Event: Pennine 500

Date: TBA

Start line: Mytholmroyd, Calder Valley

Event Hub: Mytholmroyd Community CENTre

format: self-supported bikepacking

Group start: 8am

Stats: 502km / 8,945m

included in entry:

1. GPS File

A ‘field tested’ gpx file will be sent to your email address a week prior to the event.

2. event hub

The Event Hub is Mytholmroyd Community Centre (MYCC) where riders register from 6am.

There’ll be refreshments (tea, coffee, juice), fresh fruit, porridge pots, toast and home made flapjacks in the Event Room.

The Event Room is to the left of the reception area and inside the room riders will find their personal envelope set out on the tables with (1) Registration form and (2) Pennine 500 bike stickers.

Bag storage area (but only accessed during centre opening hours 7am-7pm).

The Community Centre has toilets, hot showers and a large car park / easy access to the train station.

There will be a group start at 8am.

3. GPS TRACKER

Trackers are useful pieces of technology but are expensive and so on this event the organiser will not be providing GPS trackers. Many riders have their own personal GPS trackers and they are readily available to hire if a riders chooses to have one for the event. There will be a ‘dot watching’ page hosted by an established outfit where riders can register their own GPS trackers for a small fee (£25 last year).

4. Parking and Train Station

Free car /van parking for the duration of the event at the Event Hub in the very large parking space.

Camper vans can park up on the Friday before the Saturday start date and stay for the duration of the event.

Drivers must record their vehicle registration details at the reception desk and this will exempt them from the daily and weekly parking charges.

Mytholmroyd train station on the Trans-Pennine route between Leeds - Manchester is 5 minutes from the Event Hub.

5. Badge

Every rider who crosses the finish will be awarded an embroidered cloth badge made in Leeds.