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    Dave Chadderton
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    Sorry Arthur I should have said it is 2days, sat 10th and sun 11th sept.
    Two routes but if you have a route in mind that was both 30 and 50 miles,
    with the sronger and fitter going on to do 50 and the others dropping off at
    about 30 miles that would be fantastic. The racing lads will be ok because
    they are bringing their wives, mums, dads etc, the idea of the weekend is
    more of a social weekend so that those who normally don't ride will get on
    their bikes instead of watching and passing bottles up. On reflection it
    would be better to miss out on the hills, we are trying to encourage them
    onto thier bikes not put them off, the hills come later when they are hooked
    which is one of the reasons we picked the flatter side of York.

    We have a lot of kids all of whom race, but have parents who support them
    and this is their chance to watch mum and dad suffer because of all those
    shouts of "come on lift it" when they have just blown and slid off the back
    or missed the break. Most of our racing members are under 16 but this
    summer we have had some of the dads racing as well along with some older
    members, when they get to junior senior they tend to move on to more pure
    racing club/teams and come back to us later in life so we don't have any
    racing members in thier twenties. I hope this makes sense and gives you a
    flavour of our mix of abilities.

    Thanks ............. Dave

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    Dave Chadderton <[email hidden]> wrote:
    : We are planning a club [Cycling] camping weekend in September staying at
    : Acaster Malbis just outside York. The club is a family based club with


    a

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    : large mix of ages and abilities from six to sixty and we hope to do a


    couple

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    : of rides, possibly 30 miles and 50 miles.

    Just to be clear here - one days riding or two? One route or two seperate


    routes?

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    The main problem with mixing the rides is that there is a lot of nice easy
    riding round there, but your racing lads might get a bit worn with the


    lack

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    of hills if they stick with the easy ride for part of the way, though
    that could be worked round.

    Arthur (in York)

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  2. Arthur Clune
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    Dave Chadderton said:

    Sorry Arthur I should have said it is 2days, sat 10th and sun 11th sept.
    Two routes but if you have a route in mind that was both 30 and 50 miles,
    with the sronger and fitter going on to do 50 and the others dropping off at
    about 30 miles that would be fantastic.

    Well, the obvious easy ride for the kids etc is down the bike path towards Selby,
    looking at the planets on the way. It's now been surfaced as well. Selby itself
    is a bit of a dump though.

    One option for a shorter + longer ride is this:

    Down the lanes to Tadcaster via Appleton Roebuck and Bolton Percy. Tea stop in Tad
    for those only wanting 30 miles. The short ride would then come back on the other
    side of the A64 via Wighill and Bilbrough. Best way back across the A64 with little
    ones would probably be to use the new Colton flyover, which won't be marked on a
    map unless it's very recent.

    The lads wanting a longer ride can go from Tadcaster to Braham, over the A1 and
    then round the triangle of roads round Thorner (some hills, nothing big) to
    retrace to Tad and then back the other side of the A64 as the first group.
    That's only about 40 miles, but there's plenty of option for adding in another
    10 miles if wanted round by Thorner.

    Arthur

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  3. Arthur Clune
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    You'll find:

    http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ian/routes.html

    useful reading for the easy rides as well.

    arthur

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  4. Dave Chadderton
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    Thanks Arthur, I will get an O/S map of the area ASAP and follow the routes
    from your directions, can you recomend a decent tea stop in Tad? I know
    there is a good one in Bolton Percy, but depending on which way round you do
    your route it is to near either the start or end of the route. We will have
    to try and fit in a reccy day before the club weekend just to try the route.

    Thanks again............ Dave

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    You'll find:

    http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ian/routes.html

    useful reading for the easy rides as well.

    arthur

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  5. Arthur Clune
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    Dave Chadderton said:

    Thanks Arthur, I will get an O/S map of the area ASAP and follow the routes
    from your directions, can you recomend a decent tea stop in Tad? I know
    there is a good one in Bolton Percy, but depending on which way round you do
    your route it is to near either the start or end of the route. We will have
    to try and fit in a reccy day before the club weekend just to try the route.

    There's a cafe on the main street in Tad which looks ok. It's a bit near for
    me to normally cycle to! There's also a nice bike shop in Tadcaster if people
    want to have a look round.

    arthur

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  6. MSeries
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    Arthur Clune said:


    There's a cafe on the main street in Tad which looks ok. It's a bit near for
    me to normally cycle to! There's also a nice bike shop in Tadcaster if people
    want to have a look round.

    I use that cafe quite a lot, it changed hands recently, its called
    Tykes or something now. It's great, the staff don't seem to mind
    cyclists clumping in. Its not a cheap greasy spoon cafe but has nice
    cakes and is usually warm. There is a yard out the back where bikes can
    be parked out of the way. Dave, the prop. of Cyclesense next door has
    in the past offered to let us park our bikes in his yard while we are
    in the cafe. (He even offered to supply coffee and muffins once when
    the cafe was closed on winter sundays - top shop, pay them a visit).

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