Tykes and bikes: cycling Yorkshire’s World Championship route
22 September 2019 06:00
Yorkshire folk have long known the region is brilliant for cycling – hosting the 2014 Tour de France just confirmed it. As it welcomes another world-class event, we road test three famous climbsI have achieved a sort of cycling singularity. The UK cycling scene is obsessed with professional racing, hills, Yorkshire, social media – and pretentious coffee. And a couple of weeks ago, I set out to ride the undulating West and North Yorkshire route of the 2019 Road World Championships with a small-batch coffee roaster called Ben whom I’d met on Twitter.Over the past five years, Yorkshire has become a global cycling destination. As Ben and I, and another Twitter acquaintance called Tom, rode out of Otley, north of Leeds, there were dozens of other riders heading out of town, up Wharfedale towards Bolton Abbey. None of them was in an organised group – just ones and twos, including quite a few children and teenagers. Continue readingread full article
