bike train to central London and onwards July 5th

[Sally Eva]

Calling all film stars. Join the celebrated Bike Train. We?re getting so famous that National Geographic want to film us. I?m not entirely sure why. I haven?t been photogenic for a long time. Some of our riders are cute I suppose (male and female). The route is very good-looking but not their usual sort of thing.

Come with us and learn off-road and segregated routes to Kings Cross via Blackfriars. We bike-buddy riders to their final destination. Escorted all the way and totally free.

The Bike Train leaves 7.45am from Nunhead station, 7.55am from Peckham Rye Station and 7.55am from Denmark Hill Station. The Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill lines join in Burgess Park which is why it?s OK that they start at the same time.

The starting point in Peckham is the bike stands behind McDonalds and at Denmark Hill from outside the cafe in Windsor Walk. If you are coming from Denmark Hill please let us know in advance. Camberwell Grove and Windsor Walk have both been closed since we started so the route from Denmark Hill keeps getting better.

Our route takes us through two parks, up a traffic calmed back street, onto the on-pavement cycling lanes on the New Kent Road, around the Elephant and Castle by-pass and onto the still lovely but no longer so new segregation up St George?s Way and Blackfriars Road. All legal and all as safe as your mother would make it.

We get to Blackfriars at 8.30am and anyone who wants can be buddied wherever they want. Return rides arranged on request. For further details or to book your place text 07842 640 207 (me). Or just turn up.

The google map of the route is here:

The bit from North Dulwich runs by arrangement. Just ask.

And the cycle.travel map is here: http://cycle.travel/map/journey/41005. The info with the map says we do 500m on major roads so it may not know about the on-pavement cycle lanes on the New Kent Road ? and 130m pushing. No pushing. I?m fine to push when required but it?s not required.

We are part of the London Cycling Campaign but you don?t have to be. Most of us live in Southwark but not all of us so you don?t have to and nobody pays anything. It?s all free

And, oh yeah, the National Geographic. Further news to follow when available.

https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/events/bike-train-to-central-london-and-beyond-8/ (same info but with pic)

https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk (more interesting bit of same website)