London - Cambridge by Brompton, Sat 19th May

sw_bd

Hi All,
We're cycling from London - Cambridge on Saturday. All welcome - full details below and on our website. Do let us know if you're coming.

Cheers, Harry & team at Small Wheels, big Difference

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Starting on the Southbank Centre for a spot of breakfast, we'll follow the National Cycle Route 1 out of London and up the Lee Valley. From there, we have a gentle climb through the hills of Hertfordshire before rolling down into Cambridge via a spot of lunch in Newton.
Do get in touch if you're planning to join - our ‘charity bikes’ are also available for anyone without a Brompton.

For those on facebook, the event is also here.

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The Details:

- Depart 10:00 from Southbank Centre terrace (breakfast at 9:00 for anyone interested)

- 100 km / 63 mile ride along off-road (as much as possible); route here.

- Arrive Cambridge at approx 3 pm (5 hrs including lunch).

yocto

If you are on Strava you could join the 'folding bike' club http://app.strava.com/clubs/folding-and ... l-bicycles

Best of luck.

optimisticbiker

sw_bd wrote:

.... we'll follow the National Cycle Route 1 out of London and up the Lee Valley. ...

Have you actually been and recce'd this route? Not wanting to put a dampner on your plans, but I rode back that way when I did London (Lee Valley Park) to Cambridge and back last August. Most of the route through the Lee Valley was then surfaced with pea gravel about an inch or so deep... it was virtually unrideable at any reasonable pace on road tyres. Of course it may have all changed now...

Good luck

Our paths may cross as I'll be riding London Revolution and we'll be riding up from Excel to the Lea Valley starting around 7:30 and then round via Epping, and the Chilterns to Windsor on day 1.

sw_bd

Hi All,
thanks for the responses - I've called the Lee Valley park people to see what the route is like, but not much help... will report back and have an alternative parallel route to 'abort' onto if needs be!

Cheers,
Harry

optimisticbiker

sw_bd wrote:

Hi All,
thanks for the responses - I've called the Lee Valley park people to see what the route is like, but not much help... will report back and have an alternative parallel route to 'abort' onto if needs be!

Cheers,
Harry

See here for my Lee valley to Cambridge route, nice country lanes for the most part...

hmmm seems it was July not August, well it was quite warm and sunny that day as I recall.... sadly I dont think Saturday will be so nice

sw_bd

Hi All,
Thanks for your comments. Took longer than planned, but hey - it was good weather for it.

Track is here: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/1806 ... 7phMIsoZfU and looks like we too largely the same route as OptimisticBiker.

Full writeup from @LondonBrompton here: http://myorangebrompton.blogspot.co.uk/ ... -with.html

-Harry

Green Brompton

Twas a great day. Cheers peeps. :-)