Rides Archive 2007
Here's a list of the rides we ran in 2007, useful if you're looking
for inspiration for a ride:
Regular Rides & Events:
Every Monday 18:30 - 19:00: Resonance 104.4 FM
Bike Show.
Resonance 104.4 FM weekly
radio bike show More
info and archives . . .
2nd Wednesday of every Month: Our Monthly Meetings.
7pm Blackfriars Settlement, 1-5 Rushworth St, SE1.
More info . . .
Every Saturday Morning:: Dulwich Paragon North
Downs
More info . . .
Last Friday of every month:: Critical Mass
The monthly spontaneous ride round central London. Meet 6pm on the National
Film Theatre riverside, South Bank. (Bit political). More
info . . .
2007
January
Monday 1st January: Greenwich:New Years Day Ride.
More Info. . .
Saturday 6th January: Twelfth Night Day Ride.
Exploring the nearly 5 mile
Greenway to Becton, then the Woolwich Ferry, then back along the
Thames Path to The Globe in good time for Southwark's
Twelfth Night Festival and the 2.45pm optional slow procession to
The George and all sorts of new year revels. Will you be King Bean or
Queen Pea? Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens (Greenwich) or 11am
Southwark Needle (south end of London Bridge). Around 20 miles.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 11th January: Afterworker: Woolwich Ferry.
Meet 6.30pm at
Southwark Needle for a ride to The Woolwich Ferry and over. Barry
07905 889 005.
Sunday 14th January: The always different Locks
Docks ride. Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle. 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. Leisurely tour of docklands
and lunch at triple (or is that double?) oxymoron Dagenham City Farm.
Stay most of the day or drop out whenever. And yes, coffee at Firepower,
afternoon tea at wonderful Wapping Pumping Station. It's not a gym.
Sun forecast. Ride
Report
Bike Maintenance Course: Tuesday 16th, 23rd and
30th January 2007. Three lesson bike maintenance course - in On
Your Bike's instore workshop: 52-54 Tooley Street. London SE1 2SL.
18:30 - 21:00.
Course objective: the 3 evenings will take students through the
basic servicing of their own bike. Students will work on their own bikes
under professional supervision with a 15% discount on required parts.
Maximum 10 students. 2 professional mechanic trainers.
£36 for the course of three lessons. Online
booking
Questions? Barry on 07905 889 005.
Thursday 25th January: An Inconvenient Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at
Southwark Needle for a ride to an 8pm screening of Al Gore's An
Inconvenient Truth at Lewisham's (just) Horniman
Museum. Free. But you need to phone
or e-mail to reserve your ticket. Tell them your on Southwark Cyclists
ride. Find your own way home after. Barry 07905 889 005.
February
Saturday 3rd February: Burgess Park Oasis.
Meet 10am at
Southwark Needle for easy ride to Burgess Park Bike Track. Family
ride leaves from there around 11am heading for the Oasis Youthclub in
Stockwell to celebrate local youth cycling. Sandwich lunch. en back
to Burgess Park for more food and a ride on the track or not. A local
rambling co-production with lovely Lambeth Cyclists. Barry 07905 889
005.
Tuesday 13th February: Santiago Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at
Southwark Needle for riverside ride to Greenwich and Liz's
St Alfege Church Hall 8pm evening about their ride to Santiago de
Compostella last year. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 17th February: Locks Docks. Meet
9am at
Southwark Needle or 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens. Always different
gentle docklands explore. Stay all day or drop out at sland Gardens
before tea. Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 21st February: Lewisham Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at
Southwark Needle for ride to Lewisham Cyclists AGM that starts 7.30pm.
Lewisham Town Hall, Catford Road, SE6. Find own way home. Barry 07905
889 005.
Thursday 22nd February: Afterworker. Meet
6.30pm at
Southwark Needle. North bank to Woolwich Ferry and back along the
south side. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 25th February: Ravensbourne, Quaggy and
Sutcliffe Park marshes. Meet 9am at
Southwark Needle. 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. Tracing Deptford Creek
backwards. A gentle all day explore. Barry 07905 889 005.
March
Saturday 3rd March: Bikestart! Local healthy rides
for all: Peckham Pulse. Meet 10am at Peckham
Pulse for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride start.
More info . . .
Saturday 10th March: Tour de France London Roadshow.
The Tour de France London Roadshow arrives in Southwark. Location -
Near the Decathlon store, Surrey Quays, Southwark. Time: 12pm until
6pm. More info . . .
