Part 2 of my London cycle commute on the hottest day of the year sees me return from East to West crossing the city of London, Westminster and home via Richmond Park and the art-deco Surbiton station.
We’ll probably head to the uh head to the clubhouse at Cutney. The Rob High tunnel under the temps there on the left. some pools. Got these uh 23 C tires on here. That’s all that fits on this frame cuz it’s fairly old geometry. So, mid naughties and um you feel every bump and uh pothole. Peak London here. We got uh Big Ben there, Houses of Parliament, and the uh Millennium Wheel there. Oh yeah. They’ve laid some new tarmac here. Normally it’s really So this is Oh, it’s just coming to an end, but this was that section’s so nice. All right, just a quiet cycle way between uh wherever I was and cut me now. There we go. Flat white and I don’t know, something with cheese on. I’m not quite sure what it is, but it sounded nice when she uh when she described it. Yeah, river’s looking good. Clubhouse is busy. Right, the clubhouse is done. Clubhouse on a sunny day, and we’re so near to Richmond Park. It would be rude not to, wouldn’t it? So, here we are heading off to Richmond Park. Temperatures reading 35°. I think that’s a bit overstated, but that’s gone in for you, isn’t it? Right. I have to remember that I’m on the single speed 4816 classic 3:1 ratio. I think that’s about 81 gear in. So therefore, neither of the two main clims in Richmond Park are particularly nice. I would do them if they were helping my training, but all they seem to do is make my knees ache a lot. The temperature was too high cuz it had been just sitting in the sun while I was having coffee. It’s down to a more reasonable 31.8, which is still damn hot, but it’s closer to what it actually is. Hard to believe that I was just in central London, isn’t it? and uh Canary Warf and then into this place which feels like you especially in the sun feels like you could be anywhere on the belt in South Africa le what’s going on Yeah, Serban been forced into a detour on the way home. Um, but come past another beautiful art deco station at Serbbertton. Uh, look at it. Now, where does this go? over. Right. So, that’s completed. 75 kilometers uh doortodoor. Um nice and relaxing on the way back. Stopped for a coffee at the clubhouse as you saw. And um yeah, just just been inside, had a couple of drinks and washed my face cuz I was uh very sweaty. But um uh yeah, it’s um it was a hot one today. But uh it’s good fun. It’s good fun. Um really enjoyed getting out and uh always good training, isn’t it? You know, 75k on a on one on one gear then that’s um that’s pretty good, right? I ran out.