The Britishcycling.org.uk website this week is packed with news and information as the new Road and Track seasons get closer. There are all the latest updates to the calendar, plus information from Race organizers keen to keep you in touch with their events. There’s also almost daily news ahead of next weekend’s Revolution 7 meeting and more photos from the Cyclo-Cross National Championships. Also on the site the classified ads – click the link from the homepage to access this free and effective member service, which we have updated with some new guidelines to protect advertisers and buyers.
BIKE SALE
1
For full details of the sale of ex-team GB Road and MTB bikes, why not visit our on-line catalogue, where you can see pics of the bikes:
BIKE SALE
2
Also available are several ex-service Road bikes - lower spec, lower prices, but still excellent bikes:
BRIAN
WALMSLEY
The death of NW stalwart Brian Walmsley was announced earlier this week. Brian was a member of the North West Division Committee, and was a dedicated race official, working on the track at Manchester Regional Track League, Kirkby Track League, the National Track Championships and the Revolution series. He also worked as a road commissaire throughout the North West. Brian was a dedicated and enthusiastic contributor to our sport who will be sadly missed by all who knew him. There will be a minute silence in his memory at both this week’s Manchester Regional Track League meetings. We send our condolences to his family and friends.
HOY, WIGGINS
AND
TOURNANT HEAD UP REVOLUTION 7
With two of the world’s greatest sprinters featuring at Revolution 7 on the 29th January, the scene is set for a revenge match of epic proportions. Arnaud Tournant and Chris Hoy will go head-to-head in a 500m Time Trial, racing against each other for the first time since the Kilo at the Olympics. The rivalry between these two legendary sprinters is huge and revenge will be top of the agenda for Tournant, who will be looking to set the record straight following Hoy’s victory over him in the Olympic Kilo.
Hoy and Tournant
will also clash in the grand finale of Revolution 7; a France verses
Britain Team Sprint with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally making up the
British trio and Gregory Bauge and Francois Pervis joining Tournant.
The
British squad are the team on form having just won the Team Sprint at
the
Manchester World Cup. However, the French are the reigning World
Champions.
The action
doesn’t
end there though as Olympic Pursuit Champion Bradley Wiggins (four
times
an Olympic medallist) and World Pursuit Champion Sergio Escobar Roure
will
be squaring up in the endurance events completing a superb night of
racing
and rivalry. Tickets are available to purchase in advance from
www.cyclingrevolution.com or by calling 07005 942 579. Tickets are also
available to purchase on the night.
2005 PREMIER
MOUNTAIN BIKE SERIES
Trek, British Cycling and race promoter Martyn Salt (operating through Inevent) are all set for another year of supporting and promoting the UK’s top mountain bike Cross-Country race series. The 2004 Premier Mountain Bike Series was the first to be promoted under by the combined forces of Trek, British Cycling and Inevent and highly successful it was, visiting four traditional race venues.
For 2005 the series has been expanded to five events and sees the introduction of a new course in Cannock Chase and a return to the classic venue of Builth Wells. Each weekend will once again be packed with racing including the British Cycling National Points XC Series, the What Mountain Bike Short Course and the Trek 6-4-2 Enduro.
Trek's Brian Buckle said "The Premier series offers a full on weekend of racing, value for money, variety of terrain, good prizes and three different events. As well as racing this year we will be offering consumers the chance to test ride our latest technology including the all-new Fuel EX series, Top Fuel, selected Hard Tail models and a range of Women’s Specific Design bikes."
Well have entry forms and more details on the on-line MTB Calednar as soon as they are available – go to www.britishcycling.org.uk and hit the Race Calendar button on the home-page for a full menu of calendar options.