Saturday 10th March: Bikestart! Local healthy
rides for all: Southwark Park cafe. Meet 10am at Southwark
Park cafe for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride
start. More info
. . .
Sunday 10 March: Bow Back Rivers explore.
Meet 10am
Southwark Needle. The post-industrial lower Lea delta is an amazing
survival. This easy stopping ride will explore it and the surrounding
canals before the 2012 works start to pasteurise the whole area. Mostly
towpaths. Barry. 07905 889 005.
Saturday 17th March: Bikestart! Local healthy
rides for all: Dulwich Park cafe. Meet 10am at Dulwich
Park cafe for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride
start. More info
. . .
Thursday 22nd March: Last dark Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
a ride to the Woolwich Ferry and back. It just won't be the same in
warm daylight. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 24th March: Bikestart! Local healthy
rides for all: Peckham Pulse. Meet 10am at Peckham
Pulse for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride start.
More info . . .
Saturday 24th March: Southwark Cyclist Stall at
Warwick Gardens Spring Fair.. Alex will be running a Southwark
Cyclists stall at the Warwick
Gardens in Peckham from 12 till 16:00. Other attractions include:
a dog show, Dragon Racing, five a side children's football tournament,
football skills workshop, lots (over 20 so far) of food and craft stalls
and face-painting. Please drop by, and maybe even volunteer. Alex 0777
599 0087.
Sunday 25th March: Locks Docks and One smoking
ferry. Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
and 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens. Easy always different
all day explore out east. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 29th March: Bow Back River Afterworker
. Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle,
south end of London Bridge. The days got longer last weekend, we'll
explore the canals until dusk and get back to Southwark Needle about
8.30pm as usualish.
Ride Report . . .
Saturday 31st March: Southwark Park Bike Magic
Day. Local rides all day,
stunt bike performances, bike hire, Dr Bike for those minor bike
ailments, on-demand training. A celebration of loads: both local cycling,
the Tour de France
which flashes past here on Sunday 8 July, the move of Cycle Training
UK to the old Peek Frean's biscuit factory, and a summer of cycling
just around the corner. All day.
Report . .
Coming Soon . . .
On a future Tuesday: Auction Ride. Ride to
Greasbys auction. see here
for background. Barry 07905 889 005.
Almost every Thursday evening: Afterworkers.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle,
south end of London Bridge unless work meetings etc rudely interrupt.
April
Thursday 5th April: Canally Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle,
south end of London Bridge. Over Tower Bridge. Canals to the Greenway
then to the Woolwich Ferry, and over, and back along the south bank
path via Greenwich. If we miss the last ferry around 7.45pm we'll use
the Woolwich Foot Tunnel Stairs. About 20 miles. Barry 07905 889 005.
Friday 6th April: The Good Friday International
Event International Day of racing and events at Herne Hill Velodrome.
Excellent spectator day out. Entry fee of 12ukp Adults and 6ukp Children.
Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens. 10am Southwark Needle for leisurely ride
to the 11am start. see:
http://www.vcl.org.uk/?section=whatson and
http://www.goodfridaymeeting.org.uk/. Photos
here and here.
Report.
Saturday 7th April: Bikestart! Local healthy rides
for all: Dulwich Park cafe. Meet 10am at Dulwich
Park cafe for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride
start. More info
and report.
Saturday 14th April: Bikestart! Local healthy
rides for all: Peckham Pulse. Meet 10am at Peckham
Pulse for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride start.
More info . . .
Thursday 19th April: Putney Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle,
for slowish ride west down the Thames Path to Putney. Back to London
Bridge about 8.30pm along the north bank after a beer. Barry 07905 889
005.
Saturday 21st / Sunday 22nd April: Whitstable/
Dover weekend. Saturday: meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich,
for the 60 mile ride to Whitstable. Some big busy roads out of London
that Le Tour will use empty but lovely countryside after our Gravesend
coffee stop. (Train it to Gravesend if you like and meet us for coffee
at the Promenade Cafe there from 11.30am on. You need to find us). Rochester
lunch. Arrive Whitstable about 7pm. Sleep over in Whitstable. Find own
accommodation. Sunday: meet 11am Whitstable Harbour for a sea-hugging
ozone-overdose 55 miles to Dover through about 13 very different seaside
resorts. Lunch Folkstone. Arrive Dover about 6pm. Train back to London
from there. Pace? Around 12mph. A leisurely tour that needs to keep
going. We'll need to drop you politely and safely if you're slowing
us too much. Great weekend. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 21st April: Bikestart! Local healthy
rides for all: Southwark Park cafe. Meet 10am at Southwark
Park cafe for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride
start. More info
. . .
