Yorkshire hosted the Tour de France start in 2014 and the first Tour de Yorkshire this year. Now you can get a piece of the action.
After a fantastic inaugural edition earlier this year, the Tour de Yorkshire is back again in 2016 and it's looking for your help.
The organisers are seeking volunteers to work on the event, which attracts some of the biggest squads in professional cycling including Team Sky.
'Welcome to Yorkshire' ran the Tour de Yorkshire earlier this year and also the Tour de France’s visit to the region in 2014.
And having depended on volunteers to help keep the show on the road for both events, the agency is once again looking for expressions of interest from those who'd like to work on the Tour de Yorkshire 2016 in a voluntary capacity.
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The race runs from April 29th to May 1st. Volunteers would obviously need to make themselves available on those dates and also for a training course before the racing gets underway.
Welcome to Yorkshire is running a number of road shows around the UK to generate media interest in the race and also among the general public and would-be volunteers.
Anyone who might be interested is asked to complete an online survey, which can be found by following this link.
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You can find all the details relating to the dates and locations of the road shows by following this link.
But before you do anything, it’s perhaps best to visit the Tour de Yorkshire website and have a general root around for race information.
Ireland was represented in this year’s edition by Eddie Dunbar of NFTO, Ryan Mullen of Cannondale-Garmin, Philip Deignan of Team Sky and Jack Wilson and Conor Dunne of An Post-Chainreaction.
Dunbar rode really well early on stage 1; getting clear in a breakaway and claiming king of mountains points in great style.
However, his breakaway would be caught and he then fell and broke his collarbone.
Deignan would do most of the damage on the front; pulling clear in a breakaway that included his team mate and eventual stage 1 victor and overall winner Lars Petter Nordhaug.
The race should feature a number of Irish riders again next year, a factor that may make volunteering even more attractive to Irish fans of the sport.
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