Cheers chaps. I had actually looked on google maps to see if I could find distances for a run into london but wasn't sure what was rideable etc.
Go to www.TfL.gov.uk and look in the journey planner, click the "I want a cycling only route" button and it'll generate you a map in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). Acrobat Reader is free to download from Adobe if you don't have it already. For a long journey, best to break it into sections. You'll find the bits that are easy to learn/feel good to ride and then use the journey planner to fill in better routes around the bits you don't.
Also, buy yourself an A-Z of London, one of the medium sized A5-ish sort, cos the mini ones are just too damn small to read in the dark under p1ss-poor streetlights when you're lost.
And go to West drinks. Like I did. And then find they moved it to a different bloody pub. Still, made for plenty of cycling. And they did good burgers at the White Horse too.
Go to www.TfL.gov.uk and look in the journey planner, click the "I want a cycling only route" button and it'll generate you a map in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). Acrobat Reader is free to download from Adobe if you don't have it already. For a long journey, best to break it into sections. You'll find the bits that are easy to learn/feel good to ride and then use the journey planner to fill in better routes around the bits you don't.
Also, buy yourself an A-Z of London, one of the medium sized A5-ish sort, cos the mini ones are just too damn small to read in the dark under p1ss-poor streetlights when you're lost.
And go to West drinks. Like I did. And then find they moved it to a different bloody pub. Still, made for plenty of cycling. And they did good burgers at the White Horse too.