Thursday 26th April: Peckham Loop Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle,
for dry canal ride to Peckham Canal Head then loop back east via Bridge
House Meadows, South Dock and the riverside. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 28th April: Bikestart! Local healthy
rides for all: Dulwich Park cafe. Meet 10am at Dulwich
Park cafe for Dr Bike inspection and adjustments with an 11am ride
start. More info
. . .
May
Thursday 3rd May: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle,
for north bank ride to the Woolwich Ferry and over on the south side.
Quicker but not fast. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 5 May: Braintree/Bishops. Meet Southwark
Needle at 9am or Liverpool Street station at 9.15am for the 9.38am
one hour train to Colchester. (Wait to buy tickets, 4 go for the price
of 2 so returns are £8.90 each not £17.80). Then 14 rural miles to Braintree
and the Sustrans old railway route about 20 miles via Great Dunmow (on
the Dunwich Dynamo route...coach back tickets selling fast and cheap
now) and Hatfield Forest to Bishops Stortford and regular trains back.
About 40 miles then. Might go further south to say Sawbridgeworth or
Harlow. Who knows. Barry.
Ride Report. Photos
here and here.
Sunday 13 May: Locks Docks and One Smoking ferry.
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle, or
10am at Cutty Sark Gardens. All day always different
easy-paced docklands tour with coffee before the Woolwich Free Ferry,
lunch at Thameside Park City Farm, tea at Wapping Pumping Station. Stay
all day or drop out whenever. Barry. Ride
Report
Sunday 20th May: Dulwich Green Fair. Dulwich
Park 12-6pm Southwark Cyclists stall with Newsletters, Maps and
our Jeremy Deller T-Shirts for sale at a special discounted price. Short
ride from Fair to Herne Hill Velodrome. Part of Dulwich
Festival.
Tuesday 22nd May: Next maintenance course starts 22nd
May, three lessons More details...
Thursday 31st May: Canals Afterworker. Meet
6.30pm at Southwark Needle. Towpath
explore. Back by 8.30pm. Barry 07905 889 005.
June
Saturday 2 June: Rainham Marshes Meet 9am
Southwark Needle and 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for explore to Rainham
Marshes and the new RSPB visitor centre and lunch and walk round there.
15 miles from Greenwich via Thames Path, Woolwich Ferry. Either find
own way back, get train from Rainham to Fenchurch Street, or join me
on a £2.50 cruise across the Thames from Tilbury to Gravesend and ride
back from there along some biggish roads back to Greenwich, or train
it back from Gravesend. Paced for all. Barry. 07905 889 005
Thursday 7th June: Thames Path Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle:
east down the Thames Path for 75 minutes. Then back. Simple. Barry 07905
889 005.
Saturday 16th June: Young Southwark Cyclists Launch.
At Burgess Park Bike Track. Albany
Road. SE5. It's the Track's third birthday too. We funded the building
of it. Opened on this the first Saturday on Bike Week - 2004. Now Young
Southwark Cyclists for under 18's launch there. All day events and local
rides. 11-5pm. Food, music, bike fixing, races, prizes. Barry. 07905
889 005.
Saturday 16th June: Herne Hill Youth Cycling Club
Fun Day
The Herne Hill Youth Cycling Club based at the Velodrome
in Burbage Road runs cycle lessons and coaching for ages 6 to 16.
They have got more than 100 members and run regular Saturday morning
sessions and help coach the track session on Friday Nights. On Saturday
16 June from 0900 - 1500 they are holding a Cycle Fun Day at the Velodrome,
with track cycling Mountain Biking and 'Go Ride', where young riders
will show you how to limbo, jump logs and hone your technical skills.
All activities are fully coached with bikes and helmets provided. Plus
cake stalls, cafe and tombola. Minimum charity donation. Judith 07837
718040.
Sunday 17th June: Olympic Stratford with Greenwich
Cyclists. Meet Southwark Needle
at 10am or Cutty Sark Gardens 11am. Easy on road
ride. Finish about 4pm, may optional extend. Barry 07905 889 005.
