CC Jodrell Bank Run Spring 2012 - SUNDAY 22nd April

[lanternerouge]

I have just mapped it on Garmin Connect - don't know if this is any use to anyone?

BTW Colin on the way back might be easier to go Cale Green/Shaw Heath rather than back on the A6 - bit quieter. Looks like a fantastic route though, thanks for all the effort!!

 

[fossyant]

I know the route without GPS (ish) - it could end up a bit hillier if I get / got it wrong on the fixed ride a year or so ago...... just the finer points I use it for. Follow me, and keep up

 

[ColinJ]

Aaaaaaaaargh!

Er, that was aimed at the Bikely software, by the way, not lanternerouge or fossyant!

 

[ColinJ]

BTW Colin on the way back might be easier to go Cale Green/Shaw Heath rather than back on the A6 - bit quieter. Looks like a fantastic route though, thanks for all the effort!!

It looks like you might be right, but this isn't one of my routes, it is fossyant's.

All I'm trying to do is to make the GPX file representing his route small enough to load into a Garmin's memory.

I don't normally edit on Bikely, I just use it for passing around my routes. It is really bugging me now, trying to just shift a few trackpoints to line up with junctions. It is insisting on creating new ones and randomly deletes the whole route and starts again!

 

[lanternerouge]

Doh! I got all confuddled Many thanks to fossyant as well of course

 

[ColinJ]

Ah - I've just looked at the Bikely forum - the software is broken so I am not going to move my trackpoints after all!

It's near enough. I've been navigating from files like that for 5 years and not got lost so it is there for backup if the local riders get confused.

These Cheshire routes are certainly a lot more complicated than the ones for the rides I normally organise. There are so many more roads to choose from and hence junctions to navigate. I bought the GPS in the first place when I saw the size of the route sheet for A Mere 200!

 

[fossyant]

These Cheshire routes are certainly a lot more complicated than the ones for the rides I normally organise. There are so many more roads to choose from and hence junctions to navigate.

Hence my comments...........we can go no-where for hours in Cheshire..... without doing the same road...

 

[ColinJ]

Hence my comments...........we can go no-where for hours in Cheshire..... without doing the same road...

Yeah - I rode the Manchester 100 five or six times but never managed to memorise the entire route! There are near enough 100 junctions in the 100 miles. IIRC, A Mere 200 had almost 200 in 200-odd km!

 

[fossyant]

As a trained local, we won't get totally lost... Just want to avoid some nasty shocks on the Pennine Hills - it's still fixed OK,

 

[ColinJ]

Don't think any one is going to get lost on this ride. If you get separated from the main group just listen for the massed beeping from the gaggle of Garmins

My Etrex is silent, which can result in me missing turns if I'm chatting to someone and forget to look at the GPS screen in time. It does flash a message on the screen saying "TURN AHEAD", but I was looking at the screen when that message popped up, I would have already spotted the turn on the GPS's 'breadcrumb trail'!

 

[totallyfixed]

When I run a forum ride I don't tell anyone what the route is. Coincidentally no one who comes on my rides uses a Garmin. Coincidentally no one comes on my rides. I'm hoping one day there will be a huge sunspot or the satellites crash. In a survey of university students a couple of years ago something like 70% of them thought the M1 was a river.

 

[ColinJ]

In a survey of university students a couple of years ago something like 70% of them thought the M1 was a river.

It could be worse ...

 

[Judderz]

Is there car parking nearby to Stockport Station?

 

[I like Skol]

Photos of the cafe in this link.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/rph/341/1...jodrell-bank-pavilion-cafe-jodrell-bank-photo

Cracking food at a good price.

I have no complaints about the food, definitely a cut above the typical greasy spoon. In fact, just viewing that picture has got me drooling over the keyboard

 

[lanternerouge]

Is there car parking nearby to Stockport Station?

There is plenty - at the station itself, or in Edgeley opposite it. You can park for free in Shaw Heath as well eg car park opposite Texaco