Hit The North Returns Again. Again.

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The Singletrack Forum’s favourite event ever* is to return this May. Run by 24 hour racing legend and Guy Martin’s World Record-setting tandem partner Jason Miles, the event will once more return to Prestwich in Northern Manchester for its irreverent take on bike racing. With a two hour time limit to do multiple laps, the event promises to be equally unsuitable for ‘cross bikes, fat bikes, downhill bikes and trail bikes, so bring whatever you want as it’ll be the wrong bike.

Last year's sunny start
Last year’s sunny start. (Chipps was still parking his car…)

(* It might not be, but you’d think so given the noise everyone makes about it. That and the Big Bike Bash…)

As Jason says” It’s back! As irregular as ever. At least we’re on consecutive years now. Two hours around and around a fun lap on any bike you want. Just a half-brick’s throw from the centre of Manchester. Don’t mess about – get your entry in fast because everyone goes mad for this race. Prizes will be as amazing as ever, so will the weather.”

The date?
19th May, 2018.

The Place?
Philips Park, Whitefield, Manchester.

Entries at?
http://www.hitthenorth.net/

And if you want to see what you’re in for, have a look here:
https://singletrackworld.com/2017/03/2-hours-of-power-hit-the-north-5/

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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