2015 York Rally archived website

Now that the 2015 Rally is over, we have archived the 2015 website, complete with this old homepage (below) and its various sub-pages. For photos and reports from the 2015 York Rally, please see here. As most of the links in these archived pages will lead to the current versions of the site, for easy access here are the other main parts of the 2015 site:

 

yr-artwork01Welcome to the York Rally website

The York Rally is an annual gathering of cyclists on the Knavesmire in York. It ran for almost 70 years since its foundation in 1945 until 2012.  Now an independent  group of volunteers, some new to the event and some long-serving stalwarts, have revived the Rally for 2015, supported by the Friends of the York Rally.

The 2015 York Rally is now over! This website will be updated to reflect this ASAP, but for now we just have some initial closing comments and thanks. We’re back in action again soon, doing more fundraising at our Sportive on the 20th September 2015.

The Rally will definitely be back next year, too, and please note that the provisional dates are now 18-19th June 2016. More ASAP once we have final confirmation.

Event highlights included:

The up-front costs of staging this event are daunting. To support the Rally’s revival, please do consider becoming a Friend of the York Rally! Sign up as you enter, or at Rally HQ.

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We are delighted to acknowledge the generous assistance of:

Our vision for the Rally

The revived Rally is being organised by a committee of enthusiastic cyclists on a purely volunteer basis – many of us are giving up our time alongside busy working lives to make it happen, and we are not even taking expenses this year.  So why are we doing it?

The long history of the Rally (under names including The Grand All-Yorkshire Cyclists Rally, the CTC Rally, and York Cycle Show) means that for many cyclists it’s an unmissable opportunity to meet up with old friends, go on rides, share memories and make new ones with like-minded fellow cyclists.

We’re also sure that the Rally has amazing potential to be a welcoming and inclusive event to attract newcomers to cycling, and for everyone to experience cycling’s benefits for active health, for quick and enjoyable transport, for recreation and touring, and as a sport.

In the spirit of the original founders of the event, we would also like to make the Rally a real rallying-point for all of the nation’s cyclists (and many beyond).

To this end we are inviting all sorts of cycling clubs, organisations and interest groups to be at the Rally free of charge and to show what they do: we’d like to bring together everything from cycle racing to vintage bikes to unicycles! We have almost unlimited space on the huge Knavesmire, the grassy open space within the York Racecourse (horse racing) track.

It would be wonderful to line the grasstrack arena and the main avenue approaching it with enthusiast club stands, a real celebration of grass-roots cycling and the people who make it happen.

We hope you can be there and will want to support the event!