Dalby Dare: Ride the World Cup Course!

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Entries Close 21 April

Take on the World Cup course in this 30k cross country challenge, Dalby Dare. Get your FREE weekend pass with every entry, plus a Dalby Dare t-shirt and a goodie bag that includes contributions from PowerBar and Buff! For more information and to sign up please see our How To Enter pages.

Have you ever looked on from the sidelines of an International Mountain Bike race and thought ‘I could do that'? Well now you've got the chance! On Saturday 24th April the first ever "Dalby Dare" takes place during the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Cup weekend at Dalby Forest, in North Yorkshire. The Dalby Dare gives you the opportunity to take on the World Cup course and compare yourself to the professionals under World Cup conditions.

In the Dalby Dare there will be no winners or losers. It's is not a race, but neither is it an event for have-a-go-heroes! There will be no taking it easy up the climbs: it's finish line or home time!

The Dalby Dare gives you the opportunity to line up on the World Cup start line and take on a full timed lap of the World Cup course as part of an extended loop that takes in a selection of the fabulous trails that Dalby Forest has to offer! So after being timed on your World Cup lap and facing the challenges of Worry Gill and Medusa's Drop, you'll then head out out on another timed loop that samples some of the best of the other trails the forest has to offer.

This additional section of the course includes the switch-backs of Addersback climb, a long, fast and rocky descent down Dargate Slack and the steepening technical climb up Tom Milner's Grain, before you traverse Peat Head Rigg and rejoin the World Cup course to do it all again!

Now we mentioned that the Dalby Dare is a challenge and like all proper challenges there's a deadline - in other words, a time cut-off. So, if you're not quick enough, we'll have to send you home before your final lap. We haven't included the cut off to be cruel and we hope you'll all make it round. However, we have to let the marshals go home sometime! So the whilst the Dalby Dare isn't a race, you won't have time for a picnic on the way round!

So remember, these are all Black Grade trails and not for the faint-heated - think carefully before signing yourself up - but if you are ready for the challenge, head to the How to Enter Page now.