10-08-2021, 08:10 AM
Well the forecast today was sunny all day with temps at the high teens ( centigrade)
So the Accounts dept and I kittted up and boarded Nelly Pledge (our CB .. she's a Lancashire lass so the name fits)
We are lucky to live right on the doorsteps of the glorious Yorkshire Dales so heading north is our default option.So we set sail towards the area known as the Lake District, but the Lake District is famous for slow moving tourist traffic, so I planned a route round the coastal side of the LD, and it sure delivered with a deserted main road route that offers superb rolling tarmac in perfect condition...well right up to the moment we turned off on a small side road to explore a road into the edge of the LD
What a road!... completely the opposite of the first road...gnarly single track ribbon of tarmac topped off with mud, gravel with many switchbacks flooding across our path.
No passing places (thank heavens we didn't meet anything coming the other way)
It's been years since I rode these types of roads and even longer in wet soggy conditions like today.The LD often see's heavy rainy periods at any time of year and obviously there had been some serious rain on the night before, but as we would be struggling to turn around ( the grass verges were deep and full of rain water we pressed on..
We ended up very close to my original destination of a small coastal town called Ravenglass where we refuelled on tea and cake (naturally!)
All in all a round trip of 200miles so for us that's a good day out given we didn't set forth until 11am
http://imgur.com/a/vK3eROq
Hope you can see the pics..I did this from my phone so don't know the ins and outs of this way of doing it..
JT
So the Accounts dept and I kittted up and boarded Nelly Pledge (our CB .. she's a Lancashire lass so the name fits)
We are lucky to live right on the doorsteps of the glorious Yorkshire Dales so heading north is our default option.So we set sail towards the area known as the Lake District, but the Lake District is famous for slow moving tourist traffic, so I planned a route round the coastal side of the LD, and it sure delivered with a deserted main road route that offers superb rolling tarmac in perfect condition...well right up to the moment we turned off on a small side road to explore a road into the edge of the LD
What a road!... completely the opposite of the first road...gnarly single track ribbon of tarmac topped off with mud, gravel with many switchbacks flooding across our path.
No passing places (thank heavens we didn't meet anything coming the other way)
It's been years since I rode these types of roads and even longer in wet soggy conditions like today.The LD often see's heavy rainy periods at any time of year and obviously there had been some serious rain on the night before, but as we would be struggling to turn around ( the grass verges were deep and full of rain water we pressed on..
We ended up very close to my original destination of a small coastal town called Ravenglass where we refuelled on tea and cake (naturally!)
All in all a round trip of 200miles so for us that's a good day out given we didn't set forth until 11am
http://imgur.com/a/vK3eROq
Hope you can see the pics..I did this from my phone so don't know the ins and outs of this way of doing it..
JT
