There is a postcode lottery about which boroughs you have to live in, if you want to automatically belong to a borough-specific cycling group that organises "free" social rides that are open to all. The boroughs shown in blue on this map do not have an LCC website, probably because they are not left wing enough.
It was a lovely sunny morning when four of us met at the Southwark Needle to do what had morphed into a Silvertown Tunnel Ride. Unfortunately one of our riders couldn't make it because of a domestic emergency. There were no Southwark Healthy Riders in sight, but this must have been because we had chosen a wrong Saturday. There was another group of four at the start point, but it wasn't clear what website they had used to arrange to meet up.
Experiments have been carried out to see what would happen if someone tried to clone the "official" Cyclists in Southwark website and set up an unofficial one. It would still have HTTPS encryption, but its security certificate would be "self-signed", rather an being approved of by an official organisation. Rides could be advertised on the site, but they would be uninsured. If you want to find this "fake" Cyclists In Southwark website, its URL is the subdomain f.cyclistsinsouthwark.org.uk.
Kent: the final frontier. Our five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where hardly any Southwark Cyclist has gone before!
This was our ride for April 1st. But I won't be using Michaels Lane again, as there were only inches to spare to allow cars to pass me - a route via Fawkham Green, Ash and Hartley Bottom Road would be much safer.
Be at Pub On The Park any time after 6pm, and set off when you feel like it! This is unusual, as most cycling clubs are based on people meeting up for rides at the same time. A sort of momentum develops like bats leaving a cave and suddenly they're off. But it's not a race, so why rush?
Remember there will be people sleeping when you pass through villages at night. So please keep noise to a minimum.
Chiswick House
Christmas Day Ride 2022
Midsummer Madness
Winter Lights