Entry to the British Indoor Finals is now open. Enter now at: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/139713/2015-British-Indoor-Championships To reserve your hotel room for the 2015 British Indoor Finals events could not be simpler. Just call: 0871 222 4193, ask for/select option one, quote the dates and hotel (Village Hotel, Coventry) you wish to stay at and then quote “BRIT010116″. Please note, no on-line bookings […]
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The second of a ‘World Series’ of major international Cycle Speedway events – the Yale UK sponsored World Ladies Final from Wednesfield (Wolverhampton) – has been completed and will be shortly be sent to the Sports Unlimited programme producers. It will be the first time that a Woman’s meeting will have been featured on a major TV programme. The Yale UK […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club, still buzzing from the positive reaction to their promotion of the Great Britain V Australia Test match, gather in the Godiva city tonight for their annual Presentation Party. The evening has become one of the highlights on the Coventry CSC social calendar. Its set to attract the highest attendance for the event since racing resumed at […]
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Bob Prince has written to us with his own tribute to Mick Aris, who retired from Cycle Speedway after 50 years last week. The word Legend is banded about quite freely these days. Anyone who has broken a finger nail on some talentless talent show is hailed a Legend. Overpaid football “superstars”, after a couple of seasons of under achieving, […]
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With Wednesfield legend, Mick Aris announcing his retirement from Cycle Speedway after a staggering 50 years in the saddle, we approached sons Lee and Wayne so we could honour this remarkable achievement. Wayne Aris takes us down memory lane to tell Mick’s story… Not many people in any sport can say they have competed at the top level in that same sport […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club will start their hugely popular indoor practice and training sessions this Sunday 8th November 2015, at the Sports Connexion (from 7pm-9pm). The Sports Connexion post code is: CV8 3FL. The full list of dates are as follows: Sunday 8th November Sunday 15th November Sunday 22nd November Sunday 29th November Sunday 6th December Sunday 13th December Sunday 20th December Costs per rider per session are […]
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Birmingham Monarchs Cycle Speedway Club are set to return to the Elite League in 2016 club secretary Natalie Timms confirmed late last week. The Elite League series is ran under the British Cycling umbrella, meaning the Monarchs, along with fellow confirmed newcomers Coventry, are expected to adhere to strict criteria for their inclusion in the series. Birmingham’s Steve Hodgkinson commented, “Facilities are […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club, promoters of the 2015 British Indoor Cycle Speedway Finals, to be staged near Coventry in the first weekend of the New Year, have released details of the official championship hotel. The official hotel will be the Village Hotel, Dolomite Avenue, Earlsdon, Coventry, CV4 9GZ – just over the road from the Coventry track at Hearsall Common. […]
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British Cycling today announced the line up for the 2016 Elite League series, which sees two new teams enter the fold. Sheffield and Newport indicated earlier in the month that they would not be re-entering for 2016, which has paved the way for Midland clubs Birmingham and Coventry to come forward. However, all clubs must fulfil strict criteria by 1st […]
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Following the news that the British Indoor Finals of 2015 are to be staged at the Sports Connexion venue, near Coventry, the Coventry Cycle Speedway club have moved speedily to confirm a winter programme of practice and training sessions. The popular sessions, which were launched two years ago, will return for a third successive winter on Sunday 1st November. The […]
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Coventry Cycle Speedway club, one of the sport’s most vibrant clubs, have today been confirmed as the official promotors of the British Indoor Finals of 2015, which will race into the Godiva city on the first weekend of the New Year. In a widely circulated email today (Wednesday 28th October 2015) from British Cycling, the sport’s governing body, confirmed the […]
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Arguably the greatest ever Poole rider, Martin Gale called in at the Baiter Park track on the club’s end of season Clubnight to bid farewell as he heads off to Australia to take up a new job in Perth. After many youth and junior triumphs in the preceding years and becoming the youngest rider to be selected for the Poole […]
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All British Club Championships will take place over one Bank Holiday weekend in the Midland region on 28th-30th May 2016. The events are likely to take place over three tracks and it is hoped the central location will encourage a good take up from clubs, after the competition suffering this season. Only the Over 40s Club Championship featured semi finals, with […]
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Our main site sponsors, Yale, have some interesting statistics regarding break ins at this time of year, make sure you take the correct steps to ensure your bike is secure! As always, we’d like to thank Yale for their continued support of 33/18 News | Cycle Speedway. Unfortunately, at this time of the year there are more than just ghost […]
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The Polish Federation have confirmed the 2016 European Club Championship will take place in Ostrow, where the reigning champions will defend their title on their home track. They have extended the event to run from Saturday 30th April 2016 until Tuesday 3rd May 2016, as 2nd May and 3rd May are Bank Holidays in Poland. Entry is open to all British clubs […]
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Senior Birmingham Monarchs riders had one last chance to gain glory at the weekend as they travelled to Cookson Park in Sheffield for the TLI Veterans Championships. Eurovets champions Bob Prince and Steve Hodgkinson, along with Paul Timms, made the trip in the hope of adding more silverware this season. The meeting concept was a slightly different formula to ones usually […]
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Sheffield’s Cookson Park was honoured to be the venue for the first ever TLI British Individual Championships, an event that is now likely to remain on the Eurovets calendar. Complementing the Grand Prix series and a talked about regional team event. Thirty-one riders had entered the competition for Over 40’s/50’s and 60’s. The riders split evenly into to two qualifying […]
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Newport signed off their two year Elite League tenure with a slender win over Poole, in the rearranged fixture following the wash out in round 8 in July. It did have sour moment with Dan Bock receiving a match ban for the Welsh side. The result was not enough to lift Newport off the bottom of the table, but saw […]
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