Chris Armstrong will lead the ride on Wednesday 2nd February.Meeting at The Route 59 Cafe near Bolton Abbey BD23 6AF from 9.00am setting off at 9.30am.
The Old Vicarage Cafe at Tosside
Riding west as the title suggests, via Gargrave, Bank Newton and Halton West to our coffee stop at The Old Vicarage, Tosside BD23 4SQ.
After coffee, it’s through delightful Bowland via Bentham to lunch at TheAlbion, 41 The Promenade, Arnside LA5 0HA overlooking the river Kent estuary.
Following lunch, it’s back east to Ingleton, Ribblehead and Malham finishing at the Route 59 Cafe, after a round trip of just 116 miles. A table is booked at the Albion so please text me on 07960 116 166 if you are coming so we can advise on numbers.
We have been out on two of our 2022 Rides already, but February will be with us soon and a Ride Leader is needed for the Sunday Ride on the 20th. It’s your club so don’t be shy and please step forward to lead a ride in 2022 if you can. If you have not volunteered before you must be a full IAM/HAB member. Any help you need to research, plan and recce your ride will be provided. There is a definitive guide on the HAB website with a link at the bottom of this page.
Here are the Sunday and Wednesday dates to choose from. It’s normally the third Sunday of the month and the first Wednesday but we do occasionally move the dates around.
Please get in touch if youcan to lead a ride this season. Contact details at the bottom of the page.
Sunday RidesWednesday Rides
Barry Ring-your Ride-Out coordinator 078747 786 608 0r barrya.ring@gmail.com
Trevor Cooper is organising a 3 day ride to Dumfries and Galloway with a two night stay at a Best Western hotel. A provisional block booking has been made at The Sure Hotel, Lockerbie with the single room costing £140, twins for 1 person at £160, for 2 nights. We are planning to eat in the hotel on both evenings, dining at 7.30pm. Breakfast and dinner sadly not included in the price.
Route Plan.
Day 1. Up through Barnard Castle, Teesdale to Alston and Langholm for a two night stay at The Sure Hotel in Lockerbie.
Day 2. A day around Galloway Forest Park, including parts of the South West 300.
Day 3. Final day back down through Brampton, Appleby and Hawes to Harrogate.
The Road Beckons
Please contact Trevor Cooper on 07525 130234, or trevorhcooper@msn.com to reserve your place and to confirm room requirements by the 7th February.
This Sunday 16th we are meeting at the Route 59 Cafe near Bolton Bridge BD23 6AF for our first Sunday Club Ride of 2022. Please arrive from 9.00am for chat and 9.30am set off. Make sure to have enough fuel for an 85 mile loop finishing at the A59 cafe again. The forecast is looking reasonable with little chance of rain.
The route takes us westwards on the A59 past Skipton and just before Gargrave we turn northwards towards Eshton and westwards again for Airton, over Scosthrop Moor for our morning stop in Settle BD24 9EJ (nothing booked but there are plenty of food outlets).
After morning break we are off westwards again cutting across the A65 on a back road through Eldroth joining the B6480 through the Benthams and to Melling. Northwards on the A683 to Cowan Bridge and then eastwards on the A65 to our lunch stop a few miles along on the right hand side so watch out for the turn. Lunch is booked for 12.30pm at the Earby Green Farm Caravan Site & Cafe LA6 2JH. Nice place, we have been there before.
After a hearty lunch we are of again eastwards on the A65 turning left towards Thornton-in-Lonsdale looping around Ingleton, on a roundabout route heading back to the A59 Cafe.
If you are planning to come along please send me a text 07847 786 608. A lunch table is booked for 8 people and it would be helpful if we need increase the table booking if necessary. There is covered outdoor seating if you prefer.
Please observe common sense distancing and wear facecoverings when necessary.
Mileage is about 85. Barry Ring is your ride leader with Paul Dresser as TEC.
Happy New Year to all. For our first mid week ride of 2022, we’re heading for fish & chips on the coast, with a mix of faster A & B roads, and some slower back roads.
Meeting atMorrisons in Boroughbridge YO51 9UR, 0900 for a 0930 start.
From Boroughbridge we head south east to the Aldwark Bridge then east via Tollerton, Huby, Sheriff Hutton & Bulmer to Castle Howard YO60 7DA for coffee.
Suitably refreshed, we head for Malton via Easthorpe, then 5 miles on the A64 before turning north for Yedingham, Snainton & Troutsdale and Hackness to arrive at our lunch venue, The Oasis Café, North Bay, Scarborough YO12 7TY where we can eat inside or outside.
After lunch returning to Stainton on the A170, then south west towards Marishes & Malton. Now the B1257 to Hovingham, then west to Yearsley, Husthwaite, Brafferton, & finally Morrisons Boroughbridge where we shall finish.
Please have regard to current Covid guidelines.
Hoping that you can join us on this 115 mile start to the New Year.
I hope some of you will be up for a brief but interesting ride prior to getting too involved in the Christmas season. This will be the last official ride before Christmas. The ride out on Sunday 19th December has taken into account the limited daylight and possible problems with the weather, not to mention the dreaded Omicron variant! The exact route will depend on these issues, which may cause route changes on the day, or in the worst case, sadly, cancellation. However, all being well we will depart from ASDA lorry park on Dragon Road, Harrogate at 9.30am hopefully with the sun shining on an unseasonably warm day!! We will take the direct popular main road route to the Biker Café at Bellerby via Ripon and Leyburn for an indulgence of Spam and Egg sandwiches or similar.
