We’re just 11 days away from the 2025 York Cycle Rally & Festival! We can’t wait to welcome you once again on the Knavesmire on the 20-22 June, for the 80th anniversary event since the very first York Rally in 1945.
As we close in on the event a few last updates:
Weather outlook: looking good!
Although even the 10-day forecast below doesn’t quite reach the weekend, it looks to be set fair!
Advance campsite bookings closing soon!
Do please book your campsite pitch in advance if you can! Advance bookings close on Friday this week!
You are of course very welcome to turn up on the day without a booking (we will not run out of space!), but it will be slightly more expensive and we can’t allocate you a pitch alongside your friends or clubmates.
If you are able to book in advance for 2025 and have not yet done so, please do visit the online booking page to book a campsite pitch by the 13th June (i.e. this Friday) – thank you!
More updates!
- The 32-page, full colour show programme is off to print! Campers get a copy for free, or buy one as you come in or at the Info Hub!
- One catering update came just too late for the show programme – there will be Indian street food from Desi Pavilion and they will be open offering breakfasts on Saturday, Sunday and Monday! There’s a wide selection of other caterers on site, too.
- We’ve a superb turn-out of traders and club displays, we think a record for recent years. We even have an exhibitor coming over from the Netherlands with a truck-load of parts for classic and retro bike collectors and restorers…
- New this year – an expanded Show and Shine from Retrobike! All pre-2000 bikes are welcome to enter, any style or category! Entries just £1, from 9am on Sunday morning at the Retrobike stand. Trophies and rosettes await the winners… details here!
- Also new this year: more for children and young riders! Focus Rides bring balance bike racing and an airbag jumps set-up! And Apex Cycle Coaching return with U16s skills sessions. Both should be superb fun – for each, there’s just a small fee to participate to cover costs and insurance.
- And per previous updates, there’s two days of cycle jumbles, music, talks, a huge programme of led rides, two days of grasstrack racing, and much more!
And finally
With just a final reminder for advance campsite bookings (closing Friday!), we can’t wait to see everyone on the Knavesmire again in 2025 for another York Cycle Rally and Festival!
Until then, tailwinds and safe cycling!
The all-volunteer York Cycle Rally & Festival organising team