British Cycling and CS Referees have issued a reminder regarding illegal chain tensioners. The statement reads: “All chain tensioners, if protruding, must not exceed 6mm and they must have flat ends. “A few instances of late have arisen where bikes inspected by referees have had Chain Tensioners which exceed this requirement.” So, make sure your bike is up to scratch or […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators had three riders competing at Poole on Sunday to try and qualify for Monday’s British Finals at Exeter. Owen Wells came through and gave a good account of himself in the Under-16 final finishing 13th with 9 points. In the Open semi-finals, Olly Buxton missed out by one point and Dan Chambers by two, but following withdrawals on […]
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Birmingham will now host round 3 of M6 Trophy which has been switched from Coventry. Coventry will no longer be hosting this round. All riders who wish to take part, the start time is 4PM. There is a senior and U14 individual competition, all abilities welcome.
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Birmingham Monarchs Cycle Speedway club will travel to Horspath in Oxfordshire on Sunday 11th September, after qualifying for the British team KO Cup finals by defeating Hull last week at Perry Hall Park. The Monarchs were missing two key riders, Nathan Groves and Ewan Hancox, so used veteran Phil Widdas and youngster Jake Steel in the starting line up. The visitors […]
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Time to catch up on a couple of stories that got missed due to the British Individual Championships weekend, first up, Manchester League… The midweek Manchester League season concluded with the Senior Individual Final at Astley & Tyldesley last Wednesday evening. On a very fast track, Stockport’s Jake Read came close to the track record, recording 40.70 seconds in heat 1. […]
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Wednesfield’s Ben Mould and Exeter’s Lauren Hookway became British Champions for the first time in a dramatic day at Exeter on Bank Holiday Monday in the British Individual Championships. The 2016 Open Final saw two former champions withdraw before a wheel was turned. Four time champion Lee Aris, who qualified from the Southampton semi-final, withdrew following a recurrence of a back […]
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Graham Robins was duly on hand to capture all the action from an entertaining day at Exeter yesterday. In the open category, Ben Mould won his first British title, in an incredible last lap change of fortunes, going from last to first, as the leading three riders fell in the final 10 yards to clinch the crown in heat 20. Coventry’s […]
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Denis Murphy has send in some shots from the 2016 British U16 Girls Final, held at Poole on Sunday. Poole’s own Macie Schmidt was in sensational form all weekend and her clear hard work has paid off with the under 16 title and a silver in the Women’s yesterday. Chloe Pearce of Ipswich claimed the silver, with another Poole rider, […]
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Here are the results from the third and final day of the British Finals Weekend 2016: U16 Boys 1st Will Tidball (Exeter) 2nd Ed Morton (Sheffield) 3rd Pierce Bacon (Ipswich) Women’s Open 1st Lauren Hookway (Exeter) 2nd Macie Schmidt (Poole) 3rd Vicky Brown (Sheffield) Men’s Open 1st Ben Mould (Wednesfield) 2nd Myke Grimes (Coventry) 3rd Lewis Osborne (Horspath)
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The draws are in for the 2016 British Open and U16 Finals that will be help alongside the Women’s tomorrow at Exeter. Below are the final draws for tomorrow: 11:00 – British U16 Boys Final 2016 1. Ed Morton (Sheffield) 2. Owen Wells (Hethersett) 3. Owen Tidball (Exeter) 4. Devon Campbell (Stockport) 5. Alex Harvey (Ipswich) 6. Pierce Bacon (Ipswich) […]
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Here are the results from day two of the British Finals Weekend: Over 50’s 1st Ray Oliver (Coventry) 2nd David Frith (Leicester) 3rd Dave Murphy (Exeter) Ray Oliver made no mistake in the Over 50s to take the gold on a maximum. David Frith was also in good form, dropping his only point of the day to the former World […]
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The British Finals weekend got off to an entertaining start at Horspath where the U10 and U13 finals were held. The U10 Boys was settled with a run-off between Kesgrave’s Noah Woodhouse and Poole’s Joe Hurren who tied on 19 points. Noah won the toss and took advantage of his inside grid to win despite all of Joe’s efforts. Third […]
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Here are the podium positions from today’s opening day of racing in the 2016 British Individual Finals Weekend. U19s from Newport 1st Brandon Whetton 2nd Dan Knights 3rd Adam Watson Over 40s from Swindon 1st Steve Harris 2nd Mark Whitehead 3rd Mark Winwood Steve Harris went through the card with a 20 point maximum in atrocious conditions this afternoon. The […]
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The sport of Cycle Speedway will be saddened and shocked to learn of the untimely death of my wife’s brother-in-law, Roger Farrell (pictured right), after a short but brave and painful battle with cancer. In the boom years of the 70s, 80s and early 90s , riders came and riders went, but Roger was one of the leading lights in […]
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Newport hosted the British under 19 final today and on a overcast day with a decent looking track we were set for what looked like it was going to be a very entertaining meeting. The Morton brothers (Eden & Niall) from Sheffield and Reece Pollitt from Astley were non arrivals leaving just 13 competitors to take to the track. The […]
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Any delayed or non-attending riders can then contact the following primary contacts and update them on their progress. The following people have been nominated as ‘Primary Contacts’ at each of the staging clubs (apologies that this is slightly late for today’s action): Horspath: Zac Payne – Tel 07495 349630 (or Geoff Gamage: 07885 537 573) Newport: Colin Simmons – Tel 07462 232 […]
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Everyone travelling to the South West and Wales for the British Finals weekend needs to be aware that holiday traffic could be heavy, especially in the mornings as people head towards the coast. Routes towards Poole and Southampton could be particularly busy on Sunday morning. Exeter CSC are keen to point out that competitors travelling to Devon on Monday need […]
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Interclub round 3 ended up to be the Grand Final as it is a ‘best out of 3’ series and both Salisbury Jets and Findon Comets were on 1 win each. The beauty of Interclub racing is that a club only needs two good riders in each grade to have a chance of winning, whereas the Leagues require more depth. […]
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