The opening of the new track has made the front cover of the local paper, the Redditch Advertiser.
http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/news/8243134.Eagerly_awaited_BMX_track_to_open_in_Redditch/
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Sunday 27 June 2010
Friday 25 June 2010
Garath Bates
Stay Strong team rider showing how the 3rd straight should be ridden on a recent session at the track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdqcj2h6fbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdqcj2h6fbc
Thursday 24 June 2010
REDDITCH BMX TRACK OPEN DAY AND REGIONAL DETAILS
Redditch BMX Track Open day Saturday 10th July 2010 2pm-6pm
This event has been organised to showcase the new track and facilities to the local Community. Final details haven’t been confirmed yet but expect the day to have a family feel. Local Radio Kingfisher FM will hopefully be attending. We will have a PA set up and maybe a couple of local bands playing.
We will have some exhibition races to show the local community what BMX racing is all about so we should have the gate running. This is a free event (meaning entrance and use of track is free).
Anyone wanting to ride the track will have to wear a helmet and long sleeve top and bottoms. Some safety equipment may be available for hire but this will be limited.
This event has been organised to showcase the new track and facilities to the local Community. Final details haven’t been confirmed yet but expect the day to have a family feel. Local Radio Kingfisher FM will hopefully be attending. We will have a PA set up and maybe a couple of local bands playing.
We will have some exhibition races to show the local community what BMX racing is all about so we should have the gate running. This is a free event (meaning entrance and use of track is free).
Anyone wanting to ride the track will have to wear a helmet and long sleeve top and bottoms. Some safety equipment may be available for hire but this will be limited.
Accommodation
B&B’s and Hotels (Redditch does'nt really do campsites)
If people are wanting to travel and ride the track on the Saturday and stop overnight for the Regional the following day there won’t be any camping facilities track side for this event but here is a list of local B&B’s and Hotels. Google link to list of Hotels Most of these are within 5 minutes drive of the track.
The Closest Hotel to the track is the Campanile This is 3 minutes drive, from the track and from the Town Centre, and offers a discount if you are a member of a Sports federation like British Cycling.
B&B’s and Hotels (Redditch does'nt really do campsites)
If people are wanting to travel and ride the track on the Saturday and stop overnight for the Regional the following day there won’t be any camping facilities track side for this event but here is a list of local B&B’s and Hotels. Google link to list of Hotels Most of these are within 5 minutes drive of the track.
The Closest Hotel to the track is the Campanile This is 3 minutes drive, from the track and from the Town Centre, and offers a discount if you are a member of a Sports federation like British Cycling.
Google link to B&B’s
Local Shops, Petrol Etc
-1 minute drive or 5 minute walk from the track is a Morrison’s Supermarket with Petrol station
-Overlooking the track is the Golden Goose Pub and Restaurant. This is open all day and serves food from lunchtime right through to the evening. It has a pub garden that backs on to the track with a small children’s play area. They have coverage of the World Cup. With the World Cup Final being on the same day as the Regional I thought I had better mention that :-). They do take reservations so If anyone is planning on eating there after racing it is worth booking earlier in the day.
Local Shops, Petrol Etc
-1 minute drive or 5 minute walk from the track is a Morrison’s Supermarket with Petrol station
-Overlooking the track is the Golden Goose Pub and Restaurant. This is open all day and serves food from lunchtime right through to the evening. It has a pub garden that backs on to the track with a small children’s play area. They have coverage of the World Cup. With the World Cup Final being on the same day as the Regional I thought I had better mention that :-). They do take reservations so If anyone is planning on eating there after racing it is worth booking earlier in the day.
-The town centre is 5 minutes drive from the track. There is an indoor shopping centre which opens from 10am till 4pm on Sundays. It has most of the top high Street stores, plus it has a multi screen Cinema on the top floor. Just in case some of the family fancy something different to watching the racing.
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Midland Summer Series Round 6 – Redditch- Sunday 11th July 2010.
Car parking
There will be ample parking both in the car park by the track and on the field by the track. There will be no charge for parking. The management of the Golden Goose Pub next to the track have asked us if all BMXers can leave their car park for their patrons. So if you can respect this we would really appreciate that. As I said we have plenty of parking on race day that is 50 yards from the track this will be well signposted too.
Directions
For sat nav the post code to the track is B98 0DD
There will be road signs to follow probably from Junction 2 and 3 of the M42 to the track.
Link to map - Redditch BMX Track
Entrance Fee
As we are allowing free parking. There will be a £1 entrance fee for anyone over 12. For your pound you will get an event programme which will have a lucky number on it for the raffle which has already got some awesome prizes (see this page for updates on prizes over the next couple of weeks). As well as this there is the use of proper toilet facilities track side in our Clubhouse.
