Up the Buttress 2014 - pre-registration now open

Pre-registration for the 2014 Up The Buttress – the annual sufferfest cobbled hillclimb held in Hebden Bridge – is now open.

The race is being held this Saturday 6th September from 1 – 5pm.

Bearded folk also very welcome

The buttress is a 400 yard (or 365 metres, if you’re all modern) cobbled hill so steep it has a handrail in parts. As is implied by the name, racers start at the bottom, and climb to the top, using your choice of (road legal) bicicular machinery to do so.

Everyone who reaches the top is entered into a raffle – this year the prize is a 2014 Orange Clockwork 29er thanks to those lovely chaps at Orange.

We’ll be there, helping organise, selling cowbells and cheering people on – see you there!

To pre-register, please click here.

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

Comments (4)

rangerbillrangerbill September 4, 2014 at 4:01 pm

Fastest in each catorgary (Male Female U14) will each get a mantlepiece shattering trophy and £100 Hope vouchers to spend at Blazing Saddles.
No one will go away empty handed

SpeshpaulSpeshpaul September 4, 2014 at 5:16 pm

Tidy.

Tim HildrethTim Hildreth September 5, 2014 at 7:36 am

Do you have to be there for 1pm?

MarkMark September 5, 2014 at 1:05 pm

Yes.. That’s when it starts.