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• Start the ride at the junction of West Street / Rockingham Street, opposite is the job centre, where Gaz and friends go to sign on.  Head off from here, through the university grounds, around the cathedral and eventually over the ring road before nipping along the paved path through The Pondarosa.

• A few streets to wiggle around and you find yourself at the bottom of the day’s first challenge: Blake Street, said to be one of the UK’s steepest roads and the street that the lads climb up to replace Gerald’s broken gnome…

• …at the top of which they meet Gerald, sitting on a bench in Ruskin Park. Surprisingly, the benches have moved ever so slightly from when when The Full Monty was filmed.

• Heading downhill to the A61, you will pass location four: the Burton Street Foundation, the exterior of which was used for Nathan’s school. I believe that interior was also used for the ballroom dancing scene.

• Briefly join the A61 before turning off at the Owlerton Stadium junction, towards Hillsborough. You’ll quickly arrive outside the imposing Regent’s Court flats, where Gaz lives.

• The climb up to Crookes is the longest of the day, at two miles, with an average gradient of 5% (although it does break 10% as you pass Walkley library). The ascent climaxes at Crookes Cemetery, where Lomper holds the funeral for his mum. You may feel more respectful walking your bike through here.

• Nip through Crosspool on  your way to location seven: Mandy’s new home. This is a blink and you’ll miss it turning, so remember that it’s on your right, just after Hallam FC.

• There’s a fast descent down to Endcliffe Park now, as you make your way towards Greystones and up the surprisingly steep Pevril Road and Dobbin Hill. It’s at the steepest point (10.5%, if you’re interested), just after Strathtay Road, that you can spot the gardens that Lomper and Guy dive through after being busted during their striptease rehearsal (we’ll gloss over the fact that if The Full Monty was geographically accurate, they would have run five miles through the city centre wearing nothing leather thongs to get here).

• The next section to Gerald’s house takes a quiet little detour to avoid Ecclesall Road South. En route you’ll climb up the sneaky little kicker of Broad Elms Lane and end up surrounded by farmland before dropping back down into Whirlow, where you will need to wend your way to No. 34 Whirlow Park Road. Be warned, the house looks completely different from when it was in the film and therefore easy to miss. It’s also a private residence so don’t hang around too long and certainly don’t trespass.

• There is a quick descent down to and along Abbeydale Road before taking a left turn up Bannerdale Road and the site of Carterknowle School, where Gaz and Gerald have a bit of a heart to heart by the bus stop.  Although, you will notice that the bus stop has moved position in the ensuing 25 years.

• The ride gets a bit more gritty now, as you begin to visit a lot of the locations that you’d typically associate with a group of unemployed steelworkers forced into becoming strippers. The route takes you along the industrial areas of Little London Road and Olive Grove Road, and it’s here that you’ll find the phone booth where Horse complains that his penis enlargement kit doesn’t work. The phone booth no longer exists, instead there’s a small square of tarmac that marks this iconic location, sort of like a Sheffield equivalent of a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

• There is a little climb up Norfolk Park Road and Granville Road before you reach the newsagent’s where Gerald buys all the newspapers. It hasn’t changed much.

• The next spot, where the lads have a game of football, took a lot of effort to locate as it’s not listed on many movie location websites.  However, looking at the scene’s backdrop and comparing it with Google Earth, I’ve worked out that it is up on Skye Edge Fields, on the spot where a new set of flats have been built. If you drop down to the lower field, I’m pretty sure that is also where Guy gets wolf whistled while out running. Be warned, the route now takes you down a small footpath, likely littered with broken glass, so take care here.

• The canal is where you’re next headed, for what is probably the second most famous shot of the film (after the finale): Gaz and Dave atop the submerged car. It’s just off Bacon Lane, down some steps, before you cross the canal.  You can continue the route along the tow-path, rejoining at the next bridge (Staniforth Row) or return to the road, as you head through the industrial sites of Attercliffe towards the Don Valley. I think this is where the route gets unique as no normal tour of Sheffield would take you through this fairly unattractive part of the city. It must remain one of the parts of the Sheffield generally unseen by visitors (and I do acknowledge that many people would think there is a good reason for that).

• Shortly after you pass under the Worksop Road Aquaduct, on your right you’ll see the derelict factory where the lads audition and rehearse.

• The route takes you past the Don Valley Bowl, Ice Sheffield and Centertainment before joining the Five Weirs Walk towards Meadowhall. This section sees you tackle the best climb of the route: the ‘Cote de Jenkin Road’. It’s only half a mile long and, according to the sign at the bottom of the hill, has a gradient of 33% but it actually feels more like half that (that’s still 17% so, you know, far from flat)! It is a great little climb that once you have crested, will drop you down to Hyacinth Road (second left once you begin descending), the location where Gaz tells a couple of ladies that their stripping will be ‘the full monty’. This area has been completely redeveloped, so it looks nothing like it does in the film. Also, trivia fans, while the ladies are filmed at this spot, the opposite shot of Gaz and the lads is actually filmed on Thickley Bank in Shirebrook, 25 miles away.

• Continuing on the road you just left, you will shortly pass the ‘Shiregreen Club’ the run-down shell of the working men’s club where the finale was filmed. Outside it proudly claims ‘Home of the Full Monty’ but, at the time of writing, it just looks depressing. Hopefully it’ll get some life once again.

• The route now takes you to Stubbin Lane in Firth Park, where Dave and Gaz have a bit of a chat.

• The penultimate location on the tour takes you to Idesworth Road, Page Hall, where the external shots of the club were filmed. The building is now a derelict carpet warehouse but still looks fairly similar.

• On your way to the final location, the route takes you to Burngreave via Carlisle Street East; a road lined with factories and industrial sites but dead straight and flat. I like to treat it is a little time trial and see how quickly you can reach the end and, just around the corner, the Vestry Hall, which you can see in the film as a the backdrop to one of the posters advertising the striptease show.

The route then wiggles back to the start of the loop. It’s not as direct as it could be but I’ve planned it to avoid the tram tracks where possible.

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