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
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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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