Great Weekend

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Yesterday I did 74 very hilly miles, from Morley over the Pennines to Denshaw and Delph then back
over Saddleworth Moor to Holmefirth.

Beautiful area, had the pleasure of driving around the area on my way to Oldham last week, looking
forward to cycling it next month.

Pete

Yes, there are some superb views. I regularly go up that way on the road from Ripponden that ducks
under the M62 at junction 23 (I think). I don't go as far as Delph very often though but that road
is really scenic especially looking back, west, with the two reservoirs. Yesterday there were some
folk sailing there and at one of the farms the farmer was training some young collies. Another one
of my favourites is from Hebden Bridge to Littleborough and back to Ripponden.

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"M Series" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Yesterday I did 74 very hilly miles, from Morley over the Pennines to Denshaw and Delph then
back over Saddleworth Moor to Holmefirth.

Beautiful area, had the pleasure of driving around the area on my way to Oldham last week, looking
forward to cycling it next month.

Pete

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Yesterday I did 74 very hilly miles, from Morley over the Pennines to Denshaw and Delph then back
over Saddleworth Moor to Holmefirth. Through Denby Dale towards Wakefield and home via Dewsbury and
Heckmondwike. Why are they so many tosspots driving cars in Batley ?

Because they are all transfixed by the idea of going to Ikea ?

I did about 5 miles and a 2 mile walk with my 2 year old daughter :-)

--
Chris French, Leeds

M Series said:

Yesterday I did 74 very hilly miles, from Morley over the Pennines to Denshaw and Delph then back
over Saddleworth Moor to Holmefirth. Through Denby Dale towards Wakefield and home via Dewsbury
and Heckmondwike. Why are they so many tosspots driving cars in Batley ?

Its not limited to Batley, the whole of Spen Valley is filled with them!!!!

SNARL

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Steve Foster
s . p . foster (at) leeds . ac . uk

I regularly ride from Huddersfield to Morley on the A62, but on Saturday I travelled around Dewsbury
through Batley proper to the A62 junction and on this stretch some Twunts in three different Nissans
thought it cool to hurl abuse at me and another cyclist that was ahead of me. Poor bloke he was not
even dressed up in lycra. Not going that way again, [censored] road anyway.

"Steve Foster" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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M Series said:

Yesterday I did 74 very hilly miles, from Morley over the Pennines to Denshaw and Delph then
back over Saddleworth Moor to Holmefirth. Through Denby Dale towards Wakefield and home via
Dewsbury and Heckmondwike. Why

are

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they so many tosspots driving cars in Batley ?

Its not limited to Batley, the whole of Spen Valley is filled with

them!!!!

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SNARL

--
Steve Foster
s . p . foster (at) leeds . ac . uk

chris French said:

Because they are all transfixed by the idea of going to Ikea ? I did about 5 miles and a 2 mile
walk with my 2 year old daughter :-)

During National Cycle week, we cycled upto Ikea for the free lunch...

The amount of abuse that we got, esp. my wife. But hey, we didn't see them getting out for a free
meal ticket.

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Steve Foster

s . p . foster (at) leeds . ac . uk

M Series said:

Yesterday I did 74 very hilly miles, from Morley over the Pennines to Denshaw and Delph then back
over Saddleworth Moor to Holmefirth. Through Denby Dale towards Wakefield and home via Dewsbury
and Heckmondwike. Why are they so many tosspots driving cars in Batley ?

Today I converted my bike from Uniglide to Hyperglide. Following Sheldon Browns information on
replacing a freehub body it went relatively smoothly so I can now use Hyperglide cassettes instead
of filing the splines on to make them fit on my old UG freehub body. Thanks Sheldon.

<ot> After that I replaced the hard disk on my Linux box, added a second hard disk for
backups. </ot>

Saturday I took the kids to Dewsbury (in the car my youngest is only 8) and we did a bit of the
canal and up & down the Spen Valley greenway. This is a fine thing - we should have more of them. 16
miles all in all.

Sunday I set off from East Ardsley, on bridleways into Middletown woods (nice downhill), back up to
the top and down the cycle way to the White Rose, up the hill into Morley, down the A650 to Tong,
Bridleway down & under the M62 to Cleckheaton, Roads to the start of the aforementioned Spen Valley
cycleway, along that to the other end, then the towpath into wakefield, back on the road home.

Very nice :-)

Phil