It's held on a bastard-hard circuit in Centre Vale park Todmorden every January. In 2012, it will be on Monday 2nd.
I went to see the Nationals there a few years back. I walked to the steep cobbled climb and stayed there for a few laps, then walked the rest of the circuit to watch the action elsewhere. On the first lap, about 75% of the riders got up the climb on their bikes. I think towards the end, only one guy was able to do it. It looked really full-on hard!
The top competitors had two bikes each and were swapping them by a stream every lap. Their helpers would wash the muddy gunk out of their bikes ready to swapped back next lap. The riders with only one bike were struggling with mud build-up later on.
Anyway, I found this video on YouTube. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!
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