New innovations for 18th annual Great Milk (stout) Ride

Registration is now well and truly open for the 18th annual Great Milk (stout) Ride, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, to be staged at the Nidderdale Show Ground, Pateley Bridge on 5th September 2010.
Leading the innovations this year is a brand new-look website, designed and built by Bruce Holliday, of BTH Design Services, who have improved on their previous well received site. Visitors to the site http://www.gmsr.co.uk/ can easily find out all about the organisation, the sponsors, and what’s on, then register and download all necessary sponsorship forms, team sheets maps, posters, and car window stickers.
X-treme 25

In response to many requests from more serious riders the organising committee have introduced an additional section called the X-treme 25 ride, which adds on a 5 mile loop to the 20 mile Full Monty ride, with a very steep initial section designed to test the stamina of all serious riders. The pictures above show how the loop leaves the Full Monty Ride on upper Wath Road, climbs steeply up Silver Hill, including the right turn at the top. Continue on to turn left at the "T" junction, then right turn and down past "Seldom Seen" turning right at the crossroads, over Madge Hill and down to the main Ripon-Pateley road, where riders MUST obey marshals' signals; on then, turning left to rejoin the Full Monty route at the Pateley-Harrogate road.

Registration starts at 8.30 am and the first riders are usually away by 10.00am. Upon return riders are welcomed back to the Show Ground to receive their winner’s medals and signed certificates. By then the first of days live bands will already playing, the beer tent, barbecue, bouncy castle, face painting and trade stalls will be in full swing, to make for an all-day family day out.
Riders and/or supporters coming from a distance can take advantage of free overnight camping and caravanning with toilet facilities.
Since 1993, when 29 riders raised £1350, the Great Milk (stout) Ride has donated over £400,000 to Macmillan and is the major donor in the Harrogate area.