Cycling routes in Manchester - Website

92jon

Hi,
I am new to this excellebt forum - Hello!
Have a look at my website - it looks at safe bike rides in the Greater Manchester Area (England).
Its only my first go at website design - so please bear with me.
Have a look and enjoy - any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks
JON
PS - more routes to follow.
http://bikerides.dsracing.me.uk

Not Responding

92jon wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to this excellebt forum - Hello!

Jolly good.

> Have a look at my website - it looks at safe bike rides in the Greater
> Manchester Area (England).
> Its only my first go at website design - so please bear with me.

Sounds better all the time.

> Have a look and enjoy - any feedback is appreciated.

It might not.

> Thanks
> JON
> PS - more routes to follow.
> _http://bikerides.dsracing.me.uk (\"http://bikerides.dsracing.me.uk\")
> _
> _
> _
>
>

Not Responding

Not Responding wrote:
> 92jon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am new to this excellebt forum - Hello!
>
> Jolly good.
>
>> Have a look at my website - it looks at safe bike rides in the Greater
>> Manchester Area (England).
>> Its only my first go at website design - so please bear with me.
>
>
> Sounds better all the time.
>
>> Have a look and enjoy - any feedback is appreciated.
>
> It might not.
>
>> Thanks
>> JON
>> PS - more routes to follow.
>> _http://bikerides.dsracing.me.uk (\"http://bikerides.dsracing.me.uk\")
>> _

Hmm. Then again it seems genuine enough. Apologies if I snapped but I
get a bit tired of first posts that ask that we all visit a website.

92jon

Hi,
Apologies - I am just looking to share and buildup information about bike rides in my local area.
I enjoying cycling - its fun (and a good way to get fitter), I also enjoying finding the hidden delights that are around the urban sprawl!

Hopefully the site will get bigger and I will get information about other (unknown routes to me), so they can be documented and shared.

Thanks JON

mt99999@hotmail.com

92jon wrote:

> Have a look at my website...
> Its only my first go at website design - so please bear with me.

is there supposed to be more than two pictures, a paragraph of text and
mailto link? That's all that renders in my browser

best wishes
james

James Hodson

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:08:43 +1100, 92jon
<92jon.1hfa8y@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:

>I am new to this excellebt forum - Hello!

You're welcome. Hello.

>Have a look at my website - it looks at safe bike rides in the Greater
>Manchester Area (England).
>Its only my first go at website design - so please bear with me.
>Have a look and enjoy - any feedback is appreciated.

The Fallowfield Loop page is fine but the text on first page
<URL:http://bikerides.dsracing.me.uk> is a little large. Just IMO, of
course.

Having said that, my first attempt at designing a web page was
extremely nasty and should have been put down at birth, if not sooner.
BTW, I use the word designing extremely loosely.

Regards
James

Steph Peters

92jon <92jon.1hfgmy@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> of cyclingforums.com
wrote:
>Apologies - I am just looking to share and buildup information about
>bike rides in my local area.
>I enjoying cycling - its fun (and a good way to get fitter), I also
>enjoying finding the hidden delights that are around the urban sprawl!
>
>Hopefully the site will get bigger and I will get information about
>other (unknown routes to me), so they can be documented and shared.
>
>Thanks JON

Hi Jon

I ride the Wilmslow Road to Chorlton bit of the Fallowfield loop often.
Your website was very interesting, told me a lot of things I didn't know,
thank you.

You say that your aim is to share information about bike rides. Your
descriptions are strong on history, but could do with some additional
material to help riders find the route. A sketch map would be really
useful.

Your description of the ride starts at Debdale Park, which you describe as
near Fallowfield. I know Fallowfield very well, having lived 3 miles away
for all my adult life, but I don't know where Debdale Park is. Your ride
starts not far from Hyde Road, so the park must be in some other district.

You and I know that the path disappears at Sainsburys where an apartment
block has been built over it on the other side of Wilmslow Road, but it
starts again a few yards after the block. Riders who aren't familiar with
the area need to be told to cross Wilmslow Road at the traffic lights, ride
down the side road beside the Sherwood and pick the path up again.

It would be helpful if the book references gave the ISBNs.

Finally why not put your website in your signature? It will appear on all
your posts and you get advertising in a way that you don't need to apologise
for.
--
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime
that requires an accomplice. - Charles Baudelaire
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92jon

Hi Steph -

Thanks for your feedback - I will work on a better system for other bikers to follow my route.
I am not sure about copywrite for maps on the web. So I might take a reference from the Manchester A to Z or do a map drawing.
Yes - you are also right about Debdale park - this park is just off Hyde road in Gorton. You are also right about the part through Fallowfield. Again this needs adding to the site.
Luckily I have some time off round Xmas to work on this.
Happy cycling

Thanks again
JON
PS - more information about the Abbey Hey end of the Loop to be added very soon.

Mark Thompson

> Have a look at my website - it looks at safe bike rides in the Greater
> Manchester Area (England).

Thanks for that - have always wondered about the history of that line and
where it went (lived near it for three years and still not cycled it).

A mention of how long the route would take to cycle and how far it is might
be useful. Maps would be good, but probably illegal. A (very) rough
sketchmap would be helpful but might also look a little messy!

A good first site - it works! Let us know when you've got more rides up.

Mark.

Steph Peters

92jon <92jon.1hj5yy@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> of cyclingforums.com
wrote:
>I am not sure about copywrite for maps on the web. So I might take a
>reference from the Manchester A to Z or do a map drawing.
That's why I deliberately suggested a drawing. I doubt that you will find a
map that does justice to the old railway line anyway - the map needs to be
from the point of view of someone on the track, showing bridges over it,
entry points and so on.

>Luckily I have some time off round Xmas to work on this.
Please come back and tell us when you have added to it.
--
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanislaus Lezczynski
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92jon

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.
I have now added a basic map for your viewing. I am also planning more pictures of the entrance / exit points and details about the milage.

Have a look.

Thanks

JON

http://www.bikerides.dsracing.me.uk/

MartinM

Jan Wysocki wrote:


> Off Topic:
> BTW, I'm not a railway enthusiast and don't know what a "1500dc
Catenary"
> is. I do know that a catenary is the curve formed by a rope or chain

That's almost exactly what it is in railway terms; the overhead
electric wires. The 1500v dc ones between Sheffield and Manchester were
almost unique,apart from a section in East London/Essex the rest of the
UK used the later 25kv ac system for overhead lines since the 60's.
This uniqueness was partly the cause of the line's undeserved demise in
1981.

Jan Wysocki

In article <92jon.1hsjm0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com>, 92jon wrote:
[snip]
>
> http://www.bikerides.dsracing.me.uk/

Welcome to urc.
Thanks for the website in the .sig. I like your site (and Manchester
although I live far away.)
To reciprocate, could you put a reference to uk.rec.cycling
in the bike links? Too many people think that the Internet only
brings you the World Wide Web and email.

Off Topic:
BTW, I'm not a railway enthusiast and don't know what a "1500dc Catenary"
is. I do know that a catenary is the curve formed by a rope or chain
hung loosely with the ends at the same height and is the curve used for
building 'modern' brick arches.o

--
Jan

Mike Causer

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:42:45 -0800, mt99999@hotmail.com wrote:


> is there supposed to be more than two pictures, a paragraph of text and
> mailto link? That's all that renders in my browser

He's used Flash for the links. Gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!


92jon, don't. Just don't, OK?


Mike