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This is one of London's largest and little-known parks. There's 140 acres of it. Cyclists can use it but mysteriously not a lot do. Burgess Park and the Canal Path make up about a third of the Bike Train route. The segregated cycle lanes are about another third and traffic calmed backstreets are the final […]
Get your bike checked over and security marked. All free. Mechanics will be tightening brakes, pumping up tyres and indexing your gears. Never make those strange noises again when you brake or change gear. Back in the day the police used to offer Bike Marking for free as part of their fight against crime. They […]
Come and meet our all-knowing, all-seeing mechanic who distributes wisdom and bike knowledge to those who have ears to hear. The accompanying elves are pretty wise too though a lot more modest. Get these tools to work on your bike in London’s most skilled hands. Dr Bike and his expert team will fine-tune your bike […]
Get this top class mechanic working on your bike. See the Arch in the background. Two mechanics -- one professional and one amateur -- will tighten your brakes, index your gears and adjust your bike to fit you. Their hangers-on will offer you literature about cycling in Southwark and TfL maps but sadly, no coffee. […]
I couldn't truthfully tell you that this is a good likeness of our bike doctor. In fact I could truthfully tell you that it isn't. However I could also truthfully tell you that he's very good at his job and works very hard. He's coming to Quietway 1 for the first time with supporting bike […]
Put these tools to work on your bike. The good Doctor and his attendant bike nurses will fettle your bike. They index gears, tighten brakes, pump up your tyres and warn you to clean your chain. Their bike health care assistants have maps, info, and lots of local cycling-related gossip. All this for your bike. It’s […]
The Bike Train is named after the Brighton Bike Train which took students along the A23 from their halls of residence far away to their places of learning in the town. It’s a commuter ride leaving out the crush, the waiting, the heat and the congestion. We take about 35 minutes to get from Peckham […]
The doctor doesn't look anything like this of course but it's a media tradition that everything is improved with a picture of a good looking young woman and why should I resist. The three guys that do all the work are not actually bad to look at especially when they are working on your bike. […]
The Bike Train is a commuter ride leaving out the crush, the waiting, the heat and the congestion. We take about 35 minutes to get from Peckham Rye to Blackfriars Bridge and we do not go fast. I’m the pace-setter and I go about 8mph. Occasionally I overtake (small) children but I’m generally overtaken by […]
The meeting is at our not-so-new venue at 41 Grosvenor Park SE5 0NH (see picture below). It’s much more respectable than it looks. Coming from Burgess Park, cross Camberwell New Road and proceed proceed in an easterly direction along Urlwin Street, under the railway bridges, left at the end and straight on into the cul-de-sac […]
