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Ride ArchiveFor the list of future rides and events look here2008JanuaryThursday 17 January: Woolwich Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle North
bank to Woolwich Ferry and over and back. Saturday 19 January: Rainham Marshes Meet
10am Cutty Sark Gardens. The Marshes and the
RSPB reserve. 20 meandering riversidish miles to lunch and a very good
look round the reserve. Train back from Purfleet, or Gravesend after
the ferry ride. Or ride back all the way on the southside post-ferry.
Saturday 26 January: Waterfront London Meet
10am Cutty Sark Gardens and 11am at Southwark
Needle. for meandering ride to excellent New London Architecture,
Store Street WC1 to see their free riverside exhibition. And the 6 designs
for the 2012 velopark. Sunday 27 January: The Condor Years film.
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens or 11am Southwark
Needle for riverside ride to The Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
and the film. Buy your own ticket in advance. £7.50: www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Lunch there, ride back after. FebruarySaturday 2 February: Sustrans Southwark Ranger
Ride Meet 12 noon outside closed for 2 years Rotherhithe East London
Line station on Brunel Road. (See
here) for easy explore and audit of Sustrans National Cycle Network
Route 4 through Southwark. Circular ride so we do it in both directions...
Western Oxo Tower to the downstream border with Lewisham. (Route 4 rides
from St David's in Wales through here to Cutty Sark Gardens where it
meets Route 1 - Dover to John O Groats). Saturday 16 February: Richmond Park Sunday 17 February: Ashridge and Tring A
winter ride into the country and out into the National Trust Estate
that is Ashridge. Meet Southwark Needle 08.15 sharp for the 08.53 to
St Albans. From St Albans we cross out through the old Roman Town, skirt
Hemel Hempstead, and pick up the tow path along the Grand Union Canal
which quickly takes us to Berkhamstead. We'll follow some circular rides
well marked around the area, with plenty of opportunity to relax in
a tea shop and wait for the ride to return if the need arises, so something
here for all. Map
Lunch will be in Aldbury, quite possibly the definitive English Village
with duck pond, fully functional Post Office and Village Store, a green
and a fine selection of beers, even a lime tree planted by Queen Victoria.
Afterwards we have quite a steep climb through woodland onto the Ashridge
Estate where we should experience some splendid woodland scenery
before descending alongside the Whipsnade Perimeter fence into Luton.
Plan on some 40 / 50 mostly easy miles, couple of steep but short hills.
Train Fare £9 or groupsave/railcard etc. Wednesday 20 February: Lewisham Cyclists AGM:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
slow ride to get to Catford Town Hall for 7.30pm and Lewisham Cyclists
AGM. Thursday 21 February: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
People have been asking about the Rotherhithe Tunnel. We'll use it to
cross north and the Woolwich Ferry to get South again. Saturday 23 February: Bike Monitoring Survey:
Meet 9.45am at Tate Modern entrance slope for 10-2pm Bankside bike monitoring/survey.
Help needed. Saturday 23 February: The Crays Sunday 24 February: Oxted and Back Wednesday 27th February : Rides Meeting Meet
18:30 Dog and Bell, 116 Prince Street, SE8 3JD. This is the regular,
mostly monthly meeting to decide on and coordinate future rides with
Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark Cyclists. We usually arrange rides
for the following month. These meetings are informal with the business
side taking about 30 minutes. If you have a ride you want to do or want
to lead feel free to come along; everyone is welcome. Please note you
have to be a member of the LCC before you can lead a ride for insurance
reasons. Anyone can come to a meeting or on a ride, member or not. See
you there . . . Thursday 28 February: Putney Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
To Putney along the South side, over, refreshment stop, back. Easy paced
for all. MarchSaturday 1st March: Easy Going - South London
Ride Sunday 2 March: Locks Docks: Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty
Sark Gardens or 11am at the Firepower Cafe at Woolwich Arsenal.
A leisurely, always different, exploring docklands ride via the wonderful
Woolwich Ferry. Stay all day for tea at Wapping Pumping Station or drop
out whenever. Saturday 8 March: Burnham-on-Crouch Meet
9.15am Stratford E15 station for the 9.40am train to Burnham. Lovely
St Peters on the Wall chapel - 654AD. 35 very flat lovely Essex miles.
The route is listed here.
Sunday 9 March:: Flood Barrier Flash Ride:
Only 3 hours notice but meet Cutty Sark Gardens
at 11am for long look at the Thames Path around the Woolwich Flood Barrier.
Work on getting the path driven due east past the Barrier starts here.
End that detour! Sunday 9 March: Eynsford ride with Pollards Hill
Sunday 16 March: The Serpentine and Derek Jarman
Friday 21 March: The Good Friday International
Event: Excellent international day of racing and events at Herne
Hill Velodrome. Great spectator day out at a very special bit of bike
culture. Entry fee of £12 for adults. Meet 9am at Southwark
Needle or 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens for
leisurely ride to the 11am start. Main events start at 1pm. Find own
way home. See the VCL
or the event's web site
for more details. Saturday 22 March: Rainham Marshes and the RSPB
reserve: Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for
the 20 or so easy meandering miles to the reserve and a walk round.
Train back from there or stay on for newly discovered Purfleet riverside
to the Tilbury Ferry and over. Train back from Gravesend or might ride
back. Thursday 27 March: Woolwich Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle North
bank to Woolwich Ferry and over and back. Sunday 30 March: Barry's Two Tunnel Summer Time
Starter: Thames Path east to the M25 and over. Meet 10am Cutty
Sark Gardens for a very exploring riverside ride to Erith and the
Dartford Marshes. Then a lift under the Thames at the M25 crossing.
Back west to Purfleet and the half-hourly train home to Liverpool Street
- or ride back all the way down the rather good A13 bike lanes and the
Isle of Dogs and Greenwich Foot Tunnel. About 50 miles if you ride the
lot. Thames Path fine for tourers, tough on skinny tyres. Paced for
all. AprilWednesday 2 April: Southwark Council/Police HGV/cyclists
education session: St George's Road by West Square: 7am-12 noon.
Go see what happens. Thursday 3 April: Canals Afterworker: Meet
6.30pm at Southwark Needle for towpaths.
Loop and back to start for about 8.30pm. Tuesday 8 April: Lambeth/Southwark GLA election
hustings meeting. It's the GLA elections on 1 May. This public
meeting organised by Lambeth Cyclists and Southwark Cyclists is so that
candidates for this constituency can tell us about their plans for local
and London cycling, and more besides. Short speech from each then questions.
Meeting starts 7pm at Herne Hill Baptist Church, Half Moon Lane, SE24
9HU, here.
Wednesday 9 April: The London Walking and Cycling
Conference. At City Hall. For anyone seriously interested in the
best ways to get around. Free. Register and details here
and join the 9am pre-conference ride led by, of course, Southwark Cyclists.
