Rides Archive 2006
Here's a list of the rides we ran in 2006, useful if you're looking
for inspiration for a ride:
January
Saturday 7th January: Lewisham: Battle Loop.
more info . . .
Sunday 8th January: Greenwich: Crystal Palace.
more info . .
Wednesday 11th January: Sustrans Rangering Ride.
Meet 9.30am in the Wibbly
Wobbly on Greenland
Dock for coffee then a slow inspection of our
part of the Sustrans route. Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 11th January: Southwark Cyclists Montly
Meeting. 7pm Blackfriars Settlement, 1-5 Rushworth St, SE1.
More info . . .
Saturday 14th January: Locks Docks.
Meet 9am Southwark Needle and 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. That always different
slow explore downriver, over the Woolwich ferry and round docklands.
Stay all day or drop out halfway as Island Gardens or whenever. 30 miles
if you stay all day. Mostly motor-free tarmac. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 21st January: Dulwich Greendale/Peckham
cricket bats.
Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens and 10am Southwark Needle. To London Cycling
Campaign's Best Cycling Facility of 2005. Then to Peckham Rye and the
old bat factory and other hidden marvels that the tram may demolish.
A chance to make up your own mind with the Peckham Society. A slow 10
miles or so. One of those to take as you find. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 22th January: The Putney/Woolwich ferry.
We first did this in Bike Week 2005. Great chance to explore London's
riverside, slowly hugging every cyclable inch (well almost) in an west-east-west
8 shape. Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens. 10am Southwark Needle. North over
Westminster Bridge. West to Putney and over. East to Tower Bridge and
over. East to Woolwich Ferry and over. West back to start. That's 45
miles if you stay all day so the pace will be steady. Barry 07905 889
005.
Saturday 28th January: Lewisham: Rochester - Leeds
Castle - Maidstone - Rochester.
more info . . .
Sunday 29th January: Lewisham: Oxleas Woods -
Off roader.
more info . . .
February
Sunday 5 February: East along the Thames.
Meet 9am Southwark Needle and 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. We'll go as far
as we get down the Thames path and turn round to get home around 5pm.
An easy 30 miles or so. Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 8th February: Southwark Cyclists Montly
Meeting. 7pm Blackfriars Settlement, 1-5 Rushworth St, SE1.
More info . . .
Saturday 11 February: Pollards Hill Cyclists Luv
Yr Bike Day. Pollards
Hill Cyclists are a newish group and today's their Luv
Yr Bike Day. Details emerging. So we'll drop in. Meet 9am Southwark
Needle and 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. About 20 miles. Barry 07905 889
005.
Thursday 23rd February: Afterworker: Radical history
of biking at 56a. Meet 6.30pm Southwark Needle for a very slow
ride to 56A Info Shop, (56 Crampton
Street, SE17 3AE) for a South London Radical History Group evening.
Details thin at present
but sounds promising, they do bike workshops etc too. Barry 07905 889
005.
Saturday 25th February: Locks Docks.
Meet 9am Southwark Needle and 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. That always different
slow explore downriver, over the Woolwich ferry and round docklands.
Stay all day or drop out halfway as Island Gardens or whenever. 30 miles
if you stay all day. Mostly motor-free tarmac. Barry. Ride
Report . . .
March
Saturday 4 March: Bike day at Decathlon.
Venue: Outside Decathlon
Bike Super store, Canada Water Retail Park, Surrey Quays Road, SE16
2XU more shop info map
Contact: Barry Mason 07905 889 005
Flyer: Full
Flyer please print off and advertise the event.
A whole day of bicycle magic for everyone, and it's all FREE
including :
- Rich Johnson is one of the UK's best extreme stunt riders -
his hour-long shows are on at midday, 2pm and 4pm.
- Decathlon's professional mechanics are Dr Bike for the day.
Get your bike's minor aches, pains and punctures sorted while you
wait.
- Cycle Training : UK's professionals will give advice on
all sorts of cycling. Can't ride a bike? Ask them.
- 3 different 45 minutes Local Exploring Bike Rides for everyone
leaving at 11am, 1pm and 3pm to be led by Southwark Cyclists.
- There'll be lots of advice from the Metropolitan Police, Southwark
Council and others about how to keep your bike safe from theft, by
locking it up well and registering it too.
