THE future for British track cycling looked bright after Scotland's Chris Hoy, Chorley's Jason Queally and England team-mate Jamie Staff made a clean sweep of the medals in the time-trial at the Commonwealth Games.

All three broke the Commonwealth record set four years ago in Kuala Lumpur by Australia's Shane Kelly.

But it was Hoy who earned gold, completing the 1km, four-lap race in one minute, 1.726 seconds, knocking almost two and a half seconds off Kelly's mark, to become Scotland's first medallist of the Games.

Queally, who won gold in the event at the 2000 Olympics, won silver while Staff, who makes his living racing BMXs in the United States, won bronze.

For Queally, the all-British podium is cause for great optimism ahead of this autumn's World Championships and the Olympics in two years' time.

"I certainly think Chris and Jamie have got a lot to give and I certainly have a lot to give," said the Lancashire rider.

Edinburgh based Hoy said it was a dream come true, eclipsing the Olympic silver he won alongside Queally and fellow Scot Craig McLean in Sydney.

"Just to stand on the podium and hear them playing 'Scotland the Brave' is a lifetime's achievement for me," said the 26-year-old.

"I just wanted to do myself and Scotland justice."

All three spent the first two months of the year training together in Australia and are friends before they are rivals, with Hoy happy to pay tribute to the help given to him by Queally.

"He's been like a coach for me," he said. "To have someone of Jason's calibre helping me is really something."

Staff is a two-time BMX world champion and reportedly earns six figures in the US.

But with BMXs yet to appear in the Olympics, the 29-year-old Kent rider has willingly turned his back on the sport - and the money.

He said: "Every kid's dream is to get to the Olympics.

"I've got the rest of my life to earn money and get a job, that sort of thing. I don't mind taking a paycut and chasing my dream."