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Regular Rides & Events:Every Monday 18:30 - 19:00: Resonance 104.4 FM
Bike Show. 2nd Wednesday of every Month: Our Monthly Meetings.
Better Bankside More info . . . Most Thursdays: Afterworker ride Every Saturday Morning: Dulwich Paragon North Downs More info . . . Last Friday of every month: Critical Mass 2008JanuaryThursday 17 January: Woolwich Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle North
bank to Woolwich Ferry and over and back. Saturday 19 January: Rainham Marshes Meet
10am Cutty Sark Gardens. The Marshes and the
RSPB reserve. 20 meandering riversidish miles to lunch and a very good
look round the reserve. Train back from Purfleet, or Gravesend after
the ferry ride. Or ride back all the way on the southside post-ferry.
Saturday 26 January: Waterfront London Meet
10am Cutty Sark Gardens and 11am at Southwark
Needle. for meandering ride to excellent New London Architecture,
Store Street WC1 to see their free riverside exhibition. And the 6 designs
for the 2012 velopark. Sunday 27 January: The Condor Years film.
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens or 11am Southwark
Needle for riverside ride to The Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
and the film. Buy your own ticket in advance. £7.50: www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Lunch there, ride back after. FebruarySaturday 2 February: Sustrans Southwark Ranger
Ride Meet 12 noon outside closed for 2 years Rotherhithe East London
Line station on Brunel Road. (See
here) for easy explore and audit of Sustrans National Cycle Network
Route 4 through Southwark. Circular ride so we do it in both directions...
Western Oxo Tower to the downstream border with Lewisham. (Route 4 rides
from St David's in Wales through here to Cutty Sark Gardens where it
meets Route 1 - Dover to John O Groats). Saturday 16 February: Richmond Park Sunday 17 February: Ashridge and Tring A
winter ride into the country and out into the National Trust Estate
that is Ashridge. Meet Southwark Needle 08.15 sharp for the 08.53 to
St Albans. From St Albans we cross out through the old Roman Town, skirt
Hemel Hempstead, and pick up the tow path along the Grand Union Canal
which quickly takes us to Berkhamstead. We’ll follow some circular rides
well marked around the area, with plenty of opportunity to relax in
a tea shop and wait for the ride to return if the need arises, so something
here for all. Map
Lunch will be in Aldbury, quite possibly the definitive English Village
with duck pond, fully functional Post Office and Village Store, a green
and a fine selection of beers, even a lime tree planted by Queen Victoria.
Afterwards we have quite a steep climb through woodland onto the Ashridge
Estate where we should experience some splendid woodland scenery
before descending alongside the Whipsnade Perimeter fence into Luton.
Plan on some 40 / 50 mostly easy miles, couple of steep but short hills.
Train Fare £9 or groupsave/railcard etc. Wednesday 20 February: Lewisham Cyclists AGM:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
slow ride to get to Catford Town Hall for 7.30pm and Lewisham Cyclists
AGM. Thursday 21 February: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
People have been asking about the Rotherhithe Tunnel. We'll use it to
cross north and the Woolwich Ferry to get South again. Saturday 23 February: Bike Monitoring Survey:
Meet 9.45am at Tate Modern entrance slope for 10-2pm Bankside bike monitoring/survey.
Help needed. Saturday 23 February: The Crays Sunday 24 February: Oxted and Back Wednesday 27th February : Rides Meeting Meet
18:30 Dog and Bell, 116 Prince Street, SE8 3JD. This is the regular,
mostly monthly meeting to decide on and coordinate future rides with
Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark Cyclists. We usually arrange rides
for the following month. These meetings are informal with the business
side taking about 30 minutes. If you have a ride you want to do or want
to lead feel free to come along; everyone is welcome. Please note you
have to be a member of the LCC before you can lead a ride for insurance
reasons. Anyone can come to a meeting or on a ride, member or not. See
you there . . . Thursday 28 February: Putney Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
To Putney along the South side, over, refreshment stop, back. Easy paced
for all. MarchSaturday 1st March: Easy Going - South London
Ride Sunday 2 March: Locks Docks: Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty
Sark Gardens or 11am at the Firepower Cafe at Woolwich Arsenal.