2005 Premier MTB Series Date and Venues
Round 1 April 16/17 Newnham Park
Round 2 May 14/15 Builth Wells
Round 3 June 11/12 Thetford
Round 4 July 16 Margam
Round 5 August 27/28 Cannock
GO-RIDE CLUB
DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES
Following the success of the Primary School Club Links, Go for Gold and Tour of Britain programmes, delivered with the help of go-Ride clubs in 2004, club officials from Go-Ride clubs asked for the opportunity to meet with other Go-Ride club members to discuss best practice and share information. As a result, British Cycling will be hosting three Go-Ride Club Development Conferences. The conferences dates are as follows:
· Manchester – Manchester Conference Centre, 26th February
· Bridgewater, Somerset – The Exchange, 5th March
· London – Crystal Palace National Sports Centre – 12th March
The conferences will include a series of mini workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of your club and provide training opportunities for your club officials, coaches and volunteers together with the opportunity to discuss how Go-Ride should be developed in the future. Furthermore, we are pleased to offer every conference attendee a free T-shirt and one free ticket to a premier cycling event. Attendees at Manchester will receive a free ticket for the Revolution 8 track meeting on the same date. Attendees at Bridgewater and London will receive a free ticket for the Herne Hill Good Friday event on 25th March.
For more information
about the conference, please see the conference programme (pdf
download)
GO THERE>>>
If you are interested in finding out what it takes to become a Go-Ride club, please contact your Regional Coaching and Club Development Officer
BOOK NOW FOR
YORKSHIRE'S BIG EVENTS OF 2005
The National Elite Men/Women and U23 Women's road Champs will all be based at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, North Yorkshire, the very impressive Stately Home of Lord and Lady Feversham. Helmsley is a tourist centre in picturesque Ryedale and so for those planning to either ride or spectate it's well worth spending a weekend there. The downside is that it's very popular and so it's very much a case of "Book Early". Yorkshire Division's Bob Howden has had a meeting with the Tourist Office and they've kindly provided him with leaflets of the attractions and a schedule of Local Accommodation, if anyone wants a copy can they email Bob at bobhowden@grasscrete.com
SPRINGTIME
COMES
EARLY TO DEVON
Now is the time to enter the Mid-Devon Cycling Club's Springtime Pursuits. This series of 3 races that will put speed into early season legs take place on Saturday 12, 19 and 26 Feb and start at 14.30 hours. The races are open to all categories from Junior to Elite and including women. The distances are 30, 31 and 40 miles respectively on a course that is primarily flat. The event HQ is the Cricket Club at Whimple some 8 miles East of the M5 Exit at Exeter. Entry Fee is £12.00 per race and all 3 races can be entered on one entry form. Don't delay and today send your form and cheque, made out to "The Mid-Devon C.C." to the event Sec:- Ken Robertson, 9, Barnfield Road, PAIGNTON, TQ3 TJT – full details on http://www.mdcc.org.uk/
BMX
NEWS
Round 3 of the North Winter Regional Series 2004-2005 takes place at Tipkinder Park, Queens Park Road, Crewe on Sunday the 23rd. Registration is held from 10.30am until 11.30am and racing commences at Midday. All classes are £5.00. Go to: www.northregionbmx.co.uk for further information on North Region events or contact Crewe club secretary Karen Potts on 01270 584078 or Email: cgrbmx@yahoo.co.uk
2 more events on Sunday are Open races at Hayes, Middlesex and Exeter in Devon. See below for information.
