The Rob Jeff Mem

Hello everybody. This is the website for the Rob Jefferies Memorial, that will be happening at the Bournemouth Cycling Center on July 28th. Updates and news on the event will be appearing here.

The feature race to this event is The Rob Jefferies Memorial Fistful of Tenners 25km Dash For Cash. This is a 100 lap, 25km points race, with points and primes every 10 laps. Finishers in this race will be elidgible for points in the National Hard Track Endurance League.

As well as this is the Allan Spencer Devil, which has a prize fund of £100, as well as a 10 lap warm up race, from which the first 6 finishers will go through to a roadman's pursuit.

There is another series of events for 3rd cat and below riders, with the 10km, 25 lap Eddie Beck Memorial Race as it's main feature - also a points race and also with points and primes every 5 laps. Similary, this program has a devil, 10 lap warm up and 6-up roadman's pursuit. This series of races is meant for "lower catergory" riders, as well as riders in their first season of competition. Seeding for both races is at the organiser's discretion and, please note,  experienced and accredited riders only please! We WILL be checking.

Further to this, there will be races for Youth A & B riders, as soon as we've sorted those out. Stay tuned.

Any further questions, please email me at ggrs@sky.com

Event details and entry are here: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

The Alan Spencer Devil

As well as the headliner Rob Jefferies Memorial Fistful Of Tenners 25km Dash For Cash, we have several support races. There is a 20 lap warm up race, for which the first 6 riders go through to a 6-up 4 km roadman's pursuit.

Then there will be the Allan Spencer Devil Take The Hindmost in honour of Allan Spencer, another late member of the Poole Wheelers. A confirmed trackie and regular at the old track at Poole Park, Ros Spencer and her family thought this a fitting tribute and have put up a £100 prize fund solely for this race.

For anyone who doesn't already know, in a devil (also known as an elimination race), every 2 laps, the last rider across the line is eliminated until there is one single rider remaining. As anyone who was watching Laura Trott in the Olympics knows, it is one of the most exciting track races, a real test of both speed and race craft, as well as a fine addition to the program.

Entries for the race can be made on the British Cycling website here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

RoadPeace

The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet is proud to announce that the event will be raising funds and awareness for the charity http://www.roadpeace.org/. RoadPeace is a charity helping and fighting for the families of victims of road traffic fatalities.

In their own words:

"RoadPeace’s vision is for a world in which:

• road deaths and injuries are no longer treated by the economy as acceptable, by the judicial system as trivial and by society as accidents;
• road crash victims are no longer treated as third class victims, but as people who have undergone a terrible trauma and who therefore need justice, respect for their rights, care, support and acknowledgement of their loss and suffering;
• road danger and the risk of road use will have been reduced to that of other everyday activities, with concurrently improved services and criminal and civil justice for the greatly reduced number of road crash victims."

Here is the proposed schedule

Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet. 28th July

Sign on from Midday.

1. Track warm up (two 10 minute sessions with 5 minute gap between each)

Meeting starts at 1pm

2. Invitation Sprint qualifying (Flying 200m)

3. 'b' riders 20 lap warm up race. Top six to qualify for roadman's pursuit.

4. 'a' riders 20 lap warm up race. Top six to qualify for roadman's pursuit.

 5. Sprint heats.

6. 'b' Roadmans Pursuit 4km

7. 'a' Roadman's pursuit 4km

8. Sprint quaters.

9. Invitational team pursuit. (Probably Poole Wh vs Brixton Cycles)

10. Sprint semis

11. Devil (b string riders)

12. Devil (a string riders)

13. Sprint final

14. b final (Eddie Beck Memorial) 40 lap points race. Sprints every 5 laps. Primes for sprints.

 15. a final (The Rob Jefferies Fistful Of Tenners 25km Dash For Cash)

 

Sounds like fun?

  

Race entry here:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/84734/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

Enter the Rod Jefferies Memorial for 'a' stream events, or the Eddie Beck Trophy for 'b' stream. 'A' is open to anyone who thinks they're up for it, 'B' events are for lower category riders. Rest assured, we WILL be checking for previous track racing experience.

Welcome To The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet Blog

Welcome to the Rob Jefferies memorial meet blog, for all the latest updates on the eponymous meeting, taking place for the first time on July 28th 2013.