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2020 GT Malverns Classic Cancelled. Postponed Until 2021

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It was going to be the one event of the season – the one we’d all look forward to and we hoped against hope that it would go ahead. It was going to be open air, with lots of space to keep everyone apart and give us something to look forward to. In recent weeks we’d heard rumours that it was definitely going ahead on its end of August date, but we’re sorry to have to tell you that the 2020 Malverns Classic is cancelled – with all racers and spectator tickets being refunded and the event rescheduled for 2021.

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Where else are you going to see Nick Craig, Hans Rey and Jez Avery then?
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It’s still a classic to us

This is particularly hard for the organisers, who had had to cancel the 2019 Malverns late in the day due to waterlogged fields and event arena. The move to a late August date was hoped to give the midsummer weather a chance to sort itself out and while the new date proved to be good for giving us all hope that the Malverns Classic would be the first post-lockdown event to look forward to, it wasn’t to be. It seems that Herefordshire is a new COVID hotspot and the Council have had to say ‘no’.

So, that’s it – the GT Malverns Classic is cancelled for this year, but roll on 2021. We’re DEFINITELY going to need to get to that one. Who’s with us?

Here’s a quick poach of the Instagram announcement.

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GT Bicycles Malverns Classic postponed to 2021. It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that the festival is postponed until August Bank Holiday 2021. Today we received a letter from the council and their concern over the recent C-19 outbreak on a farm, just 4 miles from Eastnor with almost 100 cases confirmed. ‘My recommendation is that at this time you should not go ahead with the event. The risk is too great and there is still a risk that that area could be under lockdown when the event was due to happen’. All spectators and racers will be refunded within the next seven days. Any queries, please email oliver@malvernsclassic.com Thank you and again apologies to let you all down. Si Paton..

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You’ve got another year to polish that retro purple…

Details will be here when they have them: https://www.malvernsclassic.com

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 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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