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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Cool – sound intresting 🙂
Yeah looks like fun
40mins + 1 lap ? The cross guys that race at Clayton vale in the NW series do 1hr + 1 lap don’t they ?
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.
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 🙂
I’m strangely drawn to this.. :-O
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.