Monday 18th June: Bike 2 Work - Clapham Common
to Trafalgar Square / Covent Garden, passing through / pick-up
stops at Landsdowne
Gardens (circle - Circle means there is a circle in the center of
the area, not a square, but a circle, on which we should meet - Around
about 7:45), the Oval (corner
of Harleyford Road - 7:50). Gwen 07824 371 258
Monday 18th June: Erith Afterworker. Down
the Thames Path 16 miles to Erith and back into the sunset. Easy and
flat with Greenwich Cyclists, bits rough on very skinny tyres. Meet
6.30pm at Southwark Needle or 7.15pm
at Cutty Sark Gardens. Barry 07905 889 005.
Tuesday 19 June: Bike 2 Work - Clapham Common
to Liverpool Street Station, passing through / pick up stops, passing
through / pick-up stops at Landsdowne
Gardens (circle - 7:45), the Oval (corner
of Harleyford Road - 7:50).
Gwen 07824 371 258.
Tuesday 19th June: Waterlink Way with Lewisham
and Greenwich Cyclists. Meet 6.30pm Southwark
Needle or 7pm Cutty Sark Gardens. Flat and
easy. Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 20th June: Bike 2 Work - Dulwich Park,
Court Lane Gate to Trafalgar Square / Covent Garden, passing through
/ pick-up stops at Dog
Kennel Hill & Champion Grove (7:45), Albany
Road & Portland Street by Burgess Park(7:55).
Gwen 07824 371 258.
Wednesday 20th June: The Border Patrol. Meet
6.30pm Southwark Needle. Every inch
of Southwark's 17 mile border. Green wheelie bins on the left, black
on the right. Or similar. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 21st 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 meets Union Street. Unmissable. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 21 June: Bike 2 Work - Dulwich Park,
Court Lane Gate to Liverpool Street station; passing through /
pick-up stops at Dog
Kennel Hill & Champion Grove (7:45), Albany
Road & Portland Street by Burgess Park(7:55). Gwen 07824 371 258
Friday 22nd June: Bike 2 Work - Docklands
- Southwark Needle to Docklands.
Gwen 07824 371 258
Friday 22nd June: Lea Valley with Greenwich.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle, 7pm
Cutty Sark Gardens. Canal towpath. Barry 07905
889 005.
Saturday 23rd June: Surrey Quays Extreme Bike
Day. At
Surrey Quays Shopping Centre. Stunt shows by Team
Extreme and lots of bike stalls, plus local rides by us at 12.30pm,
2pm and 3.30pm. Barry 07905 889 005. flyer,
more info
Sunday 24th June: Southwark Healthy Parks.
Memories of the March/April rides series. Meet 10am Southwark Needle.
Linking Southwark Park, Burgess Park, Peckham Pulse and Dulwich Park.
All day slow exploring meander. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 28 June: 2012 Closures. Meet 6.30pm
Southwark Needle for a last look at the Olympic site road and canal
closure exclusion zone that take effect from Monday 2 July. A slow requiemic
explore of loss. Barry. 07905 889 005.
More Bike Week Events outside Southwark Details of
other Bike Week events outside Southwark are avaiable on the National
site at www.bikeweek.org.uk
July
Sunday 1 July: Southwark Council's Beautiful Bike
Day....bike decoration, Dr Bike etc and a local ride by Southwark
Cyclists at the end. 12-4pm: Spa Gardens, Spa Road.
More here... Barry. 07905 889 005
Monday 2nd July: Brixton Beach Preworker.
Start the week with a celebratory splash. Meet 6am (that's morning)
Southwark Needle for under 5 mile
ride to Brockwell Park Lido. And swim there. £2.60 early entry.
Opens 6.45am. The UK's best lido reopens today after £3m renovations
to this listed 30's treasure. It's its 70th birthday too. There may
be queues but they'll be smiling. Find own way to work after or leave
around 8am and follow me to London Bridge. More
here... Warning: this wonderful place is habit forming. Barry 07905
889 005.
Thursday 5 July: Hard men and heroes Afterworker
6.30pm Southwark Needle. Alan's short ride to Honduras Street, EC1 and
the Host Gallery's Flemish riders photo-exhibition soiree. The Flandrien
and those scarey cobbles. www.hostgallery.co.uk
Saturday 7th July: Tour de France: Prologue.
From
http://www.tourdefrancelondon.com/en/ Starting on Whitehall, in
front of Trafalgar Square, the riders will race past Downing Street
towards Parliament Square on an 8km course. Turning at the Houses of
Parliament, the route goes along Victoria Street, past Westminster Abbey
and in front of Buckingham Palace. After the Palace the riders will
pass through the middle of Wellington Arch, before looping through London's
most famous park, Hyde Park. Finally the riders will pass back around
Hyde Park Corner and along Constitution Hill, before ending on The Mall
with Buckingham Palace as a backdrop.
