Invitation to the joint A & B Groups 2026 London Ride to Silvertown, Wednesday 18 March

You are invited to join the London Ride on Wednesday.

This year's ride will start at Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park and take us over Hammersmith Bridge, through Holland Park and Kensington Gardens, through Marylebone and Covent Garden and then out along the river and through the East End for lunch at West India Dock Wetherspoons.

After lunch we take the cycle shuttle bus through the Silvertown Tunnel, and we return westwards through Greenwich Naval College, Millwall, Kennington and Vauxhall to finish at Battersea Park.

The route is 31 miles with lunch half way.  The final recce group left the start at 10.25, was at lunch just before 13.00 and at Battersea Park by 16.15.  We can offer a loo stop half way through the morning.  Once you have climbed to Pembroke Lodge for elevenses the ride is flat.  There are a couple of short stretches of cobbles but the rest is tarmac or hard gravel.

The shuttle bus is free; you do not need a travelcard.  It also takes electric bikes.

Dave Ward has a commitment in the evening and if there are any takers will be happy to take a group from lunch back to Waterloo via the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.  He will not be riding the Silvertown Shuttle.  

Madeleine will take a group home on train assist (we pass Vauxhall Station).

Please let me know by E-mail Paulandrewjames1949@yahoo.co.uk by Monday evening if you want to join in and please be clear if you want to go with Dave Ward or Madeleine.

 Click here for the route.