This section of the website lists the Track Competitions that our club members might be interested in. These are mainly North west, but some in other areas, the national youth omnium series and national champs.

Please visit the appropriate website for full details of each event, using the links below and the BC track calendar.

The entries on this page will be updated before each season with current dates as they become available.

National events are towards the bottom of this page

ACT Track League: Jan - April then Sept - Nov at Manchester Velodrome

Monday night: 7:30pm - 10pm

The ACT track league is suitable for children and adults, as a first track race experience. All riders, Youth, Junior, Senior and Vet must possess Velodrome track accreditation to take part.

Hire bikes CANNOT be used: riders must use their own bikes. Age related gearing applied to track bikes, and bikes are checked each week.

For further information see ACT track league website.

NOTE: The ACT track league is now entry in advance, by Wednesday for  the following Monday.

MRTL Track League FIRST Division: Jan -Mar then Oct - Dec at Manchester Velodrome

Friday Night: 7:30 - 10pm

The MRTL track league (First Division) is for riders ages 14+, Youth, Junior and Senior riders categories 2/3/4. This is an excellent league for older riders (Seniors and Vets) to start. You MUST enter at least 7 days in advance, you cannot just turn up and ride.

There are a good number of female riders at this track legaue, and riding in ability groups.

Riders are strongly advised to have track experience before racing, but the Velodrome accreditation is not mandatory.

Hire bikes CANNOT be used: riders must use their own bikes. Age related gearing applied to track bikes, and bikes are checked each week.

For further information see the MRTL website

MRTL Track League PREMIER Division: Jan -Mar then Oct - Dec at Manchester Velodrome

Tuesday Night: 7:30 - 10pm

The MRTL track league (PREMIER Division) is for EXPERIENCED riders, who are too good for the top Friday MRTL race group. To ride, you are either promoted from the Friday night track league (ie already experienced), or are a Category2 or above rider with known track racing ability.

The BC World Class, Academy and Development Program riders are regulars at this track league, and occasionally World Class riders might compete.

For further information see the MRTL website

Easter Monday ACT Open Track Meeting at Manchester Velodrome 9th April 2012

This is an open track meeting for Senior/Junior Cat3 and 4, Vet Cat 2,3 and 4 riders, Junior and Youth riders. The programme includes scratch, points, elimination, Kierin races and a sprint competition.

The organiser accepts entries from riders with Mancehster track accreditation.

Hire bikes CANNOT be used: riders must use their own bikes. Age related gearing applied to track bikes, and bikes are checked.

National Youth Track Omnium Series

This is suitable for riders who have experience in regional track leagues as the standard of riders entering the Omnium series is high. Manchester Velodrome track accreditation is not required to compete. This competetion is not for beginners to track racing! It is a challenging series of events, extremely good fun and good experience.

NOTE: please read the full rules for the 2012 Omnium (pdf) below is a summary.

There are 3 regional series of races in the UK: Northern Area Round, Southern Area Round and Midland Area Round.

• Each area round has a series of race meetings - see below for the Northern events.
• Each race meeting has races for A, B and C age categories, with D and E supporting races.
• Riders accumulate points in each race meeting, to get an omnium total for the meeting.
• Omnium points from the rider's top 3 meetings are totalled for an Area Round total, the lowest meeting points are dropped where the rider has points from more than 3 meetings.
• The leading riders of each round for each age category are invitied to take part in the national final in August. For the Youth A boys, Youth A girls, Youth B boys, Youth B girls the top 8 area riders will go through to the National final, and Youth C boys and girls together the top 6 will go through.
• The national final does not include D and E category races.

There is a defined race program for each meeting (this is a summary).

• Youth A: 5-10Km scratch race, elimination race, 8-10Km points race, 500m match sprint or Keirin, and 1Km (approx) time trial.
• Youth B: 3-6Km scratch race, elimination race, 3-6Km points race, 500m match sprint or Keirin, and 1Km (approx) time trial.
• Youth C: Individual Pursuit (max 1500m), 3km points race, 500m sprint or Kierin, 500m time trial.

Riders are seeded for the match sprint/Keirin and also the time trial based on the day's standing at that point.

In 2012 the Northern Area Round has events at:

12 May - Discovery CC Youth Omnium, Dundee

13 May - Edinburgh BC Youth Omnium, Meadowbank

 19 May - Scunthorpe Poly Youth Omnium, Scunthorpe

 20 May - Newcastle Youth Track Meeting, Newcastle

 16 June - Sportcity Velo Youth Omnium, Manchester

12 August - National Final - Manchester

Meadowbank Edinburgh. This is an outdoor 250m West African Hardwood track, read more about it here.

Dundee. This is a 402.34 metres tarmac track at Caird Park Stadium, with a shallow banking. See the Discovery JCC website for more details about Caird Park.

Scunthorpe. This is a 485.06 metres Asphalt outdoor track at Quibell Park Stadium.

Newcastle. Lyme Valley Velodrome is a 399.71 metres Asphalt outdoor track at Stoke-on-Trent

Manchester. Manchester Velodrome, 250m indoor track.

The Edinburgh and Dundee events are now on the same weekend to reduce costs for riders.

Events (apart from Manchester) are subject to good weather. Events starts can and do get delayed for hours to allow outdoor tracks to dry out. Occassionally they do get cancelled on the day.

See here for the 2010 and 2011 results.

National Youth and Junior Track Championships - 19th to 24th August 2012, Manchester

The top UK track riders will be taking part, so you do really need to have track racing experience, and be confidently competitive. However, entering is really good to get experience and race against faster riders.

The championships take place over a week.

Youth A and Junior races are entered separately, so you choose the race events you want to enter for, and these are generally on different days in the week. At Junior level the sprint events are generally dominated by sprint specific riders, with few if any entries from endurance riders. At Youth A level, many riders have a go at all events.

In recent years, an out and out sprinter has won the Junior Scratch title, and Steven Burke acheived one of the best Junior time trial times ever.

• Junior Men: 20Km scratch, points, 1Km time trial, 3km individual pursuit, match sprint competition, Kierin, Madison.
• Junior Women: scratch, points, 500m time trial, 2km individual pursuit, match sprint competition, Kierin.
• Youth A Boys: scratch, points, 500m time trial, 2km individual pursuit, match sprint competition, Madison.
• Youth A Girls: scratch, points, 500m time trial, 2km individual pursuit, match sprint competition.
• Youth B Boys: An omnium with 500m time trial, 1500m individual pursuit, match sprint competition. This is all on one day.
• Youth B Girls: An omnium with 500m time trial, 1500m individual pursuit, match sprint competition. This is all on one day.
• Youth C Boys: An omnium with 500m time trial, 1500m individual pursuit, match sprint competition. This is all on one day.
• Youth C Girls: An omnium with 500m time trial, 1500m individual pursuit, match sprint competition. This is all on one day.

For the B and C categories, there are no bunch events.

In Youth A and Junior bunch events (scratch and points), where the number of entries exceeds the track rider limits, there are heats at half distance, with riders going through to the final at full distance. The heats and finals are on the same day.