This Stockport Community Cycling Club ride had been affected by Covid even before we arrived at the start. It’s ride leaders having to be swapped about. It meant that I lead this second group of the day, and Sarah, originally a ride-leader, was now the back-leader. It’s been a couple of years since we cycled a version of this ride, it was then titled, Angel Meadow. We met outside Cringle Park, and then made our way onto the Fallowfield Loop….
This Stockport Community Cycling Club Angel Meadow ride was a shorter version of the popular Popup Bikes route. Currently, following coronavirus considerations, SCCC is operating a two small group ride strategy for each route. This week I was leading the second group. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my usual sidekick and second camerawoman Sarah in attendance. Thus, the photos this week are all mine, and taking photos when leading the ride can be tricky! We also had a tricky route to…
With Sarah and I having to temporarily to cut back on our cycling, it was good to finally get out again and join Stockport Community Cycling Club‘s Popup Bike 2019 cycle ride. We met at Cringle Park, Levenshulme. The weather forecast promised to be mixed in the morning and improving later. We began by joining the Fallowfield Loop, part of NCN Route 60, and making our way towards Gorton. We crossed the Ashton Canal. Before crossing Ashton New Road. It…
It was a fine Saturday morning that greeted Stockport Community Cycling Club members as they arrived in Levenshulme ready to set off on the Popup Bikes 2018 ride. The outward journey saw us picking up the Fallowfield Loop. We followed this section of NCN Route 60 for a while as it took us through Reddish and to Gorton. Leaving NCN Route 60 we cycled through Gorton and towards Clayton Vale. In Clayton Vale, we decided to have a go of one…
The Late May Bank Holiday weekend promised some sun (something we haven’t seen much of this year so far) as Sarah and I made our way over to Cringle Park for the Stockport Community Cycling Club‘s ride to the centre of Manchester for a visit to Popup Bikes. This wouldn’t be our first visit to the city centre, we’ve previously visited for a city centre ride a few years back and last year via the Ashton Canal. However this would…
