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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Sheffield’s visit to Northumbria’s Cramlington Astrodome came just five weeks after the Wosskow Brown Stars fell to a four point home loss to the Vikings. The Vikings entered the match without Dan Wharrier, now departed to the USA for a 12-month adventure of a lifetime. The Stars were at full strength, having the luxury of the same eight riders for […]
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Both sides were missing top men, current top of Northumbria averages and third in the league Jason Keith for the home side, while Ben Scranage was still recovering from a motorcycle spill for the visitors. It was no surprise that Bury were in the better position to cope, they having plenty of strength in depth throughout their young squad. Gavin […]
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With the small Heckmondwike squad missing two heat leaders and left down to the bare bones, Northumbria were able to smash their way to a massive win. All the visiting top four were unbeaten, such was their dominance, but there was still some good racing as the home team kept battling hard. Darren Kent team riding his son, Thomas, to […]
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Lee Redshaw came ‘off the bench’ once again to prove a match winner for Northumbria, the youngster missing his normal Div 3 racing Sunday and riding reserve in Div 2, he proving he has what it takes to race at a higher level. Fourteen points from four rides were scored by Lee, the youngster having help for a very aggressive riding […]
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Sheffield were forced into two changes from the match against Bury, with Luke Morton & Rich Hudson unavailable, meaning Niall Morton made his return from injury & Laura Watson came in, having just had her loan to Sheffield approved. Northumbria, meanwhile, made just the one change from their match against Edinburgh, with Keith Oldham replacing Dan Thompson in the side. […]
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The Edinburgh Falcons got their 2016 campaign underway against their greatest of friends from Northumrbia. The Vikings arrived with a sore and energy sapped Gavin Parr who deserved a longer break given his heroics the previous day. The Falcons were missing Kamil Greszla and Lee Lawrence who both are on the sidelines until May due to injury. Dougie Morgan jumped […]
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With Northumbria’s top man Gavin Parr (pictured left in cover photo) having rather burned himself doing a massive coast to coast ride for charity the previous day (on a tandem no less) and Dan Wharrier having also joined in the ride, there was little strength left in the legs to compete with home top men. Even with a fully fit […]
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The scoreline was not unexpected, nor important, both teams enjoying some sunshine and reasonable conditions in a very useful pre-season work out. The Aces myriad internationals and superstars were always going to run out easy winners, just as they had done at Edinburgh the day before, but there was still plenty of competitive action on track. Highlights were the races […]
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Northumbria’s Gavin Parr has seen his season cut short by a few weeks, after finally getting a long awaited appointment for a back operation. The Vikings captain has ridden in pain for the most part this season, but it hasn’t stopped him having his most successful season to date. Parr finished top of the Northern League averages with an impressive […]
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Northumbria must surely feel somewhat disappointed to have lost their final league meeting of 2015, an exclusion at the tapes for Jason Keith and a later fall for Daniel Wharrier costing them dearly. With Michael Parr missing from the line up due to injury, the Vikings needed everyone to be on their game and putting in maximum effort to compensate, […]
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Andy Angell smashed the Northumbria track record in the final heat, lowering Pawel Idziorek’s previous best from 42.1 seconds to just 40.8, completing a classy performance from the former British Champion. However, with only Nathan Everett able to fire up in support and several juniors drafted in, Hull were soon up against it, as Northumbria reached 100 points for the […]
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Northumbria won both their matches to secure the Three Rivers League title, Edinburgh having won the competition for the previous two years. The Falcons went on to defeat Glasgow to take 2nd place. Meanwhile we were again treated to some more vintage racing, Kingsway narrowly defeating Newcastle 21-19. Keith Dyer gated and held on while the rest battled among themselves […]
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Astley & Tyldesley bounced back to winning ways in the Northern League Division 1, after beating Northumbria Vikings 88-80, in a very sporting encounter at Gin Pit on Sunday. A&T took heat wins in three of the opening five races to move into a 29-20 lead, but the visitors hit back in heat 6 when Kirkup and Redshaw came through […]
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With a team made up of the four riders who competed in the Worlds Veterans Championship last weekend supplemented by the addition of Jason Ashford, Leicester Monarchs were always likely to have too much strength in depth for the other teams in the British Veterans Club Championship at Hull on Saturday. Indeed they could afford the luxury of having former […]
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Despite the fact that Bury were missing several regular first team riders, they were still too strong for a pretty much full strength Northumbria. The visitors tried hard throughout to keep the scores close, Michael Parr riding through the pain barrier of a leg injury sustained at Hull to win his final race in some style, while Gavin Parr was […]
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With Heckmondwike arriving missing two key riders, Pawel Idziorek and Jake Wood having other commitments, they had little chance of troubling the home side too much, the Vikings able to gain revenge for their own defeat at Firth Park on the opening day of the season. Andy Knowles made a winning start as the stand in team manager for […]
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What a meeting full of incident this was, Astley pulling ahead early on and battling hard throughout the contest which was fought in a no holds barred but utterly sporting manner throughout. Where do we begin with this report ? Perhaps rather than the usual concise flavour of the days racing, we’ll this time just re-cap and list the myriad […]
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