Sunday, 11th April - The PaulB Recovery Ride, Hebden Bridge / Whalley / Ribble Valley

[Arch]

Those who have been psychologically scarred by some of my previous CC rides will be relieved to know that I have at long last discovered the bald patch in my old shorts that all of you were too polite to tell me about (thanks guys ).

oh boo! those shorts are the subject of much whispered legend among the CC ladies.

Or I might be making that up...

I might wear my bikesters over the shorts, since it'll be early in the day, and then strip them off if it warms up... I haven't owned leg warmers since the 80's

 

[ColinJ]

I'll be getting a lift over to HB and may ride back to Bury dependent on what my legs want to do.

Hebden Bridge to Todmorden would be round about 69 miles so if you did that and rode home to (the centre of) Bury you'd have done about 85 miles in total. Would that be your longest ride to-date?

oh boo! those shorts are the subject of much whispered legend among the CC ladies.

I think you will only be the 4th female CCer to ever turn out on one of my rides! I was either wearing longs or the shorts were new on the other occasions.

The bald patch in my shorts is in exactly the same position as one in my mate's shorts was a couple of years ago - think coccyx! (I don't know why shorts would wear out just there - perhaps it is where the backs of jackets and jerseys rub?) I warned him about it but he did nothing. I brought the subject up again on the next ride but he ignoried me again so I stopped mentioning it.

A year later he turned out with an old J-cloth down the back of his shorts, him being too mean or too skint to replace them! I said that I was relieved not to have to stare at the crack of his a*&e any longer while drafting him and he complained that I hadn't told him about the bald patch! Apparently he remembered me mumbling something in traffic but couldn't make out what I was saying!

 

[aJohnson]

Hebden Bridge to Todmorden would be round about 69 miles so if you did that and rode home to (the centre of) Bury you'd have done about 85 miles in total. Would that be your longest ride to-date?

Yeah it'll be longest I think (Don't know as I didn't have a computer for some long club rides), luckily most of the way from Hebden to Bury is downhill once over Cragg Vale.

 

[Christopher]

hi
Just re-confirming for Sunday. I will be riding a yellow Dave Yates (a giant 60cm, from Dave's 'Barndoor' range) straight up the hill from Brierfield station towards HB. Colin, have PM'd you my moby number

cheers
Chris

 

[ColinJ]

Yeah it'll be longest I think (Don't know as I didn't have a computer for some long club rides), luckily most of the way from Hebden to Bury is downhill once over Cragg Vale.

If you come all the way back to HB with us and then go home via Cragg Vale you'd end up on nearer 93 miles. It would be tempting to stick another 7 miles in somewhere and get your century! That's assuming the centre of Bury. If you were a few miles out the other side you could add those on too and you'd only be 4 or 5 short - go for it!

 

[aJohnson]

If you come all the way back to HB with us and then go home via Cragg Vale you'd end up on nearer 93 miles. It would be tempting to stick another 7 miles in somewhere and get your century! That's assuming the centre of Bury. If you were a few miles out the other side you could add those on too and you'd only be 4 or 5 short - go for it!

I live about 1mile or less from the centre of bury, if my legs are feeling ok I may add on the extra 7miles by doing a quick 10mile loop but shorten it near the end.

 

[ColinJ]

hi
Just re-confirming for Sunday. I will be riding a yellow Dave Yates (a giant 60cm, from Dave's 'Barndoor' range) straight up the hill from Brierfield station towards HB. Colin, have PM'd you my moby number

cheers
Chris

Ta. I've just sent mine back to you.

 

[Arch]

The bald patch in my shorts is in exactly the same position as one in my mate's shorts was a couple of years ago - think coccyx! (I don't know why shorts would wear out just there - perhaps it is where the backs of jackets and jerseys rub?)

Intriguing! Yes, I wonder if it's a jacket thing, or something to do with where the various stresses in the fabric meet. My old shorts didn't go there, but the front of the thighs had become almost see-through...

I think we ladies tend to be rarities on rides, just because there are less of us to start with. I've always found the gentlemen on CC rides to be... well, gentlemen!

 

[ColinJ]

I think we ladies tend to be rarities on rides, just because there are less of us to start with. I've always found the gentlemen on CC rides to be... well, gentlemen!

I think the women are all out riding horses instead! The male-to-female ratio in cycling seems to be at least 10:1 but from the number of female horse riders I see, the ratio for that activity must be more like 1:10 or even 1:100. I can't remember the last male horse rider I saw round here but I often see at least one female equestrian per ride and sometimes a lot more.

 

[Garz]

Very true, in fact I think I have only seen one male horse rider around this area but loads of females.

 

[aJohnson]

So Garz, ye comin?

 

[Garz]

Sorry buddy, see post No #45 ( have party near sheffield to go to). Please report how it went though, best of luck guys!

 

[equicyclist]

I think the women are all out riding horses instead! The male-to-female ratio in cycling seems to be at least 10:1 but from the number of female horse riders I see, the ratio for that activity must be more like 1:10 or even 1:100. I can't remember the last male horse rider I saw round here but I often see at least one female equestrian per ride and sometimes a lot more.

Id agree! Im from Wales. Im trying to find out where cyclist and riders share routes. Have you got any in your area? Apart from the roads that is.

 

[Arch]

The York-Selby bike path is also a bridleway - I've ridden it on wheels and on four legs (including the one time I managed to skid - a horse...)

It's an old railway path, and tarmac, so horses generally use the verge alongside which is grass/mud. The main place to see horses along there is near the stables, which is some way out of York, so the cycle traffic has thinned out a bit - near York there are loads of families and pootlers.

 

[ColinJ]

Id agree! Im from Wales. Im trying to find out where cyclist and riders share routes. Have you got any in your area? Apart from the roads that is.

We have loads of bridleways round here, the most famous of which is the Mary Towneley Loop. The Pennine Bridleway joins onto that loop north and south of here.

There are a couple of sections of the MTL where you'd have to be really careful with a horse...!

(goodspeed ahead of RedBike)