You can cycle from Oxford Street in central London to the South Kensington museums in west central London entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 3.2km long (2 miles) and makes use of Cycleway 3, the Park Lane cycleway, an quiet streets around Imperial College.
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You can see a digital map of the route and download a GPS/GPX file to use on whatever device or app you want here:
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I also highly recommend the Safe Cycle London map for route planning, which is compiled by @SafeCycleLDN on twitter:
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11 Comments
to avoid the works on C55 you can acc go thru the park if you dont mind going a bit slower!
The most desolate place in Central London!
Also the site of that man-made mountain constructed out of scaffolding that cost millions. If you were tall enough you could just about see over the tree-tops when the trees were in leaf. The pigeons loved it adopting it as a combined roost and a salad bar.
This is the second time I have seen you go around Marble Arch roundabout and it never seems to get any better. Cars cycle pedestrians everywhere. Surely we can do better! Thanks for the video.
Is there any half decent cycle parking at or near the museum? Nice idea to cycle there but unlikely that they'll let me take the bike in so I can keep it safe! On the other hand I could donate it to the science museum as an exhibit, it is old enough, and then claim it back when I leave…
There might be hope for the northern section and surrounding area (covering all of this video) as surprisingly everything north of the Science Museum is still in Westminster and not K&C; at least they have some proposals for new cycleways!
Loved the ride on the edge of Hyde Park especially.
You need to do this ride again with the camera pointing ahead… 😜😜😜
the barrier on Watts Way @6:09 is sometimes down – there are narrow cobble ditches on either side … or just use the footpath briefly!
Very valid comments about the ill-advised utopianism of Exhibition Road. A superficially similar street is Bying Place, not far from the British Museum. Yet here there is a shallow kerb, which combined with the naturally traffic-calming effect of the curve in the road, is enough to protect pedestrians.
That's where I was injured. Where you stopped on Watts way the gate is down. Each side of the gate is cobbles I put my feet on the kerbs rolled over the cobbles and when I dismounted 20 seconds later I could no longer walk, was screaming in pain and on crutches for 2 months. I am now anti cobbles and think they should either remove the gate or the cobbles. Im there again in the morning. Tourists are a nightmare especially at south ken teenage boys running in front of you is terrifying. I now dismount at the science museum and wheel my bike in x
What is the use of Cyclist Dismount signs for all of 5 meters? Isn't it better just to say cyclists should slow down completely to say 5 mph, rather than say dismount? I think signs telling cyclists to go extra slow and give pedestrians priority are more useful than "cyclist dismount" signs which will be ignored anyway.