29th April 2017 - Tour de Yorkshire (a little ride out on tarmac;)

A couple of us went over to Yorkshire on Friday evening to stay over and cycle some of the tour route and see the women's race first then the men's Saturday ride. We stayed very near Pateley Bridge, sampled a Bangladeshi curry Friday evening, then rode down the hill Saturday morning for the women's race before riding along the route around Nidderdale AONB. We climbed the KOM above Lofthouse (hard work!) Headed over to Masham, enjoyed a cuppa tea and cake in a school near Fearby (Kell Bank CoE primary, they also had a brass band playing and a pizza oven, we stuck with cake:). We then took the B road down to Fountains Abbey for a quick look round a NT property ;) then headed to Hebden Bank to watch the tour climb the hill, before heading back. 
A grand day out 40 odd miles by bike, out all day, loads of Police motorbikes and generally very quiet roads for cycling along:)

What it says on the tin.... 

Just missing a chain!

Pateley Bridge before the riders

With riders, the breakaway

Peleton

Fountains Abbey

Police BMW

Riding up that hill....

I was there :)