I've entered the novice category, anyone else entered? I've only entered because it looks like fun, I fully expect to have my ass handed to me in the first round 🙂
I've entered too, novice class, first cx race and never ridden a cx bike before
I haven't... yet... but I will!
I'll be there and I'll take the bike and £20 just in case! 😉
It's going to be great...trust me 🙂
I'm in. Vets cat. You'd be crazy to miss it, imho.
Somehow I got talked into entering the Seniors, I'll be the guy on the single speed who looks like he's going backwards compared to everyone else!
Beer hand ups gratefully received 😉
Kids have donated a nice little cold to me, better be bloody gone by next weekend! See you all there whatever. 🙂
I visited Manchester last week and got germs 🙁 must be cold week
I'm going to enter on payday. good chance to see if my "no bike, all gym training" over winter has made me into a classics killing velogod. Or not. I'll also bring my camera for some nice pics!
as an aside.. what tyres for a tip?
Interesting, I was in Manchester last week too. I feel a conspiracy coming on....! 😉
I recommend elbow and kneepads, there doesn't seem to be much grass, looking at Google Earth and the Morvelo website.
Looked on
We had to move site as our permission was revoked. We're in from Wednesday building the course.
All news goes on www.citycross.co.uk
This will be like nothing you've ever tried before.
p.s. manchester has germs 🙁
Probably get flamed for this, but - lock everything down mate, if stuff can be nicked or broken, it will be! Not in the best part of town I'm afraid 🙁
I had a drive down on Fri for a sneaky peek 🙂
Fingers crossed the forecast is right, looks bloomin' great!
I've entered the vets category. Thinking I should have gone novice (didn't spot that). Yikes!
I might wander down for a look / heckle / take photos...
It's ok the police are coming.
Some as foot patrol and if there's enough left in the budget I've requested a mounted section....mainly because i like police horses 🙂
I've also invited the West Yorks Police Cycle Team. They're a nice bunch. Bright yellow and blue kit.
The map link that was sent from events@regonline.activeeurope.com is wrong BTW, it shows a map for this address when you click the link:
Shroggs
Luddenden Foot, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX2 6JX
That looks ace, pity that 1) I am at work all that weekend, and 2) it is 350 miles away from me!
I will read withn interest: we have a couple of great race organisers in the south west and a range of abilities of xc/cx/road racers. It would be well good someone (shred/fully sussed/inevent) tried something similar down here.
entered in the seniors! Look for a CROSSTRAX rider shooting out of the blocks then pulling the rip cord!
In there like swimwear!
Cant decide between 29er or CX bike hmmmm 🙄
Not raced for 13 years... entered the seniors.. now pooping myself..
ok, I'll get map changed.
as a useless not a "shrogg" is a small scrubby tree.
Type brakenbed lane into google. Shroggs park is one side and shroggs tip is the other
HX2 0TB
Try that
I know where it is millscc, I just wanted to make sure non-local folk got the right info 🙂
0TB is a pretty apt post code for a bike event BTW, it's a sign 😉
I'm in... Seniors round 1.. if the tod cross seniors category was anything to go by it'll be tough!
I'll be there, but photographing, not riding. Nice big smiles all round please, and the results on my [url= http://www.johnellisonphotography.com ]website[/url] within 24 hours!!
Any more for any more? I've just seen pics of the course from Joolze Dymond via her Twitter feed, looks great.
I'll be [s]racing[/s] riding round with a number on in the Seniors. And then gracefully retiring to the coffee stall. 😉
I had a sneaky ride down there today, course looks really good and there's a lot of hard work going on. Looking forward to it, shame I'm still full of cold though 🙁
That was good that was.
Well done the organisers and the competitors, especially everyone styling it up on the jump!
Who was that idiot in the underpants? 😉
*Checks attire*
I've no idea (thankfully)
Hmmm... I'm feeling a bit so-so about it. £20 for 20 minutes riding and scrambling seems rather steep in hindsight, should've got a free tshirt chucked in the goodie bag too I reckon, especially as that's morvelo's thing. There was a good atmosphere about the course and the place in general though and the pizza from the van was excellent. Shame dark star brewery didn't turn up??
