Yorkshire Odyssey

[JohnnyBoxer]

Yesterday I set out to visit 2 places that I have never been to, despite living in Yorkshire for over 25 years

They were Staithes and Runswick Bay

Remiss of me, I know and can't think why I've never been, because they are delightful (perhaps I was spoilt as a youngster with the coastline of Devon and Cornwall)

I lunched at Castleton and found this, a marker where John Wesley is said to have preached in 1772, at this remote moorland town

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

After lunch on the green, I ventured to a highpoint - Danby Beacon..................where the views on this clear day were sumptuous

A trail off in 2 directions, would mean a future visit on another day on a more suitable bike

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Dropping down from Danby Beacon, I took some minor moorland roads to pick up the dam @ Scaling and took a left opposite the garage to the village and along a narrow track ' of a boreen' type grassy/tarmac road, through a wood.

I later passed Boulby Potash mine (the source of much angst in GS WC circles) for the corrosion it causes and the increase in ACF 50 sales

On the track I passed this place - worthy of its Grand Design type makeover

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Finally I arrive at Staithes, one of my chosen destinations and drop down the steep bank to the harbour (ignoring the No Vehicles signs, in true GS'er adventure stylee )

What a delightful place, very quaint and quite unspoilt and for a sunny day in August, not much in the way of day trippers - a return visit, sans bike clobber is a must, to explore the place

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Next was Port Mulgrave, which affords great views of Runswick Bay (which was a bit too busy for my liking today)

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

I paused in Sandsend, one of my favourite places on the Yorkshire Coast (so far) and watched the world go by, on a Sunday afternoon

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Time to swing back homeward, via Whitby's West Cliff and Ruswarp to Sleights and onto the pretty village of Grosmont (and its stem trains) to Egton

I took the high moorland road, bleak in places......

Stone marker posts, mark the way for medieval travellers of yesteryear on foot or mule, reminding one how desolate it must have been

The tortuous branches of the lone tree, a testament to the windswept bleakness it has endured over maybe a hundred years

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Today the colours of the heather were very vivid - from pale lilac to a deep purple, the bleak road being lined and flanked by them

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Whilst taking the pics up atop the moor, I was circled by a microlight pilot for a couple of minutes

He was having a good day too

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Finally home, time for a beer and some olives.............to reflect on a very enjoyable afternoon's ride of some 120 -130 miles, mainly on the road less travelled

These are what summer Sundays are made for

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

Nice one. Staithes is indeed fabulous as are the NYM.

Olives though? Freak.

 

[Phil-H]

Great RR Johnny but I'm baffled by the statement below....

A trail off in 2 directions, would mean a future visit on another day on a more suitable bike

My wife did those gravel roads easily enough on her Hornet

You are on a GS ffs.....!

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Great RRJohnny but I'm baffled by the statement below....



My wife did those gravel roads easily enough on her Hornet

You are on a GS ffs.....!

I am on a GS, you are correct..............it would have done the road to Lealholm - but it bashes hell out of underside and I'd prefer not to and the trail behind me (when taking the pics) isn't a GS type trail

But I don't do off tarmac on that GSA (although when it was new, I took it on the Russian gravel roads in Slovenia, but not nowadays) and not really keen on taking a GSA offroad at all, if that's ok

I have taken my other one up the Stella though, but they are a handful in my book

I view it as a big road touring bike and I take my XR4 or DR350 on trail riding type days

 

[SIM]

Nice RR

Sandsend one of my fave coastal places

 

[Micky]

Good one JB .... fave haunts of mine.

Stayed in the VW Camper up by Danby Beacon, had many a meal and good times in the Cod and Lobster down by the harbour in Staithes. Even took three trainees on their BMW's across the trail that comes out at Glaisedale ... afternoon picnic on a long run

Well they have to get some off road training before they're allowed out on patrol

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Good one JB .... fave haunts of mine.

Stayed in the VW Camper up by Danby Beacon, had many a meal and good times in the Cod and Lobster down by the harbour in Staithes. Even took three trainees on their BMW's across the trail that comes out at Glaisedale ... afternoon picnic on a long run

Well they have to get some off road training before they're allowed out on patrol

Great pic Mick, enjoyed that ride I bet you did

Nice part of the wonderful world we live in, away from the everyday strife

 

[sagalout]

Nice pics - I haven't ventured above Whitby on the East Coast, but looks really nice

 

[Decompressing]

Great...

Have just come back down to the sh1thole that is London after a wonderful few days riding around the Peak District, across the Yorkshire Dales and then into the NYM.....I love this part of the country and can't wait to move there when I retire.

It's another world away from down here...fed up with all the London

 

[Deleted account Cooperman]

Staithes - where the kids learn to count to 11 on their fingers...

 

[jonnie comet]

Staithes - where the kids learn to count to 11 on their fingers...

........12 in Skinningrove.........