Welcome!

Why two websites? Are you curious about why we currently operate both this website (yorkrally.org) and also yorkshirecyclefestival.co.uk as websites for the Yorkshire Cycle Festival?

You may have noticed that many of the links on this website (yorkrally.org) direct you to pages on our other ‘official’ event website, yorkshirecyclefestival.co.uk, and vice versa.

Rest assured that both are ‘official’ and legitimate websites for the Yorkshire Cycle Festival. We do hope to merge them in time, but for now there are a few reasons why that has not happened.

This website, yorkrally.org, has been running for over a decade for the Festival’s predecessor, the York Cycle Rally.

But when the Rally joined with the Retrobike Show to create the Festival, it was clear we needed a new site – both to update the name and also to take a fresh marketing approach more in line with the expectations of the Retrobike and BMX audience.

However, we still kept the yorkrally.org website running for a few reasons. First, it’s familiar and appropriate in tone for our valued long term visitors who come from the York Cycle Rally side of the event. And second, we’ve developed online shop and mailing list systems on yorkrally.org which our current volunteers just don’t have the immediate will or capacity to transfer to the newer Festival site.

So that is why, when you book camping or jumble pitches, or order badges etc., you are directed to this site to use the online shop. Conversely, for most aspects of the Festival primarily organised by the Retrobike team, you’ll end up on the yorkshirecyclefestival.co.uk site.

We realise that a single event website would doubtless be simpler, but what we have now does basically work, we think, for all of the audiences we need to address. If it causes any confusion, we can only apologise!