Manor Cafe Bellerby
From Bellerby we will travel to Reeth then onwards through Gunnerside and Muker, finally diving down via the Buttertubs Pass and stopping in Hawes for lunch.
Lunch Venue to be decided on the day!
The Penny Garth Cafe
The Chippy!
Or even The Creamery Grommet!
After lunch, returning via Kettlewell, Grassington and Pateley Bridge finishing at Ripley. Ice Cream for the hardy? The aim at this stage is to get back before the darkness and cold spoil things.
The total distance of the ride is 110 miles so most bikes should make it on one tank. Please Note. Weather: If freezing conditions or snow are forecast the ride will be cancelled so check your phones before setting out. Covid: If you have symptoms please do not attend.
Following David’s invitation to book for our Wednesday Christmas lunch, here is our route to the Bay Horse.
Meet at Morrison’s, Boroughbridge car park from 9am for 9.30am latest start.
We head east via Thornton Bridge, Brafferton, Brandsby, north to Helmsley, then on the A170 to the old favourite Beadlam Grange Farm Shop Cafe Y062 7TB for a quick coffee.
Outward & return journeys.
Its just less than an hour from here to our lunch stop, so we’ll leave Beadlam at 10.50am and should arrive at the Bay Horse, Great Broughton TS9 7HA in good time for our 12 noon lunch, via Hutton le Hole, Castleton, & Kildale.
After a great lunch we head back to Boroughbridge, via Rievaulx, Scawton, Bagby & Thornton Bridge. This is a 1 hour and 15 minute run or if time/weather is against us we can return via Northallerton & Thirsk in just an hour.
Total mileage is 100. If any lunchers are going straight to the Bay Horse and not joining our ride in, please let me know on 0747 300 5849.
A whistle stop journey south from the lorry park on Dragon Road, Harrogate heading south on the old A1. Meeting from 9.00am and setting off at 9.30am.
Morning stop is the Fox & Hounds in Newmillerdam (WF2 6QQ). After coffee and a snack it’s southwards again towards Penistone and on to the stunning Mortimer Road with switchbacks and surprise corners good enough to grace an alpine road. Just as you are getting into the groove we will reach our lunch venue at the Strines Inn in the Peak District (S6 6JE) overlooking its’ very own reservoir. We will need to book in so get in touch with me as soon as you can (07847 786608 by text please) so we can give the Inn an idea of the required numbers. You never know we may end up with decent weather and sit outside.
After lunch a mile or so south again onto the A57 westwards onto Snake Road past Ladybower Reservoir. It’s a little neutered with the 50mph limit these days and policed too, but you may get a careful overtaking opportunity in and the corners are certainly entertaining. Glossop is just up the road and where we make a right turn in the middle of town northwards again, on the B6105 with its’ own share of hairpin turns. Up on to the A628 and if the weather is clear and time permitting we will have a run up Holme Moss, through Holmfirth and on towards Denby Dale, in any case, for a fuel stop.
Last leg of this ride would normally include a quick stop at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park but the days are now short so it is straight onto the M1 north at junction 39. We will be finishing the ride at the Wetherby Services on the A1.
Total max mileage is 144 (if we go over Holme Moss and includes stint on the M1 at the end of the ride).
I hope you can make it, please get in touch on the number below.
Ride leader Barry Ring (07847 786608) TEC Roy Beniston
Good news-The Christmas lunch and ride out returns for 2021! A table has been reserved at the Bay Horse in Great Broughton for 12pm on Wednesday 1st December. Weather permitting there’ll be the usual ride to the venue and Andrew Pratt has kindly offered to plan this. Details of the ride will follow nearer the time.
I’ve been promised full menu details shortly but, in the meantime,please register your interest as soon as possible so I can get an idea of numbers.
Meet at The North Street Deli, 29 North Street, Wetherby LS22 6NU from 9am for a 9.30am start.
From Wetherby the route takes the York Road before turning right to Wighill and on to Tadcaster. South from Tadcaster on A162, turning left on Raw Lane to Ulleskelf, Cawood, the bridge over the River Ouse and on to Kelfield and Riccall.
We have atable reserved for Coffee Stop at the Pickled at Riccall café YO19 6QE (inside the post office). From Riccall to North Duffield, then north on the B1228, turn right on Ash Lane to Allerthorpe, Pocklington, on the B1246 through Warter, the A614 Beverley Road around Driffield south, right on B1249 to Brandesburton and the A1035 towards Hornsea for lunch.
Lunch stop Hornsea – Lily’s Beach Café HU18 1NJ if enough room otherwise ‘play it by ear’. From Hornsea, north on the B1242 to Atwick, turn right to continue north on A165, right on A614 then first left to Haistorpe, left on B1253 and turn right on minor road towards West Lutton, left to Malton Lane, left again to Low Road. After Kirby Grindalythe continue on B1248 to North Grimston, bear left on Cordike Lane to Langton and left on A64 south of Whitwell-on-the-Hill before taking first right, minor road towards Foston, Lillings, Ambo, Stillington, Easingwold, Raskelf, Helperby, Thornton Bridge and left to Boroughbridge.
OurRide Out ends at Morrisons car park, Boroughbridge. Length as described: approx. 145 miles. David Haywood will lead the ride, TEC to be appointed on the day.
