119km, 1600m climbing The really special thing about this sportive wasn’t the sponsorship by Maserati (lots of beautiful cars to gape at) nor the fact that the feed stations included genuine yorkshire puds, nor the fantastic scenery of the Yorkshire Moors. Rather it was the fact that much of the […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
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The Tour de Yorkshire ride was completed on 1st May – a tough course but not as many climbs as last year, and the weather was much better, as last year it was tipping down with rain for the first 3/4 of the ride. A very early start was a […]
Another nice evening, calm. On the road 27 riders did battle between themselves and the clock! I thought initially Charlie Bratt and Oliver Wood where in for a good battle; Due to Charlie’s good current form and his fastest time of the season of 00:24:31, saw Charlie set the fastest […]
Great evening – “a perfect night for it!!”. As I pulled into the car park – “Christ we are going to be busy tonight!”. Everywhere I looked there was cyclists – “bloody cheek really, I struggled for somewhere to park!!” Having 30 riders in all, we had quite a lot […]
Due to the Cambridgeshire Highways carrying out surface dressing works to a large section of the Old North Road at Stilton, the N1/10 course will be too dangerous to use for our event Saturday (16 April 2016). The works have only come to our attention in the last few days, […]
Having got the audax bug, I then decided to up my training and do a few “DIY” 200k rides. My family were planning lunch next to the River Orwell near Ipswich and so I hatched the idea of riding out and back as a further 200km audax ride. Again, under […]