Leeds to Scarborough Saturday September 24: The Yorkshire Adventure

[NorthernDave]

The Cleveland Way is advertised as a cycling route between Filey and Scarborough and would make for a lovely way to arrive along the coast. However, it sounds like it may not be suitable for road bikes. Any experience of this?

It's not a route I know, but this review makes it fairly clear it's not going to be suitable for road bikes:
http://www.moredirt.com/trail/United-Kingdom_North-East/Cleveland-Way---Filey-to-Scarborough/694/

 

[Moodyman]

Hello Nick, put me down for this one please. I was disappointed to pull out of the Llandudno ride due to both fitness and other commitments.

Hopefully I will be in a better shape by September.

 

[StuAff]

Date noted. I'll have to wait and see what leave I've got to use/move about (and then actually get the Friday off) before making any plans…

 

[nickyboy]

Hello Nick, put me down for this one please. I was disappointed to pull out of the Llandudno ride due to both fitness and other commitments.

Hopefully I will be in a better shape by September.

You're on the official list on post #1

 

[nickyboy]

Date noted. I'll have to wait and see what leave I've got to use/move about (and then actually get the Friday off) before making any plans…

Up to you of course but a cool way to do it may be to come to Manchester Friday evening, have a few beers and then pop over to Leeds to kick off on Saturday morning

It's 50 minutes Manchester - Leeds and fare is about £7. Loads of trains....northern powerhouse innit

 

[mike3121]

Ok found a place to stay from Friday 23rd for a week, do I book it????? is this a definite date???

 

[mike3121]

If the Llandudno ride is anything to go by there will be a very staggered (see what I did there?) departure from Scarborough. Some will leave almost immediately, some will get the last train on Saturday. Some will leave at a respectable time on Sunday morning. Me...I'll do some cycling on Sunday and go home in the afternoon probably

Hopefully the bikes on trains rules are enforced in a similar way too. That is, so long as the bikes aren't causing a major obstruction then as many as you like

I should add that on the Llandudno ride most people stopped over and went home the next day.

may I add everybody went home on various forms of transport, some rode on bikes, some went on trains, some went by car

 

[mike3121]

If only we had those signs that some continental trains have, that say 'Bicycles have priority'.

on the trains I have been on there is a designated place just for bicycles

 

[nickyboy]

Ok found a place to stay from Friday 23rd for a week, do I book it????? is this a definite date???

It's a definite. Even if it's just you and me doing the ride

 

[nickyboy]

That sounds great. I have never done a trans Pennine train.

It's a nice journey. Leave Manchester Piccadilly...Stalybridge...climb up the W side of the Pennines....through the Standedge Tunnel and then commence the descent of the E side of the Pennines through Huddersfield and Halifax. Very picturesque so long as you keep your eyes closed while going through Dewsbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standedge_Tunnels

 

[wanda2010]

Bring them along

Err, they wouldn't come even if I offered a milion quid. Somebody raise a pint of Guinness to an absent small person

 

[nickyboy]

Err, they wouldn't come even if I offered a milion quid. Somebody raise a pint of Guinness to an absent small person

Don't worry Wanda, you're not missing anything.....great beers the night before, peaceful country lanes, fab river crossings, seafront cycling, banter with the CCers over good beer in the evening, ace fish and chips.........no, not missing anything at all

I'll have a pint of something Guinness-y for you

 

[Crackle]

Why is Scarborough so expensive, it's an East Coast Llandudno innit? It's putting a serious dent in my ambitions unless i wish to stay in some chintzy seaside b&b.

 

[nickyboy]

Why is Scarborough so expensive, it's an East Coast Llandudno innit? It's putting a serious dent in my ambitions unless i wish to stay in some chintzy seaside b&b.

Yeah, I said upthread somewhere that the standard fallback of the Travelodge is unbelievably expensive. I don't know why, Sep 24 is about as out of season as April 23 was in Llandudno

The interesting thing though is this.....if you do a dummy booking for Llandudno Travelodge Sep 24 it's also expensive. I wonder if there's some pricing algorithm keeping prices high for some reason? I can't imagine they are well booked already

I'm also considering a chintzy B&B but I'm going to hold off and see what happens to the pricing at my preferred option, Travelodge

You could always share with @rich p

 

[Kestevan]

No family birthdays in September... so I may just make this one.
Stick me down as a possible please Nick.