Great things that Yorkshire has given the world...

[Venod]

Wayne Randle (possibly the best English rider, never to turn professional?)*

A beast of rider, if you ever half wheel Wayne, you will do it only once.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A beast of rider, if you ever half Wayne, you will do it only once.

I never have, but know a few who have ridden with him

A nice guy off the bike, I was talking to him a few weeks ago, in the Rotherham Planet-X shop

[QUOTE 5171925, member: 43827"]I must apologise for my earlier criticism of Yorkshire.
I admit to being unfairly biased because my only visits to Yorkshire in recent years have been to Barnsley.[/QUOTE]
Enough said, I try not to go there
Certainly not after dark & not without a bone to throw to the locals

 

[Venod]

I never have, but know a few who have ridden with him

They do a regular ride from Womersley bus stop usually Tue and Thursday mornings and occasionally Sunday Mornings, famously known as "The Bus Stop Ride" they welcome anybody but won't wait if you can't cut it, John Tanner sometimes rides and ex FRC Gaz Hill.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I know, I've read the Planet X reports

I know a couple of brothers who used to ride;
Lee, & Nigel, Haigh from Staincross/Kexbrough/Darton??

(dad, Terry, was a BCF Chief Commisaire)

 

[jongooligan]

John Tanner
Wayne Randle (possibly the best English rider, never to turn professional?)"

Another real hard man and true gent - Charlie Hindley, who won the first British ironman triathlon IIRC.

Have ridden with all three.........



......but not for long

 

[marinyork]

[QUOTE 5171592, member: 43827"]Other than stainless steel the others are really nothing to write home about.[/QUOTE]

Steel is long gone so should be removed from the list. Sheffield is mostly a poor city with service sector jobs with the other half on university, council, dwp and nhs jobs.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A beast of rider, if you ever half Wayne, you will do it only once.

https://www.planetx.co.uk/news/events/q/date/2016/02/10/out-on-the-road-with-wayne-part-1

https://www.planetx.co.uk/news/even...s-hard-all-who-got-there-and-all-who-got-back

https://www.planetx.co.uk/news/events/q/date/2016/03/24/the-tale-of-boggle-hole-ride-day-two

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

- Stanley Ferry Aquaduct. The only cast-iron suspension aquaduct in Europe (1839)
It carries the Aire & Calder Navigation canal across the River Calder.
Visually, practically identical to Sydney Harbour bridge (& accepted as a 'working model' for the design)

You just brought a memory back to life. Aged about 8 and fostered to a village called Altofts (home of Britain's longest row of terraced houses and birthplace of Martin Frobisher), my foster father, who had a pithead job, took me there. I was completely astonished by this double-decker waterway. It gave me a first sense of bonkers genius.

Anyhow, for good or for bad, Yorkshire also gave this forum its only Marmoset.

 

[hopless500]

Not a very inspiring list is it.

 

[hopless500]

And what have the French given the world, apart from smelly cheeses and syphillis?

Wine?

 

[hopless500]

We exported him...

Thanks!

 

[Crackle]

Wine?

Did you miss the 'h' out?

 

[hopless500]

this blokes from Yorkshire

 

[hopless500]

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(..........although originally from Darlington), Yorkshire gave the world this chap

the lovely Vernon

 

[hopless500]

They didn’t invent it... and they don’t make the best.

Ah, well but and tho' ... I wasn't saying that - but they do do some nice ones