Music and Commentary
We have already hired a PA system for the weekend, so will have someone looking after the music on the Sunday. We have also booked the one and only Northern Monkey Rich Eames. He will come down on the Sunday to commentate on racing. For those of you that don’t know; Rich is one of the commentators at National Events, and has been for many years. We are chuffed to confirm his attendance and at a very reasonable rate too.
Pre-Registration
We will be doing pre-registration on Saturday 10th July – I will update this page with full details of times and pre-registration options in the next week.
Registration on day of Regional
We plan to start registration as early as possible, and this will close at 11.30am sharp, So Can we ask that people register as early as possible so we can get things moving. Anyone that is running late are advised to ring ahead to someone from their club to register you, as no one we be able to register after 11.30am
Race Fees
As per all Midland Regional’s this year
Novice - £5
Expert - £7
Schedule for all racers
Registration times- 9.30am-11.30am
Open Practice - 9.30am-10.30am
Under 13’s gates – 10.30am-11.15am
Over 13’s gates – 11.15am-12.00noon
Racing to start – 12.30pm
Trophies
There will be trophies for top 3 in all age groups 12 years and under including Novices.
Places 4-8 in all novice age groups will receive medals
Raffle
When paying your £1 entry fee will get a lucky number. The Prizes so far are as follows:
-Some goodies from The Source - http://www.sourcebmx.com/
-Some goodies from No limits – http://www.nolimitssports.co.uk/
-Some goodies from Urban Air - http://www.urbanair.co.uk/
-Mountain Fuel Energy Pack - http://www.mountainfuel.co.uk/
-Some Cyclecraft race shirts – kindly donated by the owner of Cyclecraft in Florida
-Several J&R Bicycles Number plates – kindly donated by J&R Bicycles, Florida
-1 month pass to Redditch Skatepark - http://www.redditchskatepark.co.uk/
-1 month pass to Redditch BMX track
-2 x Redditch Premiers trucker caps
And much more to be confirmed
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Midland Summer Series Round 6 – Redditch- Sunday 11th July 2010.
Car parking
There will be ample parking both in the car park by the track and on the field by the track. There will be no charge for parking. The management of the Golden Goose Pub next to the track have asked us if all BMXers can leave their car park for their patrons. So if you can respect this we would really appreciate that. As I said we have plenty of parking on race day that is 50 yards from the track this will be well signposted too.
Directions
For sat nav the post code to the track is B98 0DD
There will be road signs to follow probably from Junction 2 and 3 of the M42 to the track.
Link to map - Redditch BMX Track
Entrance Fee
As we are allowing free parking. There will be a £1 entrance fee for anyone over 12. For your pound you will get an event programme which will have a lucky number on it for the raffle which has already got some awesome prizes (see this page for updates on prizes over the next couple of weeks). As well as this there is the use of proper toilet facilities track side in our Clubhouse.
Music and Commentary
We have already hired a PA system for the weekend, so will have someone looking after the music on the Sunday. We have also booked the one and only Northern Monkey Rich Eames. He will come down on the Sunday to commentate on racing. For those of you that don’t know; Rich is one of the commentators at National Events, and has been for many years. We are chuffed to confirm his attendance and at a very reasonable rate too.
Pre-Registration
We will be doing pre-registration on Saturday 10th July – I will update this page with full details of times and pre-registration options in the next week.
Registration on day of Regional
We plan to start registration as early as possible, and this will close at 11.30am sharp, So Can we ask that people register as early as possible so we can get things moving. Anyone that is running late are advised to ring ahead to someone from their club to register you, as no one we be able to register after 11.30am
Race Fees
As per all Midland Regional’s this year
Novice - £5
Expert - £7
Schedule for all racers
Registration times- 9.30am-11.30am
Open Practice - 9.30am-10.30am
Under 13’s gates – 10.30am-11.15am
Over 13’s gates – 11.15am-12.00noon
Racing to start – 12.30pm
Trophies
There will be trophies for top 3 in all age groups 12 years and under including Novices.
