Friday Night at the Track is tonight, presented by Iron City Bikes Racing and Pittsburgh Masters Velo Club. This week the time trial bikes and aero helmets are traded in for good old fashion track bikes. It’s back to basics at the oval. From the website:

Join us for exciting an exciting evening of fixed gear track events. We will be holding a number of different events every week including Keirins, Sprints, Pursuits and more. Track racing is fast and entertaining and we aim to keep it that way! We encourage anyone who has a track bike, or has thought about purchasing one, to come out and join in the fun.

For beginners we’ll be holding educational seminars throughout the evening to help acclimate riders to the racing environment. These seminars will be focused around first time racers and will include things such as: Riding in a pack, pacelining, sprinting drills. Our hope is that this will encourage new riders to give track racing a try.

Registration @ 6 pm
Races start @ 6:30 pm
$10 race entry fee

This week will include:

• Introduction to pacelining-type things for beginners/warm-up
• 2 lap TT to get some seed times
• 4 lap flying start scratch race
• 3 lap team pursuit (using the TT times to seed even teams)
• 8 lap points race scoring 3 deep (3, 2, 1) every other lap

This is all part of a 4 race omnium, scoring 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 per race.

Save yourself some time and fill out the required forms before you arrive.

Equipment Requirements

The proper equipment in required to participate in the Track events. If you have any questions about equipment, please contact.

• Fixed Cog and Lockring
• Drop Handlebars
• Bars MUST be plugged
• No Brakes OR Brake Parts
• No Quick Releases (front/rear)
• No platform pedals witout a retention system (Traditional Clips and Straps and Clipless pedals only)

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1. Friday Night at the Track
2. PMVC Friday nights at the track are now posted TRACK CRITERIUM
3. Friday Night TT Results – New Record!

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