13 July 2026 // Cannock Chase · Staffordshire // FIT + GPX
14.8 Miles of Proof
An ordinary evening turned into a proper Chase mission: meaningful climbing, a tidy top speed and the ride that proved Torque could stretch the day.
Ride snapshot
The published Bosch/ride summary supplies the headline figures; FIT and GPX are treated as the paired source for the full archive entry.
The day, point by point.
The route narrative follows the available GPX evidence. Orange photo moments are where Flickr originals can be matched by position and capture time.
The numbers speak.
I translate.
This was the ride where Torque stopped being the new bike and became the adventure machine. I fitted 14.8 miles and 1,178 feet of climbing into an ordinary day, then finished already looking at the map again.
The proof of concept
The headline is not simply 14.8 miles. It is what those miles contained: 1,178 feet of climbing, trail variety and enough pace to feel alive without turning the outing into a race.
Torque’s assistance widened the useful part of the map. The ride remained mine; the hills simply stopped getting the final vote.
An evening used properly
A ride time of 1 hour 36 minutes is long enough to feel like an expedition and short enough to belong to a normal day. That balance became the blueprint for later Torque rides.
93/100
The ride that proved Torque was not a novelty. Fourteen point eight miles went into the legs; a much larger Cannock Chase came out of the map.
Editorial verdict // Clearly separate from recorded ride data