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 […]

Meet at the Southwark Needle (located on SE corner of London Bridge, at top of Duke St Hill, adjacent to London Bridge Station) for a 3.5 hour easy ride to Walthamstow.  Waltham Forest Borough Council have won a hat full of awards for their "Mini-Holland" project to improve walking and cycling (good info on Waltham […]

Easy-paced 2 hour ride, this one mostly quiet roads with a few path sections through parks. Some gentle hills, nothing extreme. The Quaggy meets the Ravensbourne close to Lewisham station where much new development is taking place. The opportunity has been taken to open up this built-in water feature as "Confluence Park". The ride will […]

Idea is to explore a bit further west on the south side of the river. Burgess Park is on the west edge of Southwark, so the obvious place to start. Last did this ride on August 31st 2019, see report at http://healthyrider.weebly.com/healthy-ride-reports-august-sept-2019.html. Outward route will go via Vauxhall and Battersea Power Station to Battersea Park. […]

Start/finish at Dulwich Clock Cafe in Dulwich Park. First section goes via quiet streets to our Peckham start point in Peckham Square.  Next Canal Path and Glengall Rd through to Quietway 1 at Oxley Close.  Short stretch of Q1, then to Butlers Wharf and Potters Field Park next to Tower Bridge via Bermondsey Spa Gardens […]

Usual easy-paced ride on mostly quiet steets or paths.  2 hour, about 10 miile, ride from our regular 2nd Saturday start/finish location next to Canada Water Library and opposite the station. Convenient if you want to come on the Overground as CW Station is step free.  Route will cross 4 bridges. Go along the riverside […]