#cycling #yorkshiredales #yorkshire #oakleyjawbreaker Cold, clear., sunny conditions. Ideal for a non-repeating, Dales-bound superloop.
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@lindajesse82503 ай бұрын
Hey, take a break! Allow us to enjoy the view. Thanks for this. Safe travels.😊❤
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Good idea! There's so much to take in. I sometimes forget to look at the road!
@Tarmaccyclocross3 ай бұрын
Having just been out and sitting down with a cup of coffee watching you going up the climbs it made my legs ache even more 😫🤣
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Haha - I made hard work of the big climb at 75 miles but these days come around sometimes. Hopefully it won't slow down your recovery too much!
@Langers.3 ай бұрын
Always look forward to your video's. Some great scenery in the dales 🙂🚴
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks ! The dales never disappoint and I've got a long list of rides for the next few months, including some train-out/ride-home linear routes.
@andrewshore97093 ай бұрын
Very inspiring to watch such a great ride 💪
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks Andrew. It's a beautiful place for cycling and at long last the weather was good.
@jdsenior743 ай бұрын
What a ride you must be as fit as a fiddle, some lovely views on the way a great ride that one, well done and look forward to the next video !!!!
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this dramatic sweep through the dales. It's my longest ride since June last year and I was feeling it a bit, but nowadays I just knock 1-2 mph off and enjoy the countryside. With a little luck I'll be getting out to different parts of limestone country over the coming weeks.
@trevorhalstead4429 күн бұрын
Great ride well done
@clippingin15938 күн бұрын
Thanks, Trevor. Almost 4 months since I did this circuit! The dales rarely disappoint.
@andrewc9483 ай бұрын
A great day out on the Yorkshire roads. Thanks for taking us along Gordon.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks Andrew. It was a real treat to be pedalling through that countryside. I know the area well but I was still marvelling at the views and changing landscapes.
@69nisab3 ай бұрын
Amazing ride. Well done.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks. It's an old favourite circuit which I'd do at Easter, usually on the Saturday or Sunday after a Good Friday race. I'm a lot slower nowadays but the countryside never disappoints.
@mattjohn77003 ай бұрын
Fantastic video ,going to watch it again.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks Matt, it was a grand day to be out. I was still tired from Tuesday's 6 Hrs MTB but this was too good to miss. The clarity of light was incredible in the dales - difficult to keep my eyes on the road as I dropped into Wharfedale.
@treyquattro3 ай бұрын
I did too
@hiworldstephensonultranate2903 ай бұрын
Incredible narrow roads Tuf climbs cars etc. My days are done with this loved it 🚲🚴✔️
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
It's such a varied circuit starting in an industrial city, taking in picture-postcard villages, and then passing through limestone country. I restarted cycling just over 2 years ago and it all feels like a bonus nowadays.
@hiworldstephensonultranate2903 ай бұрын
Tks
@hiworldstephensonultranate2903 ай бұрын
All the best GT comeback hopefully now Spring
@hiworldstephensonultranate2903 ай бұрын
Wow Very Tuf Going n to watch Well Done
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks again.
@shaunwhiteman60283 ай бұрын
Great ride, well done
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks, Shaun. Another glimpse of spring and the dales looked great for it.
@KM-wl1tp3 ай бұрын
I think you're an inspiration to people to get out on their bikes 👍
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Many thanks, that's lovely. A lot of people described the pre-Christmas series of Sub 2 Hr rides as inspirational, which I was thought was wonderful. This one's 200km but there can be as much joy to be found in a 40 km outing. I often say that 'the best ride' is the one you're doing now or the one you're going to do next.
@KM-wl1tp3 ай бұрын
@@clippingin1593 absolutely 👍
@onemorecyclist3 ай бұрын
What a ride that was! Much kudos, Gordon. Amazing views of Buckden Pike dead ahead and that's another road from one of your videos added to the list to go and try sometime! Couldn't agree more having the opportunity and health to get out on the bikes is a gift! 🙂
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Kidstones is a classic with some incredible views as you plunge into Wharfedale - you'll definitely enjoy it. Climbing Fleet Moss in the direction you did last summer then going down Wensleydale to Aysgarth for Kidstones makes for a real grimpeur's circuit
@treyquattro3 ай бұрын
massive effort! Well done.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Cheers Trey. Great conditions (just a bit cold) and one of those circuits which has a bit of everything. I had to give it a bash and I'm really glad that I did.
@treyquattro3 ай бұрын
@@clippingin1593 words to live by about being thankful for health and fitness and ability to ride bikes!
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
@@treyquattro I think when we're training for objectives then we often look-through individual rides as they become sessions and building blocks in modules. That's certainly how I was in the 90s & 00s, but after my accident and several years of being unable to ride at all, I somehow came back in early '22 and now I try to make the most of every outing, long or short.
@michaelthorp28673 ай бұрын
Great video, an idea for a rainy day video planning and navigating route, you make it look so effortless, thanks again.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks Michael, it's great countryside and I'm sure there are all kinds of variations to be found. There are so many hidden gems in that area.
@DuncMcNutt3 ай бұрын
Well done on that 200km ride Gordon! I can't believe you had fingerless gloves on, it's still freezing up here. Blummin eck', I haven't ridden past Kirkstall Abbey for about 35 years! Nice route it seemed.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Last Saturday started with a frost and it stayed cold for most of the day. My hands don't feel it though - even in my mountaineering days I could thin inner gloves at -10 C whilst my mates were struggling in huge mitts. I'm very prone to 'ice-cream headaches' though, that's why I hardly ever ride with just a helmet. It has to be 20-25 C for me to ditch the cap.
