Events in Rochdale - Cycling

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Interested in creative writing? Able to ride a bike? Then this is the event for you!

The workshop led by experienced performance poet and writer Seamus Kelly and participants will be able to work in prose or poetic forms as we explore the landscape, discuss its history, develop ideas and create some new writing.

Please bring along something to write with, a drink and something to eat as we’ll stop to eat in Healey Dell. You'll need a bag or backpack to carry your kit. Booking Required

Rochdale Cycling Club caters for all abilities of cyclists with a range of adapted cycles, tandems and electrically assisted rickshaws as well as standard bikes.

You don't need a bike to take part in the rides as bikes are available through the club. Booking Required

Email: rochdalecycleclub@hotmail.co.uk  

This is a mass participation cycling challenge organised by Bike Events.

Whilst not a Rochdale event this ride is likely to attract participants from the borough and will appeal to those ready to take on a fairly long cycle challenge.

Booking Essential

The Council Corporate Procurement Team are holding a briefing event on Monday 8 July here in Number 1 Riverside.

The event will run from 8.30am – 10am and will explore some of the barriers local businesses/organisations feel exist in being able to compete for Council business.

It will also look at the procurement process, the advertising of opportunities and provide a brief overview of how to use The Chest, the electronic portal used to promote tender opportunities.

Numbers on the session are limited and you do need to book by contacting Zoe Byrne on 01706 925479 or by email zoe.byrne@rochdale.gov.uk

The Tour de France will pass through the borough in 2014. Around a kilometre of the route will pass into Rochdale – the route will pass through Rochdale at Blackstone Edge turning left from Turvin Road (B6138) onto Rochdale Road (A58). 

The route includes a sharp bend which will slow the tour down and maximise viewing opportunities.

The first details of the stages for the Yorkshire Grand Depart were announced at a press conference in Paris last week, and stage two, on 6 July, will take the race from York to Sheffield, via Cragg Vale.

Stage One takes the race from Leeds to Harrogate via the Yorkshire Dales, with Stage Three running from Cambridge to London, with a finish on The Mall.

The UK route of the 2014 Tour de France:

Stage one: Leeds - Harewood - Otley - Ilkley - Skipton - Kettlewell - Aysgarth - Hawes - Reeth - Leyburn - Ripon – Harrogate.

Stage two: York - Knaresborough - Silsden - Keighley - Haworth – Hebden Bridge - Cragg Vale - Elland - Huddersfield - Holmfirth – Sheffield.

Stage three: Cambridge - Epping Forest - the Olympic Park - the Mall.

Rochdale’s stage of the race is expected to attract up to 6,000 spectators.

The short section within Rochdale is the only part of the first two days of the tour not in Yorkshire.

The Tour De France, won in 2012 by Olympic star Sir Bradley Wiggins, last visited the UK in 2007 when London hosted the time trial and opening stage.