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Meet beside Canada Water Library, opposite the station. Really easy ride - 14km (8.4 miles) with no hills. Plan is to use the Quietway 14 alignment for the outward leg. Some work has recently started on bits towards the west, e.g. on Snowsfields and Union St. But mostly this is still just a paper route, […]
The Bike Train doesn't look like this of course. It's comfortable, friendly, and reliable (the Bike Train, that is). And free. Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to central London via Blackfriars. We bike-buddy riders to their final destination. Escorted all the way and totally free. The Bike Train is at a […]
Canada Water Library start/finish. Ride to Battersea Park. Out along Thames path, back along a slightly inland route. Coffee break at Battersea Park. Plenty to see on the route - Borough Market, Tate Modern, London Eye etc. Previous rides on this route much enjoyed, see report April 2016 ride. Route at http://goo.gl/6cFvhG. Leader Philippa.
Cycling makes you happy, keeps you fit, helps you live longer and costs nothing. Plus it's fun. See here for health evidence: https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/cycling-to-work-associated-with-major-health-benefits-new-study/ Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to central London via Blackfriars. We bike-buddy riders to their final destination. Escorted all the way and totally free. The Bike Train is […]
Usual easy-paced healthy ride. As far as possible using quiet streets and paths. Suitable for any level of cyclist. Start/finish at Peckham Square, next to Peckham Library and Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre (SE15 5JR). Everyone welcome. Out via Burgess Park and Walworth Green Link to New Kent Road and the Elephant. Then CS6 to and […]
This lovely sight is Burgess Park last summer on the Bike Train route. At 140 acres it's one of London's largest parks, assembled out of the wreckage of war and containing listed buildings, a lime kiln and former almshouses (now a cafe). One of the great things about cycling is that it takes you where […]
Ride to work with these lovely people. Or people who look like them. Surprisingly normal really and not at all puffed out. They are all cycling by themselves now and wave when they meet us. Make friends on your way to work. Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to Kings Cross via Blackfriars. […]
Usual easy-paced Southwark Cyclists Healthy Ride, this time a perambulation around the Rotherhithe Peninsula. when Surrey Docks were redeveloped in the 1980s a network of off-road paths was created. So it is possible to design a 10 mile ride that is almost traffic free. and thee are many points of interest, including the Salter statues, […]
This is a picture of my back as I peacefully gaze over the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge. For pretty well the whole way there the biggest hazard is other cyclists. Quite a big hazard because there are such a lot of them and they are so excited. But they are safer on the whole than […]
This is a picture of me gazing over the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge. It's my back so it's my front that's gazing. Behind me thousands of energetic cyclists are powering their way to work. Cycling makes you happy, keeps you fit, helps you live longer and costs nothing. Plus it’s fun. See here for health evidence: […]