- Safe Routes to School? Local cycling routes? Longer rides? Tour
de France 2007 down Jamaica Road?! ..... Just ask. The days are getting
longer and there's never been a better time - or more reasons - to
enjoy outdoor cycling !
Sunday 5th March: Mast Pond Wharf Opening and
Erith. Meet 9am Southwark Needle, South side of London Bridge or
10am Cutty sark Gardens. Barry Mason 07905 889 005.
Saturday 11th March: Essex and the Dengie Marshes.
Meet 8am sharp Southwark Needle or 8.15am at Liverpool Street Station
for the 8.34am Southend train. Change at Shenfield for Southminster.
Arrives 9.49am. 4 go for the price of 2...so we pay 5.50ukp return each...
don't buy tickets before we meet. 50 exploring miles. Pub
lunch. Barry Mason 07905 889 005. More
info . . .
Sunday 12 March: Mast Pond Wharf. Meet 9am
Southwark Needle, then 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for the river ride to
coffee at Woolwich Arsenal. We'll stop at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology
Park en route. Then 12 noon meet on the Woolwich Ferry carpark for group
photo by the News Shopper. Lunch in Woolwich and free ferry ride after
for the north route back to Island Gardens and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
(Via the excellent and quirky new Farraday display at Trinity Buoy Wharf).
Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 18th March: Greenwich: Canterbury Dover
Canterbury. More
info . . .
Sunday 19th March: Lewisham: Time Bank family
ride. More info . .
.
Saturday 25th March: Lewisham: Headcorn 2.
More info . . .
Sunday 26th March: The Mayor of Greenwich's Charity
Bike Ride. Meet 9am Southwark Needle or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens
to 5ukp register.
11am start. 12 mile riverside ride to Erith. Some of us will help along
the way if need be. And ride back. Barry 07905 889 005.
April
Saturday 1st April: Locks Docks.
Always different riverside docklands tour.
Meet 9am Southwark Needle or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens.
Stay all day or drop out whenever. Paced for all. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 2nd April:
Cathedral of Sewage Ride
The
Crossness Pumping Station is open this coming Sunday.
Glorious vast Victorian technicolour pumping machines.
So good they're in Greenwich Council's tourist guide.
But they're in Bexley. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens.
Ray 0796 334 9993.
Saturday 1st April: Lewisham: Brighton.
More info . . .
Saturday 8th April:
Waltham Abbey
Meet Cutty Sark Gardens Time 10am. Through the greenwich Foot tunnel,
up the Isle of Dogs, Limehouse Cut and then up the Lea River to
Waltham Abbey. 45 easy going towpath miles return. Don't forget that
you are supposed to have a Towpath permit. These are instantly available on line.
Ray 0796 334 9993.
Sunday 9th April:
Hoo Peninsula
Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens for a quickish 25 miles on some big
roads to Gravesend and coffee. Then relax into a 20 slower miles
rural explore starting with the Shorne Marshes. Lunch.
Then quickish ride back to London again. About 75 miles in all.
Train option: get the train there or back or neither.
Train to Gravesend rom Charing Cross (9.56am), London Bridge (10.04am),
New Cross (10.10am) arrives Gravesend 10.49am. (Careful: no Greenwich
to Gravesend trains this Sunday. Bus to New Cross). I'll meet the
train in Gravesend and gather all together for coffee then Hoo.
Please phone me from the train. Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 12th - Tuesday 18th April: Greenwich:
Normandy. More
info . . .
Friday 14th April: Good Friday races at Herne
Hill Velodrome.
Herne Hill Velodrome
once again hosts the
Good Friday International Track Meeting. Watching the track races
and lazing about. Infectious excitement and some baffling events too.
Some of us will take turn helping on the Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome
stand to recruit more. It's a big day of a slightly different bike culture
and shouldn't be missed. 12ukp to get in. Doors open 11am. Meet 9am
Cutty Sark Gardens, 10am Southwark Needle, outh end of London Bridge
for a slowish ride there. Find your own way home. Barry 07905 889 005.
Sunday 16th April:
Thames Path Adventure
Reading to London. A slowish explore along as much of the
riverside as possible; 70 miles along the Thames Path.
Meet 8am Southwark Needle, south end of London Bridge or 8.40am
Paddington Station ticket office for the 9.07 train to Reading.
Arrives 9.44am. Buy tickets when we meet. 4 go for the price of 2.
Therefore 6.20ukp single each. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 20 April:
Bermondsey Street Inspection.
