Report by Alan Taylor, photos by Ian White This season’s Manchester League’s Individual Finals were staged at Bury on Saturday afternoon (28th September) with a combined Junior rider event followed by a combined Open and Veterans event. Following one withdrawal and one no-show, seven A&T riders took to the track using a mini ladder format to contest the junior event. […]
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Another busy weekend of Cycle Speedway action gets underway tomorrow (Saturday 7th September) with the Welsh Riders Championships at Newport starting at midday. At the same time Round 6 of the South-East Grand Prix will be getting underway at East London. Also on Saturday the Manchester League Individuals will be staged at Bury. Moving on to Sunday and there is […]
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Report by Mike Hack, Photos supplied by Svitlana Rechembei, Sarah Lawless, Alan Taylor. The midweek Manchester League Grand Prix series concluded at Astley & Tyldesley, on a warm and dry Wednesday evening. Eleven riders competed in the Division 1 match. Bury’s Harry Radford, fresh from representing Gt. Britain in the European u-23 Track Championships at Cottbus, Germany, made his first […]
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Report by Mike Hack Stockport staged Round 5 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series, on a cool and bright Wednesday evening. Ten riders competed in the Division 1 match. Three riders jointly top scored, with 15 points each. Bury’s Mike Baldock lost only to teammate Kris Ramsden, whilst Ramsden and Stockport’s Terry Norman beat each other once. Defending Division 1 […]
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Bury staged Round 4 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series, on a warm and sunny Wednesday evening. Nine riders competed in the Division 1 match. Adam Watson, riding as an independent, raced unbeaten, with Stockport’s Terry Norman losing only to Adam in heat 4. Bury’s Tom Dunphy lost only to team mate Eryk Motala in heat 10. Defending Division […]
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Stockport staged Round 3 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series, on a cool, but bright, Wednesday evening. Ten riders competed in the Division 1 match. Sheffield’s Pawel Idziorek raced unbeaten, with Stockport’s Terry Norman losing only to Pawel in heat 12. Defending Division 1 Champions, Bury, narrowly took the team win, to remain unbeaten in this year’s series. Manchester […]
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Report by Mike Hack Bury staged Round 2 of the Manchester League series, on a wet Goshen track on Wednesday. Defending champions Bury took their second win of the series, in the Division 1 match, finishing well ahead of Stockport and Sheffield. Bury’s Reece Pollitt and Eryk Motala both raced unbeaten. Manchester League Division 1 resultBury 63 Stockport 24 Sheffield […]
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Astley & Tyldesley staged Round 1 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series, at Gin Pit, on a cold, but dry, Wednesday evening. There was a decent turn out, for a very competitive Division 1 match. Sheffield duo Pawel Idziorek and Ed Morton were joint top scorers, on the night, with Ed losing only to Bury’s Kris Ramsden in heat […]
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The midweek 2023 Manchester League season concluded at Bury on Wednesday evening, with the last set of Individual Finals. Due to low numbers participating in this year’s age category events, it was decided to merge them and run as a single Ladder match. The various age category awards were then determined by riders’ placings in the final round of races. […]
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Report and photos by Mike Hack Bury hosted the 6th and final round of the 2023 Manchester League series. There was a disappointingly low turn out, with no u-16s and just one u-19 rider, on a warm and sunny Wednesday evening. Bury had two riders in the Division 2 match who rode to maximum scores – Bobby Dunphy (u-10) and […]
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Bury hosted Round 3 of the 2023 Manchester League series, with an improved turn out from the previous round, on a sunny but cold Wednesday evening. Once again, Bury had three riders in the Division 2 match who rode to maximum scores – Bobby Dunphy (u-10), Jayden Hancock (u-13), Tom Dunphy (u-16). However, the Astley & Tyldesley riders again secured […]
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Stockport hosted Round 2 of the 2023 Manchester League series on a glorious Wednesday evening. However, there was a disappointingly low turn out of just 12 riders on the night. Once again, Bury only fielded three riders in the Division 2 match, but all three rode to maximum scores – Bobby Dunphy (u-10), Jayden Hancock (u-13), Tom Dunphy (u-16). However, […]
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Astley & Tyldesley hosted Round 1 of the 2023 Manchester League series at Gin Pit on Wednesday evening. Turn outs were down on previous years for the Division 2 (age category) matches, but there was a decent turn out of 11 riders for the Division 1 (seniors and veterans match). No women riders entered on the night. Bury only fielded […]
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Report and Photo by Mike Hack The 2022 Manchester League programme concluded with the Senior Individual Final, at Stockport, on Wednesday 24th August. On a warm, cloudy evening, 12 riders contested the match, on a damp, grippy track. Reece Pollitt raced away to win heat 2, with defending champion Steve Harris passing Kaysar Mohammadi to take second place. Heat 4 […]
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Report by Mike Hack Astley & Tyldesley hosted the second of the three Manchester League Individual Championship evenings, at Gin Pit, on Wednesday 10th August Just three riders turned out for the u-13s Championship. Bury’s first year rider, Jayden Hancock, continued his unbeaten run at Manchester League u-13 events, by winning every race, to take the title, with a 16 […]
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Report by Mike Hack Astley & Tyldesley hosted the first of the three Manchester League Individual Championship evenings, at Gin Pit, on Wednesday (3rd August). In the u-10s Championship, A&T’s Josh Pilkington raced to a 16 points maximum score. Team mate Levi Edwards dropped just one point, with Bury’s George Keeble a further point behind. Manchester League u-10 Individual FinalJosh […]
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Bury staged the final Round 6 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series, on Wednesday evening. Temperatures were a welcome lower than the previous two days heatwave, with light rain falling during the Senior match.The Division 2 match was raced first, and it was another close encounter between Astley & Tyldesley and Bury. This time Bury took the win, 68-67, […]
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Astley & Tyldesley hosted Round 4 of the Manchester League Grand Prix series, on a very warm sunny Wednesday evening. A well watered track kept the dust down.The Division 2 match was raced first, and it continued the run of close encounters between Astley & Tyldesley and Bury. However, the lack of a fifth rider cost Bury on the night, […]
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