After a summer of practically wall-to-wall sunshine, it was a morning of drizzle that greeted Stockport Community Cycling Club riders at Friden. This was a new cycle route for the club and was the one Sarah and I had picked up from last year’s Eroica Brittania. I was leading today’s cycle ride. We started on the High Peak Trail which forms part of NCN Route 54. It was also the former Cromford and High Peak railway line. We passed the…
Eroica Brittania has been described as the ‘Woodstock of true lovers of cycling’. The festival celebrates all things related to vintage cycles. It takes place in the heart of the Peak District. This year it had a new home, Friden Grange, and to those who had attended previously it was clearly biggest version yet. Our good friend loves all things cycling, and especially, old bikes. We had, almost by chance joined one of the Eroica rides for a short while when completing…
