London is one of the world’s biggest and most populous cities but certainly not the first place you’d think about when planning the perfect ride. But should it be? Hank met with London native Alec Briggs for a tour of the UK’s capital to find out if you can do an epic ride in a big city!
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29 Comments
Where would you choose to go for the perfect city ride?
Just wanted to say GCN has some of the best (if not the best) content I’ve watched, as a person just getting deep into cycling and bikpacking.
Cool see Hank riding around familiar roads, did 70k in London on Sunday, key is to leave early I think. Left home at 5:30 and was home by 9.
Love this video. Does make me miss Londinium since moving out quite a few years ago. Love the channel 👍
Ive been cycling in London for years and I know Richmond Park well! My advice to anyone cycling is avoid rush hour if you can. Don’t treat the city like a race track, have fun but people will walk out into the road, cars and buses will pull out etc. It annoys me when cyclists undertake on the left at a junction, skip the lights and also show little / no respect to pedestrians, it gives us all a bad name.
I mean, we're the London Cycling Campaign so call us biased, but there are so many ace routes around London. The views are insane. Regent's Park is closed roads before 7am and has its own early morning cycling community for race laps. There's killer climbs like Swains Lane in Highgate. Richmond is obviously stunning. And lots of routes out into Kent and country lanes.
And tiny brag, but our policy team's work has been instrumental to getting consecutive London mayors to commit to the game-changing properly separated bike lanes like the one along the river. More space for cycling = more epic rides around London like this one 👌
My home town. I used to cycle to work every day some 40 years ago but I wouldn't want to do it now, too many dangers. There were enough then!
Really enjoyed this video-but Im sat here watching this in a sling, post shoulder surgery after being knocked over by a van in London. Its just not a safe place to ride….I know ive lost all confidence anyway!
City ride is good fun as you have to be aware of so many things.
Any premier league fans out there, cycling to all the premier league football clubs is a fun one 😄
Is there a gpx/ Strava file for this ride? Live close n would love to do it
great video!! more of these please:D and kudos for alec's bike handling skills…. amazing!
With sure high quality cinematography, you could make cycling anywhere look amazing
London is great for riding. My top tip would be to avoid all the cycling super-highways, as they're just full of wobbly commuters.
Moved from CA, Usa to London, UK 3 months ago and can confirm riding in London is utter crap 🤣
Great video! But I have a challenge… can Hank do a GCN video, without a single sprint? It can’t be done! Nah…yeah, nice video mate. I’m moving to Sevenoaks soon and the city will be well within reach!
Do one for NYC!
London does not compare to Plymouth for road cycling. Not even close.
Fantastic ride and the city!
Needed a lap of Regent’s Park in there too
I miss the fist bump counter 🙂
I tried the route, it was nice but not quite satisfying as there is some parts riding just next to the river thames on gravel and muddy land. Those parts were not suitable for roadbikes at all and really dangerous as there is hardly any protection along the river . I had to be very careful and slow. there are also several bridges that requires carrying the bike on shoulders to get on. Anyway, it's far not a perfect ride but still worth paying a shot. thanks Hank and GCN.
Try as you might you will never convince me there is anything remotely pleasurable about cycling in London haha
Anyone got the gpx file of the route, looks like a bit of fun.
As a lightweight London cyclist myself this looked fun. However the section at 13:39 shows what a lot of my "cycle infrastucture" is like .. a painted strip barely wider than the drains with all the detritus from the gutters . That bike lane is only marginally wider than the double red lines at the side of the road.
I rarely get into central London and make do with lanes like that out in the suburbs. it would be safer without that "lane" as some drivers expect us to cycle in it rather than cycle in "their lane"
all in all though a fab video and I liked the look of that Putney cafe !!
I’m all for advertising the benefits of cycling in london but smh they’re blatantly ignoring almost brand new cycle lanes right next the road… talk about the cyclist reputation being earned.
Central London is actually pretty easy to ride in if you apply a bit of Road Craft and good manners
Rode the route this weekend. Great ride. A lot more gravel than I expected. Awesome ride nonetheless.
A lot of bike wobbles during the race bits from tall guy😮
Comes out of the telephone box. Bike gone.