Sunday 22nd April Rideout report.

Paul Dowson reports:


Sunday 22nd April ride; 



From Durham Services towards Barnard Castle [A688] to Brough [A66] West to Penrith stopping at Rheged for petrol & toilet break.


Then returning on the [A66] to Cockermouth were we stopped for an hour for lunch & petrol.


From Cockermouth we headed South towards Egremont [A5086] joining the [A595] towards Ravenglass, passing the river Esk then turning left onto a narrow lane towards Hardknot Pass 1200ft up and down the other side onto Wrynose Pass 1200ft, towards Skelwith Bridge and Ambleside.

Passing through Ambleside towards Keswick turning right togo up the Struggle joining the [A592] Kirkstone Pass down towards Patterdale and Glenridding were we stopped for half an hour, café, petrol & toilet break.

Leaving Glenridding we rode to Pooley Bridge and on to Penrith, joining the [A66] East to Brough, Barnard Castle were the ride ended about 5.35pm with fish & chips.


May I thank the other 10 members for taking part, and the good feedback saying they all had an enjoyable day.


At the start of the day I decided to run a competition to see who could guess the correct mileage of the leading bike, money raised would go to the Air Ambulance, total mileage of the day was 204.5, and Stuart won with a guess of 204, he decided to give his winnings to charity.  


Goodman!