Meet outside City Hall 8.45am. No need to register for the ride only.
Thursday 10 April: Mystery Moggies Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
back-alleys ride to the Kings Head on Borough High Street and Neil Arnold's
£2.50 8pm South East London Folklore Society first-ever talk about the
mysterious cats that have prowled our city for ever. Careful on the
way home. Sunday 13 April: Rapha's Battersea Rise Hell of the North screening: screening then Dunwich Dynamo 2007 short on their tele. ITV1 at 6pm. http://www.rapha.cc/index.php?page=444 Meet 10am at Southwark Needle or 11am at Cutty Sark Gardens Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 19 April: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Southwark Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Thursday 24 April: Canals Afterworker: Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for ride up the Lea Valley Path for an hour. Then back. Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 26 April: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am under the arch at Peckham Square cafe for Dr Bike
check-up and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
MayThursday 1 May: May Day Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for every inch (nearly) of Southwark's 17 mile border. Saturday 3 May: Southwark Healthy Ride: For
all. Meet 10am at Dulwich Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Thursday 8 May: Fertile Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
long way round to SE London Folklore Society £2.50 8pm talk by Janet
Dowling on the Green Man in medieval carvings at the Old King's Head,
Borough High Street. Saturday 10 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am under the arch at Peckham Square for Dr Bike check-up
and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Thursday 15 May: Heaven and Hell Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
ride to Farringdon Station and Scott Wood's One Eye Grey 7pm
90 minute walk in the footsteps of wizards, mystics, visionaries,
quacks, giants, criminals, brawling women, holy warriors and parading bears.
http://www.fandmpublications.co.uk/pages/pennydreadfulevents.htm Saturday 17 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Dulwich Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Saturday 24 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am at Southwark Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments.
Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
Saturday 31 May: Southwark Healthy Ride:
For all. Meet 10am under the arch at Peckham Square for Dr Bike check-up
and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here.
JuneThursday 5 June: Old London Bridge Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle. Alan's explore of where the old bits went. Saturday 7 June: Southwark Healthy Ride: For all. Meet 10am at Dulwich Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here. Barry 07905 889 005. Sunday 8 June: Rotherhithe Road Tunnel 100th Birthday:
Meet 10am at Southwark Needle for leisurely local ride to 12 noon meeting
of local people here
and a birthday party for Rotherhithe Road Tunnel which was opened on
Friday 12 June 1908 until 2pm when all adjourn to the Southwark Park
bandstand concert. Thursday 12 June: Happy Hundredth Birthday Rotherhithe Road Tunnel Afterworker:
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle. Rotherhithe Road Tunnel was
opened on Friday 12 June 1908. We'll ride through the tunnel to a
Rotherhithe house and watch clip a from Basil Dearden's 1950 Pool of
London and the tunnel chase. Then optionally to the Old King's Head,
Borough High Street for 8pm £2.50: Scott Wood's Adventures in Urban
Folklore talk. Saturday 14 June: Southwark Healthy Ride: For all. Meet 10am at Southwark Park cafe for Dr Bike check-up and adjustments. Ride starts at 11am. More info here. Barry 07905 889 005. Thursday 19 June: Better Bankside and the Woolwich Ferry: meet
here at 5.30pm
for bike surgery then 6.30pm start of ride.
Over Tower Bridge and east along quiet places to the wonderful Woolwich Free Ferry which floats us over
the Thames for the ride back west along the south side to the start not too long after 8.30pm.
We're leading this as part of lovely Better Bankside's Bike Week celebrations.
Saturday 21 June: Midsummer Madness: The
summer solstice. Longest day of the year. Magic about. Meet 2am Cutty
Sark Gardens. 2.30am Southwark Needle.
3am Bar Italia, Frith Street. 4am top of Primrose Hill. 4.43am sunrise!
6am breakfast at the Island Cafe, Flat Iron Square, where Southwark
Bridge Road kisses Union Street. Unmissable. Saturday 21 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: All That Life Can Afford. Design guru Stephen Bayley on artists and architects houses. Meet 2pm. Tate Modern North Side garden. Ends 5.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Wednesday 25 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: If Buildings Could Speak. Architectural writer David Littlefield on embedded dreams. Meet 6pm. Waterloo Millennium Green. Ends 9pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Thursday 26 June: Unmissable Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle. We won't miss the Woolwich Ferry this time!
Saturday 28 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: Fresh Water. Chris James of Lambeth Cyclists on water, London and the engineering and architecture. Meet 10.30am. St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield. Ends 4.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 29 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: Bikes And Bridges. Engineer Mark Whitby and architect Alex Lifschutz. Meet 10.30am. Corner of Carriage Drive North and Carriage Drive West. Ends 5pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 29 June: London Festival of Architecture ride: Bikes And Bridges. Engineer Mark Whitby and JulyWednesday 2 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Designer Wayne Hemingway on Public Back Gardens. Meet 6pm. Bernie Spain Gardens. Ends 9pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005. Friday 4 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Rediscovering central London's Public Realm. A provocative look at London's public spaces with Professor Richard Burdett, chief architectural adviser to the 2012 games. Meet 6.00pm (not 6.30pm as previously billed). Paternoster Square. St Pauls. Ends 8.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 5 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: The Mayor's 100 Open Spaces (Boris may change this! Or not). Ex-Southwark planning chief Fred Manson on the varying identities of new spaces. Meet 2.30pm. Tate Modern entrance ramp.Ends 5.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 6 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Public Space in Politics. Emily Thornberry MP on public spaces and political protest. Meet 2pm in central garden of Grosvenor Square. (This is a change from the previously published Speakers Corner start). Ends 5.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 6 July: The London Flood Plain Ride.
Which we've created for the London International Festival of Theatre whose key theme this year is climate change.
There'll be regular stops for quick talks from experts about the London flood defences and related watery things.
Make sure you get hold of a copy of the very special map LIFT/Southwark Cyclists have created for the day and after.
More detail here. Bike mechaniking from 10am onwards and 10.30am
ride start here at The LIFT festival hub at the Festival Hall on Belvedere Road.