Ride to Prologue The central London time-trail starts 3pm.
Unique chance to see the circus. Meet Southwark Needle at 9.30am, then
to Cutty Sark Gardens along the Thames Path to meet Lewisham/Greenwich
at 10.30am and then to the LCC's
viewing area on Park Lane. Rapha London Fields evening, Southwark
Park Council party or whatever after. You should register here: http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=855
Barry. 07905 889 005
Sunday 8th July: Tour de France: Stage 1.
From http://www.letour.fr/2007/TDF/presentation/us/etape1.html
The route starts on The Mall, runs through Admiralty Arch and then proceeds
alongside the Thames down to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. The
riders will cross The Thames before riding past the London Eye and looping
back to take in St Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London. The riders
will pass over Tower Bridge, through Bermondsey and Deptford to Greenwich
where they will cross the Greenwich Meridian Line, where all time zones
are measured from. The route then passes through Woolwich, Abbey Wood
and Erith, before leaving London for Dartford in Kent. The route then
goes through Gravesend and on to Medway, dominated by Rochester Castle
and Cathedral. Passing on through Maidstone the route will take the
riders to Tonbridge and then on to Royal Tunbridge Wells. The route
winds through the beautiful Kent countryside, through the picturesque
town of Tenterden and past Ashford to a potentially nail biting finish
in Canterbury.
Full Tour De
France timings pdf
txt
Tuesday 10 July: Brockwell Park Lido 70th Birthday
Preworker. It's reopened Brockwell Park lido's 70th birthday celebrations
today. Meet 6am Southwark Needle for ride there and 70p (get it?) swim.
Opens 6.45am. New lido history book on sale too. Cafe. Barry. 07905
889 005
Thursday 19 July: Surrey Canal Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for slow explore along the route and remnants
of the filled-in Surrey Canal. Rotherhithe, Deptford, Walworth, Peckham
and back to the Needle by about 9pm. Barry. 07905 889 005
Sunday 22 July: Cobham for Darnley & Dickens
9.00 Southwark Needle. 9.30 Cutty Sark gardens
Southwark Cyclists set out into Kent, the Thames path to Erith, busy
roads to Gravesend, then canals and quiet roads.
We’ll pass through the award winning Shorne country park, through ancient
Ashenbank with its’ Iron Age fort and WW2 bunkers, check out the Southwark
connection with Dickens in Cobham, as we tread in the path of Tracy
Tupmann, before moving into Cobham Park to view the Darnley mausoleum.
Expect lots of ancient trees and long forgotten farming methods as we
bump through these ancient woodlands.
Its’ not all tarmac, but none is any worse that the worst bits of the
Thames path.
Outstanding views over the rolling North Downs as we follow them down
to The Medway and onwards to Rochester for train home.
Lunch is some way into the ride, as well as the best choice in beer,
well past Gravesend, bring sufficient fodder to keep going. 50/60 miles,
with possible train to skip the Erith/Gravesend road bit.
Bill 07973 668642. Usual No Texts apply
Thursday 26th July: Morris Afterworker. Meet
6.30pm at Southwark Needle South
end of London Bridge. North bank to Woolwich Ferry. Back along south
bank to Deptford's Dog and Bell and the Blackheath Morris at 8.30pm.
Ends there. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 28th July: 15th Dunwich Dynamo.
Just turn up for the start and ride. An unsupported (yes, really) overnight
ride to Dunwich Beach in Suffolk. Once out of London, it's mostly deserted
country lanes. But it's 120 miles. A long long way. Then swim. Or not.
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August
Thursday 2nd August: Olympic Exclusion Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
We rode the main Olympic sites on the eve of the 2nd July road closures
and 12k fence. See what's changed. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 9th August: Peckham Angels Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
For a ride to Chris Robert's talk "Disappearing dancers, Pagan Estate
Agents, Angels and Faceless Nuns" courtesy of "One
Eye Grey" at Review 131, Bellenden Rd, SE15 4QY. Make your own way
home, if you dare. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 5th August: Locks Docks. No more lunches
at Dagenham City Farm - it's being Thames Gatewayed - but here's that
all-day tour of docklands again. Meet 9am at Southwark
Needle or 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens for
a slow leisurely day out. 30 miles or leave whenever. Coffee and tea
stops too. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 12th August: Retracing the Surrey Canal.
