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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 […]
See https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwich-dynamo-xxiv-2016/
"It's like being given the keys to the City" -- that's the comment of one Bike Trainer on arrival at Blackfriars Bridge. Come with us and see for yourself. Arrive happy and with a sense of achievement before 9am. We leave Nunhead Station at 8am and meet other riders at 8.10 at the bike stands […]
The good doctor is bringing his enormous capacity for hard work, his cheerful good nature, capacious knowledge of all things bike and his tool kit. With his top quality assistants he will be working hard under Peckham Arch from 5.30-7.30pm. Stop for advice and free fixes, maps (if there are any left) and bike-related gossip […]
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/
Give up on railway trains. Forget the heat, the stress, the overcrowding. Join us on the Bike Train. Always get a seat. Pay nothing. Help us turn stressed-out passengers into happy (bike) commuters. There's a bit more effort to it than that it's true. But the route is good. Two parks, a traffic-calmed backstreet, the […]
Feeder Ride from Peckham Rye Park Cafe departs 10am This is Britain's biggest bike festival and last year around 50,000 riders took part. This celebration of cycling, the event gives cyclists of all abilities the chance to ride through traffic-free streets in central London. The route will take in the Strand and Lincoln’s Inn Fields and returns […]
"It was great having a chat along the way and a brilliant way to start the day" -- one rider's assessment of taking the Bike Train to work. The only shame is the job at the end. We start at 8am from Nunhead Station and pick up riders from Peckham Rye station (from the bike […]
The Doctor is back with his extensive toolkit, his encyclopaedic knowledge of all-things-bike and his cast of able assistants. They will be hard at work in their usual spot under Peckham Arch fixing bikes, indexing gears, tightening brakes and offering wise advice. It's all free to everyone who turns up. Don't be shy. Roll up.
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 […]
