21 Jun 2016: Stage 10 completed

Started the day by visiting the Ellis Briggs shop to get some new inner tubes. I love the “Aladdin’s cave” nature of good bike shops. Here’s the bike back where she was made…

They kindly gave me a new Ellis Briggs water bottle…

After the horrible traffic around Shipley and Bingley, the ride took me up onto the lovely North York moors…

… past the canal lock at Gargrave…

… with a stop for tea at the splendid old station in Settle…

… and past some wonderful masses of yellow flag growing on the boggy moorland…

But it was another day of punctures… one in the back wheel (near-invisible bit of glass that worked its way through the tread) and one in the front (a 1cm cut in the tread). I’ve patched both tyres as best I can, but it can’t go on like this. There’s apparently a bike shop in Kirkby Lonsdale, so I’ll go there after breakfast and see if they can fit 2 new tyres for me.

Anyway, I’m comfortably settled in the B&B at Ireby, where the view is lovely…