Nick Firth (Blue Cap) waiting for barrier on a Calder May midweek run. Nick Firth Spotlight Nick has completed a 2012 Super Randonneur Series and has now embarked upon a AAA (Altitude Award) Challenge. He has ridden 25 events so far this year, totalling 23 Audax Points ( Points achieved for all Audax events […]
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Steve Ward & Kevin Watson dawdle behind the Tuesday group on one of the lanes on the Audax route. “Challenging” was the description by some riders after the 10th June test run on the route of the 2012 100 and 00k Calder Clarion Audax which started and finished at the Waterton Country Park visitors centre
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A number of Calder riders took up Saddleworth Clarion’s invitation join them on their 3rd Annual L’enfer du Saddleworth hilly ride over pave and grave around Saddleworth and Marsdenon 8th April 2012.The ride is an homage to the Paris Roubaix and includes numbered sections of pave and grave. Steep climb with Matt Dodsworth near the
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John Wrigglesworth topping Royd Moor Hill on return from langset Spring like weather and growing interest has swelled the numbers on the Midweek morning rides in late February with 14 cyclists out on Tuesday 21st February on the run from Havercroft crossroads to Askern via the lanes through Brierley, Clayton and Hooton Pagnell. Four Wakefield
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Some Riders stopping briefly at Waterton Discover Centre part way round the Health Ride.Photo David Keighley (Wakefield Cycling Forum) Keeping the Saturday morning rides going fortnightly through the Winter months has kept interest simmering until the 25th February Health Ride when warmer, dry weather attracted new cyclists who joined more experienced members of Calder Clarion
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Fixie Revival rides started on 5th November 2011 and currently meet on Chantry Bridge at 9 am Saturdays. Meeting DetailsThe appeal of a fixed bike is an obvious one. They don’t cost much, the clean lines look good and their simplicity and lack of parts to go wrong make them easier to run and relatively maintenance
Hooton Pagnell. On the route of most Tuesday Rides Cyclists on the Calder Mid Week morning runs have been enjoying some good weather over the Spring and early Summer. Tuesdays mainly go eastwards with cafe stops at Fulham Farm Cafe, Whitley or Askern Lake Cafe. Thursdays head mostly Westwards using the newly refurbished Bank View
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Kevin Watson tops Snake Passon the ‘Calder Heroes’ Ride, April 2011 With larger numbers of cyclists out this Spring and Calder now operating three separate runs operating on Sundays, the groups have been venturing into areas normally done later in the summer. Holme Moss has been crossed twice in April, the Strines, including Hewden Bank have
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The top of Shibden Wall Sunday’s ride to Tickhill marked the end of the winter club rides. After a particularly harsh, cold winter there was lots of evidence that better days are ahead. We’ve passed the Spring Equinox and the first of the spring classics, Milan San Remo, has been completed. On the road to
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Ackworth Old Hall ‘The Big Off’ was how Tom Butler described the crash which brought down some of the main group on the Sunday Run returning from Thorne. After descending past the ‘Brown Cow’ in Ackworth and forking right for Purston Jaglin, Martin Price came to grief while leading on the right hand bend with
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