social cycle ride 10am Saturday June 3rd

[Sally Eva]

The ride starts from newly refurbished Dulwich Park Cafe (SE21 7BQ) and ends 2hours later in the same place. Apart from getting up to the Park at the beginning and end there are no hills.

The plan is to ride from Dulwich to the Thames. The group did this route last year to demonstrate that you could do a non-hilly ride from Dulwich. It follows the the ?lost? river Effra to the Thames.

The outward leg is via Brockwell Park to Brixton town centre where traffic can be heavy. Down Brixton Road and round the Oval is gently downhill and mostly uses bus lanes. There will be a stop on Vauxhall Bridge to admire the Effra flowing into the Thames next to MI6.

The return ride is via Kennington Park and Myatts Fields. There really are no significant hills on this Dulwich ride. It starts at 131ft in Dulwich Park and descends to 16 ft at the Thames. With all the small bumps there is a total of 245ft of ascent, all low slope stuff.

Route athttp://tinyurl.com/y7ul6r9r or GPX attached.

These rides are organised by Southwark Cyclists which is the borough branch of the London Cycling Campaign. We are (mostly) members of the LCC but you don't need to be to go on these rides with us. We (mostly) live in Southwark but no one else needs to do so to take part. It's all free and everyone is welcome

All our events in June: https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/events/

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[Sally Eva]

Those interested in the ride might like to read this about the River Effra -- I got it from the Roman Fort thread on the general discussion thread courtesy of mynameishere

http://www.martindknight.co.uk/MKsResearch.html