Dark star did the beer shortcut, not sure if that was on every heat though. They certainly heckled me into a beer shot on my last laps. Hope the young rider who broke himself on the jump is ok. Well done everyone, hope there's a next year 🙂
the guy in the underpants eneded up with a nasty stain down the back of 'em - think he out braked his tyres coming down the slope to the beer shortcut (just b4 the cabbage throwing area)
Cracking day to do my first cyclocross race, track was good, did the beer shortcut every lap was pissed by the end, the pizza van was bang on
bloody good ride by the lad on the SS Salsa, epic climbing!
Was ace. I got a load of photos... I'll upload them when I get a minute.
Hate to sound a note of discord but I failed to see where the "City" bit came in. It seemed to me that it was regular cyclocross with a couple of silly bits on a piece of wasteland. IMHO the Rapha Supercross at Broughton Hall was much better and in fabulous suroundings
Also the Rapha Supercross had a Tequila shortcut
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I missed the Darkstar beers too... The website definitely implied there'd be a 'Darkstar beer tent' which to me means I can go buy some of their tasty wares.
Still Black Sheep's not the worst beer in the world.
Had to laugh at the Jim'll fix it theme being belted out half way through the day (although with so many kids around I'm not so sure it should have been!)
Stavro - I wasn't at the Rapha. It also looks good though. The original site for the Citycross was at/through an old Mill but land owners permission got pulled at a late stage.
Surprised the Rapha race didn't have a Moet shortcut. Or an option where you could go up your own arse.
From what I saw yesterday really opened my eyes to 'cross. I thought it was a load of oddballs mincing around a field and carrying their bikes. And yes, there were some oddballs and there was some definite mincing and there was carrying being done by everyone but the pace of the racing and the containment within a small area made it pretty good for spectators. Its not going to make me rush out and buy a cross bike but I'll definitely maybe give it a go if they run it in future on a rigid MTB.
And seeing grins on faces and overhearing people there, I think it was pretty well thought off - it was certainly MUCH better attended by both racers and spectators than I thought it was going to be. The only negative I overheard on the day was some jumped up little sh*t who had won a helmet and heavens above, it was a BMX type piss pot which was "crap".
Meow DBW. Don't give a hoot about Rapha products or personalities, I was just saying they put on a cracking event that looked like everyone there enjoyed and if you are going to promote any event with the word city in it, then there should be some urban element to say the least.
RE the City part of the city cross-
the original venue was in an old mill building, but at last min the owner changed his mind about the use of his land, I guess it was better to move venue, rather than cancel the whole event.
Mile from the town centre, old cobbled descents and surrounded by residential areas. And as its been mentioned, the original location which was meant to be in and around an old mill fell through at the last minute. Not a bad venue I didn't think for a last minute venue change.
As far as I'm aware its been a patch of wasteland for years - ideal for building an urban bike loop like the new one in Sheffield or something.
I really liked it. Hurt like hell, it was SO intense. Such a short course that you're on the scramble bit almost before you've recovered from last time up it!
They did a great job with the course at very short notice. Nicely compact, easy to get around. Little bit crowded round the start/registration area but some of that was thanks to the morons who decided to ignore the "please don't park on Brackenbed Lane" who jammed it solid. 🙁
Other than that, really good atmosphere, very laid back.
My legs hurt.
DBW - good idea that, loads of room for a pump track/skate park etc in there. Wonder if Calderdale council would be interested, they're pretty good with cycling/active stuff generally. Would only be a good thing for the area in general too I reckon.
Well I really enjoy it once I got racing.
Our moto was delayed by the crash but that couldn't really be helped.
Was a tough little course with a bit of everything.
Needed hurdles and a ride through cafe/beer tent though.
Atmosphere was good and relaxed too, whilst there were some big hitters there, they weren't overly serious.
Parking was an issue, made much better when they stopped the double parking idiots and made it one way.Local plod to the rescue on that one.
That pizza was awesome!!
I actually preferred it to the Rapha supercross. Much more fun atmosphere, reminded me of the Singletrack weekender a little bit.
Now the important bit......where are all the piccys of us looking awesome?
I minced round near the back of the vets 2nd moto and spent the rest of the time cheering on my brother and various other acquaintances. I'd do another one. Hopefully a bit fitter next time.
stavromuller Broughton is definately not "city" Shoggs being waste land close to the city makes it more urban/city I was at Rapha and thought it a little lacking in atmosphere apart from the novice race around the tequila shortcut. As for citycross every race had the crowd cheering and the compactness of the area made it a really good vibe.
I had a great time yesterday at the city cross
The atmosphere was great and the whole event had a good feel to it.