Wednesday 9 July: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 10 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Concrete Buildings 1. Meet 6pm. Bath Terrace/Harper Road junction. Andrew Scoones, Director of The Buildings Centre. Ends 8pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 12 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Beneath The Streets. Barry Mason on Subterranean London. Meet 11am. Mecklenburgh Square. Ends 6pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Sunday 13 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Cultural Shift. Meet 2pm. Calthorpe Project. Grays Inn Road. Streetmap reference Katy Marks of Haworth Tompkins and Ian Taylor of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios on some of London's best arts buildings. Ends 6pm. Barry. 07905 889 005 Thursday 17 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: Concrete Buildings 2. The versatility of concrete with Andrew Scoones, Director of The Buildings Centre. Meet 6pm. The Building Centre, Store Street. Ends 8pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 19 July: London Festival of Architecture ride: The Great Freshway. A proposal for a cycle-superhighway linking London's major spaces and buildings with Keith Bradley of Fielden Clegg Bradley studios and Dan Pearson, gardening correspondant for The Observer magazine. Meet 10.30am. Royal Albert Hall. Ends 4.30pm. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Saturday 19th July: Dunwich Dynamo 16 The legend. Much more detail here including early bird coach tickets back. Sunday 20 July:London Festival of Architecture ride: Fit for Purpose. Some of London's best sports buildings. Meet 10.30am at Primrose Hill Road entrance to Primrose Hill. Andy Myton of David Morley Architects and Brian Ditchburn of HOK. Ends 5pm at Herne Hill Velodrome. Last in use legacy of the 1948 Olympics. Streetmap reference Barry. 07905 889 005 Thursday 24 July: Skeletal Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle. for
backstreets to the wonderful new Wellcome Collection and their London
buried bones exhibition. Free admission to this new must.
Saturday 26 July: Wallasea Wetlands.
Meet 9.30am Southwark Needle,
or 10am Liverpool Street station for 10.15am train to sunny Southend. £12
cheap day return or 4 for £6 each. North to Wallasea Island then the £6
ferry across the Crouch to Burnham and the Dengie Marshes. Train back
from Burnham about 5pm. Bring a swimmie. Flat, slowish explore.
Thursday 28 July: Blue Fence Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle,
explore round the 11 mile perimeter of the Stratford 2012 site. Back to start by
8.30pm.
AugustThursday 7 August: Scarey Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for a very slow ride down river with Chris Roberts of the South East London Folklore Society
and his curious tales of mayhem, mollies, monsters and things that go bump in the night. The ride ends at the fine Dog and Bell in Deptford.
Friday 8 August: The SLAMS Tate and Back.
With Cooltan Arts and SLAMS.
To Tate Modern and back. An easy sociable guided ride for all to
celebrate new partnerships, more people on bikes, and all better for it!
Meet 10am at the Maudsley. Denmark Hill for Dr Bike. Ride starts 11am.
Back around 2.30pm. Just turn up. Easy.
Saturday 9 August: Rotherhithe Festival.
10-9pm. King George's Fields, Lower Road:
Southwark Cyclists information stall and Dr Bike. Easy Rides at 11am, 2pm and 4pm.
Barry
Sunday 10 August: Return of Locks Docks. meet 9am Southwark Needle or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for riverside to Woolwich Ferry and over for docks explore and back via Island Gardens and Wapping. Barry 07905 889 005. Wednesday 13 August: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 14 August: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle,
North bank to the Woolwich Ferry and over. Back along south bank.
Saturday 16th August: Rainham Marshes. Meet 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens. Woolwich Ferry and over for lunch at the Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve after 20 miles. Train back from Purfleet. Or 12 more miles out to the £3 Tilbury ferry to Gravesend via the riverside. Train back from there or ride the 20 quickish busy miles back to Greenwich. It's an adventure out there, Barry. 07905 889 005. Thursday 28 August: Scarey Afterworker 2.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for an even slower ride down river with Chris Roberts of the South East London Folklore Society
and his tall short stories tales of water, wharves, wolves and things that go slump in the fright. The ride ends at the fine Dog and Bell in Deptford.
Saturday 30 August: Estuary bikes, words, birds and big big skies.
Punctuated with stops for thos words by Germander Speedwell
Three start points:
9am Cutty Sark Gardens for the 20 mile quickish ride with me to Gravesend
Or get yourself onto the 10.14am train from London Bridge to Gravesend
And all meet for coffee at Promenade Cafe, Gravesend at 11.15am:
Then the lovely Shorne Marshes cycle path and onto the Hoo Peninsula for a grand
tour to include a lateish cafe lunch.
6pm or so....ride back or train from Lower Higham.
The Gravesend/Hoo tour is about 20 easy miles and we'll pace it for all.
Try On Your Bike at London Bridge Station to hire one.
Sunday 31 August: Lewisham: Otford Loop and the Golding Hop More info . . . SeptemberThursday 4th September: No Afterworker. Sorry...it's Southwark Transport tonight. Saturday 6th September: The Woolwich Flood Barrier maintenance tunnels.This Environment Agency guided tour is now fully booked. Barry. 07905 889 005. Wednesday 10 September: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 11 September: Ratty Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for local ratrun ending up at the Old Kings Head, Kings Head Yard, Borough High Street for Paul Cowdell's 8pm £2.50/£1.50 SELFS talk on Rats, London and folklore. Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 13th September: Bermondsey Street Festival Tanner Street Park. Come join our bike stall there with professional mechanics from CI.com. Local easy rides at 1pm and 3pm. Help needed. Al fresco Rocky Horror Show screening in new Bermondsey Square at 7pm. More info on the SE1 website . . . Sunday 14th September: Romney Marshes and Dungeness. meet 9.50am at London Bridge station for the 10.08am train to Ashford. Groups of 4 go for £10 each return. £23 each otherwise. Arrives Ashford 11.12am then 40 easy paced for all miles exploring the marshes and Dungeness. Back in London about 7pm. Barry. 07905 889 005. Thursday 18th September: London's Dead Good Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm sharp Southwark Needle to get to the Wellcome Collection's unmissable Skeletons exhibition lecture evening for 7pm. You don't need tickets usually but do tonight. Get your own free entry ticket here . . . . Barry. 07905 889 005. Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September: The Bermondsey Blue Bicycle Shopping Spree. 12 till 4pm. Brought to you by Carbon Descent and Southwark Cyclists. How to shop by bike with rack fitting, bike jumble sale, bike tweaking and a lot more. More Info . . . Sunday 21st September: Freewheel 2008. then 8 miles of motorfree roads from Hyde Park Corner to The Tower from 9.30am till 4.30pm. Meet at Peckham Rye Common cafe for our 9.45am feeder to Southwark Bridge and the event. Main Freewheel details here. Barry 07905 889 005. Thursday 25th September: Putney Andover Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for easy flat slow ride to Putney along as much of the riverside as is rideable. Then refreshment stop and over and back along the Embankment shared use pavement to start by around 8.45pm. Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 27th September: Locks Docks and the Mercer's Maiden. Meet 9am Southwark Needle or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for riverside ride to Woolwich Ferry and over and back via Wapping. Optional 2.5 hour Wayward Walk after led by Germander Speedwell meets 2.30pm at the monument. £5/£4. Barry. 07905 889 005. October1st- 5th October: Bicycle Film Festival. More Info . . . Thursday 2nd October: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle Over Tower Bridge and riverside east to the Woolwich Ferry and over. Back along the southside. Barry. 07905 889 005. Wednesday 8 October: Our Annual Meeting. We review the good and bad of our past year, take stock of our finances and the entire management committee stands down and we elect a new one ...who gets re-elected? Who doesn't? We start the evening with our usual monthly meeting then change gear slightly for the Annual Meeting and elections etc. Still 7-8.30pm so things move along fast. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after. Better Bankside Community Space. Corner of Great Guildford/Zoar Street. More here... Thursday 23rd October: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle. North bank to Woolwich Ferry, over, and back the south side. Barry 07905 889 005. Saturday 25th October:
Autumnwatch.
