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Oops, I'm a bit late with this this year...

Brixton Super madison is back this Sunday, 18 June.

There will be a full program of events, including madison races (National Hard Track Endurance League), match sprints (National Men's and Women's Sprinters League), women's races, the infamous sprinters' scratch race (with random cash primes donated by the spectators for added carnage) and keirins for men and women among others.

There will be a huge cash prize pot provided by Brixton Cycles Club, plus prizes very kindly donated by Canopy Beer Co.

As always this event is free to spectators, with beer provided by Canopy and jerk chicken, rice and peas at Captain Cliff's famous BBQ, plus stalls from Brixton Cycles and race commentary from @Ecobeard

Rider entry for the Madison and Men's Sprint events is now closed, with entry on the day for the women's events only - £25, sign on closes at 10am.

The sprint qualifying time trials will be at 10.30am and the main event will be from 12.30 - 5pm.

https://www.facebook.com/BrixtonSuperMad­ison/

I know I've not given you much notice this year but hopefully see a few of you there.

I'm playing and I'm proper shite. Nearly 40 years old and only started learning how to play in the last year. Don't let lack of skill put you off, we would have less than half a team if talent were a requirement...

We haven't arranged one, if anyone knows a local Mr Whippy please give him a shout :D

We're only three days away! No Forsterman, sorry ;)

Looks like we'll have decent weather (well, not raining at least) and a full field for the madison and sprint, with a nearly full field for the women. There are still spots for women to enter on the day, £25, sign on closes at 12.

We will also got these brilliant Super Madison t-shirts for the sells on the day, £20 to you. I picked them up from the screen printers yesterday and they look brilliant, even if I do say so myself. Sorry about the massive photos...

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I dream of being able to take the Monday off.

Oh well, 12 hour day at work with stinking hangover it is then.

It's nearly that time of year again!

Supermad is back on Sunday 19 June and the final event, Big Rob Jefferies' Super Madison points race is now part of the National Hard Track Endurance League.

There will be a full program of events, including madison races, sprints (National Sprinters League), women's races, Ron Beckett's Double Harness Pursuit (mixed male/female madison pursuit), the now infamous sprinters' scratch race (with random cash primes donated by the spectators for added carnage) and keirins for men and women among others.

There will be a huge cash prize pot provided by Brixton CC, plus prizes very kindly donated by Canopy Beer Co. and Talbot Frameworks

As always this event is free to spectators, with beer provided by Canopy and jerk chicken, rice and peas at Captain Cliff's famous BBQ, plus stalls from Brixton Cycles, Talbot Frameworks and Wally Happy's bike jumble.

Rider entry for the Madison and Sprint events is in advance only, with entry on the day for the women's events only. Entry in advance is £15, on the day £25.

The sprint qualifying time trial will be at 11am and the main event will be from 12.30 - 5pm.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/143120/Brixton-Super-Madison

https://www.facebook.com/BrixtonSuperMadison/

Please note, there will be NO men's support endurance races this year.

It's BYOB I'm afraid, but there will be tea :)

Should be some pretty decent racing though. Shame I probably won't be there in person as I'll be most likely nursing a very sore head. Some bright spark thought it would be a good idea to have his stag the night before...

This session being cancelled is my fault btw as it's me organising the regionals. Sorry about that :/

SE Regional champs start at 11am on Sunday so the usual session is unlikely to be run. Nearly everyone who rides the session will be doing the champs anyway. Don't hold me to that, I would check with HH first.

Not sure why it's me that should be having a word, but there will be a couple of others in front of him in the queue if I do.

I'm on training wheels tonight, it's all good.

I'll have a chat with someone at track league tomorrow about publicising the cancellations a bit better. As it stands, I usually get a message a week before which I then pass on to the regulars that I have contact details for. Obviously that isn't very helpful to people like you.

Apparently she's entitled to extra days for birthday celebrations. I'm not sure how it works because I'm pretty sure I get just the one.

Keirins tonight? Dammit, it's my wife's birthday, no chance of me racing :(

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That was a cracking day yet again. We thought that last year would take some beating, and we only went and bloody done it. The sun even came out for us, despite the forecasts.

There was some brilliant racing and it was good to see the young riders coming through, with Ethan Hayter taking the madison with Iain Cook and 15 year old Alistair Fielding properly mixing it with the big boys in the sprint and nabbing second in the keirin.

