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Morvelo CityCross-VecchioJo SandTrap - Picture © Joolze DymondMorvélo CityCross this weekend + video
This Saturday, 9 November, sees the second Morvélo CityCross take place at Piece Hall in Halifax, Yorkshire, and it looks to us like being a whole lot of fun.
The organisers say, “With cobbles, corridors, kerbs, grass, concrete, sand, and several manmade obstacles, it's taking CityCross back to its roots.”
As the name suggests, CityCross is like cyclocross but – and you might be ahead of us here – in the city. Hang on, though! Halifax is a town, isn’t it? If not, how do you explain the well known phrase “Halifax Town nil”? It’s still called CityCross, though.
Check out Vecchiojo’s report from the first CityCross event much earlier in the year to get an idea of what it’s all about.
Or have a gander at this video. We have to say, it does look good…
Morvelo City Cross - Round 2 from Whitenosugar Productions on Vimeo.
Entry prices start at £5 for under 12s up to £20 for the adult categories. For all the essential info go to www.citycross.co.uk.
Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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If only I lived a bit closer...
Looks like great fun.
no exaggeration on the inclusion of "city" in citycross if that video is anything to go by