Re: ride-out route
 

What about A59--J36M6--A590Levens--Newby Bridge--A592--Windermere--
J40M6--Penrith--A66--Brough--A695--A683--Sedbergh--A684--Hawes--
B6255--Ribblehead--B6479--Settle--A59--Austwick

If people are finding it a bit much they can shorten the last leg by staying on the A683 at Sedbergh to Kirby Lonsdale and back down the A65 to Austwick

Some nice easy roads Lakes and Moors,mixed bag and not to far
Short=110miles
Long = 140miles

Re: ride-out route
 

Sorry to be a pedant, but I'm guessing you mean the A65 and not the A59?

Sounds like it could be a good route - I could give it a try later this week (anyone welcome to join me) if that'd help?


EDIT - meant to say I can try Jester666's suggestion too, i have Weds - Sat off work this week, so I can try both routes and see what works out better.

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Just one note of caution here, at this time of year the lakes are going to be choc a block with caravans and day trippers not everyone in the group may be confident enough to spend the day overtaking to keep up with the quicker riders, dont mean to knock back peoples efforts btw

Re: ride-out route
 

This thread has been open since Feb,the route and rider group are being organised by
Treacle

He and a couple of others are making the trip up to investigate a few possible routes (stops/petrol & Lunch locations) at the end of the week, following this trip a route will be planned and announced.

Those people that have PM'd me with suggestions have had them passed on to Treacle.

Cheers Mark.

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Not much point going to the Lake District if you don,t visit the Lakes and as people are going to encounter taffic on the way to Austwick it will be good practice for them. Should the route be set on lesser "B"Class roads to avoid traffic we then incur much more difficult riding terrain. The previous rideouts have always had different levels of riding skills so providing you ride within your capabilities,be it slow/med or fast,as long as you are aware of the next stop-off point everybody meets up again,even stragglers in the slowest group
The route I suggested had taken this into account with faster A roads after the lakes to enable "catch-up" plus a short cut at the end staying on the main "A" road so that anybody/everybody could arrive back at the venue near enough the same time
I take your point full and well but we are always going to have different riding skills within a large group and as you can't please all the people all the time it
was suggested hoping to please some of the people some of the time.
The powers that be no doubt will take all these points into consideration when posting the agreed on route-----------We will just have to wait and see----------have faith but no doubt your comment has been noted.

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Two points, 1st being Austwick is not actually in the Lakes, its Yorkshire Dales National Park, plenty of bike roads there ;) 2nd being the A65 being one of the more dangerous roads in the area :( Its a real nice bike road but with heavy traffic, limited overtake opportunities and the police tend to be there in force over weekends, not all the cars are marked either :smt013

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Sorry I mentioned anything now.

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don,t be ;)

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Guys can you vote here please

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=90656

Cheers Mark.

Re: ride-out route
 

liked the route posted by jester666.
Have ridden them roads before. Riding via Kettlewell would be fun...as a suggestion , or tanhill- highest pub around. My fella says its a shame his ypvs is off road and hes coming on raptor cause he'd leave us all for dust like he did last year up Ayesgarth....:D
Perhaps I may be able to shake off the fear of the near head on crash i had up there last year

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Why fank ewe!! :D

Only took 5 mins looking at an atlas as well!!! :cool:

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Theres some killer roads up there. We went up tanhill and theres some very mad moments along the way. Stick to tha path comes to mind. Lots of twissty moorland roads.
Has anyone warned the butty shop in Hawes that they'll be descended on by a load of nutters for breakfast etc.

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Already said i would draught up a route for you ! but it looks like you have someone else to do it. :wink:

All you had to do was drop a PM if you wanted it :D (it's not a secret and i had 3 routes draughted for discussion)

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You suggest but we decide:)

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Mhhh would seem that way Ce la Vie ;)

Re: ride-out route
 

this thread has been open since the begin of March, no route of use was posted within the time for planning.

members of the marker team rode up to the area and have now planned a route for the Saturday.

Cheers Mark.