ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I was saying on the ride that the network of lanes on the hills between Mytholmroyd, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, and Luddenden Foot has some of my favourite local roads. There are great views, is usually barely any traffic**, and the ups and downs can give you a really good workout if you attack them or you can just ride slowly and enjoy them.Looks like the second half of the ride was the nicer lanes?!
I'd be interested in something like that, but maybe not until next Spring? I will probably only do one more forum ride this year (unless we are very lucky with the weather in November and December) and that would be my Trawden ride from Hebden Bridge.I know a few of us were from Leeds way how about a ride from Leeds, perhaps up to Ilkley on the back roads up over the cow and cafe and back along the canal to Leeds?
The autumnal scenery was particularly nice yesterday. Most of the leaves will probably have gone by the time we do the Trawden ride on the 12th November (if it actually takes place - odds are probably 50-50 at the moment).The scenery was spectacular. The low sun added a fair bit of "fwaaaar".
The low sun was causing me a few problems on the ride back from Hebden Bridge to Todmorden. I could cope with it, but I always worry that a dazzled driver will run me over and blame the sun for it****.
** There was much more traffic than usual in places, probably because of that kids' pumpkin event!
**** That was the excuse that a driver used for destroying @Littgull's parked car... It wasn't her fault - she couldn't see the vehicle parked there because the low sun was shining into her eyes!