Sir Bradley Wiggins has admitted the lure of another crack at the Six Day London crown could tempt him out of his planned retirement.

This year’s event is scheduled to be his final race on British soil, with the curtain finally falling on his illustrious career at another Six Day event in Belgium, in November.

He and partner Mark Cavendish could not give themselves and a capacity crowd at the Lee Valley VeloPark velodrome a storybook ending on the final night of racing at this year’s event, but Wiggins said after the race that his experience this week could lead to an extension of his career.

Wiggins’ excitement has been peaked by the past week’s racing, and the newly-created Six Day Series, and when he was asked whether he could see himself continuing, he threw his future plans into doubt.

“Yeah definitely, especially at the Six Days because I just love the racing. I love the format, it’s much more relaxed, and I could certainly do this for a few more years yet,” said the reigning Madison world champion.

“I’ve enjoyed it that much that I just don’t know at the moment. Madison Sports Group have got big plans for this kind of thing and I’d love to still be a part of it in the future.

“I might forge a new career for me.

“I still love riding my bike and who wouldn’t want to come back after a week like this and the crowds like this? It’s been incredible.”

The 2016/17 series continues in Amsterdam in December with further rounds in Berlin and Copenhagen, before the single-day grand finale in Mallorca in March.

Wiggins and Cavendish will race one more Six Day this winter, in Ghent, with the ‘knight rider’ then planning to call it a day.

But the loss to Kenny de Ketele and Moreno de Pauw in Sunday’s frenetic final Madison chase left the Brit downbeat and itching to make amends after a mistake in the closing laps.

“I think it’s been a good week all round for us really,” he said. “I don’t think we expected to be in that position going into tonight, with Mark coming off Abu Dhabi last week.

“I haven’t raced since the Tour of Britain, either, which was seven weeks ago. So it was a bit unsure but now we really know where we’re at now, and gained in confidence as the week’s gone on.

“We’ve got a couple more weeks of fine tuning before we go to Belgium.

“We missed a change, which didn’t help, and then we were on the back foot, left chasing really.

“It’s probably the worst thing to happen but it just shows you that it’s not over until it’s over. You think you’ve got it in the bag with 50-60 laps to go, and something like that happens and it’s the difference between first and second.

“To have one mistake at a crucial moment, after six days of racing, you lose everything - that’s what happened on Sunday.”

Six Day London took place between 25-30 October 2016 at Lee Valley VeloPark on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Six Day London 2017 tickets go on general sale at 11am on Wednesday, November 2 at www.ticketmaster.co.uk/sixdaylondon