Walk "Shared Space" Bermondsey Street with Southwark Cyclists and
Southwark Living Streets. Meet 6.45pm outside the Bermondsey Kitchen,
194 Bermondsey Street. Southwark Council have marked this street
for change. So let's plan it. A last chance to turn a local
motor-dominated street into a friendly one. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 22nd April: Lewisham: Rye Loop.
More info . . .
Saturday 29th April:
Thames Path to Erith and back.
And that new bit through Mast Pond Wharf at last! Meet 10am Southwark
Needle, 11am Cutty Sark Gardens for a leisurely ride there and back.
Note later than usual starts. Barry 07905 889 005.
May
Monday 1st May: Deptford's Jack in the Green procession;
bought to you by Rediscovered Urban Rituals. Assemble 12 noon at the
Herb Garden, MacMillan Street, Deptford SE8 near St Nicholas church
says the blurb. The procession will then wind its way through the street
of Deptford old town. The Shipwright's Palace will be open. Unmissable.
Ride? Meet 9am Cutty Sark Gardens and 10am Southwark Needle for a leisurely
loop riverside loop that'll get us back to Deptford in time for the
fun. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 1st May: Greenwich: Pocahontas in Gravesend.
More info . . .
Saturday 6th May: Greenwich: Cambridge.
More info . . .
Sunday 7 May: Locks, docks etc. Meet 9am
Southwark Needle or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. All day always different
tour of docklands. Down the Thames path, over the Woolwich Ferry, and
beyond. Stay all day and do around 35 very flat exploring miles. Or
drop out whenever. Barry. 07905 889 005
Saturday 13th May: Lewisham: Wheels Over the Weald.
More info . . .
Saturday 20th May: Lewisham: Made in Deptford
Dr. Bike. More info
. . .
Saturday 20 May: Locks, Docks. 9am Southwark Needle.
10am: Cutty Sark Gardens. All day gentle explore along the Thames and
round docklands. Barry. 07905 889 005
Saturday 27th May: Lewisham: Sevenoaks.
More info . . .
June
Saturday 17th - Sunday 25th June: National Bike
week
This year National Bike Week coincides with the London Architecture
Biennale, a multi-site celebration of London architecture and Change
(the theme) by architects and designers. Southwark Cyclists are helping
LAB with their bike rides and the Reinventing the Bike Shed exhibition.
Download our bike week flyer here
. ., but do check this page for updates.
LAB are charging for their rides but Southwark etc Cyclists need not
pay unless they want to.
Do so via www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Check out the Official Bike Week
website
Bike Hire discounts: If you haven't got a bike yet,
you're from out of town and don't have your bike with you or know a
potential London Cyclist then there's no excuse not to make one of our
Bike Week events, we've teamed up with two local Bike shops to offer
discounted bike hire
Bike / Rider Training: details of Bike maintainence and Rider
Training can be found here. Southwark Council
and our local NHS Primary Care Trust are currently offering a discount
to men living or working is Southwark.
Friday 16 - Sunday 25 June: Reinventing The Bike
Shed
Free public exhibition to raise the profile of much better cycle parking
in the arches behind On Your Bike, 52-54 Tooley Street, SE1 2SZ. Bike
culture too. Map
here
Bring bikes right in. Volunteer stewards needed.
Open weekdays 11-9pm. Weekends: 11-5pm.
Created by Feilden Clegg Bradley, Southwark Cyclists, Sogol Architects,
Blueprint Magazine and Bike off/Design Against Crime Research Centre
at the University of the Arts. www.feildenclegg.com
5/14/19/20/21/22 June: 5.30-7pm:
Southwark Cyclists information stall and leafleting at Southwark
Needle, south end of London Bridge.
Do come and help, chat. Map
Here
Thanks to Evans
Cycles London Bridge for their assistance.
19/20/22/23 June: Dr Bike Bring along your
bike for a free safety check and minor repairs. Five sessions have been
arranged by Southwark Council at various locations across Southwark.
Full details are below against each day.
Saturday 17 June: The Putney/Woolwich Ferry loop
Meet 9am Southwark Needle. 10am Cutty Sark Gardens.
A London riverside figure of eight. Down to Woolwich Ferry and over.
West along the north bank to Tower Bridge and over. West along the south
bank to Putney Bridge and over. East along the north bank and over Lambeth
Bridge. Return to Go.
