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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: […]
This meeting is at our 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 […]
Ride from Cutty Sark, Greenwich to Thamesmead Tor (Gallions Hill) Usual easy-paced ride on quiet roads and paths. Part of Southwark Cyclists regular Saturday morning series of Healthy Rides suitable for anyone. Anyone wanting to start from Canada Water Library, be there at 9am sharp and let Bruce know you intend to do this (07729 […]
We use the lovely segregated cycle lanes up St George's Way and Blackfriars Road. They look like this but with thousands of extra bikes. Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to Kings Cross via Blackfriars. We bike-buddy riders to their final destination. Escorted all the way and totally free. The Bike Train […]
Usual easy-paced ride on mostly quiet roads, paths or cycle tracks. A themed ride has been planned by Harry, who will be leading. Aim is to find 7 murals in the Brixton area, plus the windmill. Out via Burgess Park, Myatts field and Loughborough Junction to Somerleyton Rd and the first mural. Then on to […]
