Dodgy Knee, the blog: PCW Day Four

PCW Day Four

FROM Whitegate Farm TO Hebden Bridge - Saturday, 25TH AUGUST

25 miles cycled

Before failing to get away by 9:00,...

...some much need bike maintenance.

These were nearly new at the start

I could not believe the rate we were getting through brake pads. We'd all had issues. Keith with his disks had brake fade.

Sometime yesterday I lost a screw that holds my rack on. When we stopped at Holmfirth for breakfast we found an excellent proper hardware shop with really helpful staff.

A proper shop for proper people

Did you know the collective noun for a group of cyclists is a peleton? It comes from the French for 'outrageously dressed road hazard'. Only joking. They were a really nice bunch.

Breakfast at Beatties...

...opposite Sid's Café

There was a Netherthong as well, and a Netherbridge half way between them.
Netherwhere, I don't know.
Sorry...

The day slowly brightened...

Wat!?

...and turned into glorious day full of far reaching views in the best of weather..

...and we started to think about lunch.

Pole Moor summit 1165 ft above sea level

Under the M62

We hit Barkisland. A nice looking place, cricket on the green and a plethera of pubs.

Aah time travel. Can't beat it.

We asked a trio of locals watching the match where we might get lunch and of course it's mid afternoon again. The only place is a mile off route.

Lunch at Barkisland.

The pub was shear luxury. It was holding a wedding and we enjoyed (well, David didn't) lunch on the veranda watching the creepy uncle play with all the little kids.

As I put my bag down, the one with all me baubles in it, there was a small desperate crunch. I found out later that my camera screen is cracked. Sigh. The poor thing had been rattling around me baubles bag because a sudden monsoon had dowsed its protective case and that needed drying out.

What is this?

At the end of the day we reached Hebden bridge. We didn't have a lot of daylight left so we took a rather direct path to the New Delight Inn, bypassing the notorious 'The Buttress'! Blast. Well that's a good reason to do it all again then...