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Video: 2013 Rapha Super Cross series is go

"The most entertaining three days of racing the UK has ever seen."...
by John Stevenson
Thu, Sep 12, 2013 17:34
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Rapha has announced dates and details of its 2013 UK Super Cross cyclo-cross series, billed by the clothing maker as “Quite possibly the most entertaining three days of racing the UK has ever seen.”

According to Rapha there will once again be “lashings of beer, a healthy smattering of cowbells, frites and pies – not to mention course features such as the tequila shortcut, wall of foam and new Spiral of Doom for the novice race.

“Entry for spectators is free and the race action will be called by the best race commentator in the known world (well, Hampshire). Our beer tents will be dispensing the finest brews Belgium can, er… brew, and you can also feast on pies, waffles and other suitably heartwarming fare. There’s live music from Rapha’s very own race DJ and you can also enjoy a whole load of other stuff (but mainly cowbells).”

To whet your appetite, here's a video from last year's series

The three races in the series are:

Saturday October 19 - Broughton Hall, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 3AE
Sunday October 20 - Philip’s Park, Manchester
Sunday October 27 - Alexandra Palace, London

For more details and to enter see the Rapha website.

 

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John Stevenson

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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