Astley & Tyldesley have been rocked by the sad news that top rider Damian Zareba (pictured at Sheffield) has been forced to quit racing, due to a serious back injury. The 34 year old Pole from Bydgoszcz was the 2004 European Champion and very much in form this year, despite racing when less than fully fit. He aggravated his long […]
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Bury hosted Round 2 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series on a hot, sunny evening last week. Bury’s Kaci Neath rode to a maximum score in the U10 match, twice beating A&T’s Duncan Whalley. A&T’s Emily Burgess made it a double success for the girls, by also riding unbeaten in the U13s match, twice beating team mate John White. […]
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Bury Comets Cycle Speedway team took full advantage of a full strength Division Two squad for the first time this season, with a convincing victory over a weakened Glasgow side at Goshen. The Comets saw Adam Taylor return from his early season injury to bolster an already unbeaten side. The match began with a Bury 7-3 from Steve Mann and […]
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A Northumbria side trying to cope with the retirement and semi-retirement of Gavin Parr were unfortunate to meet a strong Bury team on Sunday. Things started brightly when Will Owens’ bike gave up the ghost at the start of heat 1, Jason Keith allowed Terry Kirkup through on the first bend and a 7-3 resulted. Bury turned the screw and […]
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The second round of the BYJL takes place this Saturday with rounds being held at Bury, Ipswich, Southampton and Wednesfield. A fortnight ago the sunshine helped to bring out the riders with a healthy 190 young riders taking part in Cycle Speedway’s flagship junior competition – hopefully with the Easter holidays coming to a close and some missing riders returning […]
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Bury CSC held its annual Good Friday charity ride which is, almost unbelievably, in its twenty-fifth year. With the weather not as great as it has been in recent years, only around ten intrepid club members, family and friends completed the off-road route which followed the course of the River Irwell towards Manchester. Each year the event raises money for […]
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Paul Devine fancied a change from his usual Midlands tracks and headed up North for the Greater Manchester derby between Stockport and Bury in the North and Scotland League. Stockport went top of the league after a convincing win, as they look to regain their title from Edinburgh Falcons. Check out Paul’s images in the slideshow below:
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It always looked like a tough fixture for Bury Comets away at Stockport, with a number of regular first team riders absent, and so it proved. The home side’s impressive win against Edinburgh last weekend saw them enter this one full of confidence, taking three 7-3s maximum heat wins in the first four heats. Some strong gating gave Stockport control […]
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Stockport moved to the top of the North and Scotland League first division with an emphatic show of strength against Bury at St. Thomas recreation ground this afternoon. Eleven 7-3 heat wins helped the home team to a 112-67 victory, with Ben Higham dropping just one point to Bury’s Kris Ramsden in heat eight. Jake Read was unbeaten in five races, but […]
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Bury Comets Cycle Speedway team followed up last weekend’s opening day success with another triple win, this time at home to Hull. The weather was again excellent, as Comets fielded a strong side, this time using nine riders in the Division One setup. Hull had six, plus Katie Greaves at reserve who didn’t actually get into the action until Division […]
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The sun shone on the opening day of the 2017 cycle speedway season, as Sheffield visited Goshen Sports Centre to take on Bury Comets. The Division One fixture began with a competitive race featuring Will Owens and Danny Taylor against Sheffield’s Niall Morton and Laura Watson. A freak coming together between Taylor and Morton saw a rerun, but Morton was […]
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Bury Cycle Speedway opened their 2017 competitive season with a friendly at Stoke’s Etruria Park circuit. The Potteries’ outfit have returned to action recently after a long lay off and the opportunity to test the competition was much welcomed. First and second team matches were contested using the new Northern League formulae, which offer the opportunity to use up to […]
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Sunday, 12th March, saw seventeen Bury riders arriving at Goshen for the first full club practice of the new season. The weather was kind, for a change, and by 12:00 the gates were up, the PA system was installed and working and we were ready for the start (with John Burston having already pencilled in both the teams). The Northern […]
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Sunday 5th March was a lovely bright day first thing, and went down hill from there, with rain pouring down by the time Bury’s training session began at Goshen. Nevertheless, with the many weeks spent working on the track surface and drains, the surface was quite good with no large puddles, which provided a firm and fast circuit for the […]
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Sunday 22nd January saw the Bury winter training group assemble at Entwistle reservoir, high in the hills above the town, for a 5k run challenge around the perimeter of the lake. Bury have used this area for training two years go, when Danny Taylor won the event and John Burston and Matthew Turnbull were joint second. This year, the day was […]
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With a track session planned for Sunday, the usual winter training group turned up at 12pm, but as expected, due to the frost the surface was unrideable. So, the 5 riders available made the 1 mile ride down the river bank and over the bridge to the access path to the local industrial estate, where a steep hill awaited them. First […]
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Six Bury club members turned up at the Goshen track for the 2017 Goshen Duathlon at 12pm on New Year’s Day. The course took them alongside the river for approx 1250 metres, then turn and retrace back along the undulating path. Two cycles and two runs close to 10k in total, on Cycle Speedway bikes for most of them. It was […]
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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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