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Woodbank Park

Woodbank Park

The weather is changing. As jackets are back, we are now clearly moving from summer to autumn, and meeting at Woodsmoor for this Stockport Community Cycling Club ride out to Woodbank Park was a chilly eye opener That said, while it was a cool morning, the weather was fine, and it promised to warm up later in the day. Our route began by leaving Woodsmoor along Moorland Road. Then heading over to Offerton. In Offerton, we cut through the passageway…

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Tour De Stockport 2022

Tour De Stockport 2022

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,…

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Giro D’Stockport

Giro D’Stockport

This Giro D’Stockpoort cycle route was the third part of the trilogy in my Stockport Community Cycling Club series celebrating the iconic major European bike race tours following our Tour De Stockport and Vuelta a Stockport cycle rides. Of course, the French word ‘tour’, Spanish word ‘vuelta’, and Italian word ‘giro’, all simply translate to the English word ‘tour’. It was a ride that had run into difficulties even before we arrived at the start line. When recceing the route…

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Alan Newton Way

Alan Newton Way

Sarah and I had a free Saturday, so we decided to book on this new Stockport Community Cycling Club cycle ride taking in the Alan Newton Way. Jim was leading this ride and Tracey was the back-leader. We met at Hazel Grove Park & Ride on a cool Saturday morning. Our ride began by weaving our way through the back streets behind the Park & Ride. This brought us out on to Buxton Road. We weren’t on the main road…

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Tour De Stockport 2021

Tour De Stockport 2021

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…

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