Cycling

16 Dec

Posted at 10:48h in Climbs, Cycling, Routes
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Yorkshire Dales road cycling may seem like an obvious focus for an avid cyclist. But as long-time Ilkley rider Charles Oxtoby explains in the post below, it was not always the case, for him, or others. - Ed. I got hooked on cycling in the mid-1990’s. Mountain biking that is. I was drawn to the freedom it gave me to explore the wild Yorkshire Dales moors. Nothing could keep me out of the back country. Nothing, that is, until the outbreak...

12 Dec

Posted at 14:25h in Cycling, Navigation, Uncategorized
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Did you have a model globe in your house when you were growing up?  I remember spending hours examining the globe, the vast oceans, the continents and the countries.  I noticed that on a particularly open part of the seas, usually the southern ocean, was what looked like a big figure 8.  At the time, I didn't pay it much attention.  Now, however, I now know why it was there, and what it is: the "analemma." As a year-around cyclist, winter...