From source to end, and branches. Meet 10am at Southwark
Needle or 11am at Cutty Sark Gardens for
a much-stopping look at the industrial archaeology, and psycho-geography,
of this almost lost waterway. 12 miles or so. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 16th August: Putney Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle for
a ride along the South Bank to Putney and back along the North Side.
Refreshment stop at turn. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 18th August: From H2O (2): Water for
Health, Wealth and Pleasure! Lambeth Cyclists will be "venturing
east on a tour of the 'filled in' Grand Surrey canals, more hidden rivers
and hanging sites before heading north of the river and ending at the
fountains on the South Bank." Meet at Oval tube fountains 10.00 am or
at Southwark Needle at 9am for a
slow dawdle to the start. See Lambeth
Cyclists for more details.
Sunday 19 August: Essex Ferries. Meet 8.30am
at Southwark Needle or 8.45am at
Liverpool Street station for the 9.02am train to Manningtree. 4 go for
the price of 2. £10 each then. Then the dozen rolling miles to Harwich
for coffee and the tiny ferry to Felixstowe across the mouths of the
Stour and Orwell and into Suffolk. And then the even tinier boat across
the Debden to Bawdsey. About £6 for those ferries. About 40 miles in
all. Easy paced for all. Barry. 07905 889 005
Friday 24th - Tuesday 28th August: The Wild Wales
Challenge. We're all Greenwich Cyclists for this and head back
to North Wales for the 6th time for a weekend of fun and challenging
rides through some of the most beautiful scenery in Wales.
More info . . . Photos
here. Mailing List
here.
Thurday 30th August: Afterworker: Woolwich Ferry
and back Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle.
Barry 07905 889 005.
September
Sunday 9th September: Rainham Marshes. Meet
10am at Cutty Sark Gardens for the 25 exploring
miles to the RSPB visitor centre at their Rainham Marshes reserve via
the Woolwich Ferry. Back on the A13 bikepaths and Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 13th September: Afterworker: Bolan in
Barnes. Meet 18:30 at Southwark
Needle. Its' 30 years on Sunday since Marc Bolan collided with a
Tree in Barnes. A slightly extended run tonight through Putney, up to
Barnes Common and that fateful tree. Back along the North bank. Bill
07973 668642.
Saturday 15 September: Gunpowder, Small Arms,
Waterworks and Pumps. Open House weekend. Meet 9am Southwark Needle
for relaxed 40 miles up the Lee Valley to Epping Forest and Waltham
Abbey. Including home of the Lee Enfield rifle, an Edwardian pumping
station, Wedgwood drawing rooms...back south down the route of the New
river. Bill. 07973 668642
Sunday 16th September: SE1 Open House. SE1
lists 22 usually closed buildings open this weekend. Meet 10am Southwark
Needle and agree which to visit. Optional stay on after to join
Young Southwark Cyclists on the amazing Thames Festival Carnival Procession
meeting 5pm Doon Street carpark. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 20th September: Bankside Churchyard BikeFest.
12 noon-2pm in South Churchyard, Southwark Cathedral. Part of a series
of sessions aimed at local employees. More
info . . .
Thursday 20th September: 4B Putney Afterworker.
Along the Thames Path on the south side, back along the north. Refreshment
stop half-way. Easy sociable pace for all. Part of Bankside
Bikefest Meet 6.30pm by the Market Porter pub on Stoney St,
Borough Market. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 22nd September: Peckham BMX fun day.
At Bird in the Bush track from 11am. More
info . . .
Sunday 23rd September: Freewheel Feeder, Feeder
ride. Meet 10am Southwark Needle
for the ride to Peckham Rye and up to he Freewheel Festival in St James's
Park and the motor-free ride along the Embankment. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 27 September: Border Patrol Afterworker.
Exploring every inch of Southwark's 17 mile border. Green wheelie bins
on the left, purple on the right. Easy sociable pace for all. Part of
Bankside
Bikefest Meet 6.30pm by the Market Porter pub in
Borough Market. There'll be a professional mechanic/trainer from
CTUK along with us for advice if needed. Barry 07905 889 005.
October
Thursday 4 October: Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
North bank to the Woolwich Ferry and over, back along the south side.
Easy sociable pace for all. Part of Bankside
Bikefest Meet 6.30pm by the Market Porter pub in
Borough Market. There'll be a professional mechanic/trainer from
CTUK along with us for advice if needed. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 7th October:
Locks Docks etc.
