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Hi, yes of course there were many great riders, young and old, male and female, and those who had disabilities , but I just put pics up for those I’ve seen from last years event or on UA-cam. It wasn’t intended to be a reflection of who was there or who was best.

Yeah it was great, second year I've been, did you do the struggle last year? I've got a shot of you, black bike, Solihull CC. You must be pretty decent to have the high number, well done.

Love it around there, rode from there up to Lindley and the gated lane the other day, just stunning in Autumn

So true 😆😆

Thanks very much, appreciate your initial feedback as well. 🙏

🤦🏼 The cyclist is in a bike lane, the truck was fluctuating in speed, because as he said afterwards he wasn’t concentrating. He didn’t indicate so how someone could hope they would get hit by a truck, or why they would want to I don’t know. 🤷🏼 No cyclist wants to be hit or nearly hit, any reasoning person would understand that.

It depends on tyre width and track surface. With say 40mm tyres I’d start with about 48psi front 53psi rear, and then adjust as seemed appropriate for the surface you’re riding on. These pressures are as suggested by SJS Cycles btw.

@@juub thanks I’ll try that out. I tend to be on mud and grass, but struggle no matter what surface to get out the saddle without spinning the back wheel. Could be a tire tread issue as well.

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire If you’re riding tubeless the pressures can, of course, be lower, but on some surfaces/gradients you just won’t have traction.

I ride tubelsss on the road, but these gravel wheels ain’t up to it. I’ll have to justify an upgrade 😆

Yeah it’s a hard balance to strike, stay healthy and try stay alive/uninjured

Ha ha 😝 sounds like your riding should come with a warning, I bet the roads were different then?

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire yes drivers were just as bad then no consideration for riders . I must be doing something right as I'm still riding at 78 just had a great ride around botany bay,if I can handle Sydney traffic and still be alive i must be doing something right, see you in Skipton maybe next summer ⛱️

@@alanlumb1327 say hi to Charlie boy and Camilla 😆🤩

Jealous, it’s throwing it down here. Hope you had a good ride.

Hi thanks for the suggestion. Are you thinking volume or intensity?

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire A bit of both, but particularly the volume.

Cheers I’ll take that on board. I like to keep it quite intense as it’s cycling after all, exercise and trying to keep people invested. I can turn the volume down, though I guess the listener ultimately sets the volume. I’ll give it a try on Sunday’s video, let me know what you think.

New vid is up with less intense, quieter music, let me know what you think.

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire IMO the music in your latest video was a great improvement, and was sympathetic to the images. I commented on that video to this effect too. 🙂

Go at 4.30 to 5am in the morning.

@@Gericho572 wow is that for recreation or is that your commute?

I treat every moving (or looking to move) car in my vicinity with suspicion and anticipate they will do something dumb yet dangerous for me. After 18 years of cycling along motorised traffic pretty much daily, I have developed a pretty reliable intuition for spotting early situations involving cars, but also other cyclists, which are likely to evolve into trouble for me. I had an accident just like that first one in 2007 - I was undertaking, she didn't indicate, I crashed with the car. Speed was slow, I was wearing a helmet which saved my skull from cracking open, I had fractured my right pinky so badly though, that it took 12 years to heal properly. I take it the rider in this video was a novice and hadn't yet learned to never undertake at a junction, but they will remember now.

@@82vittinteresting, sorry you had a crash. I try to make eye contact with as many drivers as possible, especially at junctions. The rider in the video, me, can’t match the speed of every car that brakes, nor can I realistically not us a bike lane to get around slow traffic. I’ve learned a few lessons, but not the one you’d hoped for.

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire recreational 👍

It is a great place to ride, and although the train station hasn’t been there long, it feels part of the scene.

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll give it a go, cheers.

I’ve tried it in my last two videos, what do you think? 🤔

cheers, thanks for watching and commenting

Thanks, it was great weather for end of September and beautiful scenes, loved riding up there. Have you done the coast to coast? Garmin can be frustrating at times but hey ho.

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire I'm up in Glasgow so, not a local route for me though I have done Carlisle to Edinburgh (Ride to the Sun) which is almost coast to coast. My Wahoo isn't any better. Good most of the time but, when it gets lost, it gets lost

Wow 😮 that’s through the night isn’t it? It keeps the grey matter working when you’re on the look out for signs cos of a reroute. Lots of the cycle lane signs are really sketchy on distance to next location.

The standards of awareness around cyclists is a concern, especially as you’re so exposed on a bike. You’re right I could have altered my speed to a stop, I did actually slow down, the undertake wasn’t really the problem it was that he’d not long passed me, so should have been aware I was coming and then stayed in the lane after the undertake, surprised by my presence. You’re right about the line not being solid, but rule 140 of the Highway Code states…. “Do not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a broken white line unless it is unavoidable”. I think it was avoidable, he could have waited till the car in front turned right. Appreciate your input and your comment 👍

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire yes that is one of the problems with the Highway Code is that statements such as ‘avoidable’ (in this instance) and ‘when safe to do so’ are open to different interpretations. Good luck with the 5000 mile goal. How’s it going?

You're right, interpretation and viewpoint is everything, one minute you're driving through a supermarket car park looking for a spot to park and complaining about the pedestrians, then you get out your car to walk to the entrance, complaining about those driving in the car park!! Thanks, 5000 miles is going okay, I'm a little behind, on mile 3100, need a dry winter, but think I live in the wrong place for that!

@@Cycle5000Milesyorkshire I know what you mean about the weather, I’m just south of you in Lincolnshire. Managed a Century ride yesterday in the cold and squally rain showers and finished in a thunderstorm. The bike needs a good clean!

Wow, 100km or 100miles? I went out today, did 45 miles, it was glorious when I set off, 10 miles in it started raining 🤦🏼. Are you planning any more rides abroad?

Looking resplendent in orange 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Well done. Oh no what an awful way to start. That's an awesome time with the added mileage and the stops. I cramped up after Malham and again on Park Rash and finally after the final feed station. Nothing prepares the mind for Park Rash. Are you doing it again this year, it's in reverse this time, imagine going down Park Rash? I might do the Struggle Moors this year, although Rosedale Chimney Bank isn't inspiring me. Have you watched Part 2? Part 3 goes up in 5 mins. I know what you mean with the cow bells, PTSD a day later.

It was the only dry morning, weather not booze, I looked down and saw I had rim brakes and that they’d be completely useless 😆😆

It’s certainly different 😵‍💫

It’s very on topic isn’t it 😆

I’ll start saving for the helicopter and bush up on my local chateaux knowledge 😜

You’re probably right, why do you think that is?

thanks, yeah you're right, takes the joy out of cycling sometimes. Badminton is safer 😂