A flat slow leisurely all day explore of the still opening riverside.
About 45 miles that won't seem that much at all. Info: Barry: 07905
889 005
Sunday 18 June: Cultural Change
with www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 10.30am Tate Modern riverside lawn: Map
To some of central London's best new buildings.
Led by Jeremy Melvin, writer of Understanding Buildings.
2.5 hours. Info: 07905 889 005 Ride
Report . . .
Sunday 18 June: Peckham Square Bike Magic day
Southwark Council's main Bike Week event. 12 noon - 5pm. Peckham square,
Peckham High Street. Rich Johnson and his stunt riders at 12pm, 2pm,
4pm. Guided easy local rides at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm. Dr Bike surgery. Cycle
Training UK on hand for advice etc. Police security logging and internet
bus. By Safer Southwark Partnership, local police and Southwark Cyclists.
Info: Assan Ali, Community Safety Officer, Southwark Council. 020 7863
3144
Sunday 18 June Reinventing the Bike Shed seminar
2.30 - 4.30pm On Your Bike
52-54 Tooley street London SE1 2SZ map
Seminar on designing out bike theft, and launching a national open design
competition. With Wayne Hemingway, Design Against Crime, architects,
designers and cyclists. A London Architecture Biennale event organised
by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, Southwark Cyclists, Sogol Architects
and Bikeoff/Design Against Crime Research Centre. More info: www.londonbiennale.org.uk
and www.feildenclegg.com
Reserved places only:
fliss.mills@feildenclegg.com 01225 852525
Monday 19 June: 7.30-10 am: Dr Bike
Free safety check and minor repairs outside On Your Bike in Tooley Street,
SE1 2SZ map
Monday 19 June: 12.30 - 2.30 pm: Dr Bike
Free safety check and minor repairs London College of Communication
SE1 6SB map
Monday 19 June:
Changing rooms - the evolution of ideal living
with www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 6.30pm Iroko Housing Co-op Upper Ground, SE1 9PR Map
Iconic housing developments in inner London. How our expectations have
changed since the nineteenth century. Led by Wayne Hemingway. Founder:
Red or Dead.
2.5 hours. Info: 07905 889 005
Tuesday 20 June: 7.30 - 10.00 am: Dr Bike
Free safety check and minor repairs Eddystone Road footbridge SE4 map
Tuesday 20 June: Afterworker: Easy Royal Parks.
A Royal Ride at regal pace, starting at Southwark Needle, south end
of London Bridge at 6.30pm.
Gentle ride up to Regent's Park, across to Hyde Park, Green Park and
past Buck Palace to St James' before finishing back at The
Market Porter Pub Borough Market, London Bridge. The route will
take in part of the Prologue for the London
Grand Départ 2007. Ride
Report . . .
Around 1.5 - 2 hours. Kit 07855 746 535.
Tuesday 20 June: Changing Schools
with www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 6.30pm London College of Communications, Elephant and Castle, SE1
6SB Map
Led by Ian Taylor and Tony Butler. Architects.
Central London schools are being redeveloped fast. Many listed school
buildings of the 1950's and 60's may soon disappear. This ride explores
the variety and quality that may soon be lost.
In conjunction with the Twentieth
Century Society.
Wednesday 21 June:
Midsummer Madness - dawn of the longest day
Joined by: www.londonbiennale.org.uk
The Summer solstice sunrise on the longest day on the year.
Magic. Info: 07905 889 005
Meet: 2am: Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich
2.30am: South Needle, London Bridge
3am: Bar Italia, Frith Street
4am: top of Primrose Hill 4.43am: sunrise!
6am: The Globe Theatre,
Bankside opens with buffet pay breakfast ready on the terrace.
7.30am: into the groundlings stage area for Speeches.....Simon Hughes,
Valerie Shawcross, Nick Harvey, Jenny Jones, Bradley Wiggins
7.45am: finish
Thursday 22 June: 5 - 7 pm: Dr Bike
Free safety check and minor repairs Portland Street (outside Chiltern
House) SE17 2ES map
Thursday 22 June: Urban change and regeneration
with: www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 6.30pm The German Gymnasium, Pancras Road, NW1 2TB. Map
Led by Roger Madelin. Argent Group. Urban change at close quarters -
layers and connections from London's origins to future visions.
