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The Bike Train leaves Denmark Hill Station from Windsor Walk, just outside the cafe (good coffee) and beside this big raised flower bed which is attempting to lower the stress of using Denmark Hill Station. Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to central London via Blackfriars. We bike-buddy riders to their final […]
Start/finish at the Pavilion Cafe, Dulwich Park, SE21 7EA Cator Park is on National Route 21. This allows us to look at the stretch immediately south from the Waterlink Way that we rode last week (Aug 26th). Head out via Horniman Museum and Sydenham Station. From Cator Park follow NR21 north to Bells Green. Back […]
The Bike Train is named after the Brighton Bike Train which took students along the A23 from their halls of residence far away to their places of learning in the town. It’s a commuter ride leaving out the crush, the waiting, the heat and the congestion. We take about 35 minutes to get from Peckham […]
The doctor doesn't look anything like this of course but it's a media tradition that everything is improved with a picture of a good looking young woman and why should I resist. The three guys that do all the work are not actually bad to look at especially when they are working on your bike. […]
Canada Water-Lewisham Loop Usual easy-paced Saturday morning ride. Continuing our National Route 21 theme from the last 2 rides, will do the north-most section on this ride. Inland route to Brookmill Park then up and back along Waterlink Way (NR21) to Lewisham Leisure Centre. Return via Deptford Creek and riverside. Ride we previously did in […]
The Bike Train is a commuter ride leaving out the crush, the waiting, the heat and the congestion. We take about 35 minutes to get from Peckham Rye to Blackfriars Bridge and we do not go fast. I’m the pace-setter and I go about 8mph. Occasionally I overtake (small) children but I’m generally overtaken by […]
The meeting is at our not-so-new venue at 41 Grosvenor Park SE5 0NH (see picture below). It’s much more respectable than it looks. Coming from Burgess Park, cross Camberwell New Road and proceed proceed in an easterly direction along Urlwin Street, under the railway bridges, left at the end and straight on into the cul-de-sac […]
Cutty Sark to Lesnes Abbey, Abbey Wood. Start/finish at Cutty Sark, Greenwich beside the tunnel entrance. SE10 9HT Easy-paced, 3.5 hour ride, much on cycle paths. Out and back mostly on Thames Path, including riding the Thamesmead Ridgeway. Coffee stop at Lesnes Abbey Park, Abbey Wood. Just ruins, but extensive and well looked after. Amanda […]
Meet the team. From the left, my husband Bob, me (the bald one) and Andy who's in charge. Total age around 200 not including Eleanor. The red bike belongs to Eleanor who took the photo. Well, maybe it doesn't belong to her. Maybe she borrowed it. But still, come with us and learn off-road and […]
The doctor doesn't look like this, of course, and neither do his bike health care assistants. But pictures of cheerful and friendly looking young women improve everything. No cycle marking, sorry, we're working on it. The different looking doctor and bike nurses will be fixing brakes, indexing gears, pumping up tyres and offering wise advice. […]
Put these tools to work on your bike. The good Doctor and his attendant bike nurses will fettle your bike. They index gears, tighten brakes, pump up your tyres and warn you to clean your chain. Their bike health care assistants have maps, info, and lots of local cycling-related gossip. All this for your bike. It's […]
Bike Trainers past -- looking surprisingly lovely really when you think what the organisers look like. Arriving at work with a smile on their faces. You can do that too. Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to central London via Blackfriars. We bike-buddy riders to their final destination. Escorted all the way and […]
Cyclehoop make these things. Anthony Lau, Founder and Managing Director of Cyclehoop, has invited a group of us to visit their business. It is in an industrial estate: Unit 1, Burnham Way Kangley Bridge Road SE26 5AG 020 8699 1338; 07771 755 262 5 pm on Wednesday September 27. The nearest station is Lower Sydenham. See […]
This isn't a good likeness of Charlie or Andy but you get the idea. What they have in common is that they are good at fixing bikes. Our bike doctors will be indexing gears, tightening brakes and fixing tyres and their health assistants will be dispensing maps, cycling info and gossip. Charlie and Andy will […]
Easy-paced, 3.5 hour ride, as much as possible on quiet roads and cycle paths. Meet at Canada Water, beside the Library, opposite the Station, SE16 7AR. Another ride along the Thames, but this time going west. Repeat of a ride we have done a few times, led as usual by Philippa. Last time was May […]