Category: York Rally news
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Attention all gravel riders and those who ride off-road!
We’re busy recruiting experienced cyclists to lead our popular programme of guided rides at this year’s York Cycle Festival. We have already enlisted some fantastic people to lead traffic-free family rides, shorter distance and longer distance road rides, retro rides, rides for non-conventional bikes and themed rides. We’re still looking for two or three volunteers…
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Mega-update! Racing, trade, jumbles, flyers, Friends, more…
An overdue update about the 2025 York Cycle Rally & Festival! Our all-volunteer organising team has been busy making this year’s event the best and busiest yet, with: We’re working hard to make the event the best it can be, not least to secure its financial future, as you can read here. Many thanks especially…
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Merry Christmas from the York Cycle Rally & Festival!
And a reminder that earlybird discounts for campsite bookings close at the end of the year! Next year’s event (20-22 June 2025) is really starting to take shape, with site plan changes firming up and our all-volunteer organising team already working hard to iron out the hundreds of details which make for a successful and…
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2025 campsite bookings are open – with a note on the event’s finances
We hope that many of you enjoyed the first York Cycle Festival in June – where the York Rally was joined on the Knavesmire by the Retrobike Show and the National Clarion Cycling Club’s Summer Meet. Grasstrack racing returned, and compared to 2023 there were more rides, more campers and more traders. We were again…
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A week to go, and dry weather’s forecast!
It’s next weekend! We can’t wait to see everyone on the Knavesmire, and as you’ll see above, the weather is looking perfect. Fingers crossed, it should be dry all the way from Wednesday when our volunteer set-up team arrives, through Friday when gates open, until Monday when we break down and depart.
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Flood resilience work at the Millennium Bridge.
The City of York Council is carrying out flood resilience work around the Millennium Bridge, from this week, and over the weekend of the Rally. Pease be aware that there will be barriers around, although we are assured that the bridge will remain open for walkers and cyclists and other non-motorised modes of transport.
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Rides Update
As you might have seen, in the previous post, there have had to be a few tweaks made to a few of our Guided Rides. Two of these are due to planned road works on a short section of the Solar System Greenway, but another has arisen due to a bridge on a Public Bridleway…
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Roadworks causing diversions on some rides
We have been informed, by the City of York Council, that a short stretch of the Solar System Green way will be closed for resurfacing, over the period of the Rally. It has necessitated a diversion, using Sim Balk Lane, to avoid this. This will also impact on those of you cycling to the Rally.
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Under two weeks to go!
We’re just under two weeks away from the York Rally and York Cycle Festival 2024!Our busy volunteer teams have been firming up all aspects of the event: NEW features to highlight this year include: Don’t miss this year’s event – it really is shaping up to be a good one! Finally, the inevitable reminder for…
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Lunch at Linton Lock Ride – now on Saturday 22nd June
The Guided Ride to Linton Lock has been moved from the Sunday of the Rally to the Saturday. This is because of businesses offering refreshments being closed on the Sunday ,and the ride leader’s other commitments at the Rally. Our apologies for any disappointment caused.