Friday Night Ride to the Goths 4th November 2016

[Karla]

So far, my preparations have amounted to buying Phanta's book - except the title's spelled wrong!

[yorkie]

Checks diary, finds is available, remembers lives 4km from York Station, knows several routes to Whitby, raises hand and commits before self doubt takes over!

[L CC]

*reads sig*

Can you bring your drums, too, yorkie?
 

[yorkie]

*reads sig*

Can you bring your drums, too, yorkie?
 

Hmmm, would need the trailer for that and it is buried in the shed (and I don't know how deep down it is!) :-O
Makes note to have an excavation at some point in the future. Could be a job for Time Team!

[Karla]

Checks diary, finds is available, remembers lives 4km from York Station, knows several routes to Whitby, raises hand and commits before self doubt takes over!

Oh look, we appear to be wearing the same club jersey in our profile pics.  Now I know who you are!

[yorkie]

Checks diary, finds is available, remembers lives 4km from York Station, knows several routes to Whitby, raises hand and commits before self doubt takes over!

Oh look, we appear to be wearing the same club jersey in our profile pics.  Now I know who you are!

Feel free to introduce yourself next time you see me!

[phantasmagoriana]

I've now booked my return ticket (I'm leaving Whitby at lunchtime) and bought more purple lights.

[yoav]

So what's the plan? Meeting at York Station? When? Whereabout?
Anyone has a GPS route for the ride?
Is there a planned stop? Should I bring supplies?

[Karla]

Meet in the concourse York station before midnight.  Several peeps are getting to the station at 2218 and spending the intervening time in the station pub, the York Tap.

You only need two roads to get to Whitby from York: the A64 and the A169!  I assume the plan is to use the A169 north of Malton, or at least north of Pickering, but to avoid the A64.  This is the route I'll be taking if no-one objects.

[phantasmagoriana]

I was wondering whether we could deviate from the usual route and do a longer one, just for a change: it's only 50 miles, and I don't think the cafe opens until about 6am?

[Karla]

Could do.   Here's  a route that include the bit of dip that everyone on LEL loved so very much last time 

[tiermat]

I was wondering whether we could deviate from the usual route and do a longer one, just for a change: it's only 50 miles, and I don't think the cafe opens until about 6am?

If you want to do more miles, be my guest, but I will be following the normal route. As we have found in previous years, by the time you factor in tea and comfort stops etc, you arrive in whitby around sunrise.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Can I book a place for 2017?

[Karla]

I was wondering whether we could deviate from the usual route and do a longer one, just for a change: it's only 50 miles, and I don't think the cafe opens until about 6am?

If you want to do more miles, be my guest, but I will be following the normal route. As we have found in previous years, by the time you factor in tea and comfort stops etc, you arrive in whitby around sunrise.

Hmmm, if we did want to vary things a bit, we could always take my route to work.  Changing the route north of Pickering probably isn't advisable unless we want to to Blakey Ridge, but the route linked here is only ~1 mile longer and still avoids the serious hills like Bulmer and Terrington banks.  What do you think?

[Socks]

Nearly November already - how did that happen?  Sorry to say I won't be able to make it, best wishes for the ride.

[jiberjaber]

/subscribes (but can' quite work out why York?)

It would be great to see you!

York is a) the traditional depart and b) a mainline station so easy to get to from all over.

So I should have realised when we were chatting at the end of Rich Ellis that this clashes with our first ACME winter brevet series ride

Hope everyone has a fantastic time!

[CrinklyLion]

The cafe of tradition had shut last time I was in Whitby - although there's doubtless others.  There is now a 'spoons too.

[CrinklyLion]

Oh - and the Den is probably available for pre-ride snoozes and caffeination and warmth, and possibly post ride crash spaces if people need 'em.  The firsrt year we got the steam train to Pickering and rode back to York from there

[yoav]

I know this is coming a bit late to the party, but I've just realised that there is no direct train connection from Whitby back to York. And there are only 3 trains on a saturday out of Whitby. So how are people getting back from this ride?

[Deano]

I'm going back to Darlo!

To get back to York, it's a train via Boro, a ride to Scarborough and a direct train from there, or the steam train to Pickering, then ride to Malton for the train back to York.

Or ride your bike, of course.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I've ridden over the moor to Malton then caught the train from there. A variation on the route out can make it interesting, if you like hills.

[tiermat]

I usually train it back to NTR, via Boro. The same route can be used to get to York.

[phantasmagoriana]

I'll be getting the 12.15 from Whitby to Boro (then another 2 trains back to Glasgow via Darlo...).

[yoav]

Thanks, that looks like the way back to Carlisle.

[andrewc]

As I'm still lurgified & feel like death warmed up I don't think I'll be joining you for this.   Have fun.