2.5 hours. Info: 07905 889 005
Friday 23 June: 5 - 7 pm: Dr Bike Free safety
check and minor repairs Camberwell Green SE5 map
Friday 23 June: Change and Exchange - London's
markets
with www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 6am The New Market, 26 Smithfield Street, EC1 9LB Map
A tour through some of our best markets - investigating how they have
endured through the centuries and adapted to the changing needs of Londoners.
Led by Greig-Stephenson. Ken Greig and Nigel Stephenson.
2.5 hours. Info: 07905 889 005
Friday 23 June: Erith Afterworker
Meet 6pm Southwark Needle, 7 pm Cutty Sark Gardens for a gentle ride
down the Thames Path towards Erith...and back into the glorious sunset.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 24 June: The Water Cycle
with: www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 10.30am Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park Here: Map
Contemporary architecture along the rivers and canals of central London.
Led by Sunand Prasad. Penoyre and Prasad.
2.5 hours. Info: 07905 889 005
Sunday 25 June: South of the river - joining the
Squares
with www.londonbiennale.org.uk
Meet 10.30am Southwark Needle. The mystery and wonder of south London.
Hidden gems and secret squares. Led by Vicky Richardson, editor, Blueprint
magazine.
2.5 hours. Info: 07905 889 005
Sunday 25 June: 2012 Olympics Sites
Meet 9am Southwark Needle. 10am Cutty Sark Gardens. To meet other LCC
groups on guided tour of the Olympics site. See the area now and make
up your own mind.
Leisurely all day ride.
Details firming. Info: 07905 889 005
Sunday 25 June: Angelic Bermondsey Picnic
Meet 6pm at The Angel, Bermondsey Wall, SE16 4NB: Map
It's Southwark Cyclists annual picnic to round off National Bike Week
on the grassy mound at King's Stairs Gardens just 30 bike-lengths downstream
from The Angel.
Bring food and drink to share till late. We'll use the pub too. Wonderful
river views, wonderful company.
All welcome as ever. Info: 07905 889 005
Photo: Nik Milner Shakespeare's
Globe Bike Breakfast 2005
Thursday 29th June:
Return of the Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm. Southwark Needle, South end of London Bridge.
Ride Report . . .
July
Saturday 1st July: Riding the 2007 Tour Stage
1 Meet 8am: Buckingham Palace. 9am: Southwark Needle, south end
of London Bridge. 10am: Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich Following stage
1 of the Tour de France 2007 to Gravesend, Medway, Tonbridge, Tunbridge
Wells, Tenterden, Ashford, Canterbury. 90 miles. A sociable stay-together
ride, not a race, but we'll have to push it. No van following. Barry.
Ride Report
and pictures
and more here
Wednesday 5 July: 10am. City Hall. Scoping meeting
with Transport for London about huge central London bike ride planned
for Sunday 23 September 2007 (yes). 100,000 entrants. World's biggest.
Thursday 6 July: 5.00pm: St Martin's College meeting
to build on Bike Week and exhibition etc/Bike Film Festival
Thursday 6 July: Afterworker 6.30pm. Southwark
Needle Woolwich Ferry
Saturday 8 July @2100 hrs - Sunday 9 July 2006:
Dunwich Dynamo 14 - The Legend Easy. 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.
Coach back tickets, Sunday 1pm (we aim to leave at that time), £14 until
1st June. £21 after that.
Meet 6pm on Saturday 8 July at Cutty
Sark Gardens for the 4 mile ride to the 9pm start at the Pub on
the Park, London Fields, Martello Street, Hackney.
The essential and extensive FAQs together with return coach booking
can be found here.
Monday 10 July: Greenwich Cyclists meet Greenwich
Foundation to discuss Royal Naval College site cycling ban. 6pm
Wednesday 12 July: Southwark Cyclists monthly
meeting
Thursday 13 July: Afterworker 6.30pm. Southwark
Needle
Saturday 15 July: Millwall Bike Day Rides
by Southwark Cyclists. Stall. Dr Bike by others.
Sunday 16 July: Rotherhithe Festival Russia
Dock Woodland
Lots of stalls, events etc. Southwark Cyclists stand next to Decathlon's
Dr Bike and Transport for London's first Tour de France tent (compare
with that at Herne Hill last Good Friday).
Set up from 10am. Tables provided. Ends 6pm. Entrance Redriff Road
Map SE16
We're leading 3 local easy rides at 11, 1 and 3pm using same route shown
on the 60 special T shirts being made. We'll stamp riders passports
at each of the 6 venues en route. Prize draw end of day.
