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Is there a book on cycle tours in and around London, suggesting ways of
seeing the Capital, but without putting yourself in too much mortal danger
on the major traffic highways?

Derek White wrote:
Is there a book on cycle tours in and around London, suggesting ways of
seeing the Capital, but without putting yourself in too much mortal danger
on the major traffic highways?



You can get free maps from here.

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/webcode/content.asp?ID=834&

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:13:52 +0000, Derek White wrote:

Is there a book on cycle tours in and around London, suggesting ways of
seeing the Capital, but without putting yourself in too much mortal danger
on the major traffic highways?

Have you tried the London Cycle Guide? It's published by, uh, something
like Hayes or Haynes, I'm not sure. I'll check the details when I get back
home tonight.

It's got 25 rides in or around London, many of them partly or completely
off-road, or through low-traffic streets

Eugenio

P.S. Not sure where you can get it. I bought mine at Evans, and I've seen
it in a number of LBSs...
P.P.S. You could also try joining the LCC - they organize a lot of weekend
rides in London, usually led by someone knowledgeable about traffic-free
areas - but avoid those led by Sprocket John, the speed-crazed pensioner of
Barnet LCC, or you'll end up scaring motorists off the road just to keep
up with him

Derek White" wrote...
Is there a book on cycle tours in and around London, suggesting ways of
seeing the Capital, but without putting yourself in too much mortal danger
on the major traffic highways?



Lonely Planet publish a guidebook titled Cycling Britain, which includes a
short cycling tour around London, as well as directions for cycling from
Heathrow Airport to downtown London (I'll let you know how that works next
month...). You might be better off trying to borrow a copy, since the focus
is a bit broad for your stated intentions.
--
mark

Eugenio Mastroviti typed


P.S. Not sure where you can get it. I bought mine at Evans, and I've seen
it in a number of LBSs...
P.P.S. You could also try joining the LCC - they organize a lot of weekend
rides in London, usually led by someone knowledgeable about traffic-free
areas - but avoid those led by Sprocket John, the speed-crazed pensioner of
Barnet LCC, or you'll end up scaring motorists off the road just to keep
up with him

Sprocket John got some friendly advice from the Police recently...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

"Derek White" wrote in message
...
Is there a book on cycle tours in and around London, suggesting
ways of
seeing the Capital, but without putting yourself in too much mortal
danger
on the major traffic highways?


Bike maps of London are free. It takes 19 maps to cover the whole of
London. Map 10 in central London. Get them by phoning the same
phone number as for bus and tube maps 020-7222-1234. You can
sometimes find racks of the local map in tube stations. They will
probably reappear in April. There's also a free bike map showing
the whole of London on one sheet, but official bike routes only.
That's more difficult to get hold of - try a library in London. The
latest edition is 2002.

For guide books, there are Nicky Crowther, "The London Cycle Guide",
Haynes, and Simon Forty, Cycling without Traffic: London", Dial
House.

Sustrans has a map showing routes alongside the Thames in London, and
other maps showing the route W. to Reading and Oxford, and S or E to
Brighton, Dover etc.

My favourite guide book is the long out of print "Bart's CTC Guide to
Cycling in and around London" by John Franklin, the same John
Franklin who wrote "Cyclecraft"

Jeremy Parker

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:21:54 +0000, Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

Sprocket John got some friendly advice from the Police recently...

??

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Opinions are like assholes -- everyone's got one, but nobody wants to
look at the other guy's.

Eugenio Mastroviti typed


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:21:54 +0000, Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

Sprocket John got some friendly advice from the Police recently...

??

I think he was clocked at 50mph going down the A41 in Hendon...
.... they wondered if he was on drugs.

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

I did that heathrow to london ride using the lonely planet book. The route is
fine but the map in the book is really insufficient. perhaps transcribe it on
to the LCC maps.

It is not a particuarly pleasent route but it gets you there.

"Robertfrench1" wrote ...
I did that heathrow to london ride using the lonely planet book. The route
is
fine but the map in the book is really insufficient. perhaps transcribe it
on
to the LCC maps.

It is not a particuarly pleasent route but it gets you there.

Do you know of a more pleasant route? I have to get myself and my bike from
Heathrow to Euston Station in late April, and Holland Park to Heathrow in
late May.
TIA
--
mark