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Cycling in London

  • 21-04-2012 2:16pm
    #1
    keno111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭


    Gona be over in central london, Kensington area, with work for a week. Anybody know any (good) cycle routes in, out of or around the city. max hour an a half evening spin?

    thank ya


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  • #2
    flickerx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭flickerx


    Laps around Richmond Park on a Sunday.

    Pick up the TFL maps or any one of a dozen books for shorter fun spins.

    Foyles Bookshop near Tottenham Court Road tube station has good stock.


  • #3
    midonogh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭midonogh


    As above - laps of Richmond park given your timeframe. Once the gates are shut for cars at dusk you can continue to go around on a bike, but watch as all the deer start to come out onto the roads. You don't want to spoke a herd of them.


  • #4
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Cycling in London isnt a great pleasure. Richmond park is ok but there's only so much you can take going round in a short loop, plus there is a speed limit. Depending on where you are based it can also take a good while to get there too.


  • #5
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,041 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    el tel wrote: »
    Cycling in London isnt a great pleasure
    It's particularly bad in wet weather as there seems to be an excessive number of manhole/utility covers and other slippery hazards. And London Transport bus drivers are a lot less sympathetic to cyclists than their Irish counterparts.

    It's a great city to watch lads track standing at the lights though! :)


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