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An Elementary 50 65 km

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Welcome to Long Distance Cycling with a short trip from Poynton to Holmes Chapel (It's the Elementary 50 my dear Watson). Lots of quiet Cheshire Lanes, the iconic Jodrell Bank, and a golden 'olympic' pillar box. It might only be a 50km ride but it could be the start to some truly Long Distance Cycling up to 100km, 200km, 600km... who knows how far you can go? This Perm can be ridden with the e-Brevet app . The ride counts towards the PARTY award . Long Distance cycling at Jodrell Bank The ride starts from Poynton, near Stockport. Note that our traditional car park off Park Lane (near Waitrose) is now Pay and Display and could cost you £3.60 (free Sundays, but do please check!). There is a maximum stay of 10 hours. Alternatively there may be free parking at Poynton Pool carpark . Even as 'just' a 50km ride, it offers a few hours pleasant dalliance in the Cheshire lanes, and will count towards the Brevet 250 award from Audax UK. While you could complete this Perm in just about 50km as a straight out and back, the route is much more interesting than that. 'Interesting' means it becomes 64km. The interesting bits include: • a 'golden' pillar box to commemorate the gold medal achieved by Sarah Storey in the 2012 Olympics for the 500m Time Trial (that's only half a kilometre but you've got to start long distance cycling somewhere. In fairness, Sarah will no doubt have ridden many thousands of kilometres in preparation for that event. Sarah is currently the Greater Manchester Cycling Commissioner. • a short bit of off-road cycling at the Hermitage just after Holmes Chapel, and another short stretch of bridleway at Chelford. • Jodrell Bank telescope (showing us what Long Distance truly is. To them, 100km is mere fraction of a light-millisecond. On the other hand there is decent cafe at their visitor centre). • lots of lovely Cheshire lanes and some delightful villages. An Olympic pillar box in Poynton Goostrey Church, a regular landmark on Peak Audax rides  ½  Elementary 50  1  Budworths 100 1½ Safari 150  2  Chirk 200  2  Llanfair 200  3  Monty 300  3  Plains 300  4  Llanfair 400  6  Kirtons 600 If you like this ride, you may wish to try another of the Perms from Poynton. Perms are also available with starts from Dean Row , Stalybridge and Uppermill .

Enter this Perm NB you will be asked for the ride date on the online entry form but this can be amended prior to setting off 2.50 AUK/CTC members , 5.50 nonmembers no SAEs needed! the non-member's supplement gives you temporary membership of Audax UK for the duration of this ride so you have compulsory 3rd party insurance for Member's rates Join AUK here e-Brevet Ref: MW25 Start: Poynton or anywhere on route if using eBrevet or GPX Contact: Mike Wigley ⟺ Distance: 65km Ascent: 510m Max elevation: 182m AAA points:     Controls: * 33km: Holmes Chapel * 66km: Poynton Time allowed: 2 hr 10 min at 30kph 5 hr 12 min at 12.5kph download: GPS files download: Route Sheet Weather: Poynton  L  Beginners Guide to long distance cycling  6  2024: 16  5  2023: 13  4  2022: 8  3  2021: 5  2  2020: 9  1  2019: 4