The Britishcycling.org.uk website this week includes all the latest on Saturday’s Revolution 7 meeting. 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. Go There >>>

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:

Also available are several ex-service Road bikes - lower spec, lower prices, but still excellent bikes:

This Saturday will see four Great Britain Olympic Gold Medallists at the Velodrome, with Sydney winner Jason Queally (Kilo) and Athens stars, Chris Hoy (Kilo) and Bradley Wiggins (Pursuit) all in action on the boards, whilst there to watch them from the Track centre will be Sir Matthew Pinsent from Rowing. Another very special guest in the crowd will be five times swimming World Champion James Hickman.

As a keen cycling fan, Pinsent enjoyed watching the action at the Olympic velodrome in Athens last year and became friends with Wiggins after being impressed by his talents on the track. During the night, Wiggins will also be presenting Sir Matthew with an exclusive Terry Dolan road bike to help him keep in shape now that he has retired from Olympic rowing.

In the sprint action, 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 awesome Kilo at the Olympic Games in Athens. 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 in Athens. Tournant was one of the stars of last year’s Revolution 3, playing to the crowd and racing like a man possessed, so don’t miss the chance to see a real track legend in the flesh and check out how Chris Hoy handles all the intimidation and gamesmanship sure to be coming his way. The action starts at 7pm and tickets will be available on the door - Adult ticket (£8.00) - Child and OAP ticket (£4.00) - Family ticket (£16.00). Go There >>>

Astley and Tyldesley Miners Welfare Cycle Speedway Club and Cleveland Wheelers are the latest two clubs to achieve Go-Ride Clubmark accreditation, incorporating Sport England’s nationally recognised, cross-sport kitemark of quality. The two clubs currently share the accolade with just one other cycling club in the country (V.C Jubilee).

1) Duty of Care and Child Protection – ensuring that club officials are trained and resourced to deal effectively with child protection and safety issues.

2) The Riding Programme – ensuring that the club runs safe, structured, regular coaching activities and competition for young people.

3) Sports Equity & Ethics – helping to ensure that the club is an open and inclusive environment where every club member can achieve their full potential.

4) Club Management – addressing the key issues of finance, planning, communication and development.

Astley and Tyldesley Miners Welfare Cycle Speedway Club is based in Astley, near Wigan and has one of the best cycle speedway tracks in the country and has staged many major championship events. It is also a great grass-roots club, with a thriving membership and a commitment to young riders.

Mike Hack, Go-Ride Club Contact for Astley and Tyldesley said, "We are delighted to receive this prestigious accreditation, as this confirms that Sport England and British Cycling consider us to have met their criteria for being a quality club. We see this accreditation as being an important tool in increasing recruitment, as parents, schools and other youth organisations can be confident in the knowledge that youngsters taking part in our club's activities will be properly cared for. I would strongly recommend that other clubs to follow suit and work hard to carry out the improvements necessary to acquire the Clubmark accreditation." For more information about the club, Go There >>> or contact Mike Hack on 0161 793 6016.

Cleveland Wheelers has over 160 members and runs regular coaching sessions on Wednesday evenings throughout the year at Clairville Stadium, an outdoor tarmac velodrome near Middlesbrough. Much of the club’s recent success in developing coaching and competition for young people has been due to its innovative approach to facilities and its collaboration with other clubs. In 1996 the club began to hire Redcar and Cleveland Go-Kart circuit once a month to provide a venue for local competition. They were soon overwhelmed with youngsters and the league flourished. The League was then developing into a collaboration between many local cycling clubs.

Club Contact Steve Binks, said, “This is a great step forward for Cleveland Wheelers. Achieving accreditation will assist the club greatly in gaining more funding from the various agencies. It will also assist us in negotiations with various bodies including Tees Valley Cycling Forum, Guisborough Cycling Initiative and Middlesbrough Council, the last of which is pivotal in helping to decide the future of our facility, Clairville Stadium. Accreditation will also give us more credibility when working with local schools. For more details on the Cleveland Wheelers, contact Norman Bielby on 01642 315797.

