Calum - if
longers and I don't actually meet you at the station, just turn left onto the A646 and drop down into HB. We are meeting at the park gates on the left just after the cinema. It's only about 300 metres from the station road.
PaulB said:
Sorry Colin but for some reason, your number has been blocked by a "pop up blocker" on my PC. What time do you think you'd be at A) Walk Mill and
that 3-way junction between Bacup/Todmorden/Burnley at Townley? I also know you'll probably know this but if not, may I suggest an alternative to the hideous "Devil's Elbow" bit of the road between Read and Whalley? If you're not familliar with it, I'll show you tomorrow. Looking forward to it now!
I use the Opera browser and it blocks the PM popup, but then it lets me click on a temporary popup warning me that the other popup has been blocked!
There should be an option somewhere in your browser to view blocked popups, or to unblock them on a site-by-site basis. You should be able to read your PMs by clicking on the Private Message link top-right, below where it will say Welcome PaulB. Actually, click on
this PM link - that should do the trick!
If
Calum arrives on time (which is purely down to the train being on time), that should mean us leaving Hebden Bridge about 10:35. I'd say that we should get to Walk Mill in about 40 minutes, so that would be about 11:15. The junction you mentioned is only about 5 minutes up the road from Walk Mill so that would be about 11:20.
If you don't want to hang about getting cold, you could always ride slowly towards us. I'll be on my blue Basso and will be wearing a very bright yellow jacket, yellow-lensed glasses and my usual blue/black peaked Met helmet. Give us a shout if you do that so we don't just ride straight past you!
I didn't know that that stretch of road at Read was known as the Devil's Elbow. I've just looked it up. I also didn't know that it was on the top 10 most dangerous roads in Britain list but it doesn't really surprise me! I'll be going up another of them next weekend on the mini-North-West Passage - the A682 from Barrowford.
The detour you mention must be those nice little lanes round from Padiham coming out by the Spring Wood visitor centre and golf course? I'd be quite happy to go that way if there isn't ice about, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was on those quiet back roads. Let's see in the morning.
that 3-way junction between Bacup/Todmorden/Burnley at Townley? I also know you'll probably know this but if not, may I suggest an alternative to the hideous "Devil's Elbow" bit of the road between Read and Whalley? If you're not familliar with it, I'll show you tomorrow. Looking forward to it now!