@barrygraham75983 ай бұрын
God bless brother 🙌🏼 should never be taken for granted. Safe journeys your a gent. Love your content 😊 from Northern Ireland 😊
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks Barry. It's too easy nowadays to let rides be defined by 'data' and lose sight of the sheer beauty and simple joy which cycling can deliver. Glad you're enjoying the videos
@andygolborne57473 ай бұрын
Some brilliant roads . That climb out of Bishopdale is "fun" but it's amazing on the top there and wort it for the Kidstones descent and the run down through Wharfedale..
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Cheers Andy. I like the way this circuit develops with the picture postcard villages on the edge of the York plain giving way to dales high country. I once did an extended version via Aysgarth & Hawes then up Widdale to Ribblehead - takes it to 150 miles but it's a stunner.
@davidfrench9093 ай бұрын
Another great video, 8hrs ride in April finishing with your usual climb out of Keighley back up to Queensbury. Chapo
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
The dreaded Flappit Well climb never gets any easier, although it's a little quieter now that the recycling centre has closed. It was a great day out though - cheers David.
@michaeldenton25813 ай бұрын
A Classic 200 Gordon 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻…taking in some of the splendour of our wonderful Yorkshire Countryside. I’ve always preferred climbing Kidstones from the Buckden side tho rather than West Burton (it’s easier…ish in comparison 😆). A word of warning, never call it “Mash..ham” I once got a right telling off by a little old lady in the co-op there. It’s always pronounced “Mass..ham” 😇
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Cheers Mick. The wind gusted on that part but I said " You can call it Mash-am if you want, but everyone will laugh at you" 😁 Kidstones is a classic from either direction but I think you're right about the Buckden side, although there's that final steep cruncher after the bend. My main reason for doing this circuit anticlockwise is so that I'm crossing Leeds when it's quiet.
@gordontyrrall52993 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed that - I know many of these roads,being from Embsay and living in Leeds - but I never ride them all in one go😂
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Cheers Gordon. Being a dalesman you'll know just how wonderful the countryside is. I'll have to go over to Embsay from the Barden side later this year - should make for a good video feature.
@gordontyrrall52993 ай бұрын
@clippingin1593 yes, there's a long ascent from Barden to Eastby fell - I've ridden it the other way,with an equally steep bit out of Eastby. Have you done Norwood Edge? Near Otley - you'd love that.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
@@gordontyrrall5299 Norwood Edge is a classic from that direction. We'd continue to the Sun Inn then either turn L over the reservoirs and head to Askwith via Snowden, or keep straight on to Pateley and more hills! Great cycling country.
@toddfield47443 ай бұрын
Belter of a ride Gordon. Hope the recovery was kind to you
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Thanks Todd. I'll be a bit flat for a few days but it was a cracking day out. My feet got a bit nipped in the cold air, that'll teach me to use summer shoes in April 😃
@maxgamboltv99403 ай бұрын
Very inspiring, I make similar videos you doing great man🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Awesome. It's truly a great pastime.
@gmivisualsjason37293 ай бұрын
200km! Wow just wow......... Don't you get lonely? I must confess part way into the 100km ride I did a few days ago I was actually wanting someone to chat to!
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
Cheers Jason. That's an interesting point - I suppose I've been doing these rides for so many years that I have an internal jukebox and monologue-generator to fill in the gaps. Still, when I'm doing video-rides I'm engaged in a pseudo-conversation with the viewers so there's very little sense of isolation.
@blaze11483 ай бұрын
Gordon chats to us 😉
@williamuhren56393 ай бұрын
Well done Gordon, god's country is looking good in the spring. Nice bit o' grinding up that pass. Keep going, keep them coming.
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
@@williamuhren5639 Thanks, William. At last we're getting some better weather, although the cold air-stream has triggered chilblains.... in April!
@blaze11483 ай бұрын
What nutrition regime do you use.....[haven't watched the vid. yet] - 200km - very impressive !!
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
I set off with 1.75 L of electrolyte and around 300 gm solid carb ( 2 x lg flapjacks, 2 cereal bars, Kendal Mint Cake). That's my standard ration for up to 100 miles. At 91 miles I called at the SPAR shop for 1 L Fanta, a couple of Mars Bars and some jelly babies. All fluids used before getting home but I had some leftover food.
@blaze11483 ай бұрын
@@clippingin1593 Nice - thanks for the info. 👍- again extremely impressive ! I've done x2 100+ milers this year [one last week up to Bristol - 104miles 6978 elevation and a 100 miler to Minehead today] - all prep. for CTS 205 miler in June....really feeling these hundreds but the 205 miler is relatively flat so hopefully be ok for me.....ramping up the distances next month 😉
@clippingin15933 ай бұрын
@@blaze1148 You're being thorough so you'll be fine on the big day. Iron out your personal feeding preferences & quirks well in advance, same with clothing, riding positions etc. Try a dry-run over 140-150 miles and treat it as seriously as CTS, but make sure you leave plenty of time to recover. Recovery from ultra-distance can be unpredictable. I raced 12 Hr time-trials in the 2000s and gradually learned what worked for me and how different it was to racing sub-4 Hr 100s