Astley & Tyldesley have two more British Individual Cycle Speedway Champions! Wigan based 11 years old Frank White won the British u-12 Boys title at East Park, Wolverhampton on Sunday, after dropping just one point in the match. Racing at Birmingham on Monday, 18 years old Astley resident Emily Burgess retained her British Women’s title, winning all her five races […]
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Hull played hosts to an understrength Astley & Tyldesley side on a sunny day in the North & Scotland League. In Division One Hull started well with a Nathan Everett / Jacob Francis 6-4 and increased their lead with a Jacob Francis / Matt Eglen maximum in heat 4, before Steve Harris / Reece Pollitt narrowed the lead with a […]
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Issued by Mike Hack, Astley & Tyldesley Cycling Club Press Officer Astley & Tyldesley held their 30th Annual Presentation and Social Event, in the main function room of the Astley & Tyldesley Miners’ Welfare Club, at Gin Pit. 55 club members, family and friends enjoyed the afternoon, to round off the club’s 2021 season. The Club has worked hard to […]
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Astley & Tyldesley Cycling Club are staging two major cycle speedway events at Gin Pit, the club’s final race meetings of the season, this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday. The final round of the Men’s Battle of Britain and HSBC UK Elite Grand Prix series is on Saturday, 12 noon start. The Battle of Britain match is on first […]
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Astley & Tyldesley and Hull raced out an entertaining challenge match at Gin Pit on Sunday. The visitors were missing a few regular riders, so A&T loaned them Steve Harris, to make for a competitive match. And that’s exactly what happened, with A&T holding a slender 42-38 lead at the break. The second half saw A&T’s line up of young […]
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Report by Mike Hack, Photo by Sarah Lawless Astley & Tyldesley staged Round 2 of the A&T Go-Ride Grand Prix series at Gin Pit on Tuesday evening. With fourteen riders participating, the riders were split into two groups – ‘A’ and ‘B’. The first round of qualifying races consisted of scratch races, with handicapping introduced for the remaining heats, in […]
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Dave Murphy puts the 33/18 spotlight on “Club of the Week” Week 1: Astley & Tyldesley During the coming weeks 33/18 intends to publish articles on a number of cycle speedway clubs, in Britain, Australia and Poland, as part of this new ‘Club of the Week’ feature. Our new columnist, Dave Murphy, has chosen Astley & Tyldesley as the first […]
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Astley and Tyldesley suffered a narrow defeat in their opening Northern League Division 1 match of the season on Sunday. Team Green travelled to last year’s league runners-up, Stockport, and put in a determined showing, to go agonizingly close, losing 88-86. Stockport got off to a maximum 7-2 heat win in heat 1, after Kyle Holland, on his A&T debut, […]
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Astley & Tyldesley took on Northern League Division 1 leaders, Edinburgh, at Gin Pit on Sunday. The first three races were all drawn heats. Heat 4 saw A&T suffer a major blow, when Lee Phillips sustained a broken wrist after a first bend clash with Jake Slight. With no reserve to replace him, A&T were forced to ride the rest […]
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A&T rode to a convincing win over bottom of the table Heckmondwike in Sunday’s Northern League Division 1 match at Gin Pit. Reece Pollitt raced unbeaten and he narrowly missed out on re-claiming the track record when winning heat 6 in a time of 40.43 secs. Paul Graham was unbeaten, save for a gate exclusion in heat 8. All the […]
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Astley & Tyldesley hosted National Round 3 of the British Youth & Junior League series at Gin Pit on Sunday. A superb day’s racing took place, with 86 riders in action. Poole took their third successive win in this series. Wednesfield’s Brandon Whetton twice lowered the track record in the u-17 match, after A&T’s Ciaran Collins did in his first […]
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Division 1 Astley & Tyldesley 89 v 41 Heckmondwike Edinburgh 90 v 85 Stockport Hull 88 v 88 Bury Division 2 Edinburgh 93 v 94 Stockport Glasgow 88 v 98 Stockport Hull 51 v 97 Bury Division 3 Astley & Tyldesley 79 v 0 Heckmondwike Edinburgh 4 v 0 Stockport Glasgow 0 v 0 Stockport Hull 36 v 116 Bury
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A rather depleted Astley team had little chance of matching the hosts, going down to a heavy defeat. Gavin Parr rode unbeaten for Northumbria, taking the time also to help a strong riding Dan Redshaw and an equally impressive Shane Gray where possible also, with some handy team riding skills. Paul Graham was the top scorer for the visitors, Ciaran […]
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Astley & Tyldesley completed two more signings before the transfer window closed. Richard Harrison made it a quartet of experienced Stoke based riders who transferred from Horspath to A&T.
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Astley & Tyldesley hosted the u-10 and u-16 Manchester League Individual Finals at Gin Pit on Wednesday evening. Rain fell during the evening, but the track drained well and was in a really good, grippy condition.
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Astley & Tyldesley hosted the 4th and final round of this year’s Astley & Tyldesley Go-Ride Grand Prix series. Despite missing plenty of riders away on holiday, there was still a good turn-out of 14 riders on the night.
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Stockport hosted the 6th and concluding round of the Manchester League Grand Prix series on Wednesday evening. There was plenty of good racing on a pleasant warm evening, which was completed just as dusk fell.
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Adam Phillips’ retirement from Cycle Speedway to pursue a Premier League football career, has been covered by the Mail Online.
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