Cycle to Work special September 13th: with prizes :)

[Sally Eva]

Take the Bike Train and you can enter a national prize draw. Details at https://www.cycletoworkday.org/ In fact you do not even have to use the Bike Train ? anyone pledging to cycle to work on the 13th can enter. So if you have been thinking about trying cycle commuting ? this Wednesday is a good time to start.

The Bike Train is a commuter ride leaving out the crush, the waiting, the heat and the congestion.

We take about 35 minutes to get from Peckham Rye to Blackfriars Bridge and we do not go fast. I?m the pace-setter and I go about 8mph. Occasionally I overtake (small) children but I?m generally overtaken by everyone else.

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

The Bike Train starts at 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. Camberwell Grove and Windsor Walk have both been closed since we started so this route 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 map is here:

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.

Southwark Cyclists is the borough branch of the London Cycling Campaign which campaigns for more, better cycling in London. Most of us are members but you don?t have to be. Most of us live in Southwark but some of us don?t and you don?t have to. And everything we do is free.

https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk