North West riders ... Who are ya ...

Graham K

... And where do you ride?

Ride Oldham/Rochdale at the moment, building up after a lazy year.

Jon_1976

Me

If I'm going for a shorter ride, I usually go around Greenmount-Edenfield-Helmshore-Rawtenstall.Been into Rochdale a few times. I spend a lot of time in Belmont and Rivington as theres some nice roads (not too busy) and the hills range from nice to pretty hard.
This is one of my favourite routes http://www.strava.com/activities/47512211

Azhar

Hi! From Chorley and travel through Blackburn to get to accrington to get to work. Weekend rides normally to southport or Lancaster

grl

Am based in Culcheth and ride around the South Cheshire area - Lymm, Knutsford and Macclesfield

napoleond

I'm from Cheshire. I tend to ride in my garage.

mr_joe0606

i am in preston am my usuall route is normally over belmont or parbold. doing around 40 miles

Gpfanuk

NapoleonD wrote:

I'm from Cheshire. I tend to ride in my garage.

Cleat Eastwood

NapoleonD wrote:

I'm from Cheshire. I tend to ride in my garage.

I built his garage - I tend to ride his missus

napoleond

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

NapoleonD wrote:

I'm from Cheshire. I tend to ride in my garage.

I built his garage - I tend to ride his missus

At least that means someone gets to!

Jon_1976

mr_joe0606 wrote:

i am in preston am my usuall route is normally over belmont or parbold. doing around 40 miles

We've probably crossed paths at some point

Cheshire Cat

grl wrote:

Am based in Culcheth and ride around the South Cheshire area - Lymm, Knutsford and Macclesfield

grl - think your geography is a little off there, that is more like North/North East Cheshire

Originally from Cheshire, now living in Cumbria, ride mainly around Cumbria.

mr_joe0606

Jon_1976 wrote:

mr_joe0606 wrote:

i am in preston am my usuall route is normally over belmont or parbold. doing around 40 miles

We've probably crossed paths at some point

possibly out most sundays. started doing tues and thurs too. today i did belmont and parbold was a good 70 mile

BigTK

Burnley, pendle.

duckson

Hoghton between Preston and Blackburn.

jscl

Graham K wrote:

... And where do you ride?

Ride Oldham/Rochdale at the moment, building up after a lazy year.

Tend to ride your way, to Hebden Bridge and Ilkley. Or head south to Pott Shrigley or Macclesfield.

mikelskas

I'm based in west Manchester.

During the week I don't ride too far and will usually do a 20 mile loop up to Bury and back or further west towards Culcheth. There are some nice quiet country lanes there and riding along the cycle path next to the East Lancs isn't too bad, it's fairly smooth.

During the weekends I like to head to Rivington or head south to Cheshire. The longer rides on the weekend can be up to 60 miles depending how I feel.

Camus

I'll often ride around Saddleworth and W Yorks (tend to head for places like Ripponden, Cragg Vale, Marsden but also looking to venture South through Manchester and into Chesire)... looking for training buddies!

sancho_uk

Warrington here...

Tend to ride wherever i point my wheel at the moment

Did a lovely ride at the weekend up through Burtonwood/St Helens/ Billinge (Parbold hill etc)

Also quite like going the other way heading up to Delamere / Malborough Country Park / Great Budworth etc..

Having started road riding in the winter and loving it, I can safely say this weekend just gone of "nice"ish weather has been phenomenal! Definitely found the hobby for me

lakesluddite

Based in Kendal, so either South Cumbria (Lythe valley, Furness coast, around Windermere/Hawkshead/Coniston etc) or head down to North Lancs, Forrest of Bowland or over to yorkshire Dales - Sedbergh, Settle, Dentdale etc.

Furthest south from here would be the ride I did Easter Sunday when I went to Dunsop Bridge via Jubilee Tower and the Trough of Bowland, and back via Slaidburn, Wray, Hornby etc.

To be honest I don't get into the Lakes as much as I should, given it's on my doorstep - I prefer the quieter roads of North Lancs and North Yorks, sometimes the roads around here are just too busy to enjoy that much. I do vary my commute home from Ambleside to Kendal quite a bit, especially now the evenings are lighter and I can get a good 30/40 mile circuitous route in after work.

Pituophis

North Manchester, Bury, Rochdale/Oldham areas of an evening, getting more adventurous and further afield at weekends

snipsnap

live nr chorley.

ride out to southport, belmont, houghton etc at weekends.

commute to manchester during week.

Crimmey

Middleton here, close to where op is, although i wont be riding for a little while.

CHRISNOIR

I lived in Milnrow and used to head out over Rishworth, Mytholmroyd, Marsden, Huddersfield way. Also the odd jaunt over Edenfield, Helmshore, Blackburn and up to Preston.

Just moved to South Manchester so looking forward to some Peak District hills!

napoleond

You'll have to come my way for a ride Chris. You want some Bailey's?

Vietto's spare wheel

In the ever friendly Whalley Range in sunny Manchester, and generally get out towards macc and the Peak District.

tubbs_214

middleton for me so north manchester usually head out over to hebden and sowerby bridge also heaeded over towards blackburn way and some times to the north of the peaks been over tatton park way a few times if dont fancy any hills

calbelfield

Based in good old Rochdale, been doing a lot of adventuring recently, seem to be going in all directions, over to Chorley, down to the airport, over to Hebden bridge. Hill repeats up Ashworth Valley tomorrow!

tubbs_214

Should go over to Rammy rake for your hill repeats. It's that steep it has a hand rail seen a few people doing them up there

calbelfield

tubbs_214 wrote:

Should go over to Rammy rake for your hill repeats. It's that steep it has a hand rail seen a few people doing them up there

The Rake is good but I just want to focus on longer power sustaining (around 10-15 mins) rather than a 3 minute burst of high power low cadence up the rake ( for now at least). Thanks though

sw465

Rochdale here. Tend to head towards Hebden Bridge or Burnley. Trying to find some nice flat routes with little traffic but I'm struggling!

leevil knievil

From oldham, ride around the Pennines and local areas, Mossley, greenfield etc the odd trail centre here and there.