One of the difficulties in re-establishing pre-Covid numbers for this ride, is finding a way to show prospective attendees' faces. Many booking websites don't allow you to do this and this means you don't have any idea about who else is going to turn up.
Meetup does allow you to show faces, but, although it used to be free like Facebook, it now requires a paid subscription.
In the past, we have used the British Cycling "Let's Ride" website. This is free. but we are not allowed to use it for all our rides! We must now stand on our own two feet.
Thanks to Drupal and its Entity Registration Module, you can now try to work out how to get your face to appear on this booking page at the bottom of this page. A clue is that's you'll need to set up a password for your account.
The ride will start at 11.00am from the Southwark Needle, 1 Tooley St, London SE1 2PF, home of Southwark Cyclists.
On Christmas Day it is customary for cyclists from London's many and diverse boroughs (and even beyond!) to assemble at the Southwark Needle to do a cycle tour of some of London's lesser-known but still iconic sites.
These include the "Mother Goose" Church, the French Ordinary Court Tunnel, Beehive Passage, Leadenhall Market, Jamaica Wine House, the Old Curiosity Shop, the Upside-down Globe, Seven Dials and, although not lesser-known, The Mall.
The ride owes its existence to Barry Mason, the erstwhile Coordinator of Southwark Cyclists, who inaugurated it in 2001. Barry is well known for being the person who transformed Southwark Cyclists into the most active and exciting of all the LCC borough groups.
Once we reach Edgware Road, we stop off for a very reasonably priced Christmas Day Lunch at one of the Lebanese restaurants, which are open as normal on Christmas Day.
The 9 mile route can be downloaded from here: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44864435.
The Komoot link is: https://www.komoot.com/tour/1944257004.
Everyone welcome. You don’t have to be a member of anything to attend - but it helps!
Ride Leader: Nigel Bee (tel: 07415 315 690, email: nigel.bee@cyclistsinsouthwark.org.uk)
