Clifton CC

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2012 6:39 pm**

Anyone racing tommorow?

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2012 10:58 am**

I'm still recovering from being dropped in the hills on Saturday.

Good luck tonight though, Toby. Sounds like you're getting closer to a top ten finish.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 1:03 pm**

Bad news - just seen this on Facebook:

Neil Hendry 10 May 10:24
Urgent News !!!!
Tockwith Tuesday maybe on hold as we’ve lost the use of the main track due to the council and the venue, Mr Simon Moore (owner) has told us that he had a meeting with Harrogate Borough Council Planning yesterday and that (however ridiculous it may sound) they told him that our cycling events are deemed to be "noisy" events and as such are included within the maximum quota of events he is permitted to run on the main circuit each year. He did say that he was determined to fight this ruling and that he would soon be making a Planning Application for cycle events, but that this could take up to 6 to 8 weeks for a decision.
He has offered us the Go Kart track but I feel this is not suitable for our use but the other promoting clubs need to decide too, So i’ll have a 100% answer by the weekend. So the summer circuit series could be put on hold until further notice. Sorry.........

Are there any other circuits locally that could host this? Would be a real shame to lose most of this series.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 4:04 pm**

Someone must have a very noisy freehub.

I know there's a race on the Mintex test track at Sherburn in July. I don't know if it's used for anything on an evening. Might be an option.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 6:57 pm**

Darren, do you know who contact would be for Mintex test track? I don't mind calling them tomorrow to see if this would even be an option.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 7:18 pm**

Someone's already onto it. But any further suggestions appreciated.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 8:33 pm**

Is Elvington airfield a possibility? I know they do car track days etc there and a quick look at the satellite map would suggest there should be a suitable configuration of tarmac that would work.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 8:50 pm**

Or alternatively Rufforth, at end of old airfield close to York dump. I saw some motorbike training happening there a couple of weeks ago so they do hire it out and there is some type of "Gyrocopter" centre there as well on Google maps! No idea if quality of tarmac is good enough etc. Any ideas on this one?

Posted: **Fri May 11, 2012 8:48 am**

I can answer my own question on Rufforth as I was riding close by this morning so thought I would ride in and take a look. It is not suitable for bike racing unfortunately - the tarmac has quite a bit of grass growing through in the gaps between sections. There is a small section which is actively used and does not have grass but it would not be big enough.

Posted: **Fri May 11, 2012 8:49 am**

Latest update from Facebook group on Tockwith series:

Neil Hendry 11 May 09:42
Tockwith Tuesday meetings are now CANCELLED ! due to the owner having planning/noise/council issues so our races have to stop as from now until he can get this issue resolved.
So please pass this around to anybody who you may think will turn up this coming Tuesday 15th May. It should be on the BC website soon tooas cancelled
On a plus side we're out now looking for new venues to hold a few events this summer still, Sherburn is one and also another couple of venues are in the process too, so please be patient and fingers crossed we'll have some great news within a few days and we may be back racing within a week or two.....

Many Thanks for your support & understanding
Neil Hendry, Matt Mannakee, Barry Mordue, Phil Bixby, Mike Gill, Steve johnston, Glen Saxton, David Morris & John Oldridge

Can I also use the opportunity to flag up the Clifton/Cycleworks/Malton-organised Thursday 17th May evening road race series which starts at Bishopwood next Thursday (Cat 4 only). Due to inevitable problems getting all the approvals it only made it onto the BC website very late in the day, and as a consequence we're short of entries for the first event. If you know of clubmates or other riders, or if you have any way of putting the word out about the series then I'd be massively grateful. We set them up on Thursdays to avoid any conflict with the Tockwith events and hopefully if the circuit series can be saved they'd continue to work well as complementary weekday events. events "after" Thurs 17th are Cat 3/4