This weekend three Norwich riders will be competing in the British Indoor Championships at Coventry. Ciaran Wenn will be competing in the Junior event hoping to reach his first ever British Final. His dad Paddy Wenn will be competing in the Veterans event, along with Steve Copping (pictured), who after 27 years in the sport has decided to retire from racing after […]
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Andrew Cobley has some Mielec bits for sale, all of which is brand new. Here is the ad: I am selling a Mielec frame and handlebars. They are all brand new and the frame has never been built. I would like £140 for the frame and £10 for the bars. The frame is medium sized. Contact: andrew.cobley@btinternet.com
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This weekends sees the curtain officially come down on the 2015 season, with the British Indoor Championships being staged, once again, at the Coventry Connexion in Ryton-on-Dunsmore. Here is the “need to know” information for the finals this weekend for competitors and spectators alike, who are visiting Coventry for the championships. NEAREST HOSPITAL University Hospital Coventry Walsgrave West Midlands CV2 […]
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National tool and equipment hire chain, Hire Station, have been named as yet another sponsor of the British Indoor Cycle Speedway finals, which is staged this weekend in Coventry. Hire Station, a PLC, and which has over 60 branches nationwide, including Coventry, becomes the ninth sponsor of the British Indoor championships to be unveiled by the Coventry club. It means […]
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Cycle Speedway moves indoors this weekend as Coventry play host to the British Cycling Indoor Championships at the Coventry Sports Connexion Leisure Centre. Birmingham Monarchs will be among the favourites to take the team title on Sunday, with a team of indoor specialists including reigning open champion Ricki Johnson. Sunday will also see the accumulation of the senior, womens and […]
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As we come to the end of a fantastic year for Cycle Speedway, we’d like to thank all of our readers and sponsors for your support this season. We doubled our readership during the World Championships and urge the Cycle Speedway community to keep sharing stories on social media to increase the sport’s online presence into 2016. So, it’s a slightly […]
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The staging of the eagerly anticipated British Indoor Finals at the Sports Connection – now only 10 days away – has sparked an abundance of Christmas spirit and goodwill towards the championship promotors, the Coventry Cycle Speedway club. Only two months ago, with no written expressions of interest to stage the finals, this year’s British Indoor Finals were looking extremely […]
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Visitors to Coventry for the British Indoor Finals are reminded that accommodation bookings at the official championship headquarters – The Village Hotel – are still open over the Christmas holiday period. Riders, management, officials and fans can book hotel accommodation at the official championship headquarters, the Village Hotel, Coventry, for Friday 1st January 2016 (ahead of the first days racing […]
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There are still limited spaces left for late entries to the British Indoor Finals. These are in the British Under 13s Final, British Woman`s Final and British Veterans Final. There is also one space left for the British Senior Team Final and two places left in the British Junior Team Final. The remaining places are sure to be in demand […]
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The West Midlands Golf Club near Solihull are the latest sponsor to swing their support behind the upcoming British Indoor Finals, with major sponsorship of the event, which races into Coventry on 2nd and 3rd January 2016. Following a pitch from Joe McLaughlin, the West Midland Golf Club immediately agreed to support the finals at the Sports Connexion, Ryton. They […]
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British Cycling have announced international manager appointments have now been made for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Unfortunately, not all roles have been filled, highlighting the worrying downward trend of volunteers across the sport. Lee Aris is taking over management of Team GB from Dave Murphy, with a special eye on the 2017 tour in Australia. Geoff Gamage stays on as Women’s […]
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Birmingham Monarchs’, Chris Timms has recently been in talks with Ostrow’s Szymon Kowalczyk to bring him to the second City. The Polish rider recently captured everyone’s attention with his impressive performance in the World Individual Final in August 2015. Kowalczyk finished on a solid 12 points, beating some of the Worlds best throughout the tour. Chris first met Simon in 2008 […]
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Departing Cycle Speedway Commission chairman, Graham Elliott, has written to us to share his thoughts on his two years leading the commission. Its end of term for me, so it might be an appropriate moment to pen an end of term report sharing some thoughts that I’ve developed last two years as Chairman on the Cycle Speedway commission. Firstly we […]
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Graham Elliott has stood down as chairman of the British Cycle Speedway commission, after two years in the hot seat. Elliott was appointed for the 2014 season as a member of the British Cycling board. Despite not being elected back on to the board for 2015, he was granted another year as CS chair by British Cycling president, Bob Howden, […]
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Birmingham Monarchs hold their presentation night on Friday 15th January 2016. The evening will be held at the Hamstead Social club in Great Barr, Birmingham at 7:30pm. Entry is pay on the door, priced at £4 adults, £2 kids, £10 family ticket (includes all family children). All are welcome. On Tuesday 19th January the Monarchs stage their AGM, also at Hamstead Social (provisional) from […]
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New and existing cycle speedway referees are invited to attend the following- Northern Regional Cycle Speedway Referees’ Training Course, which will take place at the National Cycling Centre, Manchester on Sunday 24th January 2016, 10 am to 2 pm. Course delegates required to make an on-line booking by Friday 8th January. Mike Hack will be the facilitator for this course. Midlands Regional […]
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World Women’s champion, Vicky Brown and the Men’s and Women’s Great Britain squads are shortlisted for the “Ride of the Year” award on the British Cycling website. They face stiff competition against the likes of Road’s Lizzie Armitstead, Track’s Laura Trott and BMX’s Liam Phillips. Brown stormed her way to the World title at Wednesfield in August, as well as collecting […]
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There is currently a space to be filled on the British Cycling Cycle Speedway Commission which for 2016. Each member of this Commission has an area of responsibility allocated to them, though all have an overall responsibility to try to develop Cycle Speedway as a sport and as such, will have a significant input into how the sport is run. […]
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