Category: York Rally news
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Guided Rides Programme 2025
New Rides Registration procedure for 2025 If you would like to go on any of our Guided Rides, we are asking you to register, well in advance of your ride, at the Festival’s Information Hub. This means at least 30 minutes before the ride is scheduled to leave! The reason for this are, firstly, it…
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Guided Rides Registration for 2025
Advice for riders The Festival is only a few weeks away, and we are looking forward to welcoming you to our Guided Rides programme for this year. There are some circumstances where the leader of your guided ride might need to be made aware if you have certain medical conditions which could affect you during…
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Cycle Jumble: donations wanted
The York Cycle Festival is holding its Cycle Jumble (formerly the Saddlebag Sale) over TWO DAYS this year The Friends of the York Cycle Festival will have a table at the jumble, but will need articles to sell, to raise money to help run the Festival next year. We would be grateful if you have…
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The York Cycle Festival needs you!
The Organising Committee has done its best to keep costs as low as possible, but there are many things which have to be paid for: marquee hire, toilet blocks, showers, generators, furniture hire, insurance etc. We have started to assemble a team of Friends who will help us to secure the future of the Festival.…
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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.