A leisurely, always different, exploring docklands ride via the wonderful
Woolwich Ferry. Stay all day for tea at Wapping Pumping Station or drop
out whenever. Saturday 8 March: Burnham-on-Crouch Meet
9.15am Stratford E15 station for the 9.40am train to Burnham. Lovely
St Peters on the Wall chapel - 654AD. 35 very flat lovely Essex miles.
The route is listed here.
Sunday 9 March:: Flood Barrier Flash Ride:
Only 3 hours notice but meet Cutty Sark Gardens
at 11am for long look at the Thames Path around the Woolwich Flood Barrier.
Work on getting the path driven due east past the Barrier starts here.
End that detour! Sunday 9 March: Eynsford ride with Pollards Hill
Sunday 16 March: The Serpentine and Derek Jarman
Friday 21 March: The Good Friday International
Event: Excellent international day of racing and events at Herne
Hill Velodrome. Great spectator day out at a very special bit of bike
culture. Entry fee of £12 for adults. Meet 9am at Southwark
Needle or 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens for
leisurely ride to the 11am start. Main events start at 1pm. Find own
way home. See the VCL
or the event's web site
for more details. Saturday 22 March: Rainham Marshes and the RSPB
reserve: Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for
the 20 or so easy meandering miles to the reserve and a walk round.
Train back from there or stay on for newly discovered Purfleet riverside
to the Tilbury Ferry and over. Train back from Gravesend or might ride
back. Thursday 27 March: Woolwich Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle North
bank to Woolwich Ferry and over and back. Sunday 30 March: Barry's Two Tunnel Summer Time
Starter: Thames Path east to the M25 and over. Meet 10am Cutty
Sark Gardens for a very exploring riverside ride to Erith and the
Dartford Marshes. Then a lift under the Thames at the M25 crossing.
Back west to Purfleet and the half-hourly train home to Liverpool Street
- or ride back all the way down the rather good A13 bike lanes and the
Isle of Dogs and Greenwich Foot Tunnel. About 50 miles if you ride the
lot. Thames Path fine for tourers, tough on skinny tyres. Paced for
all. AprilWednesday 2 April: Southwark Council/Police HGV/cyclists
education session: St George's Road by West Square: 7am-12 noon.
Go see what happens. Thursday 3 April: Canals Afterworker: Meet
6.30pm at Southwark Needle for towpaths.
Loop and back to start for about 8.30pm. Tuesday 8 April: Lambeth/Southwark GLA election
hustings meeting. It's the GLA elections on 1 May. This public
meeting organised by Lambeth Cyclists and Southwark Cyclists is so that
candidates for this constituency can tell us about their plans for local
and London cycling, and more besides. Short speech from each then questions.
Meeting starts 7pm at Herne Hill Baptist Church, Half Moon Lane, SE24
9HU, here.
Wednesday 9 April: The London Walking and Cycling
Conference. At City Hall. For anyone seriously interested in the
best ways to get around. Free. Register and details here
and join the 9am pre-conference ride led by, of course, Southwark Cyclists.
Meet outside City Hall 8.45am. No need to register for the ride only.
Thursday 10 April: Mystery Moggies Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
back-alleys ride to the Kings Head on Borough High Street and Neil Arnold's
£2.50 8pm South East London Folklore Society first-ever talk about the
mysterious cats that have prowled our city for ever. Careful on the
way home. Sunday 13 April: Rapha's Battersea Rise Hell of the North screening: screening then Dunwich Dynamo 2007 short on their tele. ITV1 at 6pm. http://www.rapha.cc/index.php?page=444 Meet 10am at Southwark Needle or 11am at Cutty Sark Gardens Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 19 April: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Southwark Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Thursday 24 April: Canals Afterworker: Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for ride up the Lea Valley Path for an hour. Then back. Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 26 April: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am under the arch at Peckham Square cafe for Dr Bike
check-up and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
MayThursday 1 May: May Day Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for every inch (nearly) of Southwark's 17 mile border. Saturday 3 May: Southwark Healthy Ride: For
all. Meet 10am at Dulwich Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Thursday 8 May: Fertile Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
long way round to SE London Folklore Society £2.50 8pm talk by Janet
Dowling on the Green Man in medieval carvings at the Old King's Head,
Borough High Street. Saturday 10 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am under the arch at Peckham Square for Dr Bike check-up
and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Thursday 15 May: Heaven and Hell Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
ride to Farringdon Station and Scott Wood's One Eye Grey 7pm
90 minute walk in the footsteps of wizards, mystics, visionaries,
quacks, giants, criminals, brawling women, holy warriors and parading bears.
