You can cycle from Kensington in west London to Edgware Road entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 3.7km long (2.3 miles) and makes use of new infrastructure including new tulip-protected cycle lanes on Sussex Gardens, as well as existing lanes in Hyde Park.
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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:
https://www.komoot.com/tour/2677689667?share_token=aHB0Y5Jxq16sNV0JIw0emIG3QmapXB6kF0SpR2FG9frQfhkzr1&ref=wtd
And you can find a viewer-created and maintained map of all the London Cycle Routes videos here:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1h9Hxm57fPvZmcuSXajM_Wu0G0s6f_bs&ll=51.505213496092054%2C-0.1285238120117249&z=12
I also highly recommend the Safe Cycle London map for route planning, which is compiled by @SafeCycleLDN on twitter:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1XlpvN9R-Wg7qZHyezO8y-eVlftr4e0WX&hl=en&ll=51.516975804561255%2C-0.21828576419061996&z=12
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Talking of horse poo, I must say that I do love the smell of it when I'm cycling around and I wonder why that is – it must be their diet…
What was the name of the Egyptian place you mention?
Great video! One thing to point out re timings – as it's currently winter the manned gate taking you through to Studio Walk from Palace Green (not the earlier barrier) closes at 5pm (not sure when it opens), so you have to use Palace Avenue instead subjecting you slightly more to the horrors of Ken High St.
Thanks! Great video as always! Keep it up 💪
Personally, I'm not a big fan of the tulips as I don't see them being as impactful as a curb for cycle safety
I would love to see more safe routes in cycle-hostile Kensington & Chelsea
2nd video you’ve not say about kamoot is there a problem with the site
Happy days renting in Marylebone, just near the Edgware Road, back when that was vaguely affordable.
First time wandering into Ranoush Juice and Beirut Express to have a shawarma was a game changer. Never realised a kebab could be that good. Really pleased both are still going strong 20 years later!
The Crown Estate constantly change the times that cyclists are allowed into Palace Green / Kensington Park Gardens – but they don't bother telling anybody, or publishing the times anywhere.
TCE need some proper accountability / oversight!
1:46 Isn't the reason you have to dismount while crossing the entrance driveway to Kensington Palace because it is the home of the Prince of Wales and wouldn't the guard be part of the Royal Protection Squad?
Was there any particular reason you left the cycle lane when moving from Westbourne Street to Sussex Gardens? Do you think it's a bit of an awkward junction?
You really don't need to stand up to ride over those rumble strips comfortably. I suppose the fact that most people seem to lack the basic proprioception needed to ride a bike properly is just one of those things, and infrastructure should be designed accordingly, but it really does baffle me.
Interesting ride through busy central London. Always look forward to your videos on a Sunday evening. The tulips are not a bad idea.
Great video agin. Like the route through Kensington Gardens / Hyde Park even if you have to share with pedestrians. Thanks for sharing the video
Such a lovely route, I skated some of it a few years back a couple of times, nice to see an expansion, especially with them bein stricter in some parts of those areas
🤙🏽⚡️🤟🏽⚡️👌🏽
PS the Sharwama's in Queensway used to be the best back when I worked in the area 12+ years ago
As intriguing and enjoyable as always, save for the drought being visibly abject. Fingers crossed there's no a repeat of that next year.
I take it the road around 5:10 is @CyclingMikey's favourite spot for nobbling those anti-social drivers who use the mobile phones where they shouldn't😀😀😀
What is the grey/black building whose corners are showing up over the roofs ahead when you enter Southwick Street at 7:10?
Thanks again for the video. I like the tulips. Keep up the great work.
Lovely Summertime sunshine 🌞
I always enjoy your reports on cycle routes – saves me a great deal of exploration for which I am grateful. But, I don't like the tulips precisely because they are meant to be unaffected by drivers motoring across them. As soon as the pushy types of driver realise this the bollards will lose the point of their being there. They become psychological, not physical, 'protection'. There has long been a not wholly ineffective lobby among the road engineering profession which favours 'segregation lite' for various reasons (aesthetic, financial, etc) and the protection lesson has to be relearnt once again.
2:40 "rumble strips of cobbles…uncomfortable"
also, there is research showing they can be dangerous for cyclists, no matter what material is used, and especialy right after a curve
(particularly in combination with wet conditions …a rare occurence in London, luckily 😅)
Not quite sure what is going on. For some reason none of your resent videos play on Apple TV. It is quite strange as I have never seen it with any other videos. And your older ones play fine
Love the tulips. Makes them more visible 🌷🌷🌷
Another great video dude👍. I actually prefer the tulip bollards over a curb as it deters people from parking in the cycle lane.
Wands (or tulips!) are better than nothing, but I prefer a kerb. The part of CS4 approaching Surrey Quays is my least favourite and is in contrast to the high quality of the rest of it. Someone posted a video, on Reddit londoncycling, of a car driving down that section of cycle lane, in the dark in the rain, a couple of days go,, straight at cyclists without stopping. Going along the route yesterday I can see they knocked a few of the wands out by the traffic lights (probably where they decided to go in the lane). Not great!
Whilst tulips look nice, if you were sideswiped by a vehicle and it’s inattentive driver, it’s unlikely you’d pop back up so easily either, so I’d want a proper protected cycle lane with kerbs. They could’ve done that and added the tulips periodically in between for a bit of colour.
Nice route, nice video, nice weather……and nice tulips!! 🌷 👍🙂
nice. It's usually just referred to as Kensington Gardens though, just FYI