Meeting point: Saint James Retail Park, Knaresborough, HG5 8PZ
Start Time: 09:15 for 09:30 departure – following a ride brief
Ride Leader: Paul Holmes – 07746 378175
TEC: Richard Smith –07784 500380
Coffee Stop: Digby’s Café, New Lennerton Lane, Sherburn in Elmet, LS25 6JE – (10% discount off food/drinks for motorcyclists)
Lunch: Seaways Café, Fridaythorpe, YO25 9RX
Finishing Point: Morrisons, Boroughbridge, HG4 2SB 
Finish Time: 16:15
Mileage: 133 miles

For those requiring fuel stops there are plenty of opportunities throughout the route. A copy of the GPX route file is available on request and also available using the following link:

https://www.myrouteapp.com/routetrack/open/11322461

We hope you can make the ride.

Regards

Paul

A dry warm and sunny morning is forecast for this Saturday and for our Spring Slow Riding Workshop at Tim’s Cafe, Thorpe Arch Trading Estate, Avenue D, Street 5, Nr. Wetherby, LS23 7FE on Saturday 31st May Starting at 9.30am and finishing around 12.00 noon. Practise your slow manoeuvres in a safe environment at a level you are comfortable with.

Breakfast available at the cafe from 7.30am and open until 2.00pm on Saturdays.

https://www.facebook.com/TimsCafeThorpArch

Our Spring Slow Riding Workshop and Training Day is at at Tim’s Cafe, Thorpe Arch Trading Estate, Avenue D, Street 5, Nr. Wetherby, LS23 7FE on Saturday 31st May Starting at 9.30am and finishing around 12.00 noon. https://www.facebook.com/TimsCafeThorpArch

Slow Riding is a skill that all motorcyclists need to have and maintain to be an Advanced Rider. Can you still do a u-turn within the constraints of a typical road and can you do a figure of eight in the same area? Is slow riding your weak point? Learning them for the first time or forgotten the core skills required to make slow manoeuvring a simple action? If the answer to the last question is yes HAB members full and associate need to come along to our Slow Riding Workshop on Saturday 31st May. The workshop starts at 9.30am and finishes around Noon. Facilities will be set up to practise slow riding and Harrogate Advanced Bike Observers will be there on the day to assist and advise where necessary.

There is, as the venue’s name suggests, food available at Tim’s Cafe on the site-open from 8.30am until 2.30pm . Not been to a HAB event for a while? It’s your club, use it or loose it they say, so be there if you can and even bring an interested mate.

Bob Hill- Chief Observer

Hello everyone, just a quick note about the Sunday social ride on 18^th May. Meet at Ripley Ice Cream HG3 3AX for 9.00am with a 9.15am start and returning to Booths in Ilkley LS29 8EE at 4.15pm. 

We’ll be covering approximately 164 miles and our route will take us across the North York Moors and into the Dales. View the map for waypoints or use the link below to get a GPX file via MyRouteapp. Breakfast brew at the Daff Caffy in Church Houses YO62 7LF & lunch will be at the Castle Bolton Tea Rooms DL8 4ET.  

gpx file of route – https://www.myrouteapp.com/embed/route/11025886?lang=en

If you are using Garmin Drive to download to your sat nav select .gpx 1.1 (route, track, POI) and only tick Car Share Lanes & Unpaved Roads in your navigation AVOIDANCES.

PLEASE NOTE: If you intend to join this social ride out and it will be your first HAB ride out, please e-mail beforehand (ds55dcs@outlook.com).

Finally, Barry is ready to step in if necessary, but if more than six riders attend we’ll need a TEC, if anyone with experience wishes to volunteer for the day would you please text me on 07879 470554 before 12^th May – thank you.

Looking forward to seeing you all there for a great day out!

Derek

The meeting at Bilton Cricket Club starts at 7.30pm, but arrive earlier if you can for a drink and a chat. This Monday’s HAB meeting we have Mark Gibson, who runs Seven Seas Motors, a Japanese Motorcycle Specialist. Mark is coming to talk about his time living and working in Japan and other countries in Asia, the thriving motorcycle import company based in Morley Leeds and his motorcycle travel company Motorcycle Tours Japan. You can visit the websites for a peek at:

https://www.sevenseasmotors.com

https://www.motorcycletoursjapan.com

It’s going to be sunny and warm again on Monday so there is a Ride-In. Meet in the car park of The Curious Cow of Harrogate, Otley Road HG3 2AP at 6.00pm to leave at 6.15pm for an hour’s ride around the lanes to arrive at Bilton Cricket Club for our meeting around 7.15pm.

