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Tickets for Manchester track World Cup on sale tomorrow

Jump in quick to get tickets for the best sessions
by John Stevenson
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 12:39
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British Cycling has announced that tickets for November’s UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester will go on general sale tomorrow, Thursday 1 August.

BC points out that tickets for all major sessions at last year’s UK track World Cup at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow sold out within an hour of going on sale, and is therefore encouraging fans to be at their computers, credit card in hand, at 11 am when tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster.

The Manchester event is the opening round of the 2013-14 track World Cup series and runs over three days from November 1 to 3 at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. As a qualifying event for the 2014 world championships, it’s expected to attract the the cream of British and international track talent.

This will be the first time since 2011 that the track World Cup has been held in Manchester, whose velodrome is also the home base of British Cycling and the Great Britain cycling team.

Though he’s originally from the other side of the Pennines, Olympic gold medallist, Ed Clancy MBE is excited about the World Cup’s return to Manchester.

“Manchester is the home of British Cycling and Track World Cups here are always something special for the home fans,” he said. “I hope to make the team for November; it's something you don't want to miss.”

Tickets & details

Tickets for the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Manchester are available for general purchase through Ticketmaster from 11:00 on Thursday 1 August 2013.

There are four price bands allowing spectators to choose between a premium view, value for money seat or standing ticket. People can choose their seat before they buy. Discounts are available for families and under-16s and there are hospitality packages available on all days.

More information about tickets, hospitality and the full racing schedule is available on the Manchester track cycling World Cup website.

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John Stevenson

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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farrell | 11 years ago
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Not your fault at all, I left out a fairly large bit of information from my original post which completely altered the meaning!

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crazy-legs | 11 years ago
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Yep, fair point farrell, apologies for the misunderstanding.

The British Cycling National Track Championship tickets went on sale at the same time too, that's three sets of tickets all at once!

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farrell | 11 years ago
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I shouldn't moan, but wouldn't it be nice if they'd released the tickets within a week or so of the Revolution series tickets?

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crazy-legs replied to farrell | 11 years ago
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farrell wrote:

I shouldn't moan, but wouldn't it be nice if they'd released the tickets within a week or so of the Revolution series tickets?

They did but for British Cycling members only. A percentage of tickets went on sale last week for BC members.

And why dies it matter when tickets go on sale? It's two entirely separate events, it's up to the organisers themselves when they put tickets out.

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farrell replied to crazy-legs | 11 years ago
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crazy-legs wrote:
farrell wrote:

I shouldn't moan, but wouldn't it be nice if they'd released the tickets within a week or so of the Revolution series tickets?

They did but for British Cycling members only. A percentage of tickets went on sale last week for BC members.

And why dies it matter when tickets go on sale? It's two entirely separate events, it's up to the organisers themselves when they put tickets out.

Apologies, I meant to say wouldn't it be nice if they had not put them on sale so close together.

And it matters to me as I'm not made of money, would have been nice to use one pay packet for one event and next month for the other.

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