Tuesday 12 February 2013

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

Friday 1 February 2013

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."