Invitation to the 2025 London Ride, Wednesday 19 March

All club riders, A, B & C and Saturday/Sunday riders, are invited to the 2025 London Ride to Alexandra Palace

The ride will start from Roehampton Gate in Richmond Park, the first group to leave at 10am, and finish at Battersea Park.

The reason for the earlier start is that this is an ambitious London Ride and it will take approximately three hours to cycle the twenty miles to lunch, because of the nature of urban riding through central London and the hills before lunch.

Group leaders will stand by to ferry any riders unsure of getting home from Battersea Park back to Clapham Common, Earlsfield, Wimbledon Park and Richmond Park.

Lunch is at Ally Pally, no pre-ordering.

The ride is 30 miles long and mostly flat, but unfortunately John Johnson in a fit of egotism decided to build Ally Pally on top of one hill and behind another, so the morning ride finishes with two steep climbs.

Those who wish to ride please email Paulandrewjames1949@yahoo.co.uk by Monday night to be allocated into groups.

The final recce is on Monday, to check on roadworks, etc., and the route for that final recce (and, God willing, for the ride itself) is here.