Event Details

Hello. Welcome to the event website for the Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet.

Here are some more of the details:

Date: Sunday July 20th, racing starts at 1pm.

Entry: HERE

There are 4 categories:

3/4s... This is the support series of events, based around the Eddie Beck Memorial and geared towards new riders to the sport. If you are in your first couple of years racing track, or indeed are a regular at your local track's 'b' league then this is the event for you. The Eddie Beck Memorial is a 40 lap points race, with primes for the sprint laps every 5 laps. You will also ride a 20 lap warm up scratch race,a 6 lap dash and a devil (elimination).

E/1/2/3... This is the main series of events, based around the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race, a 100 lap (25km) points race with primes for each of the sprint laps every 10 laps. This race has a £200 prize fund. There is also the Alan Spencer Devil, which has a prize fund of £100, a winner takes all 6 lap dash and a 20 lap warm up. The Rob Jefferies Memorial Race counts towards the National Hardtrack Endurance League (https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/?series_id=5).

U16/U14... As above, riders race a 20 lap points race, a 15 lap warm up, a 6 lap dash and an elimination. Races will be run with seperate boys and girls categories, on the assumption that enough boys and girls enter to make this worth while (so GET ENTERING!). As in other categories, there will be prize money and primes for all events.

Women... Once again, a warm up race, a 6 lap dash, a devil and a points race, open to senior women of all categories.

Any further enquiries, I'm Gordon Skillen and you can get in touch with me at ggrs@sky.com or on 01202 841 049

Sponsors!

The Rob Jefferies Memorial meeting is very happy to announce some of the sponsors for this year's event.

Back for a second year is Jurassic Cabs, a Wareham based taxi firm run by Dave Wade, organiser of this year's National A level One Day In Dorset road race.

Also back again is the Anglo European Chiropractic College, or AECC, who proved very popular last year with some of their interns providing massages for aching legs in the track center.

New for this year is Bournemouth based tattoo studio Indelible, who's IT guy Will Clark has been a regular at the Bournemouth track league and has already entered the elite category for what will be his second attempt at the race.

For this year, each category will ride four races: a warm up race, a six lap dash, a devil (elimination) and a points race.  Categories are open to senior men (E/1/2/3), "club level" level senior men (3/4), U16 & U14 boys and girls (U16/U14) and Women (women). Prizes will be offered for all events and primes and prizes for the sprint laps in the points races.

For entry to the event, please follow this link:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/101477/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

For further information please email me (Gordon Skillen) at ggrs@sky.com

Back For 2014

The Rob Jefferies Memorial Meet is back for 2014, with a date set for Sunday 20th July.

After a very successful first year, the race returns with a new tier of events for elite women riders. Rob was a champion of women's cycling and so it was thought appropriate with the current explosion in the women's race scene in Britain to include them in a stand alone category.

As with last year, there is still the elite men's series of races for E/1/2/3/4s, races for 'club' riders of 3/4th category, races for youth A & B riders as well as the new category for 1/2/3 Women. Each category will get to ride a 20 lap warm up, a six lap dash, a devil-take-the-hindmost and a final distance points race. This will be the Rob Jefferies Mini Memorial for youths, the Eddie Beck Memorial for club riders and the 100 lap Rob Jefferies Memorial for the elite men, counting for points in the national hard track endurance league and coming with it's rather lovely fossilised trophy.

Once again, proceeds from the event will be going towards the charity RoadPeace, helping victims of road traffic accidents with legal and emotional support (more details www.roadpeace.org/‎)

Further details and entry can be found via this link: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/101477/The-Rob-Jefferies-Memorial-Meeting

If you would like to support the event by sponsoring one of the categories, or if you want any further details please contact me (Gordon Skillen) on ggrs@sky.com

Provisional Results... And A Big Thank You

....Thanks to Eamonn Deane's very excellent Local Riders, Local Races blog. Go here: http://blog.sportsmassagebournemouth.co.uk/2013/07/gittings-provides-fitting-tribute-to.html for photos and a race write up.

There is another write up here with Velo UK:

http://www.velouk.net/2013/07/29/reportresults-rob-jefferies-memorial/

If it sounds very similar, it's because it was also written by Eamonn.

In the meantime, I'm off to Sweden for a week poking around abandoned military facilities and it only remains for me to offer a HUGE thank you to EVERYONE involved in making the day a success. To everybody who helped on the day, to all the officials, to the commisaires and time keepers, to RoadPeace, to Change Partners Consultancy, to Guy, Jose, Aaron and the young lady who's name I did not catch from the AECC, to Dave Wade and Jurassic Cabs, Ros Spencer for funding a whole race AND helping with the scoring, to Charlie The Bikemonger, to CyclePaths, to Lush Cosmetics (you know who they are) to Adam for helping me come up with the concept to start with, to everyone who retweeted one of my desperate pleas for entries and techno Steve for keeping the music pumping.

Particular thanks go to Gerry Gray and to Graham Hurst for close to a year's worth of advice and guidance. I genuinely couldn't have done it without you, but then you probably already know that.

And finally, a big thank you to all the riders for making it all such an incredible race. As a fan of track racing, I thought the racing was awesome.

See you all next year.

Entry On The Line (EOL) Still Available For The Rob Jefferies Memorial

Entry on the line is still available for the Rob Jefferies Memorial in all categories. The race is on Sunday 28th July, with events starting at 1pm. Sign on is from 11.30, so get down early to ensure one of the remaining places on the start list. The cost is £15 for seniors, £10 for youths.

Just to remind everybody, the race has a £600 prize fund and has categories for Elite (E/1/2/3/4), for club riders (3/4) as well as seperate races for both u16/14 boys and girls. The feature race, the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race is a 25km points race with a total prize fund of £200, including primes for every one of the sprint laps. The support race in the E/1/2/3/4 category, The Alan Spencer Devil has a prize fund of £100.

In the support categories, for 3/4 category riders, the series of events, including a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit and a devil, carries a £90 prize fund. It culminates in the 10km Eddie Beck Memorial race, also a points race and also with prizes offered for each of the sprint laps.

And last but not least comes the junior categories, with seperate races for u16/u14 boys and girls and with a total prize fund of £180 and prizes for the sprint laps of the points race finale. The girls races will be accepting entries for first and second year junior riders as well as seniors up to cat 2.

And if you can't ride, please come along and join in the fun. Spectators are more than welcome. We have music, we have food, we have everything you need for an afternoon spent watching some of the country's top riders in action.

What Do Points Races Make?.... Prizes!

Thanks to our sponsors Charlie The Bikemonger and CyclePaths, we now have, quite literally, a pile of stuff to win. See picture below (foot and dog bed not included).

And it's not just that!

The race has a £700 prize fund, spread through races for Elite (E/1/2/3/4), for club riders (3/4) as well as seperate races for both u16/14 boys and girls. The feature race, the Rob Jefferies Memorial Race is a 25km points race with a total prize fund of £250, including primes for every one of the sprint laps. The support race in the E/1/2/3/4 category, The Alan Spencer Devil, has a prize fund of £100.

In the support categories, for 3/4 category riders, the series of events, including a scratch race, a roadman's pursuit and a devil, carries a £90 prize fund. It culminates in the 10km Eddie Beck Memorial race, also a points race and also with prizes offered for each of the sprint laps (see above).

And last but not least comes the junior categories, with seperate races for u16/u14 boys and girls and with a total prize fund of £180 and prizes for the sprint laps of the points race finale. The girls races will be accepting entries for first and second year junior riders as well as seniors up to cat 2. 

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

For further details, email me: Gordon Skillen ggrs@sky.com