Forum ride from Hebden Bridge to Waddington, Sun 27 th Feb

[skudupnorth]

I'm back in one piece ! My wonderful wife had a bath ready,massive pasta dish,kids in bed and a nice drinky when i stumbled in about 8.15pm.
As already said,fantastic bunch to ride with,i really had a good ride today alothough i'm feeling it now.

Big thanks to Shaun for the "extra" ride up Englands longest hill and for keeping me company through the boring bits afterwards to Bury.Riding through the curry miles nearly killed us more than the big ride,the smell was awesom !

Final tally for the day was 116 miles !!! Bit chuffed with that

Roll on the next one

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

well i'm back. i think i managed my 200km but not sure, i'll have a look in morning (need to connect to 'garmin connect' online and way too tired now.) and i left the comp on the bike in the garage.

the last 20 miles were total agony, had to go up and down some more big hills to get my miles in inc crown point & bacup road.

even if i haven't done my 200km, i know i've done my pb in both distance & meters ascended.

nice ride, cheers guys, as usual good company. i'll put piccies up tomorrow, off into the shower now.

bottom bracket well goosed now, it stopped singing at me and started growling.

bye for now.

shaun

 

[fossyant]

Lights job....... you two ?

 

[Garz]

Haha looks like a jovial experience for sure. Will aim make it one of these days, good job guys!

 

[potsy]

Lights job....... you two ?

Bromptonfb had enough light for us all to get home!! Hope Vision 4 and a snazzy new Hope rear too

Garz-we should be doing it again in 3 or 4 weeks, come along.

 

[skudupnorth]

My pain hit in Bolton and now i've gone a tad stiff ! Still a great experience,cannot wait for thenext one.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

119 miles and over 2100m climbing according to bikehike. my garmin will have exact figures tomorrow. gutted 8.5km off my target, bloody bottom bracket, but it was almost seized when i got off, difficult to turn by hand and lumpy too.

 

[Steve H]

Awesome day out yesterday -thanks everyone. Feeling mighty achy this morning!

 

[Bokonon]

Bokonon turned up on a fixie with a rusty chain and semi-knobbly tyres and still made all but the long fast descent to Todmorden seem easy.

Yeah, that descent to Todmorden hurt quite a bit, but then, on such a short gear, I knew it was going to. Maybe next time we can have a ride that only goes up hill?

Good ride, and good to see you all.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

118.4 miles, 2286m climbing. gutted 8km short of a 200km diy audax with AAA points..

a good piccy of dan bo....

the rest can be found here....

cc ride 27-02-2011

 

[potsy]

118.4 miles, 2286m climbing. gutted 8km short of a 200km diy audax with AAA points..

a good piccy of dan bo....

the rest can be found here....

cc ride 27-02-2011

Doesn't look a bit like his avatar does he?

 

[Dayvo]

Doesn't look a bit like his avatar does he?

Do you?

Dan bo looks like Ricky Jarvais, or vice versa!

 

[ColinJ]

118.4 miles, 2286m climbing. gutted 8km short of a 200km diy audax with AAA points..

Well done - that's a good ride at any time of year, but in February it's obviously harder. It must have been pretty cold once it got dark.

If you wanted a ride to be recognised by AUK, you'd have to submit the route beforehand to the audax DIY organiser, saying what day you were going to ride it. You'd fill in the required paperwork, attain an average speed (including all stops) of 15-30 kph on the ride and obtain proof of when you got to agreed control points. Such proof could be the traditional till receipts, ATM slips etc., or you can now submit a gps tracklog. You then send the bumph back for validation.

It wouldn't count for PBP purposes though; if you are still thinking about that, you need to ride qualifying events.

I'm obviously still a long way off being properly fit because I felt quite tired last night on about half what you did.

I gave way to temptation and attempted to exceed my remaining beer quota for the week but decided in the end to be sensible and went to bed before I drank it all!

PS Aaargh - I really must get serious about getting my weight down again!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Well done you guys sounds like you had a great ride

I managed 53 miles in the cold and rain but made the mistake of picking the hilly route from masham over lofthouse to patley bridge and had to walk up 2 hills when my legs just refused to take me up them ( never happened before ) , so I guess I am not as fit as I was 4 months ago

 

[ColinJ]

I managed 53 miles in the cold and rain but made the mistake of picking the hilly route from masham over lofthouse to patley bridge and had to walk up 2 hills when my legs just refused to take me up them ( never happened before ) , so I guess I am not as fit as I was 4 months ago

It happens to most of us all from time to time! The only reason I don't walk up more climbs is my nice low 30/28 climbing gear.

I did that road over to Lofthouse, and on to Pateley Bridge on a 200 km route I did from Hebden Bridge in 2006. It started raining just before the descent to Lofthouse which made it rather scary! That's not the kind of descent I enjoy, especially when the roads are greasy ...