Tour de Yorkshire Sportive

[nickyboy]

Where are they?

This is the start of the climb on the left

https://goo.gl/maps/aHKdBcKLtrJ2

I didn't have any traffic problems but @Kestevan is the local

It makes an interesting alternative to the B6106 climb that you can also see. That's a long drag. South Lane is a bit more brutal

 

[Heisenberg71]

Ah, I know where that is. I've been up there last year.
Have you done climb at Homfirth vineyard?

 

[ColinJ]

I'm coming down with a cold. I hope I can get ill and then well again in time for this ride - I don't fancy tackling those climbs with dodgy lungs and wobbly legs!

 

[Heisenberg71]

Come on Colin, enough with the excuses already....

 

[Venod]

I popped into the café at the bottom of Pea Royd Lane a couple of weeks ago. I suspect not a good one to try immediately after a full cooked breakfast?

We tackled it after leaving Bank View Cafe at Langsett, it wasn't pleasant.

good luck to everybody riding.

 

[ColinJ]

Come on Colin, enough with the excuses already....

I've had to pull out of my own forum ride tomorrow - that is even gnarlier than the sportive - 2,800 m of climbing in 109 km!

 

[Heisenberg71]

I've had to pull out of my own forum ride tomorrow - that is even gnarlier than the sportive - 2,800 m of climbing in 109 km!

Bad times. Get well soon

 

[ColinJ]

Bad times. Get well soon

It's only a cold but I am irritated that it has come along just when things are getting interesting on the bike ... Where was it when I was riding around in rain and fog in December and January - ha ha!

 

[ColinJ]

Still snotty, but improving and hoping to be ready in time!

I just checked out the event info and discovered that the car parking area is at the top of a steep hill from the start/finish! I really hope that it isn't above Pea Royd Lane - it is bad enough having to do it from a cold start at the beginning of the day, but doing it again after 100 very hilly kms of riding and then standing about to watch the race finish ... - aaaaaaaaaaargh!

 

[Heisenberg71]

It bloody well is!
You finish at Fox Valley but the car park is at Green Moor, which you access from Pea Royd Lane.

I shall be pushing it up second time around.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, joy of joys!

Looking at the map, it might be worth riding to the end of the B6088 and doing the easier climb past Underbank Hall, then riding back along the top road?

 

[Kestevan]

I'm riding to the start, that way I only get to push the bike up Pea Royd Lane once.....

 

[Kestevan]

We did a recce ride last Sunday round a chunk of the course....suspect it will catch a few people out with how hard it is in the latter 20k.
5000+ riders going up Pea Royd on cold legs 100m from the start is going to be carnage.... not the best way to start IMHO.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Pea Royd sounds like something powerlifters are requested to do after an event.

 

[ColinJ]

Pea Royd sounds like something powerlifters are requested to do after an event.

Well, I think that the organisers are taking the Pea with it!

"To need to choose a Pea Royd at the start, Mr. Route-Planner, may be regarded as a misfortune. To need to choose Pea Royds both at the start and the finish looks like carelessness."