A 7am start deterred some of you (as I thought it might) and after a flurry of texts on a beautiful Easter Saturday morning, just as I was about to leave, from people who had overslept or were otherwise unable to make it, just three of us left the cafe to head through fairly quiet South London streets. We soon realised we had a slight tailwind, which lifted my spirits… Read More »Surrey Hills Ride: The Tough One
and we are also holding a bicycle bits jumble sale…bring along any bicycle paraphernalia you no longer need, donate it to us and we will put it on sale on our stall. Proceeds to go to Lewisham Cyclists to help us run our activities.
Thanks to everyone who came down to Ladywell Fields and stopped to talk about the Space4Cycling Campaign. Some of you even sent off emails to your candidates there and then. Easy to do on the go from our tablet! Thanks also to those of you who donated or bought jumble. Some of you did both! And thanks to our great team of efficient Dr Bikers, who ministered to dozens of… Read More »Space4Cycling Event Saturday 26th April
Andrew’s Cheese Run route covers some of my favourite bits of Kent as well as a few lovely lanes I am not so familiar with…often the way with Andrew’s rides…I think I know the area he’s leading us through and then he turns off down a beautiful little lane that I haven’t yet ridden, even after 30 odd years of exploring this area on my bike. So, despite the horrid… Read More »The Cheese Run Ride Report
At Lewisham Cyclists, we have been wondering just what the omission of Deptford Bridge from TfL’s revised list of junctions that will be reviewed with a view to redevelopment, actually means. In fact, not one junction in Lewisham made it on to that list of 33. Andrew Gilligan did warn us that the original list of 100 would be reduced, when he visited our meeting last year. He stated then… Read More »Deptford Bridge Junction: Do TfL think this is safe enough?
All are welcome at the Lewisham Cyclists monthly meeting held on the third Wednesday of each month in our favourite Lewisham pub. These meetings are fairly informal and it’s a good opportunity to hear about the current local campaigns and influence their direction. Please come along… Here’s the agenda for this month’s meeting: Lewisham Cyclists Meeting Wednesday 19th March 2014 at 6.30pm Dog and Bell Public House, 116 Prince St,… Read More »Agenda for LC Monthly Meeting 6.30pm 19th March Dog and Bell, Deptford
Boris was off again yesterday…another PR exercise designed to convince us that things are about to start changing for the better on our local streets…this time it was the announcement of the “mini Hollands” boroughs. We local campaigners across London have also been working hard, holding our own meetings, making our own press releases as part of the Space4Cycling campaign. You can check what we in Lewisham have come up… Read More »Lots of meetings, talking, press releases: Now it’s time for action!
Lewisham Cyclists began to gather at the cafe in Ladywell, quite early on a beautiful International Women’s day morning, ready to believe that winter was finally done with us and a spring and summer of sun kissed rides was on its way. Ten of us set off along the Waterlink Way to Greenwich where we were met by another ten. At this point, Sidney and Mary left us as they… Read More »An East London Explorer for International Women’s Day
As we said a while back, Tfl had arranged to meet with us in the New Year to update us on their plans for CS5, specifically the section from New Cross to Lewisham. Now, this in itself is a matter of some dissension amongst local cyclists. Some want TfL to grasp the nettle, and drive it straight along the main road, through New Cross and down Lewisham Way and Loampit… Read More »CS5 update
Some of you may have completed the survey run by LCC last year to identify barriers to safe cycling. We took the Lewisham results and mapped them here. https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zymna9GbZKQs.kTpzv122DGnI