Falling off and breaking a finger did take the edge off it for me, but I am looking forward to next year already
Not many pics shared yet!
Not many pics shared yet!
Joolze has just tweeted that her pics should be up in an hour or so...
They are done and all posted ;0)
[url= http://www.joolzedymond.com ]Joolze's Website[/url]
Paul Oldham of Hope (the middle rider) on his way to another win
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you should have taken the beer we offered earlier, it made it all seem better apparently 🙂
I'd have been all over that beer if I'd been riding. I was getting a thirst on just watching it...
I had one beer shot on each of my last laps - [b][u]7.2%[/b][/u] Belgian IPA does not go down so easy when you're nearly chucking your guts up! 😉
I dragged the family to the Mill, and then dragged them to the new venue. I wasn't popular!
Kids enjoyed the event once there though. Pizza and beer being right opposite the jump and bastard little climb was genius.
Would also have like to have been sipping Darkstar not Black Sheep... maybe next time?
this is what you missed
Few of mine...
Start of the novice moto #1:
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woody2000 suffering at the hands of a climb with someone heckling him on it 😉
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Cabbage throwing:
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Fast guys on the boggy bit. This was about as boggy as it got...
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City Cross. Isn't it... Thats Pellon Lane up there. B&Q is at the bottom of the area where the race was held and a retail park with Halfords etc is just up there.
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Give him a cowbell and tell him to shout...
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Thanks for the kind words all of you! It was super hard work to pull this off in such a short space of time, let alone having the original "city" venue pull out at the 11th hour, so glad you all had such a good time.
We were aware that £20 to 20 mins racing could seem steep but it certainly wasn't a money making exercise. It costs quite a lot to clear out these derelict pieces of land, diggers, rubbish clearance etc. Most people had a chance to race twice and the aim was to make the course hard so that 20 mins felt like an hour 🙂 The goody bag had over £10 worth of goods in it and we would have loved to put a free tee in. Trouble is we hate promo tees and our tees work out quite expensive for giveaways, especially when we run out of cash! I realise that this comes across as quite defensive but we live and breath bike riding and racing so don't view events as money making exercises. We just want to put on events that make people love riding their bikes and open their eyes to new possibilities.
Dark Star kindly gave their Belgian IPA for the Beer shortcut. The were going to have it on tap but there was another last minute logistic issue getting the beers up from Sussex which was a real shame. We relocated the beer to the top of the tarmac climb and offered it out to all finalists too. Not many takers in those races but we ended up pretty much handing it out to anyone who came to the Morvelo stand 🙂
The plan for the next one is to take it back to it's more urban environment and take all the lessons we learnt from this to improve the next. It was a great unknown running this new format so we had no idea what the reception of it would be. Seems like we're onto something though so hope to make them bigger and better. Looking at doing one in Bristol next if we can find the right venue. Fingers crossed!
Thanks so much to all of you that turned up and enjoyed yourselves. Really made the hard graft worth it!
CityCross was a great day out!
I was there from 8am until the end and think £20 for a full days entertainment and racing was an absolute bargain!
Everyone got to race their moto plus the option of a last chance saloon race to get into the final - 50mins racing minimum.
Top job Morvelo, Emma, Mark and everyone else involves and thanks for your hard work!
See you in Brizzle!
Apparently it's just been on ITV calendar, whatever that is. Here's a pic of me. I seem to be enjoying myself.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanglebads/8524777441/in/set-72157632904822999
It was on Calendar (Yorkshire TV local news) and you were in the first shot Mr. Sparkle and may be repeated after ITV 10 o'clock news.
And here it is (hopefully). Me at 8 secs in
http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-03-07/hundreds-take-part-in-re-cycling-race-on-former-tip/?action_object_map=%7B%2210151463374735914%22%3A390547631042571%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151463374735914%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&fb_action_ids=10151463374735914&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline
Who were the two ringers in novice?
Excuse the delay, always takes me ages to sift through... Here's just a few of the better ones, the rest'll be on Facebook in a day or three but I'll not clog up stw with all of them.
If you see yourself and would like a full res version with no watermark give me a shout.
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Some great pictures there chris!
Could you send me a copy of the guy in the blue shirt in the air to me ?
Cheers
Alastair
Cheers Alastair: No probs - what's your addy?
alastairhaigh at gmail dot com
(If you got any of the bloke on the green hope decal-ed orange 5 (me) could you send them too?)
Many thanks
Alastair
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