We’re sure you haven’t forgotten but we are now just over two weeks away from our 2019 AGM!
The Time: 5th October 1800 to 2100 (including Roller Racing)
The Place: St. Johns Church Hall, Knoyle Road, Brighton.
Race
Numbers!
First and foremost, we still have a few race numbers from last year not returned. Please bring them to the AGM with you, or contact us for postal details if you can’t make it. They cost money to replace which we shouldn’t have to spend!
News
We have a number of committee positions to fill as well as reports on what’s been happening this year, information and news with regards to what we would like to do next year, and of course the all important awards… Roles to fill include; Promoter, Men and Women’s Rider Reps, Sign-on Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator – these are important roles (some of them essential) that need to be filled so we can run racing next year. Please email the committee if you are interested or want to find out more ahead of the AGM.
Awards
As well as the league and championship titles, don’t forget there will be other trophies up for grabs including:
Twilight trophy
Vets trophy
Sprint trophy
Most combative senior
Roy Humphrey trophy
Most improved rider
Womens
Racing Awards
We also have awards for the Friday women’s track and the circuit series events. There are awards for the first, second and third place riders and prizes for the top six, kindly donated by local businesses (To be eligible, riders needed to attend a minimum of 4 weeks and attend the SCRL AGM).
Categories [all ages relate to the day of the competition] – under 16 boys, under 16 girls, under 40 Men, under 40 Women, 40 and over Men, 40 and over Women.
Anyone who rode senior track leagues in 2019 cannot enter the youth event.
Event distance will be 500 metres
Two riders race simultaneously
Riders times determine progression to the finals
The finals will be based on numbers entering but will consist of at least a final where there are four (4) or more riders in the category.
It’s the AGM in a few weeks time, October 5th at 6pm sharp, (usual place: Knoyle Hall on Knoyle Road, Brighton). But this year we’re going to have some racing too…
Come along with your bike and have a go at our SCRL roller racing event!
For those of you not in the know, roller racing is usually a mix of head to head competition between two riders or single effort time trials, all on rollers (on fixed wheel bikes) in the comfort and warmth of the indoors! If you aren’t too confident on rollers, fear not. When you race on rollers there are two “holders” per rider to keep you steady so you can really let rip!
Races are usually over a few short distances (no more than 1km). Both sets of rollers are connected to a giant “clock dial” behind them which tracks the distance, and which the crowd can see but the riders cannot! This all contributes to the yelling and heckling from the crowd which really makes the event come alive!
Top riders will get prizes of a cut from the entry fees (planned to be £2 each), so the more people that enter, the more you can win!
The league will provide some bikes in varying sizes with appropriate gearing, so you don’t need to bring your own (though you can if you want). Ditto the lycra, wear it if you want but it’s not compulsory.
The rollers are very kindly being provided by BEC CC (https://www.beccyclingclub.co.uk).
Some of the SCRL regulars went to a BEC CC roller racing night before the start of the season this year, so to get a taste of whats involved check out the videos below.
I know I’m always nagging for help with our events but this time I am after some volunteers to help VC Jubilee out at their cross race in Stanmer Park on the 1st September. When the date was set I was a little concerned that it may just be a bit to early given school holidays would still in full swing but the following week wasn’t available. Turns out my fears about the holidays was correct, everyone seems to be away.
As the race organiser I am beginning to tear my hair out which isn’t a pretty site so I thought I would turn to the wider cycling community – you lot. If you happen to be free that day and would like to help I would be eternally grateful, I might even refrain from nagging you next track season (I said “might” so it’s not a promise). I have set up an online signup form for volunteers at volunteersignup.org/BQJB9 or you can just email me at contact@vcjubilee.co.uk. Oh and did I mention free refreshments for all who help.
I’m sure you have all been expecting it, tonight’s racing has been cancelled and that’s it for the season, that is apart from the AGM which is on Saturday 5th October in Knowle Hall @ 5pm.
I will be at the track myself from around 6:30 this evening for half an hour so if you are about you can drop your numbers back then otherwise please post to me 45, Brittany Road, Hove. BN3 4PA. PPYCC riders can drop them back on a Saturday morning of course.
After some damp spells during the day and preceding night the weather turned (mostly) fine for the 12th and final week of our circuit series.
Provisional results are below. As always if there are any queries please email results@scrl.co.uk or use the contact form. Please do not use social media for these queries.
So that just about wraps it up for the circuit series. With just three weeks of racing in the Wednesday track league remaining the summer programme of racing is almost over.
We would like to thank all of the various volunteers, marshalls, commissaires and judges, as well as the other folks who do lots of work outside the actual race meeting, who keep all of our events rolling throughout the year. The racing could not happen without their selfless donation of their personal time.
And we’d also like to thank all the people who raced. We think that Preston Park velodrome has an important part to play in keeping the local (and further!) racing scene alive and well, and it’s great to see so many people enjoy their racing there.
If only there were some sort of mid-winter race at Preston Park ….
An evening of lovely weather and some fine racing.
First and foremost a big thank you to everyone who volunteered to marshal and run the event. We don’t have the names handy but you know who you are, and the event could not have run without you, so well done!
We have some provisional results below, these will be sent to BC as soon as possible. Any queries or issues please email results@scrl.co.uk or use the contact form on the website. Please do not use social media for these queries.
A massive thank you to all those that helped out with the circuit races at Preston Park especially the riders that took time out either before or after their races. Putting on this series of races has put quite an extra load on the committee and our other usual band of volunteers so it is really helpful to have others step up and share the load. Please pass on our thanks to anyone you know who helped out.
Once again we find ourselves short of volunteers for the Friday circuit races.
We are most short on cover for the 2/3 races. Those volunteers who are racers are all 2/3 racers, leaving us very short of cover for their race.
It would seem that if 2/3 racers are getting there earlier to support the 4th cat and womens races it would be nice to have a reciprocal favour of providing them with cover for their race also.
The table below shows the current positions.
Commissaire
Mike Leonard
Roving Marshal 1
Stuart Bettis
Roving Marshal 2
Richard Moult [not 2/3]
Gate Marshal
Tobias Bunyan [not 2/3]
Judge 1
Ben Gerrey
Judge 2
Chris Hough
Ipad Operator
Sign On
Dave Gerrey
Gear Checker (1st hr)
First Aider*
Alex Beyfus [not 2/3]
*First Aider can combine with Marshalling [if qualified]. This is the minimum needed for being allowed to run our events.
So please, contact volunteering@scrl.co.uk or drop a message on Facebook or Twitter (links below in the email or on the right hand side of the web page) and let us know if you can help.