AIR
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Who’s Zed? Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead…
On an overcast and miserable looking morning, four riders met at Rawdon. This week’s plan was to cycle to the farm shop in Cracoe. We were expecting Hamish until we received word that he was running late and that he would catch us up (not a chance we thought, not with the elite peloton that…
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UP DOWN, UP DOWN, UP DOWN, UP
5 AIR riders met at Rawdon, Jonathan and Nick due to time constraints (or maybe they had seen the elevation profile of the route) were only going up the valley for an early return. Dom, Kim & Alan setting off for Oakworth and the Mill Stack Cafe agreed a steady pace would be the order…
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HEAD BANGERS
It was a damp and misty Saturday when 6 met at Rawdon for the circuitous route to Knaresborough, going on to meet the remaining 3 at Pool. Nick, another one recovering from illness, deciding on a short route back via Otley, bade his farewells. As Hamish, Tom, Ian & Ryan headed off on a longer…
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Ridiculous bets and lack of traction on the ride to Airton
Eight riders met up in Rawdon this morning, all with hopes and dreams, mainly around eating bacon sandwiches in a cafe in Airton. A SRAN group consisting of Hamish, Nathan and Ryan headed off in an anti-clockwise direction, AIR riders Ian, Alan, Dom and Steve headed clockwise. Dave L, always the maverick, set off on…
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Breaking News: Average age on the AIR ride dips below 50!
Another glorious sunny Saturday saw 5 riders meet at Rawdon, one of which was Ryan a Leeds Beckett 1st year who joined us for his first AOCC ride. This week’s ride was out to Boroughbridge, Dave L turned back at Linton as he had planned leaving Dom, Alan and Steve to chase after Ryan all…
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How to speed up the AIR ride – don’t tell Ian about the bike shops
This week’s ride was a lumpy 60 miles out to Oliver’s Pantry in Ripon. Four riders met at Rawdon, Dave L went off on a short solo ride leaving Steve, Alan and Jimmy to meet Ian at Poole. Jimmy was on a short steady leg warmer before a brutal sounding off road race on Sunday.…
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Things ain’t cooking in my kitchen…
This week the AIR had planned to go to the cafe at Paceline Cycles in Crosshills and the SRAN were on a longer route to Barnoldswick. Due to Ian’s late withdrawl the AIR agreed that we didn’t need to look at bikes and that a stop half way would be better so we decided to…
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Let it Shine!
Only four takers for a sunny, flat ride out to Bolton Percy. We met Ian at Shadwell and set off together, Hamish formed a breakaway group of one and rode on ahead (it was an unusually amicable split for a boy band). The remaining three members made steady progress to the cafe enjoying the pleasant…
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Better the Devil you Know…
This week’s planned ride was a hilly one to Hebden Bridge. As the members began to congregate plans were laid to head instead to Burnsall on the familiar easier and shorter classic route. Excuses included lack of time, lack of fitness and lack of sleep. Due to some bumbling about in the car park culminating…
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THE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION
There were 3 at Rawdon for the ride to Cawood, myself, Dave L and Jimmi, we met Chris at The Dexter and headed for Barwick in Elmett to meet Jonathan. Dave turned off at Shadwell to do a shorter loop as still not back to full fitness. After picking up Jonathan at Barwick we headed…
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