The annual London Ride is revived! This year the rides secretary is keeping A and B groups separate in order to help us maintain small groups.
A fine day is forecast and my route it probably the flattest ride of the year except towards the end when we have to climb out of Wimbledon Park up to Putney in order to complete the loop.
B Group start and finish at the cafe near Roehampton Gate on the North East corner of Richmond Park.
Come and ride along the lesser known riverside of Wandsworth, smartened up but still reflecting its past as Victorian docks. Then through Battersea Park, across Chelsea Bridge and along the Cycling SuperHighway on the North Embankment. Back across Lambeth Bridge past St Thomas' and through County Hall and the quiet back streets past Tate Modern to historic Southwark, past the cathedral and out East along Tooley St cycleway, to visit the riverside one last time at Bermondsey and see Edward III's hunting lodge and the place from where Turner painted the Fighting Temeraire and Judge Jeffreys supped his ale watching pirates being hanged. Thence through South East London Dockland Parks to lunch at the cafe in Burgess Park where you can eat your panini and chips and keep an eye on your bike.
Afternoon past Brixton windmill (most people don't know Brixton has a secret windmill) and Brixton prison (everyone knows Brixton has one of those!), through Tooting Common and a lesser known corner of Wandsworth Common to Wimbledon Park, Putney Heath and back to Richmond Park. On the recces the cafe there was still open when we got back.
29.4 miles in all; a splendid time is guaranteed for all!
Final route at https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38773492
Please let me know, by e-mail if possible, by Monday night; paulandrewjames1949@yahoo.co.uk
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