ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
If you enjoyed Monday's Tour of Britain stage in the Forest of Bowland/Pendle district as much as I did, then you might be tempted to come along on my next forum ride which covers some of the same roads, albeit at a much less frenetic pace!
We will start at Spring Wood visitor centre above Whalley, and do an 80 km/50 mile clockwise loop taking in Longridge Fell, Beacon Fell, the Trough of Bowland and Waddington Fell from the north side. Cafe stop at Country Kitchen cafe in Waddington, then an easy ride back to Spring Wood.
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@Littgull has kindly offered to give me a lift. If he and I feel like it, we might add an optional 20 km second loop on at the end of this ride, taking in the Nick o'Pendle (the first KoM climb on Monday's stage), and Black Hill/Padiham Heights, returning to Spring Wood down the Old Roman Rd, which the pros road up on Monday. That second loop would bring the total distance for the day to a metric century - 100km/62 miles. I can't promise that we would do that second loop, and even if we did, we would drop anybody who did NOT want to do it back at the car park at Spring Wood first.
The terrain is quite tough, but we will only be riding at an average speed of around 16 kph/10 mph so I would guess that the ride will take about 5 hours on the bikes, with (say) a 45-60 minute relaxed cafe stop on top of that. We will start at 10:00, so we would get back to the car park by about 16:00. If we did the second loop, that would add about another 90 minutes of riding.
I will update the post with more details soon.
Post below if you fancy joining us.
Riders:
We will start at Spring Wood visitor centre above Whalley, and do an 80 km/50 mile clockwise loop taking in Longridge Fell, Beacon Fell, the Trough of Bowland and Waddington Fell from the north side. Cafe stop at Country Kitchen cafe in Waddington, then an easy ride back to Spring Wood.
Route
Profile
@Littgull has kindly offered to give me a lift. If he and I feel like it, we might add an optional 20 km second loop on at the end of this ride, taking in the Nick o'Pendle (the first KoM climb on Monday's stage), and Black Hill/Padiham Heights, returning to Spring Wood down the Old Roman Rd, which the pros road up on Monday. That second loop would bring the total distance for the day to a metric century - 100km/62 miles. I can't promise that we would do that second loop, and even if we did, we would drop anybody who did NOT want to do it back at the car park at Spring Wood first.
The terrain is quite tough, but we will only be riding at an average speed of around 16 kph/10 mph so I would guess that the ride will take about 5 hours on the bikes, with (say) a 45-60 minute relaxed cafe stop on top of that. We will start at 10:00, so we would get back to the car park by about 16:00. If we did the second loop, that would add about another 90 minutes of riding.
I will update the post with more details soon.
Post below if you fancy joining us.
Riders:
- ColinJ
- Littgull
- rusty bearing (if not in Carlisle)
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