The Cheshire Ring

[I like Skol]

Fine, been using Peak and Macclesfield canals alot recently. Just get a bell.

Or just pass people with care and efficiency?

 

[fossyant]

Or just pass people with care and efficiency?

Aye, but the grumpy old barstweard that had a go at me for not ringing my bell after I then said "excuse me"... two rings of bell first.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Damnation, I though for a moment you'd discovered an unknown Wagner work!

The ride of the Cheshire Cats 😁

 

[Blue Hills]

Fine, been using Peak and Macclesfield canals alot recently. Just get a bell.

yep, i've used bits of the leeds and liverpool canal recently.

 

[llamafarmer]

I cycled the Cheshire ring clockwise last year, starting in Northwich, and really enjoyed it. I had an overnight at a b&b in Marple. The terrain is really varied, ranging from quality paved paths to muddy, overgrown, gnarly towpath. I used a hardtail 29er, and was glad of a bit of suspension to take the sting out of the rough bits, of which there are plenty. I made the mistake of thinking that, as it is following canals it will be easy. The trouble is at least 50% of the distance is like riding over a ploughed field.
The parts through Manchester are interesting, the tow path was closed round Whitworth Street, so ended up on the busy city streets, but nothing to daunting, and the urban areas of east Mancheter are certainly places you don't see in tourist guides.

 

[Richard Fairhurst]

Lots of the Cheshire Ring towpaths are seriously bumpy - most of the rural Macclesfield, bits of the T&M, the rural Bridgewater. The urban sections are good and the Peak Forest is generally fine. But as an overall route it’s MTB/gravel bike territory.

 

[I like Skol]

and the urban areas of east Mancheter are certainly places you don't see in tourist guides.

Oi! I've led a few excellent forum rides along stretches of those East Manchester urban canals. Some lovely bits in the grotto under Piccadilly

 

[fossyant]

Oi! I've led a few excellent forum rides along stretches of those East Manchester urban canals. Some lovely bits in the grotto under Piccadilly

Jump off at Piccadilly, and get back on down near Deansgate Locks ! Watch out for 'The Pusher'

 

[a.twiddler]

Damnation, I though for a moment you'd discovered an unknown Wagner work!

Ah, the Cheshire Ring Cycle!