New Evening Race Series for Manchester

Coming to the Manchester area soon is a brand new midweek MTB series.

Held at Clayton Vale Country Park (near the Velodrome, map below) the first event of the series will kick off on Thursday June 10th. There will be six events across the series with events happening on a bi-weekly basis giving two events per month for June, July and August.

The course has been designed to appeal to hardened competitors and novice riders alike and so riders of all abilities are welcome. The course is around 10 minutes long and so we should hopefully see lots of fast action as riders race to be first into the singletrack sections.

The event is open to Members and Non Members of British Cycling and entries can be sent in advance or you can enter on the line. See details below.

The event is open to Junior and Senior riders, male and female.
All riders will start together.

Registration will be from 6pm in the Start/Finish area and the course will be open for pre ride from 6.30pm.

Racing will start at 7pm

Race Dates – Every 2 weeks from Thursday June 10th 2010

Race Distance
40mins + 1 lap

Entry Fees
£10 advance, £12 Entry on Line
**BC Members get a £2.00 discount!**

Pre entries can be sent in to –
C/o Phil West
British Cycling
National Cycling Centre
Stuart Street
Manchester
M11 4DQ

Cheques payable to – Phil West

Any enquires about the event can be sent to – manchestermtbseries@gmail.com

Entrance to the event is off Bank Bridge road under the archway.

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Chipps Chippendale

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With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (7)

NezboNezbo May 26, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Cool – sound intresting 🙂

tjr666tjr666 May 26, 2010 at 1:36 pm

Yeah looks like fun

eggboxeggbox May 26, 2010 at 1:54 pm

40mins + 1 lap ? The cross guys that race at Clayton vale in the NW series do 1hr + 1 lap don’t they ?

terrahawkterrahawk May 26, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Sounds ace.

Phil West is involved with this, so it will be well organised. Phil’s a friend of HTN and clearly knows what he’s doing.

bearbackbearback May 26, 2010 at 4:37 pm

Finally, Whistler’s weekly and Squamish and Pemberton’s bi-weekly race series concept spreads to other riding communities.

Hopefully it gets to the point where its just £1 to enter and give you food and a couple of free beers and have 250 riders show up every week and hopefully there’ll be even more of these events popping up all around the country 🙂

Benji HaworthBenji Haworth May 27, 2010 at 9:15 pm

I’m strangely drawn to this.. :-O

The_BeastThe_Beast May 31, 2010 at 1:49 pm

I’m sure the concept would spread if someone like BC really got behind it and did what they can to make it easy and cheap to organise.

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