Manchester Velodrome Archives

Moravian Settlement and Manchester Velodrome

6 August 2017 Andy

A visit to the Moravian Settlement is a regular destination for one of Stockport Community Cycling Club‘s Wednesday rides. For the Saturday rides, we often bypass the community and instead head a little further on to Manchester Velodrome. So, a cycle ride visiting both promised to be interesting. It was an overcast, but thankfully sunny morning, as a healthy number of club members met outside Houldsworth Mill. Graham was leading today’s ride and I was the back-leader. We began by…

Ashton Canal – The Dry and the Wet

14 November 2015 Andy

The weather forecast for the weekend had been for rain, rain, and more rain! The Met Office had issued weather warnings for flooding. Not a great picture for the Stockport Community Cycling Club ride along the Ashton Canal. Not only that but Sarah has been feeling somewhat under-the-weather recently, and just as she begins to recover it seems I am now beginning to struggle with a virus too. So it was against this background that we began the day. At…

Manchester Velodrome

24 October 2013 Andy

Saturday started out with the weather being overcast as Stockport Community Cycling Club members gathered at Houldsworth Mill in Reddish for a cycle ride to Manchester Velodrome led by Sarah. We began by heading out through Reddish Vale Country Park. After climbing over the M60 at Brinnington we continued through Denton. Sarah on the reccy for this ride, taking a brief rest On the edge of Denton the route went under the M57 as it briefly followed the River…