The highlight for me was putting out an announcement asking if spectators wanted to put up any cash for spot primes for the sprinters scratch race, then watching all these banknotes suddenly being waved in the air. I was only trying to spice it up a bit and it turned into the race of the day. I think we ended up with £100 cash prizes for what was only supposed to be a consolation race.

Thanks to everyone who came to watch, can't wait for next year.

@dan I like to treat you like the ginger stepson I never had.

Bike jumble news - I had a chat with Wally Happy on Wednesday, he and some of the the bike jumble mob will be there again under the canopy in the car park. Not to mention that @Ecobeard will also be flogging off his collection of vintage parts on the Brixton stall, from which 50% of the proceeds will go into the save Brixton Cycles fighting fund.

The entire field gets to qualify for something. At worst you'll get a three lap dash and 10 lap sprinters' scratch race. Unlucky.

Oh and a reminder - that's for the women's events only. The men's support endurance races have been cancelled and the sprint and madison are full, there will be no entry on the line for any men's events.

Fellas, don't let that stop you coming down and watching some cracking racing.

The EOL fee is still half decent value given the prize pot - probably the best for any entry level open event in the country (I'll save my rant about how you should all have entered in advance...)

Keirin: £100, £60, £40
Points £50, £30, £20
Scratch £50, £30 £20
Double Harness Pursuit £50, £30, £20 (you will need to find yourself a male human partner for this on the day, from among those already entered)

Plus winners' custom made Supermad jerseys for the keirin and Double Harness, custom caps for all of the winners and Canopy beer gift packs for the podium places.

Not to mention the hefty prize pots for the sprint and madison, I wish I was racing and not organising tbh.

IIRC just one of the A cat races gets sacrificed for the madison, if you're riding for the first time then you'll be in the Cs and you should still get the usual number of races.

Final program:

11am
Sprint 200tt (top 12 to A sprint, 13-24 to B sprint rest to 3 lap dash)
B Sprint round one
A Sprint round one

12.30
A Sprint first round repechage
Women 10 lap scratch
A sprint round two
Madison Omnium – 15 lap scratch
3 lap dash
B sprint semi final
A sprint semi final
Madison Omnium – 200m time trial
Women 12 lap points
B sprint final
A sprint minor final (4th – 8th)
A sprint 3rd/4th final
A sprint final
Ron Becket Double Harness Pursuit (mixed doubles 6 lap madison pursuit)
Break (prize presentations)
Madison Omnium – winout (The team that crosses the line first on the first sprint are the winners and out, the team that wins the next sprint is second and the last sprint 3rd)
Senior Keirin heats
Women keirin heats
Sprinters 10 lap scratch race (for riders not in keirin final)
Women keirin final
Senior keirin final
Madison Omnium 50 lap points race

Due to lack of entries the support endurance races have now been cancelled. The few who have entered already will get their entry fee refunded.

Instead we will be running a B sprint for sprinters who don't qualify in the top 16. Sorry for those of you who were planning to enter on the day but we can't run an event properly if we have no idea who is going to turn up.

This was a bit of a no brainer really. Given that the sprints are part of a national series we thought it only fair to allow the riders who don't qualify for the top 16 to get another chance.

We would have kept it as it is and let the non-qualifying sprinters ride the endurance races, but the new 35 rider limit from British Cycling has forced our hand. We have had a lot of sprint entries so far, and it would be unfair for half the field to turn up and only get to ride a 200tt.

The women's races remain unaffected.

Sorry for any of you who were planning on entering on the day, but as race organisers we can't run an event based on predictions of who may or may not turn up on the day. Our priority has to be the national series event and those who have made the effort to enter it.

The support endurance races tended to be a points chasing sandbaggers paradise anyway so this means you get to see more decent racing :D

Yeah, sorry about that Dimi.

I'll go into detail about the decision on the other thread.

We've still had 'ef all advance entries for the support events at Supermad, and I'm pretty sure it will fill up on the day. I thought the hike up to £25 on the day would encourage people to enter in advance but apparently not.

We're going to have issues working out the limits - we've always let the sprinters ride the support endurance too, but if the field is full we won't be able to do that. We've no B sprint so there there will be a lot of grumpy non-qualifiers.

Next year the plan is to sack off the support endurance races completely so this won't be an issue.