FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast - suggestions for 2011 please

[Ravenbait]

Sounds very much like the DUMB RUN. I will give this a try, one of these days...

Date's already set for next year. I put it in the calendar. DRV is 18th June 2011.

Sam

 

[ceepeebee]

Really looking forward to the Dieppe raid and the Manc run on these - what's the profile like for the latter as I'm trying to persuade a local of my acquaintance to join and he's scared of having to climb something brutal like Rivington Pike (actually, the prospect of getting up that gives me the collywobbles)

 

[dellzeqq]

Really looking forward to the Dieppe raid and the Manc run on these - what's the profile like for the latter as I'm trying to persuade a local of my acquaintance to join and he's scared of having to climb something brutal like Rivington Pike (actually, the prospect of getting up that gives me the collywobbles)

that's a very perspicacious thought, ceepeebee, and one that reveals a sordid secret. The profile is a monster. Absolutely horrifying. I'm going to do a recce ride, and scarcely expect my marriage to survive, but the hills are alive with the ghosts of chainwheels. There are alternatives, and I will, of course, take advice, but for the moment the route goes through Affetside and Whittlestone. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

[ceepeebee]

Straight up Watling Street and over the tops then?


you monster




Lovely road over the top of Darwen though.

 

[dellzeqq]

I'm a bit of a sucker for Watling Street. I do, however, recognise that there is an eastern alternative - still not flat by Southern Softie standards, but surely within the compass of Gnarly Northerners.

 

[ceepeebee]

well yeah, there's always the Belmont Road out of Bolton...........

 

[dellzeqq]

Watling Street gives a distance of 14.8 miles from Blackburn to Bury.

I also thought of going through Tottington and then north from Edgeworth to Belthorn and then going in to Blackburn on the A6077 - which is an additional mile, and I appreciate that even that road takes you up to about 1000 feet, but it isn't festooned with 1 in 7 arrows.

There's also the B6214 route which is a bit longer still

 

[ceepeebee]

is that the a6177? if so there's a whopping great long drag up onto the moors past Ogden res, beautiful but ouch.

 

[User10119]

So if I want to do next year's 'northern' ride, I need to get quite a lot better at hills before April..... oh dear.


(although I did have breakfast in Scarborough on Saturday having ridden there from York, including some distinctly lumpy bits. Walked down Staxton Hill, mind!)

 

[ceepeebee]

Simon, if you do your recce through Entwistle, my local chum is heartily recommending you stop in at the Strawbury Duck there, he reckons it's possibly his favourite pub in the NW.

 

[montage]

manchester - blackpool sounds good!
I'll be in provided the knees are fixed

 

[dellzeqq]

http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/p/provisional-2011-dates.html

 

[Aperitif]

http://fnrttc.blogsp...2011-dates.html

Wow! Upmarket pub. from the dellzencpqq!
Congratulations on the logoification - proud to be a participant.

 

[theclaud]

Ooooh! Fancy! How are those jerseys coming on?

 

[dellzeqq]

Wow! Upmarket pub. from the dellzencpqq!
Congratulations on the logoification - proud to be a participant.

I've got a friend who's going for a big sponsor, so it needed smartening up a bit. I'm still not happy with the Brighton and Newhaven pages