Hayes Hawks BMX Club registration is 11.00 - midday and racing commences at 12.30. Race fees £5.00 and the track address is: Lake Farm, Dawley Road, Hayes. Contact information: Web www.hawksbmx.co.uk Tel Scott Dick on 07944 557689 or Email hayesbmx@aol.com The track address for Exeter club is: Cofton Road, Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Exeter. For event information, call: Norris Bradley on 01392 670410 or Email N.W.Bradley@exeter.ac.uk
MTB
NEWS
Round 2 of the Thetford Winter Enduro Series is this weekend. Round one was a huge success with hundreds of competitors tackling the course on a cold day in November. Sign on is from 8.30 until 9.45 and all races start at 10.15. The next 2 rounds will be over 19th & 20th of March. Go to www.thetford-mtb-racing.co.uk for further information. Call Paul Sumption on 01842 751981 or Email:
info@thetford-mtb-racing.co.uk
Uplift practice days for Downhill riders are becoming increasingly popular with riders wishing to enjoy a full race course, plenty of transport to the top of the course and no race pressure. Details of this Saturday's uplift at Mountain Ash can be found on www.dragondownhill.co.uk or contact Jason Carpenter on 07801 624776 or Email: dragondh@dsl.pipex.com
RACING
CALENDAR
AND ONLINE CALENDAR
The year’s first issue of the Racing Calendar should be with most of you by now (gold members and other subscribers). As with every issue, a few will go missing in the post, so if you haven’t received yours by Friday of next week (21 Jan) call Membership Services on 0161 274 2010 and they will sort you out with another copy. In the meantime, the Road and Track calendar is now online at britishcycling.org.uk – look for the “Race Calendar” button on the homepage. Also on-line are the MTB and BMX Calendars. GO THERE>>>
EVENT
UPDATES
Every season we publish a detailed list of Road and Track Calendar updates – these are changes to the calendar as published in the Racing Calendar magazine. They are all published in this newsletter and added to special “Calendar Updates” sections of the online Calendar. Simply go to the www.britishcycling.org.uk website and hit the “Race Calendar” button for the full calendar index page, which includes links to the Calendar Updates pages.
ORGANISERS –
PLEASE SEND US YOUR UPDATES
Race organisers should let us know about any updates as soon as possible, so that we can spread the news. Send you road and Track Calendar updates to paulwest@britishcycling.org.uk or call Paul on 0161 274 2021.
ROAD ADDITIONAL
EVENTS
South East Division
Saturday 26th March
Eastway SERRL Event 1, Lee Valley Cycle Circuit
U12 5 Laps 12:00 £5.00 (£5.00)
U16 10 Laps 12:45 £5.00 (£5.00)
3.4.W.J 32 Laps 13:30 £13.00 (£13.00)
E.1.2 32 Laps 15:00 £13.00 (£13.00)
Closing Date - 05/03/05 Cheques to - SERRL
Kim Anderson, 4 Teal Way, Iwade ME9 8QU
01795 426211 kim-serrl@btconnect.com
South East
Division
Sunday 3rd April
Sevenoaks Weald SERRL Event 2, Seavonoaks Weald Scout Hall
3.4.W.J 80km 09:30 £13.00 (£17.00)
Closing Date - 12/03/05 Cheques to - SERRL
Kim Anderson, 4 Teal Way, Iwade ME9 8QU
01795 426211 kim-serrl@btconnect.com
South East
Division
Sunday 17th April
Brenchley SERRL Event 3, Brenchley Village Hall
2.3.4 100km 09:30 £13.00 (£17.00)
Closing Date - 27/03/05 Cheques to - SERRL
Kim Anderson, 4 Teal Way, Iwade ME9 8QU
01795 426211 kim-serrl@btconnect.com
South East
Division
Sunday 24th April
Kennardington SERRL Event 4, Woodchurch Village Hall
2.3.4.W.J 100km 09:30 £13.00 (£17.00)
Closing Date - 03/04/05 Cheques to - SERRL
Kim Anderson, 4 Teal Way, Iwade ME9 8QU
01795 426211 kim-serrl@btconnect.com
South East
Division
Sunday 1st May
Cycle Kingdom Spring Classic, Liphook, Hampshire