£200 grant from Rotherhithe Festival.
Thursday 20 July: Afterworker 6.30pm. Southwark
Needle
Saturday 22 July: Burgess Park Bike Track reopening:
Phase 2 Brenton Smith there organising. All day BBQ. Music. Park
rides by us. Track events. Map
SE5
Sunday 23rd July: Karen's Kent Knockabout, about
50 miles. Fast ride from Cutty
Sark Gardens (leaving at 10am) on-road to Wilmington for elevenses
at Karen's, then up and down the lovely, hilly Kent countryside. Visit
to The Hop Shop at Castle Farm to purchase farm foods and beautiful
jewellery, pub lunch in Eynsford (or picnic in Lullingstone Park
dependent on weather). Bellissima! Cycle back to Greenwich.
You must be confident cycling in traffic and on occasionally busy
roads. Photos
here
and here
and ride report.
Wednesday 26 July: Rides meeting 6.30pm.
Dog and Bell.
Thursday 27 July:
Surrey Docks Farm Open Evening
4-7pm. Southwark Cyclists stall/Dr Bike requested
Thursday 27 July: Afterworker meet 6.30pm Southwark
Needle for a ride to Putney.
Saturday 29 July: Bermondsey History Ride
Meet here
at The Blue in Southwark Park Road Map.
1pm for 1.30pm start. A really easy 3 hour explore round the Bermondsey
border looking at historic - and new - sites and sights. Part of Bermondsey
Festival. End at Southwark Park cafe after optional boat hire on the
lake. Ride
Map. Optional extension after. Barry. 07905 889 005
Sunday 30 July: Burnham Ferry and the marshes
Meet 8.30am Southwark Needle or 9am Liverpool Street for the 9.12am
train to Southend Central.
4 go for the price of 2. About 50 easy flat miles including £3
Burnham Ferry. Barry. 07905 889 005
August
Thursday 3 August: Afterworker 6.30pm Southwark
Needle
Sunday 6 August: Locks, Docks and One Smoking
Ferry ride
Meet 9am Southwark
Needle and 10am Cutty
Sark Gardens. That gentle all day tour round docklands again. Lunch
at Dagenham City Farm. Drop out half way at Island Gardens or wherever
or stay the whole day. East to the Woolwich Ferry, over, lunch, back
via Island Gardens, the Wapping canals, tea at Wapping Pumping Station,
Tower Bridge.
Barry 07905 889 005.
Wednesday 9 August: Southwark Cyclists monthly
meeting
Thursday 10 August: Afterworker 6.30pm. Southwark
Needle
Saturday 12 August: Mint Street Park Fun Day
Southwark Cyclists stall/Dr Bike requested Map
SE1
Sunday 13th August:
Deller in Broadstairs
Visit Jeremy Deller's Steam-powered Internet Machine in Broadstairs,
Kent. Meet 9:00 by London Bridge Main line ticket office for the
9:32am train to Canterbury. Cycle to Broadstairs for lunch and
exhibition, then around the coast to Whitstable, and train or cycle
back to London. Sue - 07977 463638.
Thursday 17 August: Afterworker 6.30pm. Southwark
Needle
Thursday 24 August: Surrey Quays Bike Magic Day.
Surrey Quays Shopping Centre car park. 11am-7pm. We're leading easy
local 50 minute rides at 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm. Rich
Johnson and team will do their excellent stunt shows at 12 noon,
2pm, 4pm and 6pm. Cycle Training
UK are Dr Biking all day and there's a training area too. Crime
Prevention will be marking bikes and we'll have an information stall
there too. Mega sports store Decathlon
will also be out there. It's also the launch of our Transport for London
funded Shopping Centred Cycling project aimed directly at all those
shopping cars. Up to 3 hours CTUK training for only £10. Off the
shelf. We'll measure the results carefully and will have leafletted
those carparks 3 time before the event and on the day itself. Help needed
on day.
Project report.
Thursday 24 August: Afterworker 6.30pm.
Meet at
Southwark Needle for a ride (for the most part) along the
Thames Path to Surrey Quays (ETA 7pm. There we will join the
refugees from the Bike magic day, then off for a meander to the
Wibbley Wobbley I believe. Suggest bring lights. Sue 07976403325.
