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Some high quality track kit has come up for sale and SCRL racers get first dibs before it goes to eBay and the like.

• Chainrings from 50-60t – looking for £35-40 per ring (RRP is €90 each). Could sell the lot as a set at discount.

• Edco 90mm – the ones I used to race at Six Days. Really good condition with Sonderklasse tubs (just need valve extenders added). – £500 (think these used to retail at £1500+)

• Elite 5 Spokes – a few light scratches. With Vittoria Pisa tubulars. Slightly funny rear hub that can be hard to get chain tension correct, but perfect once set. – £450

• Pro Disc Wheel (decals removed) with Dura-Ace hub – few dings but all aesthetic and honestly probably one of the best discs about, as you can easily service the DA hub (loose bearings rather than cartridge) – £350

• Specialized AeroFly 38cm bars with 14cm 12 degree stem – perfect condition. Looking for around £200-250 together

• Roval Rapide handlebars 40cm C-C brand new – looking for £180

• There’s also this Affinity frame set from my Six Day racing – it’s a 52cm (I think). Round seat post goes into that aero wedge so it’s adjustable seat height wise 👍 would probably be looking at £600 for the frameset. It has my name painted into the top tube though!

If you are interested in any of these items contact Felix English by email at Felix.english@btopenworld.com or on WhatsApp (click here).

50/50 of rain at 6pm for Brighton right now. That’s not enough to cancel yet but we will be keeping an eye on it. As things are now we will still try to race, but watch the website, Facebook and Twitter for notices.

Gonna be windy if we do race!

Accreditation Sessions

Due to high demand we have lined up two more accreditation sessions on June 17th and July 1st (both Fridays).

You can enter the first one here. The second will go live after the first session. Be aware you will likely need to attend both sessions to be accredited, though there is a small chance that we might be able to do the whole thing in the first evening as the session should have enough daylight to run past 9.

We will also want accredited riders (seniors and youth B and above only) to be there to act as a “bunch”, for whom it will be free, so do come along.

Roller Racing

In case you missed the news last time, we were thinking about running a social roller racing evening once a month through the winter, likely September or October to February or March, probably at the Knoyle Hall (or maybe the pavilion if its cheaper). This would be for both youth and senior racers.

There is a survey here which you should use to express an interest, either as a racer or a spectator. If you are the responsible adult for a youth racer, please fill it out once for each interested rider/spectator so we get a better idea of potential attendance.

There hasn’t been much response so far, so this might be the last chance to show interest before we bin the idea.

Coopers Cancer Fundraiser

SCRL youth racer and PPYCC member Cooper Aberdour is fundraising for Cancer Research in memory of his Grandad by completing a 50 mile ride (not round the track!). You can donate some cash to this worthwhile cause, big or small amounts, by visiting his GoFundMe page here.

PPYCC Youth Omnium

PPYCC are hosting this months round of the National Youth Omniums at Preston Park Velodrome this Sunday (May 29th). It’s a great event and always produces some fantastic racing as youth from all round the south east compete for a place in the national finals.

If you can help out, volunteers are always welcome, ping a message to organiser Bill on bill@boyleperks.com. You can read more on their website here.

Congratulations to the podium places winners in our Angry Pablo Scratch Championships! Did Charlies socks bring him some extra karma? Next week we roll around to the Points Championship already!

There is a yellow weather warning from 19:00 for thunderstorms, but no rain expected until at least 22:00 (though this does keep creeping forward).

We’ll keep an eye on it and make posts back on social media and to entered riders via RiderHQ by 5pm either way.

Some light/heavy rain due this afternoon through the Brighton area (depending on whose prediction you believe), probably finished by 6. However, the conditions are not totally conducive to the track being able to dry in time if this is the case. We will have people “on the ground” to check track conditions and will endeavour to make a preliminary report around 5pm.

As always keep an eye on the website, and the social media channels on Facebook and Twitter.

If we have to call it off, the scratch champs will be held next week in place of the scheduled programme, reverting to the schedule the week after.

Fingers crossed.

Currently dry in Brighton, so no changes yet, but the met office has a 40% or less chance of rain from about 5 through to 9.

As always keep an eye on the website, and the social media channels on Facebook and Twitter.

Summary: There will be NO Summer Circuit Series if people do not volunteer to run them and the races will not be registered with BC until we do.

The league need more folk on race day to take over duties from the same people always filling the roles.

Currently, there will be no Summer Circuit Series if we don’t get some volunteers for the two primary race day roles.

Below are the roles we need to fill and roughly what they entail. These are roles which have been advertised before with no response so it has now come to this situation.

These are all on the day roles and should not require any extra commitment outside of that. All back-office “paperwork” can currently be taken care of by committee members.

Anyone volunteering to fill these positions will have at least one “hand holding” race meeting with the experienced committee members present before being expected to perform the duty alone. No previous experience is necessary.

If you would like to contribute to the running of SCRL, please send us an email to volunteering@scrl.co.uk or promoter@scrl.co.uk

Organiser(s)

This is essentially the promoter “on the day”. It allows a promoter to pass on the running of the event on the day to another person. This person must be a BC member and have done the event organiser dashboard training. This is a course which can be delivered online at a convenient time, probably a weekday evening, over Zoom or similar video conferencing. It takes about 90 minutes.

The basic duties are:

• Print and bring any paperwork required as provided by the promoter the day prior.
• Perform a preliminary track walk to check the condition and safety of the track. Organise cleaning if necessary.
• Clear the arena of the general public and lock the gates.
• Make sure all marshal points necessary by the risk assessment are manned and all other volunteers are present (sign on, judges etc.).
• Liaise between the other event personnel (i.e. sign on, judges, commissaire(s)) and ensure everyone is looked after.
• Collect all results and forward to promoter.
• Sign off event paperwork (usually just levies).

Sign On

The basic responsibilities of this role are:

• Print the sign-on sheets and any other paperwork provided by the committee the day prior.
• Verify licence details at sign on
• Take card payments using the provided card reader for on the day entries
• Manage a waiting list, if there is one
• Give out and collect race numbers

Due to lack of coach availability we have had to cancel the accreditation on Friday 22nd.

We are trying to arrange a Saturday afternoon or possibly the couple of hours before track league to allow those booked on to complete accreditation. When we have more information we will post here and on social media as well as to the existing entrants. All existing entrants for the 22nd should have had an email already.

Accreditation #3 on Friday 29th is unaffected.

Registration

A reminder that if you haven’t registered online here for the league by 6pm Monday you may well not be accepted in time for the opening meeting on the 20th.

We also have a lot of pending registrations, so please don’t forget to do the following:

• When you have completed the registration form you MUST send proof of your BC membership (if applicable) and licence status (if applicable)
• When you have done this and we have approved your membership you will receive an email and then you MUST pay the registration fee.

If you fail to complete these steps you are not registered and will not be allocated a race number.