Today was the first sunny day in a while, the first day I had to myself in quite some time, and the start of daylight savings. All of which added up to a perfect chance for a bike ride.

I headed up to Crossflatts along the roads to see why the back route to Skipton doesn't look right on the map. I didn't get as far as the point at which it starts going wrong, and discovered that gps really needs attaching to handle bars for good reception. Considering it was a new bike and I haven't ridden in so long I felt I did rather well though.

I came back along the towpath to find out the true extent of Route 66. It was mapped as going further than it is signposted, and so I removed the extra bit; it won't make much difference since the extra bit is route 69 and therefore still mapped as a sustrans route. A man on expensive mountain bike, with all the "right" equipment kept getting very annoyed that an inexperienced road biker kept managing to overtake him, so I was glad to turn off back onto roads where the Sunday drivers were actually rather good for once.

Finally, returning through the local park I discovered people celebrating the return of the lion sculptures which had been gone for many years. And so I added two new attraction=art_work nodes to an already busy park.