Well that was a tough day out!

I used the CX bike in the end and to my mind it was worth it – the tyres were draggy at times on the flats but there weren’t many of those! The low gears and the wider tyres were worth the speed sacrifice, didn’t have to put a foot down on any of the climbs. The disc brakes helped too, especially early on when it was raining, some of the descents were insanely steep.

Brutal headwind out on the back end of the course. I made it just over 9000ft of climbing but my Garmin was once again playing up, it stopped recording for about 5 miles at one point.

Strangely, Emma’s (waterrat on here) route on Strava says nearly 1000ft LESS climbing so no idea what’s going on there…

Just been having a read of some ride reports and fancy this next 😯

May have to put a bigger bottom gear on my bike though 😆

Is the buttress a regular on this one, Hebden Bridge?

looks great i have been doing a few of the climbs on the mtb but i guess thats cheating ha ha

Not been included in the last two and the routes skirted round Hebden by the look of it.
http://www.strava.com/routes/258262
http://www.strava.com/activities/47693549

Cheers, was only asked about it a couple of days ago.

Fancy popping up for this next year if I remember…