• Our 2024 season starts on Friday, May 3rd!! Please check out our full schedule flyer. Registration is from 5:30-7PM, $10 per rider per class (cash only).
We
are also planning on having an opening day practice with the
opportunity to sign up for a membership or renew your existing
one. This will be Saturday, April 27th from 10AM-2PM. It
will be $7 per rider and an active USA BMX membership is required
before you can use the track. This event is tentative depending
on weather and track conditions.
REMINDER:
If you raced last year and earned a district number, please ensure that
you have changed your number plate. Per the USA BMX rulebook, you
cannot use your default number (last 3 digits of membership) unless you
do not have an earned district number.
--Volunteers
are needed during all race events!! Please see us at the track
during registration to volunteer. We may need assistance in some
or all of the following areas: registration, staging (practice and
racing), announcing, scoring, trophy tickets, corner marshalls,
covering the track after the races, etc. No experience necessary
- we can show you what to do!
Our
first multi-point event comes up quick and will be held on SATURDAY,
May 25th (no racing Fri. 5/24). It is our annual Race For
Life. This event will be for DOUBLE points and as many already
know the RFL benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. We have
been a huge supporter of the Race For Life for a long time!! The
minimum donation for this race is $20, but we know you can raise much
more! We will have donation envelopes available at registration,
or you can get one on our website. It's never too early to start fundraising for this race!
--Volunteers are needed during all race
events!! Please see us at the track during registration to
volunteer. We cannot begin each race without all positions
filled. We may need assistance in some or all of the
following
areas: registration, staging (practice and racing), announcing,
scoring, trophy tickets, corner marshalls, covering the track after the
races, etc. No experience necessary - we can show you what to
do!
...Did you know??
When each race is completed
the results are posted to our USA BMX microsite. Check out
your finishes here.
If you're new
to the sport and looking for
more information, our Getting
Started webpage is a great tool to review.
• If you use
Instagram, please follow us @whipcity_bmx.
We will
re-post our announcements there and will try to get some photos up
during the season, or you can tag us in your own photos!!
• A reminder to all new and renewing riders that
USA BMX has increased
the cost of a one-year membership to $80. Second and third
family member discounts have increased though. For
memberships completed at the track it is cash only. This
is the first
such increase in ten years. The full press release from USA
BMX can be found here.
•
DID YOU KNOW?? Every household that has an active USA BMX
membership gets a free subscription to PULL magazine, the official
publication of USA BMX! Our track was featured in their October 2017 issue.
Check it out!!!
•
Make sure to bring your USA BMX membership card each week when you sign
up for racing!! As an added measure, take a picture of your
card
with your phone, save
a photocopy in
your glove box, get an extra copy
using your account on usabmx.com, or all of the above!
• Important reminder
about plate numbers: A
rider’s current earned or sanction issued
number must appear on that rider’s number plate during all
competition. Examples of earned numbers include district,
state, national age group, national, gold cup, race of champions, pro
numbers, etc. – these numbers change every year and represent each
rider’s hard work at earning their ranking. On the other
hand, your sanction issued number is generally the last three digits of
your serial number. (See pages 17-18 of the USA BMX
rulebook for additional details). If you are not
running your sanction issued number, you need to update your plate each
year with an earned number - running an outdated earned number is not
permissible. We will be enforcing this rule at all Whip City
events. If you need to update your plate, please do so before
your next event; plates and numbers are commonly available from our
local on site bike shop vendor on Friday evenings.
Another alternative is to attach a “pie plate” to your bike
with written numbers if you are not able to update your plate before
the next race. If you would like to check your current
district ranking, please
visit the USA BMX website.
• It is very important to bring the paper
receipt you received for your new or renewed license
until you receive your permanent card - the
combination of the 8 digit (all numeric) serial number AS WELL AS your
4 digit validation code is especially important when you travel to
other tracks to race. You will need to present this receipt
at any USA BMX track to register. TIP: Take a copy of your paper
receipt and put it with your race equipment, or in all of your vehicle
consoles, etc. Be creative to make sure that you are never without it!
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If
we cancel racing before 4pm (for Friday events) or before 8am (for
Saturday events), we will post it on Facebook as well as on this
webpage. This doesn't guarantee that we won't have to cancel
just before an event or during the event due to the weather, but we
will do our best to post any foreseen cancellations here.
Racing is ON for Friday 5-3-2024! PLEASE
CHECK OUR
FACEBOOK PAGE FOR
ANY FURTHER DETAILS.
Please
note:
Whip
City BMX is a USA BMX sanctioned bicycle motocross track, located at
the Westfield Fairgrounds in Westfield, Massachusetts.
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