2016 UK Meet, Route Planning - There and Back chit chat

[threepot]

  I may see some of you along the way on the Friday then? what route from Snowdonia TP?

Not planned yet JD. Could take in the 'Dales'?

[JayDub]

Not planned yet JD. Could take in the 'Dales'?

Let me know, I might hang off your luggage rack 
... If thats OK with you.

[blacktiger]

Chaps,

We're booked into this place on the thursday night if you wanted to;
a. stay there as well.
b. come through there Fri morn and meet us for the run across the dales to meet Geoff.

http://www.harktobounty.co.uk/

Am I reading it right that, that pub is in Slaidburn?  If so the route I had sketched out comes through there and runs north across the moors along a small road that is like a rollercoaster.

[GavD]

Am I reading it right that, that pub is in Slaidburn?  If so the route I had sketched out comes through there and runs north across the moors along a small road that is like a rollercoaster.

Indeed, it is in Slaidburn.

This is the route I'd looked at for Fri
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Hark+To+Bounty+Inn,+Town+End,+Slaidburn,+Clitheroe+BB7+3EP,+United+Kingdom/54.4730337,-1.7620135/@54.2752793,-2.402317,9z/data=!4m29!4m28!1m25!1m1!1s0x487b83dc2bd2280f:0xe2aebb192a3f2704!2m2!1d-2.4416366!2d53.9668711!3m4!1m2!1d-2.3469741!2d54.2020772!3s0x487c7a8e7fe062d7:0xb485d4bf6e765e49!3m4!1m2!1d-2.1748809!2d54.4180056!3s0x487c402bcddef55b:0x49f1090c0357d4d8!3m4!1m2!1d-2.0577413!2d54.449528!3s0x487c3e5a948ac373:0x6c76b593c71a8a96!3m4!1m2!1d-1.8151289!2d54.4045539!3s0x487c18c7af964dbb:0xebfb60c0e57ca317!1m0!3e0?hl=en

[Nick Calne]

Ok. I'm clear to go on Thursday.

From that end point go to Branards Castle and head toward Stanhope. It's amazing up there.

[blacktiger]

Indeed, it is in Slaidburn.

This is the route I'd looked at for Fri
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Hark+To+Bounty+Inn,+Town+End,+Slaidburn,+Clitheroe+BB7+3EP,+United+Kingdom/54.4730337,-1.7620135/@54.2752793,-2.402317,9z/data=!4m29!4m28!1m25!1m1!1s0x487b83dc2bd2280f:0xe2aebb192a3f2704!2m2!1d-2.4416366!2d53.9668711!3m4!1m2!1d-2.3469741!2d54.2020772!3s0x487c7a8e7fe062d7:0xb485d4bf6e765e49!3m4!1m2!1d-2.1748809!2d54.4180056!3s0x487c402bcddef55b:0x49f1090c0357d4d8!3m4!1m2!1d-2.0577413!2d54.449528!3s0x487c3e5a948ac373:0x6c76b593c71a8a96!3m4!1m2!1d-1.8151289!2d54.4045539!3s0x487c18c7af964dbb:0xebfb60c0e57ca317!1m0!3e0?hl=en

That looks fine except that if you've never ridden the Lythe Fell road running north from Slaidburn, you really do have to. It's a real roller coaster ride.
Just before High Bentham turn right on Mewith road through Keasden and onto your route just beyond Helwith Bridge.

[GavD]

  Looks good on streetview, will probably adjust our route to take that in. thanks for the suggestion

[PeteH]

So, I'm Meeting up with Ivor (mat-tiger1) at Poplar Services Lymm on Friday morning then looking at taking the suggested route north so we can potentially meet people on the way. So if Threepot and Jaydub are heading the same way why not meet en route as they basically have to come my way anyways...

[Geoff W]

Beware of Yorkshire police. They are having a do against motorbikes, mainly at weekends, but also other times on the main well known twisty roads. West Yorkshire have started using two mobile camera vans in tandem, you see the first one and slow down, speed up again , and there is another van 1/2 a mile to 2 miles down the road. So you think , that cannot be another van so close, but it is.
East Yorkshire plods have been putting a mobile camera in a John Deere tractor parked up at the side of the road, it is a police tractor, but it is not painted like a Battenberg Cake, and just looks like a normal tractor.

[GavD]

OOh the sneaky wretches.

note to self: do NOT try and keep up with Mo!!

[JayDub]

East Yorkshire plods have been putting a mobile camera in a John Deere tractor parked up at the side of the road, it is a police tractor, but it is not painted like a Battenberg Cake, and just looks like a normal tractor.

I keep getting told that that's concealment and illegal/not allowed, but around here also the plod are known to hide in a horse box... and no pre warning signage displayed either 

[Nick Calne]

I would never encourage any one to break the law Jaydub, least of all in an area so fairly policed as yours but....

Most horse boxes have the bolts on the outside of the door with a little hole to allow a padlock to be fastened through....

Lock them in?
Tow them away?

[JayDub]

  if I don't show up at the meet. You'll know why.

[blacktiger]

So, I'm Meeting up with Ivor (mat-tiger1) at Poplar Services Lymm on Friday morning then looking at taking the suggested route north so we can potentially meet people on the way. So if Threepot and Jaydub are heading the same way why not meet en route as they basically have to come my way anyways...

Which is the "Poplar" services at Lymm? There's a possibility that Nick Charlton and I could be there also.

[JayDub]

Which is the "Poplar" services at Lymm? There's a possibility that Nick Charlton and I could be there also.

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