With the BBC programme of that name and visiting local friends groups.
Meet 8.45am Southwark Park cafe for live Radio London interviews and
look round Southwark Park Young Friends Allotment. NovemberSunday 2 November: Rainham Marshes Meet
10am Cutty Sark Gardens
for a paced for all 18 car-avoiding miles and one
serco ferry to the lovely RSPB Rainham Marshes bird reserve, lunch and a
good look round.
Wednesday 12 November: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Saturday 15 November: The Great North Way Ride
Meet 08.00 at Bermondsey Square, an earlyish start to make the most of the
day and the lengthening evening, although it will be dusk by the end.
08.30ish at Kings X, please confirm by text if you want to meet there,
Sunday 16 November: Tower Hamlets Cemetery ride Meet
10am Southwark Needle, south end of London
Bridge, for Thames north-bank ride to the Woolwich Ferry via the Lower
Lea Nature Reserve and over and back east to meet Sarah's Tower Hamlets
Cemetery ride at 1pm Cutty Sark Gardens and free two hour walking tour
round there. Then back to CSG.An exploring day paced for all.
Thursday 20 November: Afterworker: Wapping Project Evening Meet
6.30pm Southwark Needle
for an hour's meander before ending up there for the preview of
their English Seasons exploration. Pay bar/food. Lock up with care, find
own way home after and lock up carefully. Alan leading.
Saturday 29 November: Lambeth Architecture Ride:Suburbia Meet
10.00am sharp at Southwark Needle
or 10.30am corner of Black Prince Road and Kennington Road
to join the tour of Suburban Housing: Georgian to Edwardian
Sunday 30 November: World Aids Day Ride Meet
9am Cutty Sark Gardens and main start at
10am by Southwark Needle on the south end of London Bridge in outlaw Southwark.
On the day before World Aids Day it's our cycle ride for
The Food Chain. We raised £250
last year and have already earned £100 towards the 2008 total. The ride
is open to everyone and takes a voluntary donation of at least £10 off you
at the start. (Oh alright, £5 if you're unwaged and/or feeling the crunch).
More here ...
DecemberThursday 4 December: Afterworker: Wellcome War & Medicine exhibition Meet
6.30pm Southwark Needle
for a ride to the Wellcome Collection's latest exhibition.
Sunday 7 December: Ragged School Museum via Woolwich Meet
10.00am Southwark Needle
for northbank ride to Woolwich Ferry then Greenwich for 1pm and
Sarah's Ragged School Museum visit.
Wednesday 10 December: Our monthly planning meeting.
It's how we organise things. 7-8.30pm. Bring bikes inside. Optional pub after.
Thursday 11 December:
Afterworker: South East London Folklore Society
Not very Secret Society Afterworker scraps Woolwich Ferry.
A sudden announcement by the South East London Folklore Society that
David V Barrett - who wrote A Brief History of the Secret Society - is giving
just such a talk this very evening at 8pm at The Old Kings Head, 45-49 Borough
High Street (£2.50/£1.50) means the ride recrosses the Thames via the
Rotherhithe Tunnel and not that ferry to get to the optional start of the talk. Saturday 13 December: Tate Tunnel Triangular Meet 10am at
Southwark Needle
for slow sociable ride-by of the two southern Tate sites before Tate Britain
and its bike-powered Christmas tree. Then Wapping Pumping Station for coffee
and the £3 ferry over to Rotherhithe and optional £5 donation
entry into the Brunel Museum's
new unseen for 140 years grand tunnel entrance hall. Sunday 14 December: Locks Docks and Bevin, Burns or Newman: Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty
Sark Gardens for easy ride east and over the Woolwich
Ferry. Coffee at Firepower. Lunch at Mudchute Farm. Tea at Wapping Pumping
Station and their excellent English Season exhibition. Drop out whenever or
stay all day. Thursday 18th December:
Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle.
Woolwich. Ferry. Back. Too much going on for originality right now. Try 21/12 Sunday 21st December: the Border Patrol Solstice Ride. Out of the land of shadows and darkness...Today's the Winter Solstice, the shortest darkest day of the year. Only 7 hours 49 minutes and 40 seconds from the 8.04am sunrise to the 3.54pm sunset. It gets lighter from now on.
Thursday 25th December: 2512 ride. Our seventh. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens and 11am Southwark Needle on London's quietest and smiliest day of the year. A slow and sociable exploring meander round central London in very good and diverse company. Drop out whenever or stay for a lunch up Edgware Road and - if we can find one that's open - maybe a pub after. Barry. 07905 889 005. Sunday 28 December: Last Locks Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty
Sark Gardens for a gentle all day circular explore of docklands ending
up at Deptford's Dog and Bell. 2009JanuarySaturday 10 January DLR Woolwich Park and Rider Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty
Sark Gardens for a riverside ride to that new station that isn't in the Arsenal.
We'll park and pioneer ride that new Thames crossing. Wednesday 14 January Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 15th January
Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle
for first ferry trip of 2009....we've been under it but not on it.
North bank to Woolwich. Ferry over. Back along the south side.
Saturday 17 January A Pilgrim's Progress Meet 8am
Bermondsey Square for ride to St Pancras and the Bedford train. John Bunyan country. 37 miles
with optional drop-out after 19 miles. Not fast. Train back from Bedford.
Text me if you want to meet us at St Pancras. Thursday 22 January
Putney Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for south bank to Putney. Refreshment stop. Back along the north bank to
start around 8.45pm.
Sunday 25 January The Glory Days of Track Cycling Meet 10am at
Southwark Needle for slow riverside ride to the Riverside Studios and Hammersmith Cyclists annual bike films show that starts 1.30pm . Buy your own £7.50/£6.50 tickets in advance Thursday 29 January
Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle...
the ferry and over and back.
FebruarySaturday 7 February
Southwark north-south route survey (Ride 1)
Meet 10am
Cafe Prov at 2-6 Half Moon Lane
to discuss then ride and survey half of Southwark Cyclists' concept route.
Finishes 1pm. See also 21 February.
Wednesday 11 February Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 12 February
Too many hearts go flowing down the river Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle
for Bermondsey Backroads ride to Hays Galleria for 7.30pm
and a £2.50/£1.50 90 minute circular walk by the
wonderful Chris Roberts. We'll park on Tooley Street.
