Another 50 mile/3600 ft trip to Malham Tarn - at the top of the interesting hill. That’s 142 miles in 6 days - Covid 19 is exhausting me! This time I wore my St-Raphaël - Quinquina - Géminiani top in striking Crimson-Black-Pale Blue: which prompted one cry of admiration as I paused at traffic lights.

Raphaël Géminiani (now 95) had six Grand Tour podium finishes and then founded his own cycling team (when you could do that without needing £30 million a year). It was he who shared a room with Fausto Coppi on a cycling/ hunting trip to Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) in 1959 in which they were badly bitten by mosquitos. Géminiani was treated for malaria on his return to Paris but Coppi’s Italian doctors refused to accept he had malaria – and Coppi, Il Campionissimo, and possibly the most gifted cyclist of all time (7 Grand Tours with the intervening war years spent in a British POW camp) was dead at 40.

Merckx won a lot of races but as a rider he was a bit of a brute, whereas Coppi was and still is revered.

Anyay nice day out under a beautiful blue Yorkshire sky, and no e-bikes approached so I could keep my elbows tucked in.