Saturday dawned fair and bright, and with that came a large group of cyclists: Field Marshall Hughes, Captain Fergar, Alan, Eleanor, Gareth, Helmut, Ian, Jane, Katie, Martin, Miranda, Philip, Suleiman. Pluckley, as we all surely know is Britain’s most haunted village so it seemed like a good opportunity to imbibe the spirits at the start of the ride, and thus to imbibe them again at the end in the Black… Read More »Pluckley Circular Ride 30th October
Bill Owen’s Secret London Gardens ride took us from Walworth to Vauxhall via St Giles, Islington, Barbican, Kings Cross, Hyde Park, Holland Park & Chelsea The individual gardens stunned us with their luxurious variety of colour and planting – we could have happily spent an hour in each of them. Most it seems were loving cared for by local community groups and it would be probably true to say that… Read More »Secret London Gardens 14th August
TfL and BoJo have made the idiotic decision to go ahead with their ‘improvements’ to Blackfriars, despite the overwhelming opposition to this. http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2011/07/bulldozers-move-in-on-saturday-this.html We cannot let this go unchallenged. We have to fight to stop these dangerous and ill-designed plans from happening. At least 3 protest rides have been planned. Friday 29th July: Southside of Blackfriars Bridge 6p.m. LCC Slow ride, followed by Critical Mass Ride at 7p.m. which will… Read More »Rallying Time – Blackfriars Bridge
Well it’s over. The London Cycling Challenge, that is. And I have just presented our own school prizes to those children on our team who cycled the most miles. Including a child in the reception class who cycled over 50 miles in those four weeks. Not bad for a four year old! It also looks like we have won our school category as well. My only regret as I presented… Read More »Why so few girls on the team?
I had planned to meet up with Oliver’s ride which, according to the Greenwich website, was heading out to Maidstone East on a train from London Bridge. I picked up the train on the last leg of that journey from Bromley South. I thought Oliver’s ride would pile on at Otford, but not one single bike got on the train there. So I headed out from Maidstone alone. Luckily I… Read More »70 flat (almost) Kentish miles
Barry Mason’s family wish it to be known that his funeral is set to take place on Wednesday 6 July from 2.30pm at Honor Oak Crematorium, Brenchley Gardens, London, SE23 3RD No flowers please – any donations you wish to make will be split between Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust and Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust, both of which were close to Barry’s heart (if not geographically close to each… Read More »Barry Mason's funeral
I’m a primary school teacher, for those of you who didn’t already know. The school in which I teach is situated in what could be considered one of the most cycle unfriendly parts of the planet. Some enterprising 60’s town planner managed to squeeze a tower block estate cheek to concrete cheek with the A2 Old Kent Rd. Thus was born the Tustin Estate https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tustin-Estate/214033508616258?sk=info with Pilgrims Way Primary School right… Read More »London Cycle Challenge
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Weather not as glorious as the last two years but decent in what’s been a rather damp Bike Week. It kept dry for us and the views were clear. A good bunch at Cutty Sark Gardens was mostly made up of newbies which was nice, including one who’d come all the way from Brighton. Along the way, we picked up two folk hanging around for the evening on top of… Read More »Peaks of Lewisham 2011
Forgive the slightly whimsical heading but I’m trying to cheer myself up. Us Lewisham Cyclists have been asking TfL quite a few questions lately and the answers we’ve been getting have been a wee bit depressing. One answer keeps on cropping up again and again. In answer to a query about why all the pedestrian crossings on the Old and New Kent Rd seem to have greatly increased their waiting… Read More »A tale of TfL, traffic flow, an elephant and a ruined castle