Not one to turn down a challenge, especially on two wheels.

A local cycling legend Richard (Dick) Facey put together a collection of fifty climbs in and around the Colne and Holme Valleys of Huddersfield. The climbs vary in length and gradient but all are challenging in their own right. http://www.facey-fifty.uk

The challenge was (and now is) to ride them all in one ride, however this has already been done by Ed Wolstenholme a few years ago. So I needed to go a few steps further. My route will complete all 50 climbs in sequential order as found in Dick’s book and at the website above. But it doesn’t end there, I will only descend back onto the valleys via any road only once and only making U turns twice, Castle Hill and Holme Moss. All other climbs will see me loop round via a different decent or looping round roads near the top of the climb just completed.

On the day (September 14th) I will have a tracker and you will be able to live track me thanks to https://www.opentracking.co.uk

Tracking link is https://live.kongtracking.com/FFC2024/