The final cycle ride of our little Lancaster recce trip in advance of the SCCC Club Weekend was the Morecambe Short ride. It was, in essence, the same route as the Morecambe Long ride, just in reverse … and a couple of sections removed to make it … ermmm … short. While the Knott End cycle ride at the beginning of the trip had been a matter of dodging the rain, the sun finally made an appearance as the weekend…
Yesterday, on our Knott End cycle ride we were dodging the rain. Thankfully, for the second of our SCCC Weekend sneek-peek rides, the forecast today was better. For our Morecambe Long cycle ride, we would just have to battle with the wind. Leaving the university campus, we started by heading down towards Lancaster. A couple of miles into the ride we joined the Lancaster Canal. This brought us into the city centre. Then, after quickly getting back onto the canal…
For a few years now Sarah and I, and a few others, have recced the rides for the upcoming SCCC club weekend rides. This year, our club weekend will be at Lancaster University. So, for our opening cycle ride, we arrived at a car park just outside Pilling ready for a journey out to Knott End. The weather on the way to the start had been rotten, so we were just hoping not to get too wet. Thankfully, it was…
This Clyde to Forth 2021 itinerary outlines the cycle route myself, Sarah, Andy S and Mike will be following in autumn 2021. We will be cycling from Gourock to Edinburgh. The route starts at Gourock, a port on the Firth of Clyde, and follows a predominantly traffic-free route into Glasgow via Paisley. Upon reaching Bells Bridge in Glasgow city centre it then follows a traffic-free path traffic-free path along the Clyde. From there, it then goes to Edinburgh via Airdrie, the Bathgate…
It was an overcast Saturday morning when Sarah and I met up with a group of Stockport Community Cycling Club members in Woodsmoor. I was leading this Vuelta a Stockport cycle ride. Sarah was the back-leader. After leaving Woodsmoor we headed for Bramhall. We cycled down Tenement Lane. Then down the Ladybrook Cycleway. From the cycleway we picked up NCN Route 558. This took us through Brookfields Park. A little further on we entered Bruntwood Park. We then weaved our…
