Saturday Rides
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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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AOCC Destinations October
The club ride destinations for the Saturdays in October as discussed and agreed at the last club meeting are now confirmed as: – Boroughbridge – Airton – Knaresborough (via Ripley) – Oakworth (Millstack cafe) The dates are in the club calendar and the routes will be shared on Facebook in the week beforehand. All rides…
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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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AOCC September Club Ride Destinations
Moving into September, the Saturday club rides will go north, south, east and west this month. Starting south with Hebden Bridge, then out east to Bolton Percy, west to Barnsoldswick and finishing north with Ripon. These destinations give a range of route options of different distance and hilliness, with a good cafe at each. All rides depart…
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Aire Valley and The Four Seasons
This week’s club ride saw four riders meet at Rawdon Library. Initial discussions were held to try to resolve Ian’s ablution issues but we quickly realised that it was too complex so Ian said ‘Let’s Hang On’ and see what happens, so we set off, destination Shed24 in Hellifield. Hamish quickly realised that none of…
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Crushed by the (Hunt) Wheels of Industry
This week’s club ride destination was Kettlewell, five riders met up at Rawdon and Ian and Kim joined us at Otley. Best excuse for not attending was provided by Jonathan who was tired after a late night watching Heaven 17. The AIR riders followed Alan’s planned route, while the SRAN riders managed to add the…
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