http://www.fandmpublications.co.uk/pages/pennydreadfulevents.htm Saturday 17 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Dulwich Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Saturday 24 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Southwark Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Saturday 31 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am under the arch at Peckham Square for Dr Bike check-up
and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
JuneThursday 5 June: Old London Bridge Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle. Alan's explore of where the old bits went. Saturday 7 June: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Dulwich Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 8 June: Rotherhithe Road Tunnel 100th Birthday:
Meet 10am at Southwark Needle for leisurely local ride to 12 noon meeting
of local people here
and a birthday party for Rotherhithe Road Tunnel which was opened on
Friday 12 June 1908 until 2pm when all adjourn to the Southwark Park
bandstand concert. Thursday 12 June: Happy Hundredth Birthday Rotherhithe Road Tunnel Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle. Rotherhithe Road Tunnel was
opened on Friday 12 June 1908. We'll ride through the tunnel to a
Rotherhithe house and watch clip a from Basil Dearden's 1950 Pool of
London and the tunnel chase. Then optionally to the Old King's Head,
Borough High Street for 8pm £2.50: Scott Wood's Adventures in Urban
Folklore talk. Saturday 14 June: Southwark Healthy Ride: For all. Meet 10am at Southwark Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here. Barry 07905 889 005. Thursday 19 June: Better Bankside and the Woolwich Ferry: meet
here at 5.30pm
for bike surgery then 6.30pm start of ride.
Over Tower Bridge and east along quiet places to the wonderful Woolwich Free Ferry which floats us over
the Thames for the ride back west along the south side to the start not too long after 8.30pm.
We're leading this as part of lovely Better Bankside's Bike Week celebrations.
Saturday 21 June: Midsummer Madness: The
summer solstice. Longest day of the year. Magic about. Meet 2am Cutty
Sark Gardens. 2.30am Southwark Needle.
3am Bar Italia, Frith Street. 4am top of Primrose Hill. 4.43am sunrise!
6am breakfast at the Island Cafe, Flat Iron Square, where Southwark
Bridge Road kisses Union Street. Unmissable. Saturday 21 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: All That Life Can Afford. Design guru Stephen Bayley on artists and architects houses. Meet 2pm. Tate Modern North Side garden. Ends 5.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Wednesday 25 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: If Buildings Could Speak. Architectural writer David Littlefield on embedded dreams. Meet 6pm. Waterloo Millennium Green. Ends 9pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Thursday 26 June: Unmissable Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle. We won't miss the Woolwich Ferry this time!
Saturday 28 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: Fresh Water. Chris James of Lambeth Cyclists on water, London and the engineering and architecture. Meet 10.30am. St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield. Ends 4.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 29 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: Bikes And Bridges. Engineer Mark Whitby and architect Alex Lifschutz. Meet 10.30am. Corner of Carriage Drive North and Carriage Drive West. Ends 5pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 29 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: Bikes And Bridges. Engineer Mark Whitby and JulyWednesday 2 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Designer Wayne Hemingway on Public Back Gardens. Meet 6pm. Bernie Spain Gardens. Ends 9pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005. Friday 4 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Rediscovering central London's Public Realm. A provocative look at London's public spaces with Professor Richard Burdett, chief architectural adviser to the 2012 games. Meet 6.00pm (not 6.30pm as previously billed). Paternoster Square. St Pauls. Ends 8.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 5 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: The Mayor's 100 Open Spaces (Boris may change this! Or not). Ex-Southwark planning chief Fred Manson on the varying identities of new spaces. Meet 2.30pm. Tate Modern entrance ramp.Ends 5.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 6 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Public Space in Politics. Emily Thornberry MP on public spaces and political protest. Meet 2pm in central garden of Grosvenor Square. (This is a change from the previously published Speakers Corner start). Ends 5.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 6 July: The London Flood Plain Ride.
