Start-finish at Dulwich Clock Cafe, SE21 7BQ.  Direct route to Forest Hill along the South Circular.  Not our usual choice, but provides a quick passage.  Exit park via the Roseberry Gate and use the shared-use pavement to Lordship Lane. Up Lordship Lane, past the Horniman Museum, down London Road using mostly cycle and bus lanes.  […]

V and A 400 ride. Victoria and Albert were both born in 1819, one in May, the other September.  Werner has a 16 mile route planned for an anniversary ride, the "V & A 400".  Starting and finishing in Burgess Park (Park Life Cafe, Chumleigh Gdns, SE5 0RJ) and taking in the eponymous embankments, the […]

Southwark Cyclists now traditional Healthy Ride on Boxing Day with Werner leading. Should help work off some of the Christmas pudding! 2 hour ride starting and finishing at Canada Water. A chance to meander around very quiet streets (its a Bank holiday!) in the City. Likely to use the Thames path to Tower Bridge then […]

Christmas Healthy Ride +    Dec 28th 2019 Start/finish 9.30am in Peckham Square (next to Peckham Library and Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre, SE15 5JR) Werner feels the Boxing Day ride will not have metabolised all the turkey so proposes at + ride for the last Saturday of the year.  We would normally start from Peckham on […]

First ride in 2020! Usual easy-paced ride on, as far as possible, quiet streets and paths. Do you really know Dulwich? Come and work off some calories while exploring this part of Southwark. Easy ride, suitable for all types of cyclist. Starting from Dulwich Park we will head up to Dawsons Heights.  Great views from […]

Meet Canada Water Library 10am and catch 10.08 am Overground train to Sydenham. The Overground is well-designed for carrying bikes and the lifts get you to the platform at Canada Water. Ride down to Bells Green and join the Waterlink Way (Nat Route 21).  Follow this via Ladywell Fields and Brookmill Park until it meets […]

Usual easy-paced ride using lots of quiet streets and paths, but with some short stretches of busy road. Plan is to do a circular ride from Burgess Park to the Royal Parks. Out via Waterloo Bridge, Covent Garden and Bloomsbury to Regents Park. Probably coffee stop there, then via Marylebone to Hyde Park.  Circuit of […]

Start/finish at Peckham Square (by Peckham Library and Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre, SE15 5JR) Easy paced 9 mile circuit, plenty of time to stop at places of interest over a 2 hour ride. Set out down the Canal Path to join CW1 (was Quietway 1) and follow this excellent route to Blackfriars Road. Do 2-stage […]

An undulating (might be considered "a bit hilly") route on mostly quiet streets through Tulse Hill. Round the west part of the Streatham Common then up to the Rookery Cafe where if time a coffee break. Return up through the common to Leigham Court Rd then quiet streets to Norwood Park. Detour slightly to criss-cross […]

Easy paced ride to see how far we can get along the Thames path heading east.  Thames path is now all open again after building work.  Some of the best cycle track you will ever see, but also some very narrow bits.  Care needed on these stretches and giving way to pedestrians.  Hope to get […]