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 […]

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. […]