Which we've created for the London International Festival of Theatre whose key theme this year is climate change.
There'll be regular stops for quick talks from experts about the London flood defences and related watery things.
Make sure you get hold of a copy of the very special map LIFT/Southwark Cyclists have created for the day and after.
More detail here. Bike mechaniking from 10am onwards and 10.30am
ride start here at The LIFT festival hub at the Festival Hall on Belvedere Road.
Wednesday 9 July: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 10 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Concrete Buildings 1. Meet 6pm. Bath Terrace/Harper Road junction. Andrew Scoones, Director of The Buildings Centre. Ends 8pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 12 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Beneath The Streets. Barry Mason on Subterranean London. Meet 11am. Mecklenburgh Square. Ends 6pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 13 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Cultural Shift. Meet 2pm. Calthorpe Project. Grays Inn Road. Streetmap reference Katy Marks of Haworth Tompkins and Ian Taylor of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios on some of London's best arts buildings. Ends 6pm. Barry. 07905 889 005 Thursday 17 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Concrete Buildings 2. The versatility of concrete with Andrew Scoones, Director of The Buildings Centre. Meet 6pm. The Building Centre, Store Street. Ends 8pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 19 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: The Great Freshway. A proposal for a cycle-superhighway linking London's major spaces and buildings with Keith Bradley of Fielden Clegg Bradley studios and Dan Pearson, gardening correspondant for The Observer magazine. Meet 10.30am. Royal Albert Hall. Ends 4.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 19th July: Dunwich Dynamo 16 The legend. Much more detail here including early bird coach tickets back. Sunday 20 July:London Festival of Architecture ride: Fit for Purpose. Some of London's best sports buildings. Meet 10.30am at Primrose Hill Road entrance to Primrose Hill. Andy Myton of David Morley Architects and Brian Ditchburn of HOK. Ends 5pm at Herne Hill Velodrome. Last in use legacy of the 1948 Olympics. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Thursday 24 July: Skeletal Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle. for
backstreets to the wonderful new Wellcome Collection and their London
buried bones exhibition. Free admission to this new must.
Saturday 26 July: Wallasea Wetlands.
Meet 9.30am Southwark Needle,
or 10am Liverpool Street station for 10.15am train to sunny Southend. £12
cheap day return or 4 for £6 each. North to Wallasea Island then the £6
ferry across the Crouch to Burnham and the Dengie Marshes. Train back
from Burnham about 5pm. Bring a swimmie. Flat, slowish explore.
Thursday 28 July: Blue Fence Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle,
explore round the 11 mile perimeter of the Stratford 2012 site. Back to start by
8.30pm.
AugustThursday 7 August: Scarey Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for a very slow ride down river with Chris Roberts of the South East London Folklore Society
and his curious tales of mayhem, mollies, monsters and things that go bump in the night. The ride ends at the fine Dog and Bell in Deptford.
Friday 8 August: The SLAMS Tate and Back.
With Cooltan Arts and SLAMS.
To Tate Modern and back. An easy sociable guided ride for all to
celebrate new partnerships, more people on bikes, and all better for it!
Meet 10am at the Maudsley. Denmark Hill for Dr Bike. Ride starts 11am.
Back around 2.30pm. Just turn up. Easy.
Saturday 9 August: Rotherhithe Festival.
10-9pm. King George's Fields, Lower Road:
Southwark Cyclists information stall and Dr Bike. Easy Rides at 11am, 2pm and 4pm.
Barry
Sunday 10 August: Return of Locks Docks. meet 9am Southwark Needle or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for riverside to Woolwich Ferry and over for docks explore and back via Island Gardens and Wapping. Barry 07905 889 005. Wednesday 13 August: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 14 August: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle,
North bank to the Woolwich Ferry and over. Back along south bank.