More here
Tuesday 17 February
Romanian Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle...
for slow ride through the Deptford Back Bikeroutes to
St Alfege's Church Hall, Greenwich
and Liz and Tim Delap's 8pm photostory of a long last summer round
Eastern Europe and so-rural Romania. Loads of UNESCO churches. Bikes
inside. Or find own way there. Find own way home.
Saturday 21 February
Southwark north-south route survey (Ride 2)
Meet 10am
Peckham Pulse Cafe
to discuss then ride and survey the other half of Southwark Cyclists' concept route.
Finishes 1pm. See also 7 February.
Sunday 22 February
Polymath Francis Bacon and the Gorhambry Estate
Meet 8.30am Bermondsey Square or 9.20am St Pancras station for the St
Albans train. Then 30 or so quickish morning miles with lunch at Aldbury
and slower after. 50 or so miles in all.
Wednesday 25 February
Locks Docks and Marinas
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for slow
ride to this 7.45pm/£1.50
Rotherhithe Local History Group talk at Time & Talents in Rotherhithe village
MarchSunday 1 March
Sustrans audit ride
Meet 11:00 Bermondsey tube station
to survey a part of National Cycle Route 4 in Southwark and
highlight what the problems are with the route.
The results of the audit will be written up and
presented to the council for addressing.
More ...
Saturday 7 March
Drive Ride Walk
Meet 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens
for easy riverside ride over Tower Bridge then east and snack at North Barrier
Park before over Woolwich Ferry to this 1.30pm 35 minute performance at
the excellent little Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Free tickets needed in advance. Get your own or gamble on getting one of
the seven I have. Back to Greenwich after.
Saturday 7 March
Birds on Bikes
Tomorrow is International Women's Day
and this is the female focused London Cycling Campaign ride to celebrate
Women and their achievements. Five miles of sites of female achievement.
Meet
Dragon Hall, Stukeley Street, WC2B 5LT
at 6.30pm for 7pm start. Back there for 9pm and bring a bottle social. All
very very welcome, even men. But dress up. Friend got no bike? Hire bike
delivered to Dragon Hall for £12 from Go Pedal
...tell them it's for this event.
Sunday 8 March
Cycle East
Meet 11am Southwark Needle
for start of all
day visit to the East festival. We'll see hour long performances at the
Toynbee Studios (1pm), St John's Hackney (3pm) and the Arcola Theatre
(5pm) with Hackney Cyclists. Wednesday 11 March Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 12 March
Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for ride
over Tower Bridge and north bank to Woolwich Ferry, and
over and back along the south side. Paced for all.
Thursday 19 March
Gut Girls Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle south
end of London Bridge and easy ride 4 miles to The Space on the
Isle of Dogs for Sarah Daniel's play
The Gut Girls,
1901 Deptford, meat and wedge.
Get your own tickets. Back to London Bridge after.
Weekend 21-23 March Netherton Tunnel Weekend
Longest canal towpathed
tunnel in the UK: that speck of light at the end is 2678 metres away. Euston/Birmingham train at 9.03am on Saturday 21 March.
Arrives 10.27am. Back on the 4.10pm train on Monday 23 March.
£40.40 return. Bike booked too, no extra charge. Virgin trains.
Well placed B&B 10 miles from the station: £25 per night B&B:
The Lamp Tavern
Do your own bookings. Thursday 26 March
Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for ride
over Tower Bridge and north bank to Woolwich Ferry, and
over and back along the south side. Paced for all.
AprilThursday 2 April
Cycles UK Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle
for very easy ride to
Cycle UK's 4 April opening Creek Road shop preview
with refreshments, discounts. We've a special invitation.
Find own way home afterwards. Quick Tooley Street stop to look at the
Joseph Hamblet West Bromwich blue bricks.
Sunday 5 April Alan's Locks, Docks and one smoking lighthouse Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty
Sark Gardens.
To
Trinity Buoy Wharf for first weekend of the month access to Michael
Faraday's lighthouse and ex-Poques Jem Finer's 1000 year composition
"Longplayer". Easy paced with one short climb for Shooters Hills view.
Two overlooked green spaces en route. Lunch at Thames Barrier Park cafe.
20 miles......to the Lighthouse.
Wednesday 8 April Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Friday 10 April Good Friday at Herne Hill
Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens
for easy ride to the world-class day of racing at Herne Hill Velodrome.
Warm up heats and time trails start 11am. Main meeting 1pm.
Ends around 6pm. Wonderful day of track etc culture. £13
on the door or in advance from organiser
More on the track and VCL. Thursday 16 April
Tunnel Identities Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle
for easy (once over Tower Bridge) canal-side ride to the Departure gallery at
649 Commerical Road and the opening night of photographer Michael Wayne Plant's
What is British? A photographic exploration of identities around both ends of
the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
Saturday 18 April Silver Thames Ride Meet 11am
Southwark Park Cafe for
easy-paced sociable explore down the Thames Path and back about 4pm.
Coffee, lunch and tea stops.
Part of Southwark's Silver Festival.
Sunday 19 April Silver Sunday at
Dulwich College
Southwark Cyclists
information/advice stall and two professional mechanics Dr Biking 10am -
4pm. Two easy rides for all starting at 11am and 2pm. Both getting back
about 2 hours later.
Part of Southwark's Silver Festival and open to all.
Thursday 23 April Silver St George's Day Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle
for local exploring ride returning around 8.30pm.
Part of Southwark's Silver Festival and open to all.
Sunday 26 April Silver Locks, Docks etc
Meet 10am Southwark Needle and 11am
Cutty Sark Gardens
for all day explore of docklands. Back to Southwark Needle about 4pm.
Part of Southwark's Silver Festival and open to all.
Wednesday 29 April Sylvan Southwark Ride
Meet 10am Dulwich Park Cafe
for easy-paced all day ride taking in the cafes of Burgess
Park/Southwark Park/Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park/Surrey Docks Farm.
Back to Dulwich Park around 4pm.
Part of Southwark's Silver Festival and open to all.
Thursday 30 April Silver Surrey Canal Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle
for slow two hour explore of every inch of the old
Surrey Canal with some history and a lot of visible remains chucked in.
Part of Southwark's Silver Festival and open to all.
MaySunday 3 May Allhallows-on-Sea and back
Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens
20 miles of biggish roads to Gravesend and coffee there in the riverside
beach cafe immortalised on film here.
Then 15 miles to Allhallows-on-Sea and lunch. Monday 4 May Brixton Beach
Meet 9am Southwark Needle
with rolled up towel.
Brockwell Park lido opens at 10am for the long hot summer.
Swimming advised. Find own way home.
