Ride from Cutty Sark to Dunwich Dynamo 2017

How do I start up a cycling club? To get started hold a meeting with those interested in forming a club. You will need to decide on your club name and someone will have to take the role of club secretary. It is also a good idea to appoint a chairman and treasurer and decide on things like fees you will charge members. You will need to write a club constitution, which will clarify your club’s policies and procedures. It is a good idea to write a draft of this before the initial meeting so that it can be finalised at the meeting. Once you have done this you will need to complete and return your affiliation form and pay the appropriate fee. Once your application has been processed your club will be affiliated. Read more at https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/clubs/article/20140514-Set-up-a-club-0#u4cvxLar1sVKA98l.99 . Since 2015 Cyclists is Southwark has organised an abridged version of the Dunwich Dynamo ride which allows cyclists to take part in the ride, but also to get themselves and their bikes back to London without having to use coaches.

This is the third year when we have done this. Our seventh without Barry Mason, whose cycling group Greenwich Cyclists, which used to organise rides venturing far beyond borough boundaries, has been reestablished in our neighboring borough Southwark, under the new name of Cyclists is Southwark, to organise this event.

We meet at Cutty Sark Gardens and start the ride by using the the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to cross to north London so that we can cycle up past Canary Wharf to join the Regent's Canal towpath which takes us to Victoria Park. We then cross over the river Lea into the QE Olympic Park, and cycle up to the View Tube, where you can also join the ride at 7pm. We then cycle back through Victoria Park to Hackney's Pub on the Park at London Fields (19 Martello Street, London E8 3PE), in time for the 8-9pm start of the Dunwich Dynamo ride. We then cycle out to Epping Forest. When we get to the Wake Arms Roundabout (CM16 5HW) we turn off the main Dunwich route and follow an off-road path through Epping Forest to the King's Oak (IG10 4AE). A further off-road path through the forest takes us to the Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge (E4 7QH) and we then follow the Chingford to Walthamstow quiet route and finish the ride at Stratford.

Distance of the ride: 34 mi

Meet at: Cutty Sark Gardens by the entrance to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, SE10 9HT. You can also join this ride at 7pm at the View Tube, The Greenway, Marshgate Lane, London E15 2PJ.

Ride leader: Nigel Bee (tel 07415 315 690, email [email protected])