It has been a little while since Sarah and I have joined a Stockport Community Cycling Club ride, what with cycle tours and attending weddings and the like. It was good therefore to be able to rejoin our friends on the Longdendale Trail ride, a perennial favourite (see here, here and here for previous versions). We met at the Hadfield end of the Longdendale Trail. There was also a charity ride for a local nursery taking place. Bruce thought he might be in…
Saturday was the latest SCCC Longdendale Trail Ride. It started from Hadfield, where 16 of us met up. It was a lovely day, although the start had been a bit chilly first this when we had set off to ride to the start, which for us was about 11 miles, most of which were up hill! We set off along the Longdendale Trail, past Rhodeswood Reservoir, Torside Reservoir and the the Woodhead Reservoir as far as the Woodhead Tunnels. We…
This Saturday’s Stockport Community Cycling Club ride was along the Longdendale Trail which runs alongside a number of reservoirs. The Longdendale Trail also forms part of NCN Route 68 and therefore the Pennine Cycleway which a number of us had completed a few years previously. Andy S and I had cycled to the start and the final section of our route had been along the trail. It had rained a little as well. Thankfully as we arrived at the start, which…
The forecast for Saturday when I looked on Friday evening was that it would be dry but cold. Saturday morning was rather a shock when I get up as it was pouring with rain! I told Andy that I didn’t want to go – but he just laughed at me. We set off anyway and cycled to the starting point of the SCCC ride, which for Saturday was Longdendale. Our ride to the official starting point was 15.4 miles for…
