Up The Buttress 2015

Up The Buttress is open to any and all, on any (road-worthy) bike. It’s a mere 400 yard climb of amusing steepitude, starting from the ancient packhorse bridge in the centre of Hebden Bridge. You get to the top faster than everyone else, and you win!

The Buttress is no cinch, though – it’s 1in 4 in places, it’s proper, PROPER steep, and those cobbles are pretty greasy if rains (which it often does). So beware! The event is part of the week long Calderdale Walk & Ride Festival.  And if you fancy having a go the price is just £10 (payable on the day at registration).

There are prizes, mind you – from Orange and Blazing Saddles, Yorkshire Tea, Victor And Liberty and more! What’s more, we’ll be adding a copy of the Grit Annual to all competitors, and subscriptions to Grit.cx to all winners! So come along on the 12th September and give it a go, or cheer along the competitors!

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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