If anyone is interested in joining me for a reasonably long ride this coming Saturday - about 100km - around Hebden Bridge and it's surrounding areas - this is the place to sign up (??).
This is part of a linked route that I've been planning in my head that will spread to about 200km when it is done. It should be .... reasonably technical.... judge from this what you will.
Either way I'll be rolling out from the Co-Op at 8am if anyone cares to join me. If you're there most vaguely exciting.
What to expect:
- Probably close to 2,000m of climbing.
- Rocks, lots of rocks. really, lots of em. Mostly cobbles...of sorts.
- At least two villages with resupply points.
- A pub at the end.
- A reasonably sprightly pace.
Hebden Love
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100km round hebbers is gonna be pretty tough.......enjoy yourself. 
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Yep, the final plan of the loop should have close to the amount of climbing as the LL200. But more technical :)
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Which way are you heading on Saturday and are you taking gears? Would like to pop over but also need to pack for an early flight on Sunday...
Need more hours in the day and less boring chores to finish!!
Need more hours in the day and less boring chores to finish!!
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Not around this weekend Greg, otherwise I'd have been keen to get a ride in with you.
Be interested to hear about this new mythical route ;-)
Been playing around with a few ideas myself but it sounds like yours are much further toward coming to fruition.
Be interested to hear about this new mythical route ;-)
Been playing around with a few ideas myself but it sounds like yours are much further toward coming to fruition.
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Not fully decided yet man - will pop you a vague GPX later today. Also, fancy a brew later?atk wrote:Which way are you heading on Saturday and are you taking gears? Would like to pop over but also need to pack for an early flight on Sunday...
Need more hours in the day and less boring chores to finish!!
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Hey Mike! It's not mythical...just proper cheeky in somepartsmikehowarth wrote:Not around this weekend Greg, otherwise I'd have been keen to get a ride in with you.
Be interested to hear about this new mythical route ;-)
Been playing around with a few ideas myself but it sounds like yours are much further toward coming to fruition.
Have a good few free weekends coming up, give a shout if you want to get a ride in.Re: Hebden Love
Cool. Busy until about 4:15, guess you'll be heading home about then?GregMay wrote:Not fully decided yet man - will pop you a vague GPX later today. Also, fancy a brew later?atk wrote:Which way are you heading on Saturday and are you taking gears? Would like to pop over but also need to pack for an early flight on Sunday...
Need more hours in the day and less boring chores to finish!!
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So far this is a vague Idea of some of the 80km of the route:
You've ridden quite a chunk of it with me ATK
You've ridden quite a chunk of it with me ATK
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Erm...so the 101km route I've doodled out has 2.499m of climbing. Need to go reccy a section of it, or not, who knows. Nowt like a hike a bike.
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Nah, don't worry. I mean who doesn't love surprises...GregMay wrote:Erm...so the 101km route I've doodled out has 2.499m of climbing. Need to go reccy a section of it, or not, who knows. Nowt like a hike a bike.
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Looks good, recognise a fair bit of that and hopefully ok for the singlespeed...
Will check with L and have a think if I can get packed up and sorted on/before Friday. Suppose I can always bail out and scoot back on the train if I run out of time too...
Free-er for coffee tomorrow if you're around.
Will check with L and have a think if I can get packed up and sorted on/before Friday. Suppose I can always bail out and scoot back on the train if I run out of time too...
Free-er for coffee tomorrow if you're around.
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ianfitz wrote:Sounds good. Need to check what's happening that weekend though.
Will report back
Green light for Saturday
Is the coop is on the main road by the hepstonstall turning?
Not sure if I'll drive up the night before and stay in the van or have an early start.
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Would have been up for this but north of the border at the weekend..
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Yes, time?GregMay wrote:Ian = yes Co-Op on Main Street.
Andy = coffee today is good. Sandbar?
G
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Ace, see you there.
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A bit of planning and a large glass of port - definitely in for at least the first loop, see you at the co-op!
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Not going to lie. It's been raining.
Riding some of the loop tomorrow as part of my commute home, will see how muddy we're going to get :)
Riding some of the loop tomorrow as part of my commute home, will see how muddy we're going to get :)
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Forecast is improving a tiny bit for Saturday at least...
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We must be looking at different reports then :)
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/E ... /long.html
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/E ... /long.html
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It was originally the darkclouddoublerain icon from 0000-1200