Jeff Pint from San Diego, CA writes about his trip to Ireland:

Last month (Aug 30th), I went to Ireland on a trip to catch the new and growing Tour of Ireland.

I arrived in Limerick, Ireland to catch no other than Julian Dean being interviewed by the cycling press. Julian had held a 2nd place position at that time and finished the 5 days on the podium. I was also lucky enough to speak to Julian about coming to the Tour of CA in Feb 09, and then got his autograph.

What a great opportunity to see some more of the teams riders !

In a wrap report on the World Road Championships, CyclingNews features Julian Dean and his efforts as the top Kiwi finisher in Varese, Italy.
From the article: In the end Dean had to settle to stay with the group of Bettini, with the latter celebrating Ballan’s win down the finishing straight. “Julian’s finishing position won’t reflect […]

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O took center stage today with a long breakaway by Magnus Backstedt and a dramatic sprint finish by Julian Dean. Riding out front for the first three laps, “Maggy” won the two of the three intermediate sprints of they day along with two KOMs. He was caught with two laps to go […]

Jumping in and hanging on to the decisive break of the day, Julian Dean finished 5th in today’s grey, wet stage 7 at the Tour of Britain. The escapees managed to work together and hold their gap to just over two minutes all the way to the finish at Drumlanrig Castle.
With the […]

Britain race report from DS Matt White
With an early break up the road, we decided to work with LPR to real it in. Trent (right) rode for 100 km on the front to keep the break within striking distance to give Julian a chance to go head to head with Petacchi. Then the rain came […]

In a near repeat performance of yesterday’s stage, today’s Tour of Britain stage 5 had a very similar finish with Edval Boasson Hagen taking his second win with Julian Dean finishing 5th on the stage and second in the field sprint just behind Victor Hugo Pena. Dan Martin also finished in the first chase group, […]

With clear blue skies to motivate the peloton today, stage 4 was fast from the gun. The peloton averaged 35 mph the first hour of the race as attack after attack went and got caught.
David Millar joined a solid breakaway of about ten just after the race passed through Staffordshire. The break held until […]

Dan gets a few last minute tips from his mother Maria before the start of Britain stage 1 in London.
A very special Tour of Britain report from Neil Martin, Dan’s father
After a journey by car and the famous (infamous?!) Underground, the main protagonists of the Martin Family descended on London to celebrate Dan’s return to […]