Britains massive successes at the Olympics seem to have caused a surge in new memberships of the BCF. Its certainly been an eye opener seeing how many young riders there are getting involved with Track racing at Preston Park and whilst I was visiting GT at Maindy Pool in Cardiff.Seeing little kids confidently handling their fixed gear bikes was definately inspiring. Though I think I'll be leaving it until next year now, I'm still tending the mental wounds of a 30mph crash riding fixed down Talerddig a month ago.
If you can't get enough of the Olympic track cycling at the moment, tickets are on sale for the Track World Cup in Manchester at the beginning of November. The event is the first of the World cup series where elite riders compete to earn points towards the World Championships. World and Olympic champions will compete in 17 seperate events over the 3 days. I've bagged tickets for the Saturday and Sunday.
The Sunday features a special Japanese Keirin Association invitational Keirin race. Riders from Japan and the rest of the world will be battling it out for a massive cash prize. If its anything like the Japanese Keirin Championships it'll be one of the highlights of the weekend...
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Cool. When's the Berlin 6-day races? Wanna come to that?
Just answering my own question here: Berlin 6-day races are 22nd to 27th of January 2009 and 2009 is the 100 year anniversary of the event.
Lots of tickets still available with prices between 30 and 50 euros depending on the night and the seat. Roughly 200 euros total if you want to go there every night.
Fancy it?
YES
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