Friday 25 - Tuesday 29th August: Greenwich: Wild
Wales Weekend For the fifth year running Greenwich Cyclists head
for the hills. Join us/them. For more information see
here:
Thursday 31 August: Afterworker 6.30pm. Southwark
Needle
September
Sunday 3 September: Tour of Britain and Bike Fest.
Sixth, and last, stage of the Tour of Britain starting in Greenwich,
heading out north to Primrose Hill and Highgate West Hill, then finishing
with 20 laps of Whitehall. Includes
Bike Fest 06 on The Mall. More information
here and
here. Meet 10am Southwark Needle for slow ride up to The Mall and
Bikefest and the Tour of Britain finish...optional return to Southwark
Park and Southwark Councillors for 2pm to see 2.35pm peleton on Lower/Jamaica
Road.....then back to Mall to see finishing laps and end at about 4.20pm.
Tuesday 5 September: Cycle Saturation 2 Dulwich
school assembly launches our Cycle Saturation 2 on two schools there.
£20,000 between the 2 schools with CTUK
Thursday 7 September: Afterworker Meet 6.30pm.
Southwark Needle. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 7th - Saturday 9th September:
Bicycle Film Festival
At The Cochrane Theatre,
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP. Screenings at 19:00 and 21:00.
More details here . ..
Wednesday 13th September: Southwark Cyclists monthly
meeting
Thursday 14th September: Afterworker 6.30pm.
Southwark
Needle
Thursday 21st September:
Afterworker
6.30pm.
Southwark Needle for a ride to Putney and back.
Ride Report. . . . ..
Saturday 23rd - Sunday 24th September: The fabulous
Whitstable Weekend. Ride the 60 miles to Whitstable. Sleep over.
Oyster. Then 60 to Dover. Train back Sunday evening.
Several of us are
staying at the Duke of Cumberland foodie pub and having dinner there
to. 01227 280617. They'll be full soon. Whitstable tourist office is
good at finding B&B's: 01227 275482. The nearer the harbour the better
but the town fills fast.
Meet 9am Saturday at Cutty Sark Gardens for
the big road ride out of London or train it to Rochester and meet us
for lunch about 12.30pm.
Meet 11am Sunday at Whitstable Harbour. Careful....London
trains have bus links that day. Train back from Dover around 6pm.
Bring your swimmie. Barry. 07905 889 005
Thursday 28th September:
Afterworker
6.30pm. Southwark Needle
Saturday 30th September:
The Last Ferry.
Meet 8.45am Southwark Needle or 9am Liverpool Street station
for the 9.30am to Manningtree. Lovely Stour estuary to Harwich and
coffee. Then south to St Osyth and last chance of the year
to ferry
cross to Mersea Island. Excellent swimming there
(but watch the current). Causeway road back to mainland.
Train back from Colchester late afternoon. Rail returns to Manningtree
4 go half price so 9.50ukp return on that deal. Ferry fare is 2.50ukp.
About 50 miles.
Ride Report
October
Sunday 1st October:
Ride of the Falling leaves.
"Testing" 110km or 80km route options for this classic autumn loop
around Surrey starting and finishing at Herne Hill Velodrome.
12ukp in advance 15ukp on the day entry fee covers certificates,
pasta and drink at finish with proceeds going to
The Lavender Trust .
More details and registration
here.
Thursday 5th October:
Afterworker
6.30pm. Southwark Needle
Sunday 8th October:
Cycle Show 2006.
The big
Cycle Show at Excel. 10ukp in advance or 12ukp on the door.
Meet 10am Southwark Needle or 11am Cutty Sark Gardens for
leisurely ride down the river and over the Woolwich ferry.
Lunch at North Barrier Park cafe. Then onto Excel for the show.
Find own way home or agree leaving time once there.
Ride Report here. . .
Wednesday 11th October:
Southwark Cyclists Annual Meeting.
You really should get to this one. We have a quick monthly meeting
then switch gear and chair as the Management Committee stands down
and we elect a much brighter new team. Or not. Your chance to stand,
or just vote. As always, phone if you need more detail. Includes
a scintillating look back at what we've done and how the money is.
And all in 90 minutes or less. Meal after. 7pm. Blackfriars
Settlement. Rushworth Street. London SE1 0RD. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 12th October:
Border Patrol Afterworker.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle
for about 18miles of our periphery, keeping the green wheelie bins
on our left. Ride Report here. . .
