Clifton CC

Still having internet problems so have stolen Alice's lap top

It was certainly a good weekend for riding a bike and club members have been out there making the most of it.

Nobody else was at the square so decided it would be a good day to explore/feed my way round the lanes. I headed out through Wetherby,OtleyAskwith up to Timble,Blubberhouses,trip round Thruscross reservoir(very steep kick of a climb)Duck Street,Pateley Bridge where I did the first climb of the Grimpeur and the sun began to shine. You could tell the people who had left home later in the day,like Paul I was very over dressed. From Grantley I headed for Markington and then
tried to find Knaresborough without ending up on the Ripley road - went wrong and ended up on it.

I had planned to have a cafe stop in Knaresborough but it was very busy and I pushed on to the shop at Tockwith. Bit to far without food to be truthful but managed to get there before hitting the wall and got home for 3pm.

Don't know the mileage or average speed but can tell you what I had to eat - 1 small banana,2 nutrigrain bars, 1 finger of fudge and from the shop at Tockwith 2 jaffa cake bars and a bottle of lucozade. I think I missed the pot of tea more than the lunch.

Helen

Dan wrote:A very enjoyable intermediate ride on Saturday with good company and a thank you to Ben for expertly leading. Destination already covered but my Garmin stats were 85 miles covered, 15.81 MPH Average and 4559 ft Total Ascent.

A good final run back into York down Stockton Lane managed to get behind a Coastliner bus in the slipstream cruising at 40 MPH (One for Will!)

By the way Dan you owe me a chain tool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pete Kane wrote:By the way Dan you owe me a chain tool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes let me know what it was and I'll replace, don't know how I broke it I just tightened up as you would then it fell apart! Sorry!

Hi Tom F these would have been other groups doing this ride which has starts from various points eg Hull, Leeds, Bradford,etc & whilst they all use slightly different routes they all go into Pocklington.
Bernard

Thanks Bernard - makes sense. I googled GHS and found loads about George Herbert Stancer, as well as CTC groups with their own starts (coming down from Northallerton etc as well). Seems GHS was a pivotal figure in bike (and trike) riding 60 years ago; but according to Wikipedia, he was opposed to the return of mass-start racing:

His fear, and that of the National Cyclists' Union, was that asking the police for permission to hold a race ended the freedom of cyclists to hold races, or at any rate lone races against the clock, without interference. Under the headline A hopeless revolt, he wrote in Cycling:

• They have plunged into their dangerous experiment without regard for the consequences... I understand that the 'rebels' want to go on holding races by police permit and under police protection; and when this is withdrawn they are apparently content to put up the shutters and go out of business as promoters.... If we voluntarily place road-racing under police control, we sign its death warrant.... If we are to race on the road, for heaven's sake let us do it as free citizens, and not by permission of the police.

Given recent events in road racing, he may have had a point.

Well done muzzy

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