A beautiful day for a ride.

To good an opportunity to waste - I'm outta here :-)

"vernon levy" wrote in message ...
To good an opportunity to waste - I'm outta here :-)

Some of us have to be up at 0500 to ride to work. Definitely the best
part of the day in June, I went on a tour of the city centre without
seeing a single car this morning :-)
--
Simon M.

vernon levy wrote:

To good an opportunity to waste - I'm outta here :-)

Grrr. I've got a s*dding sore throat and head cold. In the middle of Summer
as well!

vernon levy wrote:
To good an opportunity to waste - I'm outta here :-)


Let us know how you got on if haven't already crashed..

lol

vernon levy wrote:
To good an opportunity to waste - I'm outta here :-)

Yup, so much for thunderstorms. I did 72.8 miles, over the Pennines via
Stanedge then down to Stalybridge up Longendale and over the easier side of
Holme Moss to Holme then home. Added to the 27.3 miles yesterday evening
around Mirfield and the SVG thats my ton for the weekend.

In article ,
vernon levy wrote:
To good an opportunity to waste - I'm outta here :-)

12 miles. But I did have a 6y1d on the trailer and it was the further
our 8 year old had done by a long chalk.

ian

Let us know how you got on if haven't already crashed..

See response to MSeries - not quite crashed .....

Yup, so much for thunderstorms. I did 72.8 miles, over the Pennines via
Stanedge then down to Stalybridge up Longendale and over the easier side
of
Holme Moss to Holme then home. Added to the 27.3 miles yesterday evening
around Mirfield and the SVG thats my ton for the weekend.


I had the perfect route sorted to accomplish my first century -
Leeds - Wetherby - York - Malton - Pickering - Sutton Bank - Thirsk -
Northallerton - Richmond - Hurworth

I was up for it and everything was going amazingly well - the first 45 miles
done at an average speed of 20 mph (I amazed myself at this!) then two
spokes gave up the ghost just after I passed through Malton. I considered
nursing the bike through the remainder of the ride and chose to complete the
journey by train as I didn't fancy the prospect of the wheel folding on me -
bummer :-(

Despite the unsatisfactory ending, I did get a buzz out of the pace that I
was able to sustain for an extended period of time. It would have dropped
off once I'd entered the North Yorkshire Moors butsustaining 20mph two and
a quarter hours isn't bad for a 20 stone lard arse is it?

"vernon levy" wrote in message
...
Yup, so much for thunderstorms. I did 72.8 miles, over the Pennines via
Stanedge then down to Stalybridge up Longendale and over the easier side
of
Holme Moss to Holme then home. Added to the 27.3 miles yesterday evening
around Mirfield and the SVG thats my ton for the weekend.


I had the perfect route sorted to accomplish my first century -
Leeds - Wetherby - York - Malton - Pickering - Sutton Bank - Thirsk -
Northallerton - Richmond - Hurworth

I was up for it and everything was going amazingly well - the first 45
miles
done at an average speed of 20 mph (I amazed myself at this!) then two
spokes gave up the ghost just after I passed through Malton. I considered
nursing the bike through the remainder of the ride and chose to complete
the
journey by train as I didn't fancy the prospect of the wheel folding on
me -
bummer :-(

Despite the unsatisfactory ending, I did get a buzz out of the pace that I
was able to sustain for an extended period of time. It would have dropped
off once I'd entered the North Yorkshire Moors butsustaining 20mph two
and
a quarter hours isn't bad for a 20 stone lard arse is it?





you seem to specialise in doing bike rides on the train :-)

you seem to specialise in doing bike rides on the train :-)

I call it good contingency planning, especially if one's partner is
unwilling to come to one's rescue in moments of crisis :-)

Besides who says that bike rides have to be circular? :-)

I do complete most rides with resorting to trains but I do have an small
collection of tickets as souvenirs of 'failed' forays :-)

I have nothing but praise for the various rail operators in County Durham,
West and North Yorkshire who have conveyed my and my bikes around the
regions.