Walks and Cycling

Yorkshire cycling veteran Tom Barras is appealing for sponsors to keep his dream of running a professional team alive.

A record-breaking cyclist has conquered the equivalent height of Mount Everest to raise money for his friend’s seriously ill child.

Sir Bradley Wiggins insists he is still to make a decision about his future after winning what was expected to be his final event.

Damflask is on the northwest side of Sheffield and just within the Peak District National Park.

GETTING people out into the countryside for fresh air and exercise has long been a bedrock of Government policy in tackling Britain’s growing obesity problem.

This is one for lovers of Pennine hill country, but in a terrain that’s not nearly as busy with walkers as more familiar routes around Haworth, Hebden Bridge and Holmfirth.

From: R Winstanley, Nidd Vale Terrace, Harrogate.

This is a fine if thought-provoking walk in the 100th anniversary year of The Battle of the Somme.

Great Britain’s team pursuit squads won gold medals on day one of the Track World Cup in Glasgow, showing the future on the bike is bright despite a tumultuous year off it.

Leeds teenager Tom Pidcock was crowned the Junior European Cyclo-Cross Champion after a powerful display of riding at the title race in France yesterday.

Any place with a name like the Valley of Desolation demands to be visited and, happily, it makes a splendid walk within easy reach of several Yorkshire towns and cities

British Cycling will be asked to explain the use of therapeutic use exemptions at a parliamentary hearing which could address wider issues in the sport.

Ben Swift has revealed he quit Team Sky to focus on his goals in 2017.

The host towns and cities for the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire have been unveiled.

Hebden Bridge is one of the finest walking centres in Yorkshire, perhaps matched only by Grassington for the variety of great routes emanating from the town.

From: Edward Grainger, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough.

Andy Tennant, a track cyclist from the Black Country who regularly rides the roads around his grandparents’ home in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, has set his sights on helping a Briton win the world road cycling title in Yorkshire in 2019.

Chris Froome admits questions remain over Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins seeking permission to use triamcinolone.

CYCLING at this time of year is always a little more hair-raising than I’d like.