Great Yorkshire Bike Ride 2013

Another quality ride occurred this year, with all the usual happenings including another good performance from Dad Cav and the annual rain, with the showers this year being particularly heavy and short lived! The ride itself is just over 70 miles from Wetherby to Filey and is done by around 2000 people so effectively becomes a closed road event despite this not being the case. Mass bikeathon!

This year the Jordan peleton was also graced by Andrew Parkin to add in an outside Parker cousin entry to the mix. We set off after a quick bike decoration courtesy of Martin and Adam to have the coolest bikes in the race. Sadly nobody thought they were good enough to swap for their posh full carbon job bikes.

Never mind, the power train went on regardless, with Adam 'squeaky seat Spanish legs' leading the way. Everyone kept up throughout and had a great day (though they did slow down for my knees for the last 10 miles). The hills proved easy this year though Adam still comfortably retains the King of the Mountain Jersey for some physically impossibly pacey riding up hills!

Over the day we average around 17mph but  did take some good breaks to capitalise on the great lunch put on. If we'd have been ten minutes faster we'd have even missed the horrifically heavy rain  just before going up the hill. We came in looking like drown rats! After that it was a fast decent into Filey. Quality day out on the bike.