-Metaltek interviewed after the race
Dan Martin
The awards ceremony.