Let’s get a good turnout for Mark for this meeting.

Thank you to all the HAB club members who made it to the Harrogate Advanced Bikes Annual General Meeting on Monday 14th April at Bilton Cricket Club. Whether you made it to the AGM or not you can read the minutes of the meeting by clicking on the link below.

Upcoming Events:

Richard Stembrowicz-Chairman

It’s time for our AGM Monday evening meeting at Bilton Cricket Club (HG1 3DQ) starting at 7.30pm. If you are a member of Harrogate Advanced Bikes, get there if you can, and take part in the nominations of your committee or indeed get yourself involved in discussions on the future of the club. You can view the official notification sent out on March 12th and the nomination forms also sent out March 16th by clicking on the links below or go to the original messages on the website. If you’ve not been to a meeting for a while, renew your interest, it would be great to see you all, turn up on your motorcycles if you can or join the Ride-In.

How to get there and get your dinner/tea? Well it’s summertime and there is a Ride-In. Meet at The Wetherby Whaler (in Wetherby LS22 6NE) at 5.00pm for sit down fish and chips, or just turn up for the Ride-In at 6.00pm, setting off at 6.15pm for an hour’s ride around some local lanes and back to the Cricket Club in time for our AGM. It would be helpful to know if you are coming along for the fish and chips and/or the Ride-In. Text Barry on 07847 786608. Or just arrive upstairs at the Wetherby Whaler.

Starting point–Meet at Morrisons RIPON –(not Boroughbridge!) HG4 2RU-fuel available. Get there by 9.15am to leave at 9.30am after a chat and a ride briefing.

The ride goes through Masham, Middleham, Redmire, Askrigg, Garsdale and onto our COFFEE STOP – Fairfield Mill Tea Rooms, Sedburgh LA10 5LW (approx. 1hr 40.)

Back in the saddle, eastwards and then northwards towards Kirkby Stephen but nipping to Nateby and east on the B6270 all the way to Reeth DL11 6SY for LUNCH with plenty of eating places to choose from.

After a hearty lunch, continuing on the B6270 to Grinton and onto Castle Bolton, then West Burton, Grassington (Fuel stop @ 125 miles)and finishing at Stump Cross Caverns HG3 5JL. 

Approximately 130 miles in total, Peter McNulty is your Ride Leader and Peter Smith is TEC.

We’ll meet in Ripley village HG3 3AX with plenty of fuel at 9.15am for a 9.30am depart, heading west for Threshfield, north to Arncliffe and over the tops to Settle Market Place BD24 9ED for coffee break. BRING A DISC FOR FREE PARKING.

Suitably refreshed we head north, crossing the Ribble at Stainforth Force and on to Austwick, Gressingham and Caton. Southwards to Quernmore and then east through the Trough for lunch at The Riverbank Tearooms, Slaidburn BB7 3ES

After lunch we’re eastwards via Bolton by Bowland, Nappa, Gargrave and Broughton where we join the A59 for a short run to the Route 59 cafe, BD23 6AF where our 120 mile ride will finish. 

Andrew Pratt is leading this one, with David Haywood on TEC duty and we hope you can join us for what promises to be a great day out.

Our Route is here:- https://www.myrouteapp.com/en/social/route/10786277?mode=share

HAB members will be aware that in the UK we have confusing arrangements for motorcycle use in bus lanes. At the moment we don’t have any bus lanes in Harrogate but it looks like we might be getting one. Motorcycle use of bus lanes isn’t universal though. York has bus lanes and it’s okay to use them where signs permit. In parts of Leeds there is some use of bus lanes allowed. London allows motorcycle use in bus lanes where signs permit. In Bradford it’s now okay. It’s all very confusing.

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

A petition have been started by Colin Brown of the Motorcycle action Group and is endorsed by Nick Lyes, IAM RoadSmart Policy and Standard Director.

MAG’s take on this: “The overwhelming a majority of individual responses to the consultation were in favour of allowing motorcycle access. We believe that large amounts of real-world evidence proves the policy is safe with over 55 local authorities allowing motorcycle access to approximately half of the nation’s bus lanes by length. Our view is that a default policy does not erode the authority to make local decisions”.

If you agree that a default use of bus lanes by motorcycles is a good thing, potentially reducing congestion, pollution and journey times. You can add your name to the petition by clicking on the link below:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/712763

If you agree then please share with fellow motorcyclists or even four wheeled motorists.

Paul Dresser