2015 British Team and Elite League Champions, Wednesfield Aces, kick off their season at the weekend, as they they do a pre-season, three match tour of the north. They travel to Edinburgh on Friday afternoon by mini bus and stay in the Travelodge Hotel in the centre of Edinburgh. They are up bright and early on Saturday to take on Stevie […]
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Edinburgh Falcons have strengthened their side ahead of the 2016 Northern League campaign by signing the hugely experienced Scotland International Jason Burke from Sheffield Rockets. Burke, who finished second in last season’s TLI British Veterans Individual Championship and fourth in last year’s World Veterans Individual Final, faces a 500 mile round trip to the Redbraes Raceway for home matches but […]
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Stockport celebrated both club and individual successes at their AGM and presentation evening on Friday. Trophies were awarded to the riders for winning the Northern League Division 1 title for the sixth successive year, the Northern League Fours and Manchester League Division 1 titles by club chairman Graham Lush. The rider of the year awards were voted for by all […]
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Work is almost complete on the winter maintenance and renovation of the Hull track and facilities. The track was re-laid in early October and seems to be bedding in well prior to the start of pre season training which is scheduled to commence on the track on Tuesday 9th February 2016. Work has also been undertaken to tidy up the […]
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The Sheffield club individual, the City of Sheffield Championship, was probably a meeting too far. Less than half of the riders who have competed for Sheffield in 2015 made the start line, the 8th November date and the cold and damp weather taking a toll on the line up. Three days of rain failed to disrupt the track conditions, which […]
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Astley & Tyldesley ran out easy winners in both matches in the final Northern League fixture of the season at Heckmondwike on Sunday. A&T took the lead with a 6-3 heat win to Paul Graham/Lee Phillips over Adam Watson in the first race of the Division 1 match. This was after Heckmondwike’s Mick Knowles took a heavy fall on the […]
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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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As if the Stockport v Edinburgh encounter hadn’t already got the makings of an exciting fixture, you can now throw in the presence of a multi-Olympic and Commonwealth Champion to the mix! Craig Maclean MBE makes his seasonal debut for the Falcons at St Thomas recreation ground against the already crowned Northern League Champions Stockport. The exiled Scot, a long […]
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If the first team match between Sheffield and Bury wasn’t decided until the final heats, the League Two match was a complete contrast. Bury dominated from the first race, and ended up providing 14 of the 15 race winners in a convincing 88-62 victory. Danny Taylor, James Elston and Adam Turnbull all finished unbeaten, with the Comets taking a heat advantage […]
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Sheffield CRA Rockets crashed and burned in their final home Northern League fixtures of the 2015 season. Glorious autumn sunshine welcomed the visiting Bury Comets to Cookson Park. Bury had the perfect start to the league one match, Chris Parish/Will Owens with a 7-3 over Kyle Holland/Joe Twigg. After the teams traded 6-4’s, Sheffield levelled the match as Holland produced […]
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Astley & Tyldesley staged their final home match of the season when they took on Stockport in a Northern League fixture at Gin Pit on Sunday. In the Division 1 match, A&T took an early lead after Chris Eaton was excluded at the gate in heat 1 and were 11-8 up after two races. Race exclusions followed to Reece Pollitt […]
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The season drew to a close for many today but not all. Here’s the results we’ve had in so far… Midland League Wednesfield 98 – 80 Coventry (ML1) Wednesfield 38 – 26 Coventry (ML2) Northern League Sheffield 83 – 92 Bury (NL1) Sheffield 62 – 88 Bury (NL2) Sheffield 76 (seven riders) – 233 (21 riders) Bury (NL3) South East League […]
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Astley & Tyldesley Cycling Club enjoyed a terrific night of success at the Believe Wigan Sports Awards Evening at the D.W. Stadium, Wigan on Friday evening. More than 300 people were present at the evening, with 85 nominations received for the nine categories of awards. 15 A&T club members turned out to enjoy a very successful evening. A&T’s junior cycle […]
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Stockport took another giant stride to defending the Northern League One title with a convincing 103-73 victory over the visiting Sheffield/CRA Rockets. Michael Preston got the better of Richard Hudson in heat 1, the 6-4 gave Stockport the perfect start. Vicky Brown was quickly out of the gate in heat 2, only to be passed by both Jack Lush and […]
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Edinburgh wrapped up the league title with a hard fought victory at a warm and sunny Glasgow this afternoon. Now that’s a couple of words that don’t usually appear in the same sentence as Glasgow! But it was sunny – honest. The home side kept the champions elect under some pressure in the early stages and was still level at […]
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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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There was plenty of regional racing this afternoon, check out the results here: Midland League Coventry 96 – 82 Wednesfield Dragons (ML1) Brandon Bees – Wednesfield Aces (ML2) Northern League Bury – Astley & Tyldesley (NL1) Stockport 103 – 73 Sheffield (NL1) Stockport 97 – 108 Sheffield (NL2) Stockport 28 -22 Sheffield (NL3) Northumbria 100 – 77 Hull (NL1) Glasgow […]
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Stockport’s Matt Lush was sent flying over his bars after tangling with Bury’s Danny Taylor at Goshen yesterday. Lush, clearly in a lot of pain after the accident, was diagnosed with a dislocated collar bone at North Manchester General Hospital. It could spell an early end to Lush’s season. Dave Sillett posted the racing incident on Facebook yesterday, and trusty […]
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