Sunday was the SCCC High Legh Ride. The ride started from the Gatley Station car park. Although Jim, the club leader, was not coming out cycling he met us there in the hope of being able to hand out some medals to the club members who had not been able to attend the club lunch the previous week. He was able to hand out another five before the ride started, making his trip worthwhile. The High Legh ride is one…
Sunday was the annual SCCC Tatton Park ride, the last ride of 2017. I had been due to lead the ride but having been unwell for most of December, Andy volunteered to lead it in my place. I swapped with Neil, who was due to be the back leader and he instead became Andy’s wing man and was chief corner marker. We met up in the car park for Gatley Station. There were 23 of us altogether. We left Gatley…
Sunday was the SCCC Plumley Ride where 16 of us met up at Timperley Sports Club. We left Timperley sports centre and headed out towards Hale. We skirted around Tatton Park. Making our way through Knutsford. having passed through Knutsford, we headed out onto some quiet lanes towards Plumley. We stopped at the Plantation Cafe in Plumley for lunch. Feeling nicely refreshed, we passed through Lower Peover. We then cycled over Peover Heath. We turned down a quite lane where there…
The end of 2015 will be remembered as being rather wet, and indeed some of the recent Stockport Community Cycling Club rides have been wet too – e.g. the rides Around Poynton, Lyme Park, and Ashton Canal. Would the start of 2016 be any different? Unfortunately, if this Tatton Park 2016 ride is anything to go by – sadly not. The forecast had promised rain and as we arrived at Gatley Rail station for the start of the ride it…
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…
