A great Longer Lewisham Ride today! I’ll admit I was feeling a bit worried about it beforehand. A pollution and pollen spike on Thursday tipped me into a fairly bad asthma attack. It was the day I planned to recce the ride and I was too ill to do that and the attack also left my lung function pretty low. I use a peak flow monitor to keep track of… Read More »A Two Counties Ride
The following newsletter was sent to all Lewisham Cyclists members.
The following newsletter was sent to all Lewisham Cyclists members.
Author: Matt Begg. Pictures: Anna Moore and Alex Raha Ever wanted to cycle with your family but don’t know where to start? Want to join the increasing numbers of people cycling with their children in lockdown? Well this post could be for you! Climate Action Lewisham, working with Lewisham Cyclists have recently successfully bid for grant funding from Transport for London to set up a Family Cycling Library here in… Read More »Cycling with families
Sadly we have cancelled all our rides, community bike workshops and Dr Bikes till further notice. Stay hopeful, stay safe, follow government guidelines about staying home, self isolating and maintaining social distance and the sooner we’ll be riding together again. As bike shops are still allowed to trade, although our community work is closed for the duration, we are still allowed to offer limited help. We have supplied a couple… Read More »Lewisham Cyclists and Covid
Don’t forget to keep checking on our rides calendar, even through the winter months. Year on year, Lewisham Cyclists keeps riding as many of those 52 weeks as we can. The only thing that stops is unsafe conditions, like ice, and that doesn’t happen too often in this corner of the country. You will generally find at least one ride every weekend on our calendar throughout the winter, and often… Read More »Winter Ride Season Beginning!
Great to meet all of the lovely folk who joined our feeder ride to this event in Central London. I hope you enjoyed riding into the event with us as much as we enjoyed running the ride in. We must have been the only feeder ride with a marshal on a penny farthing! Thanks to Russ for bringing along his beautifully made ride and making it look so easy, no… Read More »London FreeCycle
Just to remind everyone, there is a led ride to the Saturday London FreeRide starting at Bell Green behind Sainsburys at the entrance to the Waterlink Way Riverside Path here http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=536910&y=172057&z=110&sv=536910,172057&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=675&ax=536910&ay=172057&lm=0 Then through Lewisham, Cornmill Gardens here at about 10.15 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=536421&Y=177213&A=Y&Z=106 Then through Fordham Park, deptford/New cross at about 10.30 am here http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=536409&Y=177233&A=Y&Z=110 All welcome. We will also run a return ride later that afternoon, along the Thames Path Back… Read More »Freeride London 3rd August