I used to hang in those circles in the eighties, our team held a handful of British and European records for some short periods of time - including The Hour and the 200m Sprint. We came second overall at the world champs in Vancouver in 1986. It was brilliant fun racing all over the world. We were pretty damn fast at 54.38mph for the 200m. These days they're knocking on 90mph!
Last year I wandered up to our local circuit in York to spectate, which was fun but a lot of the old faces that I knew are gone to the velodrome in the sky. Burrows is still going strong and is working on a new bike for an assault on the HPV hour record this year - on a single speed fixed gear (!)
I'm very excited by the prospect of attending the World Champs which are being held in the UK this year.
http://www.bhpc.org.uk/