After last weekend’s Stockport Community Cycling Club weekend in Scarborough today it was back to the bread and butter of the normal weekend rides and today the destination was Sale Water Park. Perhaps it was the good weather, perhaps it was because it was a local meeting point, perhaps an inspiring destination. Whatever it was, once again there was a good turnout of members as we met on the plaza behind the Woolpack pub. We set off down the Trans Pennine Trail path (NCN…
This weeks Stockport Community Cycling Club ride was a more urban affair. And yet since I started cycling I have come to realise that ‘urban’ doesn’t have to mean busy roads or less interesting. Our local rides are just different. What they also do is show you some of wonderful places we can enjoy that are right here on our doorstep. This ride was a point in case since it involves a cycle ride up a section of the Trans…
Yes, we realise that if we are being pedantic then we might suggest that Winter hasn’t actually arrived yet. Nonetheless if it is good enough for shops to advertise Christmas in July then the precedent has been set and it is good enough for us. The germ of the idea for the Winter Training Bus began following our ride to the start of the SCCC Lymm ride on Saturday which took in part of the route of our old E2E…
I opened the front door this evening to go out for the SCCC Didsbury ride and was very surprised to see the rain bouncing down! I have to admit to being tempted to whimp out and stay home in the dry! I did phone Andy and ask him what he had done to the weather (I was sure it must have been his fault!). However Neil was leading his first club ride and we needed to go and support him. By…