Sunday 15th October:
Lock, docks etc.
the ever-different tour of docklands. Meet 9am Southwark Needle or
10am Cutty Sark Gardens. Then east to the Woolwich Ferry and over.
Stay all day or drop out whenever. About 35 leisurely exploring
miles. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 19th October:
Afterworker
North to the Woolwich Ferry and back via the south passage.
Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle.
Friday 20 - Saturday 21st October:
Stolen Bike Haul.
The police have recently recovered 70 stolen bikes (some may only be
frames?). They may have photos of them at a mobile police station
which will be parked outside the steps by the main entrance arch to
Waterloo Station. By the Eurostar platform 19 end of the station.
Enquiries to DC Potter/DC Gibson on 020 8649 2476.
Monday 30th October - Saturday 18 November:
Reinventing the Bike Shed 2.
Unmissable. The exhibition looks at urban cycling solutions
worldwide and highlights the best ideas from the
Reinventing the Bike Shed open international design competition.
It's part of the Bike Shed initiative launched during Bike Week 2006
and the London Architecture Biennale by Fielden Clegg Bradley,
(part of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at the University
of the Arts London), Blueprint Magazine, Southwark Cyclists and
Transport for London. The exhibition coincides with London's Moving,
a New London Architecture exhibition on the transformation of London's
transport (1st November - 13th January). Where:
New London Architecture, The Building Centre,
26 Store Street.
Monday - Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 10am-4pm, closed Sundays.
The Legible London exhibition there runs(walks?) until 3
March 2007 and is very worth seeing too.
November
Thursday 2nd November:
Afterworker
6.30pm. Southwark Needle
Saturday 4th November:
Reinventing the Bike Shed 2 + Stop Climate Chaos Rally.
To the exhibition we helped create at New London Architecture,
Building Design Centre, Store Street, WC1. See above entry for more
detail. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich or 11am Southwark
Needle. Then three mile ride to the exhibition. Optional afterride to
the Trafalgar Square rally. Find own way home. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 4th November:
Greenwich Cyclists: Stop Climate Chaos Rally
More Details here . .
Thursday 9th November:
Afterworker
6.30pm. Southwark Needle
Thursday 23rd November:
Afterworker
6.30pm. Southwark Needle
Thursday 30rd November:
Afterworker
6.30pm. Southwark Needle
December
Saturday 2nd December:
Locks Docks and One Steaming Ferry...
The Food Chain Edition:
Friday 1 December is World Aids Day. The
Food Chain is a London
charity that provides nutrition services, including home delivered
meals, groceries and food etc advice to men, women and children who
are very ill as a result of HIV related illness. All their services
are provided with the help of volunteers. So today's always
different Locks Docks is dedicated to The Food Chain. There's a
voluntary donation of at least 10ukp (5ukp) at the starts. Every
penny to The Food Chain. Meet 9am Southwark Needle, south end of
London Bridge..or 10am Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich for an all
day sociable explore of docklands with buy your own coffee,
lunch and tea stops. Stay all day until about 5pm or drop out
whenever. Optional pub after. Paced for all, designed to be
friendly. www.foodchain.org.uk refers. Barry 07905 889 005.
Thursday 14th December:
Afterworker: Putney.
Meet 6.30pm at
Southwark Needle for a ride South, over and back the northern
route. Back about 8.45pm. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 16th December:
Southwark Cyclists Ceilidh.
Saturday 16 December: the first ever Southwark Cyclists Ceilidh.
That's fast fiddle music and irresistible dancing from The Muckers.
No experience necessary.
Wilson Hall, Camberwell College of Art and Design, Wilson Road,
London SE5 8LU. Doors open 8pm. Music from 9pm. Ends midnight.
Pay bar. Free buffet. Internal bike parking.
Tickets: 17.50ukp,
on sale now, or on the door. Barry 07905 889 005.
Saturday 23nd December:
Rainham Marshes and the new RSPB Visitor Centre.
Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens for slow exploring ride there. About 12
miles. Then lunch and look around. And back along the bike routes of
the A13. Barry.
Monday 25th December:
2512 ride..
Our fifth. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens or 11am Southwark Needle
(south end of London Bridge) for a slow sociable exploring ride
round quiet central London with a late lunch in a good value
Edgware Road cafe that caters for vegans too. Optional
extension and pub search after. Barry. Ride report . . .
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