Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
I know I’me not much of a cyclist compared with you and Llani so nice to hear some familiar names. This is my neck of the wood when it comes to cycling and doing a bit of climbing. I have fairly regularly done all of the climbs you mentioned over the last five or six years or so. There is also Weardley Bank that lies to the east of Black Hill Road and skirts the back of the Harewood Estate. Probably mid way in gradient between Black Hill Road and Creskeld Lane. Black Hill Road certainly feels sharp to me even though it is short. I remember once coming down it on the first Tour de Yorkshire sportive in 2015 in the driving rain and it was not a comfortable experience.

Norwood Edge, (which I imagine you know well) to the north of Otley is also a decent climb and within a circuit from home for me.
Well Llani is more of a cyclist than I am - I just think I am lucky to have so many climbs (and reservoirs) nearby. On the other hand, as Simon Warren says, "there's nothing picturesque about Thwaites Brow...just focus on those (cobble)stones"!