Today's Bike Ride

[Graham Breeze]

I remember this from one of my and Mrs Noel's tandem adventures. Thankfully we went down it having stopped for an excellent cake at the stump cross caverns cafe over the tops.

Well if you went by way of Grassington to Stump Cross you would also remember the long 16% climb up from Dibble's Bridge**. The "S" bend over the bridge has killed 3 descending cyclists over the years and 33 people in a coach which went over the parapet is the worst ever traffic accident in GB.

The last cyclist to die (in late 2020) was on an "E" bike,one of the brakes failed,he hit the parapet at 47 mph and landed on a barn roof. There are now belatedly two new huge signs prior to the descent warning cyclists to check their brakes.

** but with two of you pedalling 16% is presumably just a family frolic.