It is because they will get to contest part of the championships on their home velodrome.

The Bathurst Cycling Club has been named joint hosts alongside the Orange Cycling Club for the 2022 New South Wales Country/Metro Junior Track Championships, with the best juniors across the state to square off on the weekend of November 20-21.

The weekend will also incorporate the Central West Track Open for senior riders, which should make it one of the biggest events on the calendar since the end of the COVID-19 lockdown.

"It should definitely draw a good crowd because this will be one of the first track cycling events to be held," Bathurst Cycling Club president Marian Renshaw said.

"The juniors, that is one of the main reasons we're going to run it, because our junior athletes just haven't had the chance to test themselves to see how they're going. So they're all certainly looking forward to it.

"The juniors have already been training for it, they are so happy to be back. The thing is, cycling is not just about cycling, it's about being there with your group of friends. It's a very social sport actually, especially for the little juniors, they just love it."

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Bathurst will host the opening day of the event, with the junior cyclists the first to take to the track.

They will contest their scratch race and time trial events, beginning with a participation category for the youngest riders with under 9s through to under 17s to follow.

Renshaw said the Bathurst juniors are keen to impress on their home track and their familiarity with the outdoor velodrome will be an advantage.

"They know the track quite well whereas a lot of the children who are coming from around the state, a lot of them haven't raced on a track that size, a lot of them have the ordinary, flat, 500 metre track and some come from an indoor velodrome, so it's quite different," Renshaw said.

After the junior program the seniors will take to the track for a carnival. They will compete in a variety of races, including qualifiers for a wheelrace.

That five-lap, handicapped wheelrace for riders from all divisions is sponsored by Renshaw's Pedal Project and will have prize money on offer.

On the Sunday cyclists will head to Orange.

The juniors will contest their sprint championship events in the morning then in the afternoon the seniors will continue their Central West Track Open with another wheelrace to be the pinnacle.

"There will be some Bathurst riders vying for the wheelrace, when there's cash money on offer there's always good interest," Renshaw said.

"It will be a big weekend, it will be a long weekend and most of the club's members will be volunteering as we have to provide the commissaires and marshals."

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