by Willy H
Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:46 pm
With people rushing to sign-up for the White Rose Classic (and I found that somehow it had already found a way into my 2008 diary!!!) don't forget the REAL Classic dales ride, the Dales Grimpeur!
This is an event for true connoisseurs of extended torture: as a warm-up the start in Pately Bridge rears up within a few hundred metres for about a mile of bottom gear heave-ho, and then the ride takes all the classic Dales climbs, Buttertubs, Fleet Moss, Park Rash, the lot! The choices are:
215kms and 4596m of undulations
186kms and 3901m
145kms and 3251m
This Audax event is rated the 2nd toughest in UK, the No 1 slot I think goes to a Welsh ride.
The best bit is at the end, with a superb fast run-in along the reservoir to the multi-course supper laid-on by Sean Flynn and missus F.
We've always had a good few Clifton regulars driving over, so transport there should not be an impediment.
And while you're all committing your weekends, don't forget the other local Audaxes we tend to add colour to:
13 April: ' Three Bridges' : this is a Mark Antrobus special (date may change?)
3 May: 'The Wiggy' rides: 100 or 300kms for the greedy ones
24th August: 'Tan Hill Challenge', another Mark Antrobus production.
So, hurry to www.audax.uk.net
This is an event for true connoisseurs of extended torture: as a warm-up the start in Pately Bridge rears up within a few hundred metres for about a mile of bottom gear heave-ho, and then the ride takes all the classic Dales climbs, Buttertubs, Fleet Moss, Park Rash, the lot! The choices are:
215kms and 4596m of undulations
186kms and 3901m
145kms and 3251m
This Audax event is rated the 2nd toughest in UK, the No 1 slot I think goes to a Welsh ride.
The best bit is at the end, with a superb fast run-in along the reservoir to the multi-course supper laid-on by Sean Flynn and missus F.
We've always had a good few Clifton regulars driving over, so transport there should not be an impediment.
And while you're all committing your weekends, don't forget the other local Audaxes we tend to add colour to:
13 April: ' Three Bridges' : this is a Mark Antrobus special (date may change?)
3 May: 'The Wiggy' rides: 100 or 300kms for the greedy ones
24th August: 'Tan Hill Challenge', another Mark Antrobus production.
So, hurry to www.audax.uk.net