A good one. All the weather nasties have gone somewhere else, yeah, OK it is still cold and there is a bit of breeze, but rideable. Of course, I am totally out of practice with route planning, but off I went. Oakwood Clock, up the hill to the Boot pub, turn left for Shadwell, left again for Slaid Hill and then
Followed by East Keswick. There is a house in East Keswick with a Potts clock where most houses would have a bedroom window, I took pictures, but they need resampling before I post them, maybe tomorrow. Anyway, with the Oakwood Clock being a Potts I have done a two Potts ride today, as if it matters. Must search out more of their clocks though. East Keswick to Collingham, the road to Linton is still shut to through traffic, so Wetherby and a sandwich stop in the Wilderness car park. Silly name, north bank of the river downstream of the bridge. Last week I was told that the part collapsed bridge in Tadcaster was actually built as two bridges, photos make it obvious, and from downstream it looks as if the bridge in Wetherby is also two parallel bridges. May check on that one.
Sandwich stop and bridge inspection over, I rode the A 58 home to complete 31.5 miles for the day. As I was putting the bike away something glittered on the front tyre. Yup, a bit of something stuck in there, so I extracted that and did a proper look all around the tyre, quite a few little nicks and another three larger ones, one occupied by something sharp. The tyre has been on just over 1200 miles and has not yet let anything through. Cautiously optimistic here.
Really fast run into work, and the same, though slightly less gusty, headwind home. Had a chap beep at me on the way home, I figure he liked my lycra
