The sun on your back, the wind in your hair and flies all over your teeth
or how sneak beats strength any day - welcome to Whirlow Wheelers!
Club Runs & Other Events
Sunday Runs
Regular Sunday club runs start at 8:30am at the junction of Hathersage Road and Sheephill Rd or 9:00 at Calver - the car park by the school.
29 Apr 12: Longnor (9:00 from Calver)
To the edge of the known world and then straight on.
22 Apr 12: Beeley (9:00 from Calver)
A tortuous route thru the wilds of... probably Derbyshire but knowing our route-maestro it could be Northumberland!
15 Apr 12: Crich (9:00 from Calver)
A cold, exposed ride into the teeth of a howling gale. Usually.
08 Apr 12: Flagg (9:00 from Calver)
We just can't keep away from this place.
01 Apr 12: Bothamsall (9:00 from Barlboro)
Bearing in mind the date this will probably be a vertiginous ride!
25 Mar 12: Monyash (9:15 from Calver)
A nice ride... in the summer.
18 Mar 12: Buxton (9:15 from Calver)
Not called the highest market town in England without good reason!
11 Mar 12: Edale (9:15 from Calver)
Coopers Cafe.
04 Mar 12: Bothamsall (9:00 from Barlboro)
A fun, flat ride for the fat boys and those who want to brag about riding 25 miles into a head wind.
26 Feb 12: Tidza (9:15 from Calver)
Or Tideswell if yer not from round these parts.
19 Feb 12: Eyam (9:15 from Calver)
The (justly) famous left hand cafe again?
12 Feb 12: Crich (9:15 from Calver)
A glorious ridge top ride over Beeley Moor to Crich punctuated with a few hills just to keep things interesting.
05 Feb 12: Bothamsall (9:00 from Barlboro)
Start at Barlboro (outside the De Rhodes Arms) and ride through the flat lands of Nottinghamshire to Bothamsall. Back through Clumber Park.
29 Jan 12: Hassop (9:15 from Calver)
The Station Cafe... have we been there before?
22 Jan 12: Flagg (9:15 from Calver)
Tends to involve Millers Dale and much pain!
15 Jan 12: Edale (Coopers Cafe)
Now we all know that Edale is not far away and we also know that it cant possibly be that easy!
08 Jan 12: Tideswell (9:15 from Calver)
Lets see if we can find a cafe open this time!
01 Jan 12: Mystery Ride (10:00am from Calver)
Late start and decide where to go when we meet - at least that should save the route-maestro further embarrassment!
Other Events
03 Feb 12: Fish and Chips
Date to be confirmed - fish and chip supper at Hathersage Pool Cafe.
18 Dec 11: Christmas Lunch
Rideout Christmas Lunch - starting from Hathersage at 9:15am and returning to the Pool Cafe for lunch at 12:00.
17 Sep 11: Pie & Pea Supper
The start of the social season is traditionally marked by a bun-fight and this year it takes place at the famous Hathersage Pool Cafe. Wives and concubines welcome. 7:00pm start.
22 Feb 11: 18th Annual AGM
At the Ranmoor Inn. Start troughing at 7:30, down to business when we've scoffed the lot and drunk the place dry.
Mid-week Runs
Wednesday afternoon at 1:30pm (ish)
Midweek run starts out from Hathersage Station and generally rides up the Derwent Valley to Kings Tree and back. After a gentle start along the Hope Valley, expect to be hammered up Bamford and allowed not a moment's respite all the way to Kings Tree at the top end of the Howden Reservoir. The return journey is more of the same only this time gravity is on the side of the fat boys - hehe!!
Tea and buns in the Pool Cafe afterwards.
Friday afternoon at 1:15pm (ish)
This run also starts from Hathersage Station and rides sedately along the Hope Valley and Edale to Barber Booth and back. The shenanigans typically start on the way back down Edale when somebody (not mentioning any names - tho rhyming slang might be 'rough') inevitably decides to jump away going down that little hollow past the barn and then it's eyeballs out all the way back to Hope. The last stretch back into Hathersage is where the rest of us get our own back on the Edale trouble-makers - or try at least!
More tea and buns in the Pool Cafe afterwards.