The Halls Route has become a regular event on the Stockport Community Cycling Club calendar. Sadly Sarah hasn’t been feeling too well for the last few days and wasn’t up to tackling this ride. A shame since she has never cycled the Halls Route …yet. A healthy group (pun intended) of club members met at the bottom of Vernon Park. Leaving the park we set off in the direction of Bredbury and passed the first of Stockport’s halls – Bredbury…
Below is our Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) Itinerary. We will be undertaking this coast-to-coast trail, which runs between Southport and Hornsea and is 215 miles long, in Autumn 2015. The Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) is National Cycle Network Route 62 and runs right through the centre of our hometown Stockport. It is described as “an exciting route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders linking the North and Irish seas, passing through the Pennines, alongside rivers and canals and through some of…
This weeks Stockport Community Cycling Club ride was a more urban affair. And yet since I started cycling I have come to realise that ‘urban’ doesn’t have to mean busy roads or less interesting. Our local rides are just different. What they also do is show you some of wonderful places we can enjoy that are right here on our doorstep. This ride was a point in case since it involves a cycle ride up a section of the Trans…
It was a lovely sunny day, although a little chilly to start with. The Stockport Community Cycling Club ride officially started from Atlantic Street in Broadheath. However we decided to cycle to the starting point. Our route took us out through Cheadle (where we caught up with another member from the club), Gatley, Wythenshawe and Timperley. By the time we reached the official start point we had cycled 11 miles. The club ride route followed out along the Transpennine Trail…
