After the war, the Police sports meetings included good quality open cycle races and in the early 1960s Brian Sandy, a local Taunton rider was a popular winner of several five miles scratch races.
The last bicycle racing at Mountfields was probably the July 14th 1962 meeting, at which 2,000 spectators watched five open cycle races
* Ernie Chambers won two Olympic silver medals and was National Tandem Sprint championships five times stoking Jack Sibbit. Chambers worked for cycle manufacturer Claud Butler before starting out on his own.