NEWSLETTER
Hi everyone, it doesn’t seem like 5 minutes since I sent out to you all the 2025 Earlystocks Machine eligibility regs, but here we are again getting ready for another season. 😂😂
Please find attached a copy of the Earlystocks 2026 Machine regs & also for those of you who require them & haven’t joined us already for next season a 2026 Membership application form.
There have been some changes to the regs from 2025 particularly in relation to Class 1 where the later GPZ500's are now able to compete in.
Certain allowances have also been made for those bikes fitted as standard with 16" tyres due to lack of availability of 16" Race Tyres.
Please have a good read through them.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Earlystocks 2026 Membership.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid we’ve had to increase the membership again this year to £25. Sorry about this but the cost of keeping this club running i.e. ACU fees, Bank charges etc & the costs now of trophies would be outstripping our income if we're not careful.
For those of you who are wishing to renew their ACU Race licences for 2026, these can be renewed via the ACU Sport 80 portal from the 10th November.
If anyone renews their Earlystocks club Membership via the ACU portal please be aware that the renewal fee is £27.50 instead of £25, this is due to having to cover the fees that the club is charged by Stripe who the ACU unfortunately elected as dealing with the financial processing.
If anyone has any problems relating to renewing their club membership or ACU licence, please don't hesitate to let me know.
Race Licence amendments for 2026
On a separate note, the ACU in their wisdom have amended their race licence categories now. It would appear that for newcomers to racing there is no longer an intermediate Novice Licence category, just a Novice category. For some people this could have some major implications. It would appear that for 2026 anyone new to racing now will have to start with a Novice Licence irrespective of if you have a DVLA Licence or not.
This will mean that if you wish to race with Earlystocks next season & are a Novice licence holder you will now be limited to a Classic or Vintage machine up to 650cc. If however, you have raced in 2024 or 2025 you will have until the end of 2026 to acquire your 10 signatures, or it looks as though you will be restricted to the new licence rules of the 650cc limit from 2027.
I’m afraid I had no idea at all about this change in Licences & I was not consulted at all by the ACU. 🙄
Rest assured I shall be speaking to them & writing into them this week to voice my frustration with them at this change especially as you would be allowed to ride a BMWF900 on a Novice licence in 2026, but currently it looks like any Earlystocks eligible machines i.e - Vintage & Classic bikes are restricted to the 650cc. 😓
For those of you who are renewing your licence & wanting to race with Earlystocks can I please ask that on the ACU’s Club 80 Portal you select Earlystocks from the Club Membership section. This would help me out hugely as otherwise I may be having to contact you asking for various details that the ACU will ask me for to get you on to the ACU Earlystocks members list.
You will have to be a paid-up member of Earlystocks for 2026 for me to validate any 2026 ACU Licence requests.
As regards renewal of your Earlystocks Club membership, if you are paying by Bank transfer you are very welcome to send me a copy of your completed Membership form via email, or messenger, etc, even a photo of it will suffice, whatever is easiest for you & there will be no need to send an SAE now as we have reverted to sending membership cards out online. I know you all like to save yourself postage costs.
Please see below for our list of Provisional Race dates for 2026, we are very hopeful that there shouldn’t be too many changes now if at all any to those dates.
That’s all for now folks. 😀 I'll be back in touch again very soon.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions & I’ll try my best to help.
Regards.
Cass Beardmore
SecretaryEarlystocks Racing Club.
Knockinaam Wood Cottage,Portpatrick,Stranraer,Dumfries & Galloway,DG9 9AG.
Tel 01776 820827 or 07710998216
About Us - Production Based Classic & Post Classic Machines
About our Club
Earlystocks Racing Club. ( Classic, Post Classic and Modern Classic Racing Motorcycles).
This is a club for those of who remember when bikes were bikes and not all covered in plastic.
Catering basically for road based production machines manufactured pre 1987. Air cooled engines with carburettors, twin rear shocks. Old school technology where spanners count for more than computers.
Monoshock machines also now catered for.
We allow some modifications to make it easier to get better tyres than the old canvas things they used back then.
Tuning the supension and engines to give more power and handle better than they were built to back in the day.
Being one of the cheapest forms of racing it is becoming more popular, especially when compared to the cost of racing a supersports or superbike, where the price of a weekends tyres for a superbike would cover about a 3rd of a seaons racing on and Earlystocker.
The racing on track is just as good but back in the paddock it is more social and everybody will help you if you have a problem.
If you've ever said to yourself "I'd love to have a go at racing" come on and give it a go or come along to some of the tracks and talk to us.
You'll be glad you did.
Like Classic Bikes ?
Want to race on a lower budget without having to purchase a full Race Frame & Tyre Warmers etc, then look no further.
Earlystocks is a Club run by Racers for Racers.
Championship Classes
Four Championship Classes for 2025
500cc Twin shock
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
