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…
The Stockport Community Cycling Club calendar traditionally includes a couple of longer rides that are not necessarily much longer than regular rides (this cycle ride to Monyash was just over 34 miles for instance), but what they lack in distance they make up for with he amount of climbing. And when it comes to putting together and leading ‘hilly’ rides the king is undoubtedly Andy Shaw. A surprisingly small group of just seven of us met at Whaley Bridge on a…
