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Easy-paced ride with a coffee break half way. Suitable for all types of cyclist. Everyone welcome. Usual ride on mostly quiet streets and paths. Amanda will lead to Cody Dock, one of London's "hidden gems". This really needs nice weather so if it looks rainy we will switch to Olympic Park where you can get […]
Southwark Cyclist Bob Eva will be holding the speedgun with Met side-kick PCSO Kevin Phillips writing down names and numbers. Speeding drivers get an increasingly threatening series of letters from the Met. Sadly the threats don't include crushing the car with the driver inside. To join in email kevin.j.phillips@met.police.uk. He will be delighted to hear […]
Southwark Cyclists' volunteers represent the community and PCSO Kevin Phillips represents the police. Together they spot speeding drivers and send them threatening letters. This is good. Even better is that they find so many that the Met have started doing it themselves and issuing real fines. I'm told that the speedgun is fun and it's […]
Start/finish Peckham Square (Peckham Library, Peckham Pulse Leisure Centre, SE15 5JR) Easy tour of 21, yes 21, theatres in Southwark and Lambeth, including several you may never have heard of plus some you will know (Old Vic, Shakespeare's Globe, National Theatre etc). Leader Jane. Google map of route at https://bit.ly/2uczUzh, list of theatres attached here: […]
Southwark Cyclist volunteers are working with the police to reduce illegal speeding on our roads. Community Speedwatch is a co-operation between the community (represented by us) and the Met. The community volunteer holds the speedgun and shouts out the numbers and PCSO Kevin Phillips writes down the registration numbers and makes. Then he looks up […]
Free and everyone welcome. It’s not a course, it's a drop-in.. What gets taught depends on what problems you bring in. The guys that do it are well known greats from our summer-time Dr Bikes at Peckham Arch and on Quietway 1. These evening bike-fixing sessions are a joint venture between Southwark Cyclists and Lettsom […]
Start/finish Park Life Cafe, Burgess Park, Chumleigh Gdns, off Albany Rd, SE5 0RJ. Easy paced ride to Regents Park. Outward using sections of Quietway 1, Superhighways CS7, CS3 and CS6. Coffee/loo break at Chester Rd Cafe. Return via Hyde Park, Green Park, Buckingham Palace, The Mall, Horse Guards and Big Ben. Then choice of routes […]
Policemen driving around tend to underestimate the amount of speeding because, surprise, surprise, motorists don't break the law so often with a policeman on their tail. Southwark Cyclist volunteers working with the Met have opened their eyes. The civilian-held speedguns found so much speeding that the real police have started using speed guns themselves and handing […]
Free and everyone welcome. It’s not a course, it’s a drop-in.. What gets taught depends on what problems you bring in. The guys that do it are well known greats from our summer-time Dr Bikes at Peckham Arch and on Quietway 1. These evening bike-fixing sessions are a joint venture between Southwark Cyclists and Lettsom […]
Usual easy-paced ride starting in Dulwich Park at the Dulwich Clock Cafe, SE21 7BQ. As far as possible on quiet streets and paths. Explore local routes on a friendly sociable ride. Everyone welcome on any sort of bike. Route: Dulwich Park up to Horniman Museum then down to Forest Hill station. Use underpass to get […]