British Cycling will be hosting three Go-Ride Club Development Conferences. 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. The conferences dates are as follows:

For more information about the conference, please see the conference programme (pdf download)

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

A Sussex Coaches Forum has been arranged at the Adur Outdoor Activities Centre, Brighton Road, Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex BN43 5LT on Monday 31st Jan from 8pm onwards. The forum is open to current trainee and qualified coaches as well as anybody interested in becoming a coach. The programme will include discussing the possibility of a mentoring scheme in partnership with the Coach Development Officer from the Sussex Sports Partnership and maybe some other sports. An update about the role of a cycling community sports coach, hopefully being appointed in March/April with Sport England funding will also be presented and the results of the recent coaching survey will also be discussed. There will be an opportunity for trainee coaches to go through some session plans and weekly diaries with the support of the RCCDO and other coaches. More information can be obtained from Roy Page on 07793 660480 or mailto:develop.seast@britishcycling.org.uk

So, you have got your Level 2 British Cycling Coaching award and want to get involved with the track? Well, this is the course for you then. Sometime in Feb - or maybe March, the Manchester Track Development Officer Andrea Ingram will be running a track coach training course. If you are interested in doing it - and the Velodrome are always looking for likely coaches to do paid work - then call Andrea on 0161 230 2271 or e-mail me tdo@manchestervelodrome.com

British Cycling Coaching and Education is pleased to announce the launch of two new coaching courses in its 2005 course programme.

The Activity Coach Award for Teachers (ACAT) provides all primary and secondary teachers with the cycling specific knowledge to deliver high quality cycling activities as a part of physical education lessons or after school clubs. Teachers that have already completed the ACAT course have started delivering Go-Ride and World Class Start activities in their schools; some have even formed Go-Ride School Clubs. The one-day ACAT course recognises teachers’ existing qualifications (QTS). Funding from Persil and SportsMatch means that there are FREE places available in some regions.

The Level 1 Coaching Award is the NEW entry-level course for people that have little experience of coaching or cycling. The Level 1 Award is aimed at people involved in cycling (i.e. club helpers, parents and other volunteers) that wish to become more involved and people that already work with children (i.e. teaching assistants, scout and guide leaders, etc.) that wish to introduce and develop cycling activities. The course covers all of the basics of coaching cycling and qualifies coaches to deliver British Cycling Go-Ride Gears 1 to 2 and to support a more qualified cycling coach.

British Cycling’s successful Club Coach Award will be delivered for the final time in 2005. Since its first delivery in 2000, 56 courses have been delivered to over 900 new coaches. Coaches that have completed the course have gone onto undertake a range of coaching roles within cycling; from coaching in Go-Ride clubs and Go-Ride schemes through to helping riders achieve Olympic success.

From 2006 the Club Coach Award will be replaced by the NEW Level 3 Coaching Award, which will include a number of discipline specific units. This will further enhance the depth and quality of coach education delivered to cycling coaches in the UK, and ensure that the needs of all of the cycling disciplines are met. The updated coaching programme will underpin British Cycling’s continued success.

The new Level 3 Coaching Award will provide the next step in the coaching programme for existing Club Coaches. Existing candidate and trainee Club Coaches are encouraged to complete their qualification to allow them to access the new courses. The Club Coach status will continue to be recognised and supported by British Cycling.

The traditional Bikes 'N' Bits cycle fair will be back for its 9th edition at the Manchester Velodrome this Sunday, 30th January 2005. One of the biggest events of its kind, the fair fills the large track centre area of the velodrome and is always a huge draw with cyclists from all over the North of England. Retail, club and private stalls are all welcome and although a "Track" venue, a lot of the goods on sale are from across all the cycling disciplines and from across the cycling aeons. Whether you're looking for a piece of the latest kit at a knock down price or a toggle chain for your Sturmey-Archer 3-speed, it's the place to be. Doors open at 11am, entry is £2 adults and £1 concessions, with bargain-hungry under-5s getting in free!

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. All the calendar updates are included in this section.

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.

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.

CALENDAR AMENDMENTS

2005 NORTH WEST RECYCLING LEAGUE

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In This Issue:

· OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLISTS AT REVOLUTION 7

· TWO MORE CLUBS ACHIEVE GO-RIDE CLUBMARK ACCREDITATION

· GO-RIDE CLUB DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES

· SUSSEX COACHES FORUM

· VELODROME COACH TRAINING

· TWO NEW CYCLING COACHING COURSES LAUNCHED

· FINAL SERIES OF CLUB COACH COURSES ANNOUNCED

· BIKES 'N' BITS - MANCHESTER, THIS SUNDAY

· RACING CALENDAR ONLINE

· EVENT UPDATES

· ORGANISERS – PLEASE SEND US YOUR UPDATES

· CALENDAR AMENDMENTS

· RELIABILITY/CYCLO-SPORTIF RIDES REGISTERED WITH BRITISH CYCLING

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2005 NORTH WEST RECYCLING LEAGUE