Meet Morrisons supermarket car park in Boroughbridge (Wetherby Road, Boroughbridge YO51 9HS), 9.45am for a 10.00am prompt start.
Lunch at the White Monk Tearoom in Blanchland, Northumberland.
Route finishes at Brymor Ice Cream in Jervaulx. Length around 140 miles.
All members welcome – hope to see you there!
I’ll be leading a ride this Thursday to Ravenstonedale near Kirkby Stephen for lunch at The Black Swan.
Meet Ripley car park at 10.00 for prompt start at 10.15am.
The route will be approximately 120 miles, from Ripley up Wharfedale, over the tops to Hawes then on to Ravenstonedale. Return route via Swaledale.
All members welcome – look forward to seeing you!
David Haywood
At the time of posting, our ride co-ordinator, Andy Pratt, has had no-one come forward to lead our Sunday ride outs in June or July. These are the ride outs that are scheduled to take place on the third Sunday in each of the summer months and which form the key social riding events of the club’s programme. It will greatly disappoint many of our members if there is no ride out organised for both these popular summer Sundays.
If you are a full member of Harrogate Advanced Bikes you are qualified to lead a ride out if you are interested in doing so. It is a chance to take friends down some of your favourite roads and to friendly refreshment stops. Leading a ride is not stressful. It just means being clear about the route (120 – 140 miles), indicating the junctions to be marked, sorting out the stops and finding a volunteer to be your tail end charlie. A full reconnaissance is advised to check there are no special hazards or road closures and to enable you to give a pre ride briefing. Rides start from the lorry car park adjacent to Asda in Harrogate and can finish at any convenient stopping point not too far away.
If you have the June and July dates in your diary, please give some serious thought to volunteering for one of them. Andy will be pleased to offer further information and advice if you contact him via email using andrewpratt12@yahoo.co.uk Colleagues who join the rides will greatly appreciate your commitment.
Posted by Doug Masterton – Chief Observer
Our ride out on Sunday 17th May will be led by Barry Ring and features the ‘Summer Wine’ scenery of West Yorkshire. Mirek Matwiejczyk will be Tail-End-Charlie.
Meet at ASDA lorry park, usual time 9.00-9.15 for prompt 9.30 start with full fuel tanks. The route is through West Yorkshire, which Barry has led on several previous occasions , but this time with a twist – running in reverse. Through Wetherby and then using parts of the old A1 to the first stop for morning coffee at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton. After coffee it’s across the moors including a trip up to Holme Moss.
Lunch is at The Carriage House at Marsden on the A62.
After lunch north via a switch-back route across the moors through Hebden Bridge taking riders on to Keighley, Addingham and finally ending the ride at the A59 cafe where, hopefully, there will betime for a last cup of tea before going home.
The weather forecast is currently okay. Mileage 145 approx. Fuel stop at 85 miles if required.
The evening ride /meet on Monday 11th May will be to the Chez Nous cafe at The Stone Yard, Fishergate, Boroughbridge. The owners have very kindly offered to open late just for us to meet there. Accordingly it would be nice if we could all manage to buy some food and drinks to make it worth their while.
Meet at ASDA lorry park as usual at 7.00pm for a prompt 7.10 start. After the cafe we will ride back on the nice roads via Easingwold to finish at the A1/A59(York Road) roundabout.
John Blanchfield has kindly volunteered to lead the ride.
Chris Armstrong had offered to lead the ride–out but owing to bike trouble he now unable to do this.
Anyone attending will be free to choose a route to suit themselves.
Those wishing to meet up for an impromtu ride should go to the Route 59 Cafe (a few hundred yards west of the Bolton Abbey roundabout on the A59) at 10.00 for a 10.15am prompt start.
Chris apologises for this unforeseen difficulty.
Meet at the Route 59 Cafe (a few hundred yards west of the Bolton Abbey roundabout on the A59) at 10.00 for a 10.15am prompt start.
Chris Armstrong will lead this ride through Upper Wharfedale with a coffee stop at Kilnsey Trout Hatchery, over the top to Malham, Settle and on to lunch at a cafe at Tosside in the Trough of Bowland.
After lunch the route heads towards Clitheroe and Pendle Hill villages, finishing at the layby at Skipton Golf Club.
Mileage estimated at around 150 miles.
All members welcome!
As you may have seen in the Minutes from the Committee Meeting on 7th April, i2i Motorcycle Academy having generously given the club two free places for their ‘Machine Control 2’ Off-Road course worth £170 each.
One of these places will be awarded to the winner of the ‘Rider of the Year’ award to be held at the slow riding/gymkhana event next Sunday. The value of the second place will be split amongst all members who first register interest in and then sign-up for the course.
If you are interested in this course and would like to take advantage of this money saving offer, please send an email to Doug at rdmasterton@btinternet.com as soon as possible.
Here’s the link to the i2i website:
http://www.i2imca.com/MachineControl.asp