Ahead of the ‘Grand Depart’ in France later this week, Stockport Community Cycling Club members met upon a fine Saturday morning in Woodsmoor for this Tour De Stockport 2022 cycle ride. I was leading the first group, while Sarah joined the second group. For this blog post, therefore, we have combined the photos from the two groups. Setting off, we began by navigating our way through Woodsmoor and Bramhall. Soon we arrived at Bramhall Park. After cycling through the park,…
It was a cold morning for a cycle ride. Vuelta a Stockport 2022 was the second edition of this local cycle ride celebrating one of the iconic cycle tour races. Sarah and I were leading the first of these rides. Thirteen riders turned up in Woodsmoor, hoping we would enjoy a cycle ride and beat the rain. It was a biting wind we were heading into as we made our way over to Bramhall. We weaved our way through Bramhall…
It was a cold Saturday morning that greeted the first group of Stockport Community Cycling Club riders arriving at Woodsmoor for this cycle ride out to Poynton. This ride had already been called off once due to inclement weather, and the forecast for today wasn’t great. Indeed, a few cyclists had already decided to stay at home. Sarah too, though arriving at the start, turned around and went home feeling extremely tired. We set off through Woodsmoor and over the…
It was an overcast Saturday morning when Sarah and I met up with a group of Stockport Community Cycling Club members in Woodsmoor. I was leading this Vuelta a Stockport cycle ride. Sarah was the back-leader. After leaving Woodsmoor we headed for Bramhall. We cycled down Tenement Lane. Then down the Ladybrook Cycleway. From the cycleway we picked up NCN Route 558. This took us through Brookfields Park. A little further on we entered Bruntwood Park. We then weaved our…
A few weeks ago we had used one of our regular Sunday cycle rides to recce this Tour De Stockport route. Now it was time to officially cycle the route on a Stockport Community Cycling Club ride. We met near Woodsmoor Rail station on a bright Saturday morning. At the moment, for coronavirus social distancing reasons the club is keeping the numbers on the rides to a maximum of twelve. Setting off, we weaved our way through Woodsmoor. Then over…
