About the event

This will be a league series with the all results used to create the league table. There will be 9 events in total with ALL EVENTS being counting weeks towards the league table. The Women's race will be 234 each week with Elite and Cat 1 Women able to enter the later Open races, so all women's categories can enter a race every week.

The racing format is as follows:

• Open 4 and Women’s 234 races running 1 min apart concurrently on the inner Bowl course starting at 6:00 pm.

Followed by

• Open 34 (including Women 12) and Open E123 (including Women Elite and Cat1) races on the extended loop courses (subject to weather conditions) running 1 minute apart concurrently starting at 7.00 pm. Local rules will apply and will be made clear via all communication formats.

How to Enter

• Online entry is via the British Cycling website and closes the Wednesday evening before the race at 18:00.
• To find the Series on the British Cycling website, search with a keyword of "Bowl" or a location of "Milton Keynes Bowl".
• Late Entry is then available at my.raceresult.com at an increased cost of £22, subject to space.
• Riders will retain the same Bib number all season.
• Riders are accepted on a first come, first served basis. Day licenses will be accepted.
• Vouchers for free event entry may be offered to riders that marshal at events.

Parking and Sign on

• Please follow all parking signs and instructions.
• Please note parking area directions may vary according to which courses are being used
• Sign on will be at the Bowl Pavilion just inside the main entrance.

Timing Chips

• Timing chips will be allocated to each rider at sign on.
• To ensure the most accurate timing possible, chips should be mounted to the front forks - non brake side recommended for disc brake bikes.  
• Latex innertube will be provided at sign on which can be slid up the bike fork, with the chip then placed under the innertube.   
• The Latex innertubes can be kept for use at subsequent events. 
• More details on how to mount the chip can be found here:  Guide to fork mounting your chip 
• Riders not wishing to fork mount the chip may use leg straps instead - please ask for one at sign on. 
• Leg straps must be returned to the organiser on the night. 
• Note, leg mounted chips are inherently less accurate - so riders choosing to use them do so accepting the reduced accuracy of their timing.
• No other location may be used for the timing chips - they must be fork or leg mounted only.
• All chips must be returned to sign on once the riders race is complete.
• During warm up riders should ride over the finish mat so the timing team can check the chip signal is registering.

Results

• We are using a chip timing system to record each rider's finishing position.
• Lapped riders may be pulled from the event before the finish to ensure control of the finish time on the timing system.
• Provisional results can be found on this website, see the Results tab above.
• Official results will be posted on the British Cycling results page.
• Prizes and series Trophies will be set and awarded by the event sponsors (TBD).

Field Sizes

A maximum of 80 riders may compete at the Bowl at any one time, so numbers will be allocated as below:

League Tables

• The King and Queen of the Bowl League Tables can be viewed on the TeamMK Website.