E.1.2.3 131km 11:00 £15.00 (£20.00)
Closing Date - 10/04/05 Cheques to - VC Meudon
Craig Peter, 16 Kingsley Square, Fleet GU51 1AH
01252 627500
South East Division
Sunday 8th May
Women’s National Team Series Round, Ellens Green
W/WJ 99km 10:00 £12.50 (£15.00)
Stage Race - 20km TTT (Teams of 6 - 3 to Count) & 79km RR
Closing Date - 24/04/05 Cheques to D.L.Samuels
Dudley Samuels, 20 Florin Road, Putney SW15 2NL
0781 504 6916 dudleysamuel@tiscali.co.uk
South East Division
Sunday 15th May
Lamberhurst/Frant SERRL Event 5, Bells Yew Green Village Hall
3.4.W.J 100km 09:30 £13.00 (£17.00)
Closing Date - 24/04/05 Cheques to - SERRL
Kim Anderson, 4 Teal Way, Iwade ME9 8QU
01795 426211 kim-serrl@btconnect.com
South East
Division
Sunday 22nd May
Benenden/Cranbrook SERRL Event 6, Benenden Village Hall
3.4.W.J 80km 09:30 £13.00 (£17.00)
Closing Date - 01/05/05 Cheques to - SERRL
Kim Anderson, 4 Teal Way, Iwade ME9 8QU
01795 426211 kim-serrl@btconnect.com
ROAD AMENDMENTS
North West Division
20th March, 23rd April, 28th/29th May, 25th June, 16th July
North West Innovation Series
Promoter is now - Rob Pye, 4 Fairways Avenue, Broughton, Preston PR3 5JP
01772 866070 head@edisford.lancsngfl.ac.uk
Cheques Payable to R. Pye
North West Division
Saturday 23rd April
North West Innovation Series Round 2
Women’s Events amended to read.
W 30km 15:01 £6.00 (£7.50)
W(Prov/Non Member) 15:01 £4.50 (£4.50)
Tuesdays 26th April to 26th July
E.Mids East Midlands Mallory Cycle Racing League
These events are Not Open to 2nd Cats.
Sunday 8th May
South DivisionBlagdon Hill RR
Cheques now payable to - Bristol Development Squad
North West Division
Saturday/Sunday 28th/29th May
North West Innovation Series Round 3
Women’s Events amended to read.
W 60km 15:01 £12.00 (£15.00)
W(Prov/Non Member) 15:01 £9.00 (£9.00)
TRACK ADDITIONAL
EVENTS
West Midlands Division
Fridays 6th May to 9th September
Halesowen Track League, Manor Abbey Stadium
Seniors 19:15 (£6.00)
Youth 19:15 (£4.00)
Freewheelers 19:15 (£2.00)
Entry on Line Only Cheques to Halesowen CC
John Harris, 100 Fairmile Road, Halesowen B63 3QD
0121 602
2420 j-h@blueyonder.co.uk
RELIABILITY/CYCLO-SPORTIF RIDES REGISTERED WITH BRITISH
CYCLING
These are the latest pre-season reliability and cyclo sportif rides which have been registered with British Cycling. They are generally open to all, though it’s always worth calling the organizer to get a feel for the distance, pace and route before committing yourself.
West Midlands Division
Sunday 30th January
Wrekinsport CC Reliability Trial, Rodington Village Hall
Vincent Evans Tel 01952 255417 vince-evans@tiscali.co.uk
West Midlands Division
Sunday 6th February
Ludlow CC Reliability Trial, South Shropshire Leisure Centre, Ludlow
Three Groups from 09:20 Two Distances - 75km & 112km
Phil Weaver Tel 01568 770451 weaver.phil@virgin.net
Yorkshire Division
Sunday 6th February
Clifton CC Reliability Trial
100km
Paul Musgrove Tel 01904 750821 cath-paul@tiscali.co.uk
Central Division
Sunday 27th February
Twickenham CC Cyclo Sportif, Hampton Court
105km 10:00
Doug Collins Tel 0208 560 8855
Wolverhampton
Wheelers CC Youth Specific Reliability Rides
Wolverhampton Wheelers Cycling Club will be holding three youth specific reliability rides on the last two Sundays of February and the first Sunday of March. The reliability rides are open to all youth riders but specificly for under 14 & under 16 due to the distance and terrain. Parents are more than welcome to ride alongside the younger riders to assist on the rides if need be, full route cards will be given on the day and Certificates to all riders who complete the runs. For more infomation contact Rob Murphy at robmurph@tiscali.co.uk
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