You look like someone who enjoys a quiet tootle round the lanes after tea and a glass of Sauv.
Get rid of all reflectors, forget the helmet- they just make your head hot. Where is your toolkit and puncture repair kit? If you come off in that coyt you'll ruin it in a storm of feathers.
Luke Appleyard (Wharfedale)- quick on the dissent
My first decent length bike ride today, a circular loop of the Ingleborough ‘massif’ from home. Horton to Ribblehead on the main road and ditto from there to Chapel le Dale. Then from the old church in C le D we followed the quiet lane (the old Roman road) to Ingleton, then the back lane to Clapham, then Austwick. From Austwick we went off-road following the Pennine Bridleway to Feizor (for take out cake and coffee at Elaine’s) and then, still on the Bridleway, over the top to pick up the lane to Helwith Bridge. Before scooting back home on the main road again.
25.6 miles and 1,820 feet of climb with a 2 hour 44 moving time
Thanks but I’m quite happy with my reflectors and helmet and will very much enjoy leaving some fancy ponced up cyclists eating my unfashionable dust in due course . As for a tool kit, I’d guess the furthest away from home I was on that particular ride was 3 miles so I couldn’t be arsed
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 21-02-2021 at 11:23 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
This thing about carrying tool kits for bikes, back in the olden days we all used to carry tool kits for cars, because they kept breaking down. Nowadays cars are better made and rarely break down and if they do then we call a recovery service.
Perhaps manufacturers should make better bikes and there should be sort of cycle AA service. I tell you it's the future, any mechanical fault and you sit and wait for recovery or a man to get you back on the road.
Sod carrying tools about and getting dirty hands.
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.