My Lords & Ladies, welcome to the latest news on the “battle” for the EasterRiding “Triple Crown”. Sir Michael has his hands firmly gripped on the “Sprint” crown since April, “whipping” his steed into a sweaty lather to set a fantastic “olympian” target time of 52 secs giving an average speed of 60.1 km/hr. Coming […]
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Seven Knights met for a long and hilly ride to Castle Howard. The route took in the climb up to Huggate followed by a drop down to Thixendale. Rising out of the valley towards Leavening we continued westerly into the wind to Barton-le-Willows before looping northwards to Castle Howard. Our return route took in Malton, […]
ContinueThe Cats at the Fiddle
In the absence of Raymond, this Friday’s ride was organised by top cat ‘Jenks’. “Meet at Walkington pond 10am for ride ‘over the hills and not too far away’”. Nine ‘cats’ arrived to bask in the morning sunshine in the bus shelter by the pond. Eventually it was time to ‘play’ and the ‘clowder’ set […]
Continue🎶Nice ‘n’ Breezy…🎶
Ships are queasy, it’s Raymond’s ride of joy🎶 Ha ha got you…. Bet you thought it was one of those naughty rugby songs. Well hello peeps, sorry its been a while since the last blog. It’s been a bit busy on the “Black Pig” of late. Captain Greybeard “hoisted the flags” calling the “fleet” to […]
ContinueGame of Thrones 2024
The “battle” for superiority is already well under way despite the inclement weather of recent months. KOM Challenge – Steep Hill to Comberdale In the “Hall of the Mountain Goats” we have a tremendous face-off between two matched contenders with Sir Sean throwing down the initial gauntlet posting a time of 5:50. Matching the same […]
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Thursday 20th June the Knights held their annual solstice ride from Beverley to Hornsea and back stopping off at Berts Pizzeria at Brandesburton. With almost perfect cycling conditions we had a good turn out. Setting out from Market Cross the pace was high right from the go. The route we followed took us firstly to […]
ContinueA Winters Tale… In June?
Well the forecasters were at it again, filling us with gloom and doom and trying to rain on our parade. What to wear with such a mixed forecast would have been on everyone’s mind before setting out. Some Knights arrived dressed for summer…. it is over half way through June after all, others dressed for […]
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“Weather looking good tomorrow” announced ‘Squadron Leader’ Raymond “Perfect for a ‘low level’ assault on the beaches of the Eastern front. ‘Take off’ will begin at 0945 from Market Cross.” A total of fourteen Knights gathered ‘on the runway’ at the appointed hour to be greeted with grey skies and a light breeze. “Jings it’s […]
ContinueMallorca – Knights Abroad
This year’s foreign adventure saw seven Knights heading to the popular cycling destination of Mallorca. Day one consisted of a shortish 43km route but included over 1000m of climbing as they set out from “base camp” in Port de Pollenca to the most northerly point of Cape Formentor and back. On day 2 the group […]
ContinueSojourn to the South Side
This Friday was pencilled in as an “Away Day” with a chance to ride in an area we don’t normally visit. On this occasion we decided to meet at the Humber Bridge car park before heading “o’er the water”. Six Knights took up the challenge for a sixty miler down to Caistor and back however […]
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