Wednesday 13 May Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 14 May: Haunted Underground Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
short local ride to get to the Kings Head at Borough High Street an hour
later for this £2.50 talk Thursday 21 May: Venice Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm sharp at Southwark Needle.
About 20 miles, lights essential. Tower Bridge,
Limehouse Basin. Canal towpath to Little Venice, pub stop if desired.
Paddington, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park. Down Constitution Hill and
The Mall, Westminster Bridge, back to Southwark Needle by 9.30pm.
Remember pedestrians take priority on towpaths. Thursday 28 May: Whitechapel Gallery Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm sharp at Southwark Needle
for a ride to the Whitechapel
Gallery,
It has been almost doubled in size by
extending into what was my old library. Features include new exhibition
spaces, an Archive Research Room and cafe.
En route we can see how the new Meath bridge is progressing. It will
span the Regents Canal connecting Mile End Park with little known Meath
Gardens (including its own antipodean oddity)
Gallery open to 9pm on Thursdays. May be difficult to resist the
wonderful Indo bar nearby.
Make own way home
Saturday 30 May Thames Path to Erith
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens
for slowish
ride for all down the Thames Path with stops at Greenwich Ecology Park,
Woolwich Arsenal for coffee, Erith for lunch. Train back, ride back, go
further, we'll see.
Sunday 31st May The Thames Bridges Ride. A fund raising ride for the Stroke Association. Tower Bridge then loads more all the 33 mile way to Hampton Court and Hurst Park party. Special trains or ride back. Southwark Park start. Details firming. Some here . . . Barry. 07905 889 005. JuneThursday 4 June Woolwich Ferry and back afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
North bank and over and back. Saturday 6 June
Felixstowe Ferry
Meet 8.30am Southwark Needle
or 8.45am Liverpool Street Station for 9am train to Manningtree.
Arrives 9.58am. Groups of 4 go half price. Twelve miles with gentle
hills to Manningtree, coffee, and the 12.15pm £5 ferry across
the Stour/Orwell estuary to Felixstowe. Up a couple of miles to
Felixstowe Ferry and the £3 bikes on rowing boat across the
Deben to Bawdsey. Probably 50 gently exploring miles getting back
to London around 8pm Wednesday 10 June Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Monday 15 June Southwark Cyclists Film Festival
at Shortwave Cinema Bermondsey Square. 7pm on. Details on our email list.
Tuesday 16 June Lewisham Peaks
meet 6.30pm Cutty Sark Gardens for
those big climbs and swooping descents. About 20 miles in all. Thursday 18 June Bike Week Barbeque
Meet 6pm (yes, not 6.30pm) Southwark Needle
for Alex and Ruth's ride to the food etc in Ruskin Park. Find your own way home after.
Friday 19 June Lee Valley to Springfield Marina and back. Meet 6.30pm
Cutty Sark Gardens. About 20 miles in all Friday 19 June The Glamour Ride Best dress for this one please. Saturday 20 June
The London Stones
Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens for
quickish 20 big road miles to Gravesend Promenade Cafe, or get the train
to Gravesend at meet us 11am at that cafe for slower exploring 15 miles
onto the lovely bullfrogged Shorne Marshes and the Hoo Peninsula to the
London Stone
Train back from Gravesend or ride back.
New Hoo booklet here:
here Sunday 21 June Midsummer Madness: The
summer solstice. Longest day of the year. Meet 2am Cutty
Sark Gardens. 2.30am Southwark Needle.
3am Bar Italia, Froth Street. 4am top of Primrose Hill. 4.43am sunrise!
6am breakfast at specially opened Leon bar/cafe on Sumner Street, right
behind Tate Modern. Sunday 21 June Greenwich Park Bicnic
Meet 3pm Cutty Sark Gardens or 3.30pm
Southwark Needle for Thames north bank ride
to the Woolwich Ferry and over. Ending in bring your own picnic under the
General Wolfe statue in Greenwich Park at 6pm with Greenwich and Lewisham
Cyclists and lots of other locals. Thursday 25 June Woolwich Ferry Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for the north bank to Woolwich Ferry and over and back southside.
Easy sociable always different 20 miles. Sunday 28 June Windsor and backMeet Cutty Sark Gardens 8:30am and
Peckham Rye railway station 9am. Lots of riverside views, central part
of Windsor Great Park on the way there, faster back by road.
Non-touristy pub lunch. 85 miles in total.
Report/pics of last time...
www.lewishamcyclists.net
Click on Gallery then June 2006. JulyThursday 2 July Erith Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for
ride down the Thames Path to Erith. Ride back into the sunset or every
20 minutes train back. Saturday 4 July 2009 Dunwich Dynamo. The legend.
Turn up and go 120 miles overnight. Hackney to Suffolk coast.
Then swim. Wednesday 8 July Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 9 July Tour de France Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
Then to Regent Streets Theatre Delicatessen for their play Pedal
Pusher. Bring bikes inside. Buy your own ticket/more details
here. Saturday 18 July Rainham Marshes and the Tilbury Ferry. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens
for paced for all 16 miles to the RSPB at Rainham Marshes
via the Woolwich Ferry. Lunch/walk round bird reserve. Train back from
there or an extra 10 miles to the Tilbury/Gravesend Ferry and over.
Train or ride back from there. I'll ride the lot. Back London 7pm or so.
Sunday 19 July Nunhead Circular. Meet 10am by
the Nun's Head on Nunhead Green for coffee and Dr Biking. Then 10.30am
easy exploring
sociable ride paced for all along mostly very quiet routes with a
snack stop and back to the start for 1.30pm. Then 2.30pm longer ride
after lunch down to the Thames Path to the Woolwich Ferry and over. Back
along the north bank to Tower Bridge for 5pm. Then pub or find your own
way home. In association with the Nunhead Community Forum.
Sunday 19 July Ashdown Forest and Poohsticks Bridge
40 miles or so around country lanes through the forest. Note changed start: Meet
Forest Hill station
at 9.05 for 9.25 to E. Croydon where we will pick up 9.45 E. Grinstead train. (Or
take 9.25 am train direct from Victoria/9.14 am train
London bridge to East Croydon). Saturday 25 July Locks docks and that windmill
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for easy exploring ride down river,
over the Woolwich Ferry and to EXYZT's windmill
in Dalston. Ride ends there. Optional extension to Radical Nature at the Barbican. Book your own tickets online for that bit: £2. Saturday 25 July Romney Marshes to Charing
8.15am meet London Bridge station ticket off for the 8.38am to Westernhanger.
47 miles with some hills. Train back.
Thursday 30 July Tour de France Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for ride to this highly recommended play in a lovely space.
