This Giro D’Stockpoort cycle route was the third part of the trilogy in my Stockport Community Cycling Club series celebrating the iconic major European bike race tours following our Tour De Stockport and Vuelta a Stockport cycle rides. Of course, the French word ‘tour’, Spanish word ‘vuelta’, and Italian word ‘giro’, all simply translate to the English word ‘tour’. It was a ride that had run into difficulties even before we arrived at the start line. When recceing the route…
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…
Tonight we went out on our regular circuit through Cheadle Hulme, Gatley, Wythenshawe, Northenden, West Didsbury, Heaton Mersey, Stockport and Davenport. We cycled about 17 miles through all kinds of weather. It was sunny when we left, then went through rain, hail, winds and back to sunshine by the time we got home – what a real mixture that was! Our little group of riders grew from 3 at the beginning, up to 7 in total. We all did a…
