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The South West Road Race Work Group is responsible for the road and closed circuit races in the Sout

03/06/2026

Round 6 🤝

Will Hornby & his team are taking the baton from Exeter Uni tomorrow for round 6️⃣

Get those entries in today to save some cash vs entering on the day 💸

27/05/2026

Final week for 😭

DONT BE PUT OFF BY LOW ONLINE ENTRIES - we have lots of riders who have bought series packages & plenty who will double up on the night!

25/05/2026

RACE CANCELLED

Sadly, we’ve not reached anywhere near break-even point for either race at next weekend’s Regional Championships/Ermington Classic, so have no choice but to cancel the event.

For reference, we were seeking 40 riders for the Open & 15 for the Women’s race. We weren’t even close to meeting either of those targets.

Thank you to all those who supported the event - be that through entering, offering to volunteer their time, or the organisations in Ermington village who bent over backwards to accommodate us. We were really excited to deliver a new National B road race course for the riders, with a village centre finish (and even got the council to fill in some of the potholes!). Sadly, it clearly wasn’t to be.

We’ve reached out to the organisers of the South East Regional Champs + Midlands Championships. The South East Champs entries remain open until Thursday, so strongly recommend riders enter this event, or hopefully the Midlands Champs, should they still wish to compete in a Nat B this weekend. We’re waiting to hear back from the Midlands Champs organisers on whether they can re-open entries briefly to accommodate riders who may be closer to their race instead. Will update our riders by email when we hear back from the Midlands organisers.

We’ll also outline what this means for the South West Series points structure in the coming week or so.

24/05/2026

Last chance saloon 🤠

Entries for next weekend’s regional championships shut at midnight. It’s now or never!

21/05/2026

What’s better than a weekend of racing in the Cornish sun?! Get yourselves entered - online entries close today 😎

20/05/2026

A perfect evening for racing ⛅️

The weather is looking great & we’ve already got ten confirmed in at both the Open 4s & 2/3/4 races already this week 😎 (combination of online + series entries)

Also, a planned 40 minutes of racing for the Open 4s & 50 minutes for the 2/3/4s, thanks to the extra daylight! 🤩

16/05/2026

This isn’t one to miss! The South West Series heads down to Cornwall for the county’s only BC-registered road event of the season around the fantastic Wheal Jane Earth Science park - home to Wheal Velocity CC 🤩

13/05/2026

Two entry deadlines in two days 🫨

Round 3. You know the drill by now. Get entered online to avoid on-the-day entry fee hikes.

12/05/2026

Last call for entries (second & FINAL wave) 📢

A strong women’s field & nearly a full roster of 8️⃣0️⃣ will be assembling in Hatherleigh for the Open race, ready to take on laps of the Jacobstowe circuit 💯

Entries via the BUCS play app ONLY 📱

📸 Chris Godfrey

10/05/2026

Round 2️⃣ results!

Complete results are up on now 💯

Congrats to all our winners on the night - see you on Thursday for week three 🤩

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