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
and 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens
for leisurely paced always different all day explore
of docklands. Stay all day and have afternoon tea at Wapping Pumping
Station or leave whenever.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 10 October: Southwark Cyclists Annual
Meeting. 7pm Blackfriars Settlement. Optional meal after at 8.30pm.
The meeting at which we review the past year and all Management Committee
members stand down and elections take place. Unmissable. If you can
only get to one of our meets this year.....this is the one....details
here. Barry. 07905 889 005
Thursday 11 October: The Ghosts of South London
Afterworker. Quiet local backstreets before getting to the Kings
Head, Borough High Street, and a £2.50 talks about spoks by the South
East London Folklore Society. Easy sociable pace for all. Part of Bankside
Bikefest There'll be a professional mechanic/trainer along with
us from CTUK for advice if needed. Meet 6.30pm by the Market Porter
pub in
Borough Market. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 13 October: The Cycle Show: has moved back to Earls Court this
year after Islington and Excel. Tickets are £10.50 in advance or £13.50 on the door. Meet 10am
at Southwark
Needle Buy your own tickets whenever from the cycle show website
Barry. 07905 889 005
Sunday 14 October: Back to the source. Meet 9am
at Southwark
Needle for
ride to Paddington station and the 10am train to Swindon. Hour on train.
£37 return or £18.50 each in groups of four. Then 15 mile ride - some
walking - to the source of the Thames. Same again to St John's Lock
Lechlade, and that Old Father Thames statue, and same again back to
Swindon. Be warned: First Great Western trains not bike friendly. We may
have to split up and regroup at Swindon. And may not get on at
all...Barry. 07905 889 005
16th - 20th October: Bicycle Film Festival London
more info.
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Thursday 18 October: East Afterworker. To
Greenwich and beyond along the Thames Path. And back. Easy sociable
pace for all. Part of Bankside
Bikefest Meet 6.30pm by the Market Porter pub in
Borough Market. There'll be a professional mechanic/trainer from
CTUK along with us for advice if needed. Barry 07905 889 005.
Monday 22 October: Bermondsey Bridge filming. 11am-2pm.
An ITV film crew will be on site making part of the People's Millions programme about our
excellent new pedestrian/cycle bridge project. GMTV's Lorraine Kelly there.
Project detail on Sustrans website.
Filming location here.
You need to approach it from the west along Stubbs Drive. The disused bridge is at the east end.
Sustrans, Young Southwark Cyclists, Dr Bike and a couple of local schools will be there too. If you're free too, please turn up and
support this great east-west link.
Barry. 07905 889 005
Wednesday 24 October: Witcomb Afterworker. Meet 6.30pm
Southwark
Needle for slow riverside ride to Witcomb Cycles,
25 Tanners Hill, SE8 (www.witcombcycles.co.uk)
and a guided tour of their historic home before modernisation starts, an in-depth
introduction to hand-made steel frame making and a fascinating slice of local bike culture.
Free tea and cakes!! Optional pub after...More details
Barry. 07905 889 005
Saturday 27 October: Wonderful Whitstable Weekend.
We do this a couple of times a year.
Amazing variety..from the big roads out of London to 13 very different
seaside resorts on coast-hugging Sunday.
Meet 9am Saturday 27 October at Cutty Sark Gardens
for the 60 mile ride to Whitstable. 99% tarmac. Some grassy bits ok
for touring bikes.
Coffee Gravesend. Lunch Rochester. (Phone me direct if you want to train
it to either to find us).
Some of us have booked into the treaty Duke of Cumberland for dinner
and B&B. 01227 280617. Whitstable Tourist Office has other places: 01227
275482. (Self-booking please).
Sunday: meet 10am at Whitstable Harbour for an optional fresh oyster
then 55 ozone-overdose miles to Dover. Train back from there. (nb: we
usually time that harbour meet to the first train from London. But there's
big engineering works planned that day, so not this daylight-saving
time)
Barry. 07905 889 005
November
Thursday 1 November: Camberwell Grove Bridge Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm sharp at Southwark
Needle, south end of London Bridge, for ride to Camberwell
Grove Chapel and a public meeting there just north of that bridge
(Map ref)
about whether the Camberwell Grove bridge over the railway should be reopened to
motor-traffic after strengthening works. At our meeting on 10 October, Southwark Cyclists said No.
