Random pics from a ride up north.

[rictus01]

Cheers Mark

[BanannaMan]

Wow great pics there Mark!
Stunning scenery!
Thanks for sharing!

[timwilky]

Damm you Mark

don't go showing people why we live up here, we will be over run by you shandy suppers

Devils looked empty apart from kids/parents after a bacon butty. I have yet to get up there this year. And no queue of 50+ bikes at Settle for fuel. (It was Settle?)

[Paul the 6th]

Yeah defo settle.

Nice photos. Really want to ride now, bring on the weekend when I get enough daylight to fix the damn bike.

Nice little picture bio of some of the routes/stops up here.

Nice snaps Mark, looking forward to the Filling Station writeup....although it looked shut the first time you got there on your trip, were you very early or late?

[andrewsmith]

You wouldn't think that its winter looking at the pics
Defo like to see a write up of the routes.

Tim that was Settle

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

Nice snaps Mark, looking forward to the Filling Station writeup....although it looked shut the first time you got there on your trip, were you very early or late?

Yep same here!

[rictus01]

review already done Maria it's here.

was a good trip, the friday was quite mild although I did the 408 miles in the daylight, it was about freezing temp, but not much snow on the roads, I got to Newcastle just as the light began to fade, but my layers/heated grips and insoles did a marvelous job and I can honestly say I wasn't cold.

I had more of a tight schedule on the Saturday, so I came out of the premier Inn at 05.08am, it was bitterly cold, real cut through you stuff, dark and ice don't really go together that well and it made the going tough, but made it to Whitby, then down the coast road cutting in to the moors, here it just froze, the ambient temp re ading dropped to -11.4 and I was riding on sheet ice for a good while, the white of the snow on the moors and the ice on the road made it hard to differentiate between them at times, not to mention the buildup of ice both on the outside and inside of the visor, each time I removed my left hand from the bar muff to wipe the visor it was like holding a wet hand in the airflow, all my layers and electrics were at best just holding their own, at one point I hit a small bump at couldn't tell if the handlebar movement was from that or from me shivering!

I caught the start of daylight just coming off the moors and stopped for a while, grateful for the two flasks of coffee I had brought with me, just stopping out of the wind had me warm again in 15 minutes, so set off for York, pushing on I was trying to make Allerton Park (my appointment that morning) by 08.30am, but it'd been a hard morning already, so just coming out of York I found a little cafe and stopped for a fryup, recharged the batteries and ready to go again, got to the weight pull (Sam's dogs) at around 09.15am, the road to the farm was ice covered and that require a little concentration, turned off the engine and rolled down the hill the last 5-600 yards (didn't know if they had started yet and my engine noise could have put the dogs off), weird rolling over ice on the bike with no power, anyway got there and parked up.

Great morning watching Malamutes do what they are supposed to do, with a lovely couple of cups of tea thrown in to keep the chills at bay.

I write up some more a bit later.

Cheers Mark.

[Paul the 6th]

Are you sure you're not from Yorkshire Mark? You 'ard bastid.