This month’s Sunday Ride-Out starts at the Route 59 Cafe near Bolton Bridge. Please arrive at the meeting point for 9.30am for a 9.45am set off after a ride briefing. Ride Leader-Barry Ring 078 47 786 608, TEC-Paul Holmes 077 46 378 175. A route total of 85 miles from the meeting point with approximately 3 hrs riding. If you arrive with plenty of fuel in your tank we won’t need to worry about a refill.

The first leg of our ride takes us westwards towards Skipton on the A59 continuing on the A65 towards Gargrave. Just before Gargrave it’s a right turn on Ray Bridge Lane up to Hetton and westwards again to Airton, Kirkby Malham and on to park in Settle Market Place (BD24 9EJ) to find a cafe for a cuppa. Please bear in mind Settle has a 2 hr disc parking scheme. As usual no information is available for motorcycles. We recommend you bring a disc anyway.

After morning break it’s westwards crossing the A65 and then joining the B6480 on to the Benthams, Wennington, Melling and north on the A683 towards Kirkby Lonsdale and going onto the A65 back eastwards for our lunch stop at Ireby Farm Cafe (LA6 2JH).

After lunch we continue east again on the A65 and nipping into Ingleton and on The Old Road to Clapham, briefly nipping onto the A65 and off again towards Austwick, Helwith Bridge, B6479 to Stainforth, up past Malham Tarn, Arncliffe, Kilnsey, Threshfield, Burnsall, past Bolton Abbey to Bolton Bridge and return to The Route 59 cafe for our goodbyes.

We would have done a recent recce if I hadn’t been scuppered by a bike problem on the day, but I’ve done the route before and don’t anticipate any problems with it. Here’s a route link to Tomtom as MyRoute-app wouldn’t show it correctly. I can send you the GPX (barrya.ring@gmail.com) but the route description is easy to follow anyway.

https://plan.tomtom.com/route/view/723060e0-d193-4473-80af-445c6c41bce9

The weather forecast isn’t great but as we get towards the weekend hopefully it’ll settle down and we can make a decision then. Watch out for further notification.