This Cuerden Valley 2019 Stockport Community Cycling Club was the latest of a regular in the club cycling calendar. You can view previous outings, including my infamous crash and burn ride, here: 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018. Many of the club rides have large numbers. So sometimes it makes a nice change when there are smaller numbers. Today, was just such an occasion. There were only nine of us, and just two leaders, Sarah and myself. Leaving Kem Mill Lane car park…
This was to prove a busy weekend for Sarah and I. We were due to run the Southport Mad Dog on Sunday. Before that, however, there was the little matter of the Stockport Community Cycling Club Cuerden Valley 2018 Saturday ride beginning at Whittle-Le-Woods. Before that, we had started the morning by joining in with the Cuerden Valley Parkrun. Having rushed over to Kem Mill Car Park we joined our fellow club members. Jim was leading today’s ride, and Sarah was…
Having ridden the Manchester to Blackpool Bike Ride on Sunday and stayed overnight in Blackpool, Monday was time for the return home Blackpool to Stockport ride. The first job of the day was to go out for breakfast – we went to the Weatherspoon’s pub called The Layton Rakes. We do like breakfast at Wetherspoons and it is good value too. Feeling refuelled, we had a last look at the sea before it was time to start our ride back to…
The Cuerden Valley ride is a regular feature on the Stockport Community Cycling Club calendar. However, I have missed the last couple of editions (though Sarah rode last year). This was the ride upon which my Crash and Burn moment occurred. I was back-leader on that day, and I started off as back-leader on today’s ride too. Hopefully I would get a bit further this time. It was a cool but thankfully day as a healthy group of riders turned up at…
Saturday was the SCCC Cuerden Valley Ride. I have to admit that when I got up on Saturday morning and I could see slushy snow on the ground outside, my first thought was I don’t want to go cycling in that! As the ride didn’t appear to have been cancelled and because I was the official back leader for the ride, I thought I would have to at least drive to the start of the ride. So rather reluctantly I…
