The ADV is at Halfords for some attention but Halfords is unable to obtain the brake pads and the mechanic has suggested that if I buy them from Amazon and take them in then he will fit them. Sometimes the world is quite odd.
So with roads cleansed by torrential rain and a blue sky above - for the first time in a month it was Bianchi day. Tyres up to 7 bar and shortly afterwards I was bouncing down Old Pool Bank at a tad under 40mph. Oh joy!
Pool was once a station (as was Otley) on the railway line between Burley in Wharfedale and Arthington which connected the Leeds - Harrogate and Leeds-Skipton lines.
After 60 years some of the track bed has been built on, notably in Pool, and indeed Otley where the Otley bypass covered the old track bed with tarmac, but much of the rest has been left to walkers, with or without dogs, and the occasional MTB rider. But there is now an initiative to "Sustrans" some of the paths.
Which is probably why signs saying PRIVATE LAND. KEEP OUT have appeared along the proposed section.
Obviously a well meaning gesture by those with land near the old track bed to help walkers/riders from getting lost.
Such kindness.
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