Or go straight there.
Barry. 07905 889 005
Saturday 3rd November: River Lea and North London Marshlands
Meet 9:30am Southwark
Needle. Taking cycle paths direct to Walthamstow Marshes, we pick up the Lee, departing from it now and then
for stunning viewpoints and to explore the North London marshlands.
Heading upstream from Waltham Abbey we navigate cycleways crossing meadows.
Lunch at Hertford, and a U turn takes us back the way we came,
veering off to the New River towards Enfield, from which we follow
roads back to London.
Bill Owen. 07973 668642
Sunday 18 November:
Locks Docks etc
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
and 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens
then east to the Woolwich Ferry and over and lunch. Tea at Wapping Pumping Station or drop out whenever.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 22 November:
Putney Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for south bank to Putney and north bank back. Refreshment stop at the turn.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 25 November:
Lambeth's Railway ride.
Meet 9.30am at Southwark Needle
for ride to Lambeth's 10.30am Clapham Common bandstand cafe start of
their London termini history ride. One of their fine architecture series.
An easy and much-stopping explore that ends at Waterloo about 4pm.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 29 November:
Woolwich Ferry Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for north bank to Woolwich Ferry and over and south bank bank.
Barry 07905 889 005.
December
Saturday 1 December:
World Aids Day
It's World Aids Day today and this is our ride for The Food Chain www.foodchain.org.uk - a London charity whose volunteers provide home delivered meals and other nutrition services to men, women and children who are very ill as a result of an HIV-related illness.
We'll take a voluntary donation of at least £10 off you at the start of the ride (£5 if unwaged). Every penny gets to The Food Chain. £10 more than pays for 3 people's two-course lunch and a light evening meal.
After a buy-your-own flute of something at Europe's longest champagne bar, we'll get to St Pancras Church on Euston Road for midday and the Cara Trust's free concert starring the sparkling London Gay Men's Chorus. Then we'll ride somemore and head back to the Southwark Needle start via St Andrews Chapel in Southwark Cathedral that commemorates all with HIV and AIDS. The ride ends there, optional drink after at a surprise venue.
Two starts: 9am Cutty Sark Gardens and 10am Southwark Needle, south end of London Bridge. There'll be Dr Bike at the start if yours needs a tweak, and trainer/mechanics with us on the ride too thanks to Southwark's very own Cycle Training UK (www.cycletraining.co.uk).
A fun and sociable ride that's paced for all. Not booking etc. Just turn up. Smiling.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 6 December:
LCC Drinks Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for very short ride to the Leather Exchange pub in Leathermarket Street, SE1,
for the London Cycling Campaigns seasonal drinks evening.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 9 December:
The Locks Docks John Ball edition:
Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
and 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens
Blackheath's cycling-extraordinary
John Ball School have requested this special edition for pupils, parents
and staff. Will be very different, all very welcome.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 13 December:
Christmas Lights.
A joint Southwark and Lewisham ride, we set out to discover the best, or worst, of London’s Christmas Lights.
From the big commercial lights of the West End, the different light installations on the business squares,
to those special shops that have their own display. Something to delight, something quite tasteless, something
for everybody. We’ll finish off with a festive brewed ale in a festive pub before heading back to Southwark.
Join us at 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
Bill 07973 668642.
Sunday 16 December:
Very Bermondsey Bridge ride:
Someone might ask you where it is. Easy paced for all. Meet 9am at Southwark Needle
and 10am at Cutty Sark Gardens.
West along the Thames then the route of the old Surrey Canal and to the Golden Lion pub on
Rotherhithe New Road where at 11am we meet unmissable Southwark News who'll snaparazzo us for
next Thursday's edition on the one and only Sustrans Connect 2 Bermondsey Bridge adjacent.
And the excellent Chumleigh Gardens cafe for lunch in the sun, then past Tate Store on Mandela Way to Southwark Park
for a look at the imminent new crossing of Jamaica Road and to Surrey Quays by the little known London Cycle Network
route. Then the notoriously awful Tesco workinprogress underpass to Greenland Dock and the even more notorious Wibbly
Wobbly floating pub. Oi Oi.
Ends there around 3pm.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Tuesday 25th December: 2512 Ride Our Sixth.
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens and 11am at Southwark
Needle. London's quietest day of the year. A slow and sociable exploring
meander round central London in very good and diverse company. Drop
out whenever or stay on for a late lunch up Edgware Road and maybe a
pub after. Barry 07905 889 005.
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