Grasslands Nursery Archives

Plumley 2015 – A Peach of a Cycle Ride

9 June 2015 Andy

Finally it seems the sun is occasionally popping it’s head around the clouds, and 24 riders arrived at Timperley Sports Club on a pleasant Sunday morning for Stockport Community Cycling Club‘s Plumley 2015 ride. For some of us this would be our last longer ride before our upcoming John o’Groats to Land’s End cycle tour …time to check that we are ready. Heading out of Timperley and through Altrincham the ride passed through Hale. And soon we were making our way through…

Those Rolling Cheshire Lanes to Lower Peover

17 May 2015 Andy

The latest Stockport Community Cycling Club Saturday ride started from Lindow Common – former home of Lindow Man. It was a bright and breezy day for a cycle ride around the rolling Cheshire lanes to Lower Peover. Sarah was leading the reading the ride and I was the back leader. We began by weaving our way through the off-road lanes to Morley Green From here we cycled through Marthall and Ollerton. Crossing over the A50 we turned on…

Cheshire Cheese

1 July 2013 Andy

After our recent Coast and Castles South tour, on Saturday it was back to the regular Stockport Community Cycling Club rides. Not quite the coastline of Northumberland, the spirituality of Lindisfarne, or the green valleys of the Scottish Borders. Instead in ‘Cheshire Cheese’ Jim had lined up an alternative cycle ride quite unlike any other previously encountered by SCCC. I decided to use my touring bike, a good jack-of-all-trades bike, since I figured I was cycling nearly 30 miles to the start and back…