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Easy-paced long morning ride, heading across the river from Greenwich and exploring eastwards. Isle of Dogs, Trinity Buoy Wharf (http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/) and more. Check back nearer date for detailed route information. Start/finish at Cutty Sark, next to the Foot Tunnel entrance, SE10 9HT. Anyone who would like to start from Canada Water at 9am, contact Bruce […]
Plan is to repeat last year’s Big Butterfly Count Ride (see ride report at http://healthyrider.weebly.com/healthy-ride-reports-june-july2015.html ). Anticlockwise loop through Peckham Rye Park, Ruskin Park, Elam Street Open Space, Myatts Field and Burgess Park. If time also loop through Kennington Park and visit Walworth Garden Farm. Route at http://goo.gl/v14knG. Information about Big Butterfly Count at http://www.bigbutterflycount.org/
Usual easy-paced ride on mostly quiet roads and paths. Clockwise loop outwards via Horniman Museum and Sydenham Wells Park. Circuit of Crystal Palace Park, including the Dinosaurs. These 2 parts of the ride a bit hilly, but total distance is less than usual, so can take the steeper sections slowly. Then long downhill run back […]
Usual easy-paced Southwark Cyclists Healthy Ride. One of our favourite rides (no hills!). Downstream to Greenwich and through the foot tunnel to Wapping. Along the north bank to Tower Bridge, across the bridge, then Thames path route (NR4) back to Canada Water. Route at https://goo.gl/DhhUOD Sorry, under 16s must bring a responsible adult with them. […]
Usual 3.5 hour easy ride. Start/Finish Cutty Sark, by the tunnel entrance. The last ride to Trinity Buoy wharf was so popular we have decided to repeat it, but using a different route. This time will go outward along the south bank and cross at Woolwich using the foot tunnel. Then back along the north […]
Fire of London Anniversary Ride – Southwark Cyclists Healthy Ride. Start/finish Canada Water Library, SE16 7AR (opposite Canada Water Station) Easy-paced ride using as far as possible quiet streets or paths. Route will ride round the perimeter of the great fire that occurred 350 years ago, on Sept 2nd 1666. From Canada Water along the […]
Usual easy-paced ride on mostly quiet roads and paths. Any standard of cyclist welcome - just turn up with your bike. No route details yet - please check back nearer date.
Circuit from Canada Water across London visiting Regents Park and Hyde Park and running past Green Park and St James Park. Passes Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and Houses of Parliament. Uses stretches of EW and NS Cycle Super Highways and Quietway 1. Route at https://goo.gl/elGVVY Will be usual easy-paced ride, suitable for anyone. See […]
Usual easy-paced, 2 hour, ride. Current idea is to include the Lambeth Car Free Day on Cornwall Rd near the South Bank. Out using Quietway 1; back partly using NS Cycle Superhighway. Route at http://goo.gl/Hp8JQ4
The challenge was to design a non-hilly ride starting from Dulwich. Ended up following the “lost” river Effra to the Thames. Starting at 131ft and ending at 16 ft. With all the small bumps there is a total of 245ft of ascent, mostly on the return leg, of course. But it is pretty low slope […]
