The Silverdale Run Report
9 Club riders arrived at Auction Eats on a warm but cloudy morning. An Ariel Leader rider who had spotted us arriving joined us and he was invited to join in. After the usual refreshments and the spontaneous entertainment provided by a group of ladies on a Hen Outing we started the bikes to move off. The Ariel rider had trouble starting his bike but he waved us to depart anyway and we set off without him. As usual his bike started just as we had left but he caught us up and carried on with us up to Crook O’ Lune Picnic site where another member joined us. The Ariel rider left us here after thanking us for letting him join in. He was invited to Club night should he wish to join us.
From Crook O’ Lune we rode up to Nether Kellet where I missed the turn up to Carnforth, so a quick about turn took us back to the missed turning and up to the Kellet Road and left into Carnforth. Luckily the lights stopped us at the A6 junction so the whole group formed up together and crossed over at the same time and up through Millhead into Warton Village where I took the wrong turn and ended up in a cul-de-sac! Recovering from this we back tracked and took the correct left turn into the Crag Road and followed this with the views over the estuary to our left looking resplendent with the tide in. After crossing the railway line things again went awry as when I turned into The Row and arrived at the National Trust car park we were a few riders short. A rider returned to find the missing riders and found some and brought them back with him but still three short we decided to continue to the Woodlands as we supposed that the missing trio had gone straight there.
This was the case as when we arrived, after I led the group up the wrong access road, they were all there.
After a good rest stop with drinks and sandwiches consumed we all set off for Arnside via the coast road. Even this short 3 mile trip was not without it’s troubles as one bike was playing up by fouling its plug. However all was repaired and we set off on the road to Sandside and turned off up narrow country roads to Beetham and on towards Slack Head. We had to stop here at a fork in the road as a farmer was trying to reverse a tractor with a slurry tank on the back out of his farmyard and was making a real fist of it! Eventually he managed it and we carried on towards Yealand Storrs. At the next junction I turned the wrong way and we ended up back at Leighton Moss so rather than retrace our route I carried on back through Carnforth and up the road towards Over Kellet where we turned off to Nether Kellet. At Nether Kellet we turned left towards Over Kellet and turned right at the Hawthorns caravan park. A little way down the road, the left fork which I had intended to take, which would have taken us back to Crook O’ Lune via the scenic ride through Halton Park, announced it had a road closure so we carried on down towards Halton and at the Kirkby Lonsdale road turned left and rode back to the entrance of the park and travelled down through the park to Crook O’ Lune. A short stop was made here to decide which way everyone was going to go to return home and then we set off back through Caton, Quernmore, Dolphinholme to Oakenclough where we turned right and travelled to Bilsborrow where most members travelled home and 4 riders going to The Myerscough Garden Centre Cafe for a refreshment break before heading home.
I got home just before the rain came down so all was good. I missed Richard Kershaw leading the run as he knew the lanes up there more intimately than I do and we wouldn’t have gone off piste so many times. I must do some reconnoitring for the future!