MG- Paula, Scenic Hilly Fab Work Out For Me

by Neil Tanner
4 years ago
Near Chester, GB

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This one is not aimed at winter, although all the lanes are good, but some are narrow and can get very mucky/ gravelly / slippery, especially Bickerton hill and the strech up around Chalmondsley. However , it’s a cracker, stays close to home and there is great protection from winds hence, this one aimed at a good work out for me with Paula in NW winds hence also goes Anti-clockwise. Where we are heading into wind is when the route goes down hill.
This takes in some of my favourite lanes and tops out above the Pheasent inn, up Fowers lane to the top of the ridge line basically at a dead end, which I could carry on off road and down Coppermine lane, if on the Whyte, but there is a short strech of rough gravel / stone lane for half a mile. However Copper mine lane is not that good either, although tarmac, very potholed, but it is possible to ride a full circular loop over the top of the Sandstone ridge via Bickerton and Pheasent Inn.
If with Paula then We would top out at the Pheasent inn.
This route has been amended from last ride. Route now cuts across the corner at Cholmondsley and heads straight up along a lovely narrow lane, but not a good series of lanes after bad weather.