LAURELS TRAVEL WARNING – posted 20 May 2013

Riders, officials and spectators attending the Ade Gale Laurels event at Poole on Sunday are reminded that there will be heavy traffic conditions in the South Coast area on Sunday morning and early departures are recommended.

Staring times for what should be a great day’s racing are:
Junior and Womens at noon, youth at 1.30pm and seniors at 3.00pm.

GB TRAINING CAMP NOTICE – posted 18 May 2013

All GB squad riders are reminded that the next Team GB training camp is scheduled for Poole next Saturday (the day before the Laurels).  The session will commence at midday and run through until 5pm.  All squad members should meet in the Poole club room by 11.45am latest.

Squad members are asked to inform their respective team managers (asap) should there be any reason why they may not be available for this scheduled training camp.

Issued by Dave Murphy (on behalf of Team GB management)

SOUTH-EAST BYJL REMINDER – posted 16 May 2013

Clubs and riders are reminded that for Saturday's South-East regional round three of the British Youth & Junior League, which doubles as  South-East Grand Prix, all entrants have to be booked in by 11.30am.

For BYJL age-groups clubs should book in their full teams by that time.  Individual riders for the senior and veterans categories need to book in  individually.

Booking in can be by e-mail to Mel Perkins on babylon5sp@aol.com by midnight Friday or by text to either Mel on 07767 795184 or Gary Colby on 07970 568333 up to the deadline. Obviously booking in at the track in person before 11.30 is also  available.

SOUTHAMPTON ANNIVERSARY DRAW – posted 16 May 2013

The draws for Southampton’s prestigious 50^th Anniversary grand prix meeting at Winchester Road on Monday 27 May have been made as follows:

Under-19s at 1pm

1 Josh Robertson (Southampton), 2 Jake Reed (Stockport), 3 Jake Lush (Stockport), 4 Matt Smith (Sheffield), 5 Richard Fellgett (Ipswich), 6 Jack Harold (Newport), 7 Joe Kemp (East Park), 8 Dan Miller (Southampton), 9 Will Clarke (Ipswich), 10 Oli Sidwick (Poole), 11 Dan Knights (Ipswich), 12 Hayden Chant (Southampton), 13 Will Bristow (Poole), 14 Matt Lush (Stockport), 15 Aaron Smith (Poole), 16 Ricki Johnson (Wednesfield)

Reserves: Connor Wilson (Southampton) and Hayden Chant (Southampton)

Senior at 3pm

1 Leyton Glover (Poole), 2 Leon Mower (Ipswich), 3 Lee Aris (Wednesfield), 4 Paul Heard (Wednesfield), 5 Ben Mould (Wednesfield), 6 Greg Gluchowski (Poole), 7 Mark Carmichael (Newport), 8 Jack Harold (Newport), 9 Gavin Wheeler (Southampton), 10  Aaron Herbert (Exeter), 11 Jamie Chittock (Ipswich), 12 (spare), 13 (spare), 14 Steve Harris (Poole), 15 Lukasz Nowacki (Horspath), 16 Chris Timms (Birmingham)

Reserve: Hayden Chant (Southampton)

The draw was conducted by Pete Chant (Southampton) and Peter Horsley (Horspath).  Two places remain to be filled in the senior event.  If any rider wishes to take part please contact Pete Chant on 01962 776769.

LICENCE TO THRILL – posted 15 May 2013

All competitors competing in the thrilling Ade Gale Laurels event at Poole are reminded that they will need to bring their valid British Cycling racing licence.

REGIONAL BYJL AT EATON PARK – posted 13 May 2013

South-East riders are remaindered that British Youth and Junior league takes place at Eaton Park, Norwich on Saturday, starting at 12noon.

21 RIDERS IN NATIONAL UNDER-19S – posted 10 May 2013

21 riders have entered the national under-19 championships to be held at Newport on Saturday 1 June.  The pre-qualifying round, to reduce the field to 16, starts at 12 noon with tapes going up on the final at 1.30pm.  The full draw is

1 Ashley Hill (Ipswich), 2 Leyton Glover (Poole), 3 Jack Harrold (Newport), 4 Troy Allen (Wednesfield), 5 Aaron Hughes (Newport), 6 Matthew Haddock (Wednesfield), 7 Daniel Bock (Newport), 8 Ryan Evans (Newport), 9 Joe Kemp (East Park), 10 Oliver Sidwick (Poole), 11 Aaron Smith (Poole), 12 Matthew Smith (Sheffield), 13 Ricki Johnson (Wednesfield), 14 Adam Phillips (Stockport), 15 Jake Read (Stockport), 16 Mathew Lush (Stockport), 17 Jack Lush (Stockport), 18 Jacob Soper (Newport), 19 Richard Fellgett (Ipswich), 20 Lee Kemp (East Park), 21 Arron Morgan (Poole)

COVENTRY INVITE CHALLENGE FIXTURES – posted 23 April 2013

Coventry Devlins Newsagents Cycle Speedway club are inviting challenge match fixtures - at the staging track of the 2013 British Finals.

The club are interested to hear from any clubs who wish to take part in meetings at Hearsall Common, at both senior and junior level. Return matches will be considered.  Interested parties should email: coventrycsc@gmail.com

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO ONLINE ENTRY – posted 29 March 2013 

Several people have been experiencing problems with British Cycling’s online competition system.  In order to assist Spokesman readers here’s a step-by-step guide:-

*        Go to BC website

*        Log in

*        Selected cycle speedway home page

*        Select calendar from menu on left hand side

*        Scroll down menu on left hand side to Event/Race classification

*        Select filter by race classification

*        Tick box as appropriate eg. National Championships

*        Select Go at foot of page

*        Select name of event to be entered

*        Check summary of event page and press enter

*        Complete on-line entry detail, name etc.

*        For team entries, select anon and enter the number of riders, eg for British Club Championship insert 5.

SPONSORSHIPS MUST BE REGISTERED – posted 12 March 2013

Clubs and individuals have been reminded that they must register any form of advertising, other than manufacturers’ logos, displayed on race clothing.

British Cycling issued the following reminder earlier today.

“Clubs are reminded that as per British Cycling’s General Technical Regulation 9.2, any commercial endorsements (apart from the clothing manufacture's logo) which appear on their clothing must be registered with British Cycling.  This includes any endorsements worn by individuals rather than the club as a whole.

“This is registration is free for BC Go Ride Clubs and costs £62 per club for the first four endorsements for other clubs and teams.

“This process firstly enables clubs to manage those endorsements which might appear on their competition clothing which might conflict with those key sponsors of that club. It also ensures that where a sponsor requests that its name appears on team clothing that the sport as a whole gets some recompense for this privilege. This is even more so given that the sport is regularly promoted on television.”

BURY PICS WANTED – posted 27 February 2013

Next year Bury cycle speedway club celebrates its fortieth anniversary and to mark the occasion, club officials are trying to collate pictures of any match or race involving either Bury riders or the club.