Places 4-8 in all novice age groups will receive medals
Raffle
When paying your £1 entry fee will get a lucky number. The Prizes so far are as follows:
-Some goodies from The Source - http://www.sourcebmx.com/
-Some goodies from No limits – http://www.nolimitssports.co.uk/
-Some goodies from Urban Air - http://www.urbanair.co.uk/
-Mountain Fuel Energy Pack - http://www.mountainfuel.co.uk/
-Some Cyclecraft race shirts – kindly donated by the owner of Cyclecraft in Florida
-Several J&R Bicycles Number plates – kindly donated by J&R Bicycles, Florida
-1 month pass to Redditch Skatepark - http://www.redditchskatepark.co.uk/
-1 month pass to Redditch BMX track
-2 x Redditch Premiers trucker caps
And much more to be confirmed
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Murray Family Visits the Redditch Track
Last night, (and lucky for us, the longest day), the track was briefly opened, and the start gate made operational for one night. This was to demonstrate to local Redditch Councillors that their decision, to allow the track to be built, was a wise and fantastic one. The evening was well attended by people from near and far, young and old (all riders, wisely sporting helmets). Everyone was ripping up the track, enjoying the fantastic weather conditions. Among the visitors were special guests, Stay Strong Rider Gareth Bates, Martin Murray, (brother of Stephen Murray) and Mason and Seth Murray, Stephens sons, currently on holiday in the U.K. It was so good to see riders of their calibre using the track to its full potential. It bodes well for the future, (Regional, National and eventually European.) events that we eventually wish to cater for.
For more pictures and further feedback follow the link below, Dirt Magazine did a sweet article, giving a sound review of the track, highlighting the fact that the facility will be as useful to 4X riders as BMXers, if the number of 4Xers there last night was anything to go by, they are right!
http://dirt.mpora.com/news/redditch-bmx-track-news.html
Finally, there is a wonderful article by Jeff Murray(Stephen's Dad) on BMXTalk today, regarding his son's current condition and the fact that, three years ago today, he had his terrible accident that left him paralysed from the neck down...You might like to take a quick look at the article; there's a small mention of the fact that Stephen intends to visit the U.K. this year, Quote:
Flights have now been booked for Stephen , Kristi and John to fly over with Virgin Atlantic to London on Wednesday August 18th. he intends to attend the Bob Fields Grands in August. Awesome news for everyone involved in U.K. BMX!
Stephen Murray...Coming to the U.K. in August 2010
R.P.
For more pictures and further feedback follow the link below, Dirt Magazine did a sweet article, giving a sound review of the track, highlighting the fact that the facility will be as useful to 4X riders as BMXers, if the number of 4Xers there last night was anything to go by, they are right!
http://dirt.mpora.com/news/redditch-bmx-track-news.html
Finally, there is a wonderful article by Jeff Murray(Stephen's Dad) on BMXTalk today, regarding his son's current condition and the fact that, three years ago today, he had his terrible accident that left him paralysed from the neck down...You might like to take a quick look at the article; there's a small mention of the fact that Stephen intends to visit the U.K. this year, Quote:
Flights have now been booked for Stephen , Kristi and John to fly over with Virgin Atlantic to London on Wednesday August 18th. he intends to attend the Bob Fields Grands in August. Awesome news for everyone involved in U.K. BMX!
Stephen Murray...Coming to the U.K. in August 2010Monday 14 June 2010
The next round of the Midlands regional series has been moved from Rotherham to Bulwell and takes place this coming sunday ( 20th June ).
Hopefully a few members will be making the trip up there to improve on the results gained at the last round.
The points and series standings after the first 4 rounds can be found here.
http://midlandsregionalbmx.co.uk/files/2010_Round_4_Chesterfield.htm
Hopefully a few members will be making the trip up there to improve on the results gained at the last round.
The points and series standings after the first 4 rounds can be found here.
http://midlandsregionalbmx.co.uk/files/2010_Round_4_Chesterfield.htm
Tuesday 8 June 2010
New Track Riding Footage!
Junior Profile Racing Europe Supremo, Harley Taylor, was witnessed test riding the Redditch track this evening. Harley was bravely attempting some of the jumps along the third straight, making all us older riders feel ashamed at our lack of ability:-) his dad, Chris, looked proud too!
(News of public track access coming soon...)
(News of public track access coming soon...)
Thursday 3 June 2010
Premiers at Chezzy!
Redditch Premiers attended round 4 of the Midlands Regional series at Chesterfield. It was a beautiful day and the track was rolling smooth, especially down the, ultra fast, first straight. We had a whale of a time and all finished well, (and miraculously) without injury.
Sean (B-Final No More) Bowditch
Benn (Chairman) Thombs (no.32)
Benjamin Martinez (Honorary Redditch member for the day!) 
Redditch Premiers 'Roll Call'. From left to right: Ben Martinez, Sean Bowditch, Tim Drew, Gregory Dunn, Josh Wilkins, Benn Thombs & Matt Mayneord.
Thanks to Matt Mayneord for the photos.
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