Bring bikes inside. Book your own ticket, more details
here. AugustSaturday/Sunday 1/2 August The European Hardcourt Bicycle Polo
Championships
Marlborough Playground, Union Street, SE1 1SZ. In the heart of outlaw Southwark. Wednesday 12 August Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 13 August Fright Bike Two Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle or 7pm
Newington Libray, Walworth Road
Chris Roberts of One Eyed Grey fame narrates on his ride of a lifetime past the former homes
of magicians, film stars and inventors. We've ghosts on stilts and
angels in trees. Marvel at tales of dead dancers, giant cats, lost
canals and migrant beauties. It's Surrey with a fright on top! It's
Walworth, Peckham and Nunhead! Ends locally around 9pm.
Thursday 20 August Woolwich Ferry Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
North bank to ferry and back along the south bank. Saturday 22 August Romney Marsh and Dungeness
Meet 8.20am London Bridge station for the 8.38am train to Folkstone. Arrives 10.17am.
£24.60 return - groups of 4 go for half that. 20 lovely marshy/coastal
miles to Dungeness and lunch then drop in here
and another 15 or so miles to Rye with and the train back to London for
about 7pm. Easy paced for all. Bring a swimmie. Sunday 23 August The SE16 ride
Meet 10am at Southwark Needle
for all day
explore of that area. Slowly exploring precisely round that border with
lots of stops then venturing into the heart of it for selected
highlights and secrets. The first in a new series of doorstep tour local
postcode rides. Thursday 27 August Erith afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for
southside riverside ride to Erith 15 miles east. Train or road ride
back. Saturday 29 August East Grinstead-Lewes Loop
Meet New Cross Gate station ticket office 8.50am for 9.10am train.
Group savers. About 65 miles of Sussex lanes, some
climbing. Pub lunch in Lewes after 40 miles. Reports of previous versions on
Lewisham Cyclists' website - check out
Galleries for October 2006 and May 2007. Monday 31 August Lee Valley/Epping Forest
Ladywell Fields 9.30am or Cutty Sark Gardens
10am. Up the Lea Valley. Quick look at Waltham Abbey. Lunch. 45 miles.
Suitable for any bike except skinny racers. Report and pics from last
time: galleries at www.lewishamcyclists.net for September 2006.
SeptemberThursday 3 September Three Mills Lock afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
Needle for
easy explore up to the new lock on the changed Bow Back Rivers. Wednesday 9 September Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 10 September Sacred Turf ride/talk afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for short ride round the outside of Millwall's ground before
optional 8pm Sacred Turf £2.50 talk by Chris Roberts of SELFS at Borough
High Street's Kings Head. Sunday 13 September Six City Farms
Meet 10am at Southwark Needle
for paced for all urban farms explore with lunch at Spitalfields
City Farm Show and Green Fair. Sunday 13 September Secret pub ride
Meet Cutty Sark Gardens 9.30am. Ladywell Fields 10am. Over
the North Downs on some quiet country lanes and stiff climb then pretty hidden pub. A fair amount
of climbing though we will wait for everyone. Most hills before lunch. 50 miles total. Earlier
version: www.lewishamcyclists.net and click on "gallery" - September 2008 and April 2007 where it
appeared as "Bluebell Madness".
Thursday 17 September Eighth Wonder Preview afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for short ride to Rotherhithe's Brunel Museum and into the top of
the vertical shaft before everyone else on the following Open House
weekend when we're much too busy. Donations mandatory and only riders
admitted.
Saturday 19 September
Bermondsey Street Festival
is an excellent local event and our stall this year is in the same prime
position as last year....right at the park entrance on the Bermondsey
Street/Tanner Street corner Sunday 20 September The Mayor of London's Skyride
Things move on. This
event started as Hovis Freewheel/London Cycling Campaign/Ken and is now
Skyride/British Cycling/Boris and change can be good. Whatever. Today's
ride will be the biggest ever in London so we really should be out there
too and most won't mind a bit and just want the ride. We're doing two
slow feeder rides up to the main event that has 5 miles of very central
London motor-free roads from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London.
Both our rides will cross Southwark Bridge and join the main route
there.
Meet 10.30am and 12.30pm at
Peckham Rye Cafe, Straker's Road
Meet on the north end of Southwark Bridge for return rides at 3pm and
5pm....or find your own way home.
More on Skyride: http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/skyride/london
Thursday 24 September Exquisite bodies afterworker
Leaving Southwark Needle 6.30pm sharp for
ride to free 7pm evening at the wonderful
Wellcome Foundation, Euston Road. Book your own free ticket
here. Or see if I've any left. Find own way home after.
Saturday 26 September Green Chain Explore
Southwark has joined the SE London Green Chain.
Meet 10am Southwark Needle for all-day ride of the
Green Chain from Peckham Rye station south and east to Crossness Nature
Reserve, then Thames Path back. 22+14=36 miles. Some walked sections and
bridges to carry over. Sunday 27 September The Compleat Lee Valley Regional Park
Meet 9am Southwark Needle or at Liverpool Street for train to
Hertford East where three other rivers become the River Lea.
9.22am arrives 10.14am. Fours go half price, so £4.30 each
single. Then all-day exploring 30 miles back south to the Thames
down the lovely Lea in advance of that formal
new link going in soonish. Gravelly towpath most of the way.
OctoberThursday 1 October The Bike Doctor Academy afterworker Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for canal ride to The Bike Doctor Academy run by Cycle Systems and be taken on a guided tour by them. The only place in London you can get trained as a professional bike mechanic to City&Guilds standards. We'll check out the neighbours too. Back to start by 8.30ish and optional beer after. Barry 07905 889 005 Saturday/Sunday 3/4 October Whitstable weekend
Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens for 20 miles of biggish
roads to coffee on Gravesend promenade at 11am. Or frequent train it and
meet us there. Then 45 miles to Whitstable. (You need to book your own overnight room if needed).
Meet 10am Sunday morning by Whitstable Harbour - recommended oyster optional -
then 55 really lovely seaside miles to Dover. Train back. Arrive London around 8.30pm. Thursday 8 October Keep Death on The Road Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for short ride to Jeremy Harte's 8pm £2.50/£1.50 South-East
London Folklore Society talk at The Old Kings Head, Kings Head Yard,
Borough High Street. More on that
here
Sunday 11 October The Cycle Show. LCC's female-focussed ride to the Earl's Court exhibition
Ride starts at 10.45am after 10am breakfast (and 9am pre-meet for helpers and
insomniacs) by the cafe outside the Imperial War Museum.
Cycle Show is £10 entry and ride ends there but we'll meet for ride back. More here.
Wednesday 14 October Our AGM All very welcome. Details here Thursday 15 October Need for the bike Afterworker
Paul Fournel's book.
His talk at the Calder Bookshop, 51 The Cut. The grain and the art of cycling.
£6/£4. Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
Chapeau. Here's his blog and poster. Tuesday 27 October Fright Ride 3
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for scarey Wapping explore with Chris Roberts of One Eyed Grey. Back by 9pm. Probably.
