We met at Torkington Park for this Whaley Loop cycle ride. We have had some fantastic weather recently, but this week the weather has been more changeable, and today it was raining. While the coronavirus restrictions mean we are still unable to meet in large groups, we can at least meet in socially distanced small groups. So, it was a pleasure to have Neil joining myself, Sarah and Andy S. Leaving Torkington Park we began by heading out towards High…
The latest storm warnings possibly put a lot of Stockport Community Cycling Club members off cycling today So it was a hardy band of eight cyclists that met at Torkington Park for this ride out to New Mills. Jim was today’s ride leader, and I was the back-leader. Sarah sadly had to miss out due to struggling with a virus. Today’s route had originally been slated to cycle to Roman Lakes. However, with the recent storms and lots of rain,…
Saturday morning brought another fine group of Stockport Community Cycling Club cyclists to Torkington Park. This was a new route to the airport and back along the new bypass put together by Tracey. Although cool as we set off through the park, we were looking forward to some fine cycling weather according to the weather forecasts. Leaving the park, we cycled up Torkington Road. Then joined NCN Route 55 and the Middlewood Way. We followed this for the next few…
Today saw the SCCC ride to Chadkirk. As the normal ride was a similar route to another ride that we had done recently, Neil (the ride leader for the day) took us on a nice new ride. We met at Torkington Park. It was a reasonable turn out consider that it was damp again! We had a slightly delayed start as we waited for John to turn up – he was the back leader today. The route took us out…
Today was the SCCC Fools Nook 2015 ride.We met up at Torkington Park. We set off through Torkington and then along to Nelson’s Pit. We had not been going for too long when we had a quick stop at Nelson’s Pit (to make use of the facilities). We made our way to Bollington. After Bollington we headed through Kerridge It was a day with quite a bit of climbing! The views from the tops where fairly spectacular. It was a…
