A quick round up of the routes which were not blogged in September, owing to time constraints or perhaps because nothing notable actually happened.
For those of you who don’t like too many words (Andy) jump straight to the video.
Mountain Bike Ride
2nd September 2015 route
The Fireman, The Trainee, Oz
A pleasant ride from Lordstones taking in The Fronts, Cold Moor, The Head House singletrack, returning to Lordstones over Carlton Bank. This may have been the day it rained slightly but I can’t quite remember.
Mountain Bike Ride
19th September 2015 route
The Pensioner, The Bread Lad
A Saturday excursion from a busy Clay Bank, after being caught in the Stokesley Show traffic. The weather was kind to us for a brief ride along The Rim to Medd Crag, followed by the long climb to Cock Howe for the descent of Trennett Bank. The Bread Lad was on top form today, doing Trennet Bank like Danny Hart before storming up Clay Bank back to the carpark. We decided rather than brave the show traffic again we would head toward Great Ayton and give Fletcher’s Farm Cafe a try. Very nice it was too. The Pensioner was in something approaching seventh heaven when a pot of water was supplied with his and The Bread Lad’s pot of tea - a pot of water bigger than the pot of tea. Needless to say he was unable to leave the cafe until both pots were drier than a camel’s foreskin, several cups of gradually weakening tea later.
Road Bike Ride
26th September 2015 route
Dom
The last remnants of the once mighty Cafe Racers dragged themselves on a bacon butty run to the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire. Both of us on road bikes and wearing the full compliment of Lycra. The route was fairly undemanding apart from a detour to ride a steep cobbled street in Richmond, which, it would appear, we had to do to win the approval of The Chairman, who was conspicuous by his absence. Probably sunning himself in an equatorial tax haven, lighting cigars with twenty pound notes and planning hypothetical routes of unrivaled ascent. However, he did miss a rather excellent bacon butty in The Station.
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