Our bit towards London Ghost Festival 2009.
NovemberThursday 5 November remember remember...The Woolwich Ferry Afterworker
We've missed you.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
North bank to the Woolwich Ferry and over and back along the
south side. Friday 6 November Dunwich Dynamo Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
To
private view of DD 2009 photos by Joe McGorty at the Peddledash Gallery,
2 Leswin Place, Stoke Newington, N16 7NJ
Saturday 7 November Locks Docks and that ferry
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for easy all day
always different docklands explore.
Sunday 8 November The Goldalming and Wey Navigations
Meet 8.40am Waterloo station - under that
clock - for the 9am train to Godalming arrives 9.55am. £14.50
return or 4 go halfprice. About 30
miles of
canal towpaths north to the Thames. Ride or train back from there.
Wednesday 11 November Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Thursday 12 November Talk Afterworker
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for one hour ride before
optionally ending upstairs at the Old Kings Head, Borough High Street, SE1 1NA for Jennifer Wallis
Spiritualism and War talk. £2.50/£1.50. South East London Folklore Society.
Saturday 14 November Locks and Ever Changing Docks
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
and 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for all day, ever
changing, eastwards explore over the Woolwich Ferry and back.
Sunday 15 November The SE1 ride
We've done every inch of the SE16 border, and now it's
SE1's turn. Meet 10am Southwark Needle
for a painstakingly slow explore round the SE1
border. After lunch we'll go see the lovely 56A Crampton Street bike co-op and whole food
shop.
Tuesday 17 November London Cycling Campaign AGM
NB change of venue
to Henriette Raphael Function Room, Guy's Campus, Great Maze Pond, SE1 1UL
No jokes about guy's or mazes please.
Highly recommended of course and of course it's very worth joining too. You're asked to
register in advance to go to the meeting. Good bike parking promised. The
nearby Miller pub on Snowsfields after.
Sunday 29 November World Aids Day Ride
There but for fortune. Tuesday 1 December is
World Aids Day but we'll ride Sunday. Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens,
Greenwich or 10am
Southwark Needle, south end of London Bridge.
For the fourth year running, the ride's in
aid of The Food Chain
and their wonderful work
and we'll be asking for donations to them of £10/£5 and every
penny goes to them. We'll have a slow sociable explore round London with
some surprise visits and lots of coffee, lunch tea whatever stops.
Bring a bike, a smile and something pink and revel in amazing
company.
Saturday 5 December The Wave
Meet 10.30am Southwark Needle - where Greenwich Cyclists
and others will join us - for slow ride to Grosvenor Square and the Stop Climate Chaos
Coalition's Wave event.
Walk bikes with you on march. Wednesday 9 December Our monthly planning meeting. All very welcome. Details here Saturday 12 December Rainham Marshes
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for
the riverside 20 miles to Rainham Marshes and lunch at the RSPB reserve
there after walk round. Just a stone's throw from London by bike as they
say refreshingly:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/r/rainhammarshes/cycling.asp
Back along the A13 bike lanes, or train. Saturday 19 December Those Dengie Marshes
Meet 9.45am Southwark Needle or
10am at Liverpool Street Station for the 10.15am to Billericay. Arrives 10.46am.
4 go half price for £5 each return. About 40 exploring miles in the
Essex flatlands. Friday 25 December 2512 ride
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens and 11am Southwark Needle for a slow and very sociable
ride round deserted London on the smiliest day of the year
in wonderfully diverse company. Join in/drop out whenever
or stay for a late lunch up Edgware Road. The ride costs
nothing, there's no need to book or check that it's still on:
it won't be cancelled. And after? 6.30pm meet for last
Friday Critical Mass on the riverside under the southern
end of Waterloo Bridge: Here
2010JanuarySunday 24 January Riverside Bike Films
Meet 10am Southwark Needle for meandering ride
Hammersmith's Riverside Studios and 1.30pm afternoon of bike films. Get your own £7.50/£6.50: tickets
Sunday 31 January Those Dengie Marshes
Meet 9.45am Southwark Needle or 10am at
Liverpool Street Station for the 10.15am to Billericay. Arrives 10.46am.
4 go half price for £5 each return. About 40 exploring miles in the
Essex flatlands.
Saturday 6 February Rotherhithe Family Bike Day
Dr Bike, Community Wardens cycle team, Rotherhithe Police clever-chipping
bikes, cycle jumble sale, slow race and cycle assault course by Salmon Youth
Centre (fish-weirs?) and two local rides by Southwark Cyclists at 1pm and 3pm.
Time & Talents Centre, St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe
Sunday 14 February Love Lane and Valentine Street
Meet 10am Southwark Needle for a romantically
evocative all day explore of some of London's loved-up street names.
Wednesday 17 February Afterworker: To Lewisham Cyclists AGM
Meet 5.30pm at Southwark Needle
for easy 8 mile quiet rode ride to Lewisham Town Hall, 1 Catford Road, SE6 4RU.
Good speakers including Greenwich/Lewisham GLA member Len Duvall.
Sunday 28 February Locks Docks Sunday
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for always different
explore downriver through fast disappearing east Greenwich to the
Woolwich Ferry and over and back the northern route. Coffee, lunch, tea.
Dropout wherever or stay all day till back to start around 5pm.
MarchTuesday 2 March First Tuesday ideas evening
Informal chat over drinks to bounce bike ideas around in a
less structured way than at our decision making formal meeting. To see
what comes of it and meet like minded people. From 6.30pm onwards at
Leon's on Sumner Street, behind Tate Modern. Bike racks outside.
Here
This is our first such meeting.
Thursday 4 March Druid Cycles led Afterworker to 2012
Stratford country. Interesting. Meet there 6.30pm. Druid Street.
Saturday 6 March Eltham Palace and other medieval remains in south east London
We're joining lovely Lambeth Cyclists on this one. Their ride detail
here
Either join them direct or meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for ride to the 11am Eltham Palace meet. Sunday 7 March London Cycling Campaign's female focused International Women's day ride
Two hours locally. Details here.
Meet at the Bermondsey Square 2pm start, or 10am Southwark Needle
for northbank
riverside ride to the Woolwich Ferry and over getting to Bermondsey
Square after lunch for that ride.
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Tons of rides for all ages and abilities. Ride Meeting Points Peckham Pulse (PP) is underneath the big awning (background picture at top of page) on Peckham High Street opposite the end of Rye Lane Map. Southwark Needle is at the end of London Bridge, by the Evans store. Map Cutty Sark Gardens (CSG) are in Greenwich, by the exit to the foot tunnel Map. Ride Reports & Pictures Good Friday Race Meet Pictures For more ride news see also: Rides Archive, Our past rides, to give you inspiration:
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