Bury Cycle Speedway held their presentation night on Sunday 11th December at Bury Bridge Social club, with almost 70 members and families there. Club President, Tony Mann announced the awards which were presented by Club Chairman, Stuart Howarth. First up were the Northern League GP recipients. Bury won this competition by a huge margin this year, the event encompasses all the […]
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Since 2013, when Bury Coaches started the development plan for the younger and less experienced riders, and entered a second team in the Northern fours to give them experience, the club have ran a full programme of winter training. It covers track training and various other disciplines and this season has seen the usual dedicated bunch training in the gym on […]
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Northumbria ended their 2016 campaign with the Northumbrian Riders’ Championship on Sunday. Prior to the meeting, gallons of water had to be pumped off the track. The weather was also not kind, a freezing north wind and showers persisted all day. Despite this, 19 riders took part to decide the various categories. The main event was expected to be dominated […]
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The ongoing development plan put together and implemented by the Bury coaching staff over the last three years is really coming into its own this season. The Bury Division 2 team have gone from strength to strength in 2016. Starting way back in March and culminating in October with an undefeated run on the way to being crowned Northern League Division […]
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Edinburgh Falcons manager, Stevie Gilroy, made sure that none of his riders were left out of the celebrations, after the Falcons took the Northern League Division One title last weekend. The day prior to their title success, Falcons’ Sheffield based rider, Jason Burke lost his mother, who passed away peacefully in Lincoln county Hospital after a short battle with cancer. The […]
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Sheffield’s final fixture of the 2016 Northern League season took them to St Thomas Recreation Park to face deposed Division One Champions Stockport. The home team had seen the Edinburgh Falcons crowned Champions last week, ending Stockport’s impressive run of six successive titles. The home team were able to name only seven riders, with Mat Lush away at university. Sheffield were […]
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Astley & Tyldesley’s youngsters have won the Northern League Division 3 title for the fourth successive year. A&T lined up in the season finale at Bury on Sunday, with both teams having lost one match apiece, so whoever won the match won the league. A&T made a strong start, leading 37-31 after the first round of races had been completed. This extended […]
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On a wet and tricky track, both teams put up fine performances, but Northumbria held the upper hand throughout and compled the double in both divisions. Northumbria gained an good win against a seven man Hull side in Division One. After a shared first heat, Northumbria took a 7-3 through Kirkup and Keith. By heat 6 the Vikings had increased […]
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Astley & Tyldesley raced to a hat trick of wins over Northumbria in the final home meeting of the season on Sunday. A&T opened with a 7-3 heat win to the Graham/Grantham pair over Oldham/Knowles in heat 1. Dan Thompson fell at the end of lap 3 in heat 3 and was excluded for bringing Matt Snell down. Race leader Gavin […]
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Here are the results from today’s regional racing, which saw Edinburgh Falcons crowned champions of the Northern League Division One. Congratulations to the Scots! Midland League Division One East Park 83 – 92 Wednesfield Dragons Northern League Division One Astley & Tyldesley 87 – 60 Northumbria Hull 67 – 112 Stockport Edinburgh beat Bury to become champions – score pending […]
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The Three Rivers League was devised to give Division 2 and 3 riders extra meetings to aid progress. Rules are flexible with occasional Division 1 riders and guests. 2016 saw the welcome addition of the Fife team. The latest meeting was held at Northumbria on 9th October. Edinburgh 76 Gavin Kennedy 14, Lewis Foxley 15+2, Lee Lawrence 9+1, James Foxley 6, […]
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Astley and Tyldesley welcomed near neighbours Bury for a Northern League derby fixture at a sunny Gin Pit on Saturday. In the Division 1 match, Bury opened up with two 6-4 heat wins and steadily pulled way to run out 86-60 winners. Best for A&T was Paul Graham, who won two races, with Reece Pollitt and Max Evans also winning races. […]
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With the success of the Coaching programme at Bury, especially at U13s level, the Club individual this year had to be split over two days. This Sunday, it was the division 1 and division 2 riders given a chance to have a go for the trophies on offer. Unfortunately there was around 4 of the riders unavailable due to work and other reasons, […]
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On Saturday 22nd October 2016, Bury Cycle Speedway will hold the John Whiting Appreciation event, in memory and celebration of the former rider, team manager, secretary and referee, who sadly passed away in March 2015. Invitations are extended to anyone who knew John, who was one of the true characters of the sport, much missed and often remembered. The event […]
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Edinburgh Falcons are now just one match away from winning the Northern League One title after a comfortable 95-81 victory over the Sheffield Stars at Cookson Park last weekend. The Falcons named a full strength team, while Sheffield promoted Sam Haines into the team for Kyle Holland (who would referee the match). Jake Slight and Neil Swanson broke the run […]
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It took six heats for Sheffield to break the 5-5 deadlock in this closely fought encounter thanks to a Watson/Haines 7-3, and as hard as Glasgow fought they never looked capable of taking the heat advantages required. The match started with a win for the impressive Ed Morton, passing andy MacDougal on the line, the first of several interesting races. […]
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Astley & Tyldesley made it a clean sweep of three wins in Sunday’s Northern League fixture against Hull, at Gin Pit. A cagey opening four races saw A&T hold a 20-18 lead in the Division 1 match. Two maximum race wins followed, as A&T took control of the match and they rounded off with six successive heat wins to record an emphatic […]
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Here are the results from today’s October Cycle Speedway action: Midland League Division One Birmingham – Wednesfield Aces Leicester 103 – 75 Coventry Division Two Birmingham – Wednesfield Aces Leicester 69 – 81 Coventry Midland Junior League Birmingham – Wednesfield Aces Leicester 38 – 42 Coventry Northern League Division One Astley & Tyldesley 89 – 57 Hull Stockport 117 – […]
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