Saturday 16th August: Rainham Marshes. Meet 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens. Woolwich Ferry and over for lunch at the Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve after 20 miles. Train back from Purfleet. Or 12 more miles out to the £3 Tilbury ferry to Gravesend via the riverside. Train back from there or ride the 20 quickish busy miles back to Greenwich. It's an adventure out there, Barry. 07905 889 005. Thursday 28 August: Scarey Afterworker 2.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for an even slower ride down river with Chris Roberts of the South East London Folklore Society
and his tall short stories tales of water, wharves, wolves and things that go slump in the fright. The ride ends at the fine Dog and Bell in Deptford.
Saturday 30 August: Estuary bikes, words, birds and big big skies.
Punctuated with stops for thos words by Germander Speedwell
Three start points:
9am Cutty Sark Gardens for the 20 mile quickish ride with me to Gravesend
Or get yourself onto the 10.14am train from London Bridge to Gravesend
And all meet for coffee at Promenade Cafe, Gravesend at 11.15am:
Then the lovely Shorne Marshes cycle path and onto the Hoo Peninsula for a grand
tour to include a lateish cafe lunch.
6pm or so....ride back or train from Lower Higham.
The Gravesend/Hoo tour is about 20 easy miles and we'll pace it for all.
Try On Your Bike at London Bridge Station to hire one.
Sunday 31 August: Lewisham: Otford Loop and the Golding Hop More info . . . SeptemberThursday 4th September: No Afterworker. Sorry...it's Southwark Transport tonight. Saturday 6th September: The Woolwich Flood Barrier maintenance tunnels.This Environment Agency guided tour is now fully booked. Barry. 07905 889 005. Wednesday 10 September: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 11 September: Ratty Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for local ratrun ending up at the Old Kings Head, Kings Head Yard, Borough High Street for Paul Cowdell's 8pm £2.50/£1.50 SELFS talk on Rats, London and folklore. Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 13th September: Bermondsey Street Festival Tanner Street Park. Come join our bike stall there with professional mechanics from CI.com. Local easy rides at 1pm and 3pm. Help needed. Al fresco Rocky Horror Show screening in new Bermondsey Square at 7pm. More info on the SE1 website . . . Thursday 18th September: London's Dead Good Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm sharp Southwark Needle to get to the Wellcome Collection's unmissable Skeletons exhibition lecture evening for 7pm. You don't need tickets usually but do tonight. Get your own free entry ticket here . . . . Barry. 07905 889 005. October1st- 5th October: Bicycle Film Festival. More Info . . . Wednesday 8 October: Our Annual Meeting. We review the good and bad of our past year, take stock of our finances and the entire management committee stands down and we elect a new one ...who gets re-elected? Who doesn't? We start the evening with our usual monthly meeting then change gear slightly for the Annual Meeting and elections etc. Still 7-8.30pm so things move along fast. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after. Better Bankside Community Space. Corner of Great Guildford/Zoar Street. More here... NovemberWednesday 12 November: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
DecemberWednesday 10 December: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
2009JanuarySaturday 4 July 2009: Dunwich Dynamo 17. The legend.
The 2009 FAQs and coach back tickets will be here in early April 2009. Meanwhile.... the 2008
FAQs are here
More at London School of Cycling website
And here's the 2008 route
550 riders had perfect weather in 2008. Huge moon, wispy clouds, dry, wind
pushing us there, even the jellyfish were non-stinging. We moved 280 back in the
coaches/lorry convoy.
Rides and events are also posted on our eMail group. |
Tons of rides for all ages and abilities. Ride Meeting Points Peckham Pulse (PP) is underneath the big awning (background picture at top of page) on Peckham High Street opposite the end of Rye Lane Map. Southwark Needle is at the end of London Bridge, by the Evans store. Map Cutty Sark Gardens (CSG) are in Greenwich, by the exit to the foot tunnel Map. Ride Reports & Pictures Good Friday Race Meet Pictures For more ride news see also: Rides Archive, Our past rides, to give you inspiration:
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