Redbridge Cycling Campaign’s 2023 rides season is about to kick off with more rides planned than ever.

The first big event is the Women’s Wonder Ride in Central London on Sunday, 5 March. International Women’s Day is the following Wednesday.

For a major programme of rides, we need more marshals, so if you fancy your hand at marshalling, please come along and have a go. It’s fun and really isn’t that difficult.

Redbidge Cycling Campaign’s own marshal training session will start from Wanstead Park Tea Hut on Sunday 19th February at 2 pm. Please just come along, or email us at redbridge@lcc.org.uk. We especially want to put in a plea for female marshals to help with the Women’s Wonder Ride.

There is also marshal training organised centrally by the London Cycling Campaign:

26th Feb, 10:00-12:30, Clerkenwell https://lcc.org.uk/default-events/ride-marshal-course-clerkenwell/

26th Feb pre-ride recce starting at Marble Arch, meet at 12:50 for 1pm start https://lcc.org.uk/default-events/pre-ride-recce/

If you live in Redbridge and sign up for one of the central sessions, we’d love to know about it, so please email us on redbridge@lcc.org.uk.

Come back to this page for more details of our rides programme as it unfolds. We hope to see you on your bike soon!

Read Redbridge Cycling Campaign’s response to this initiative by the London Borough of Redbridge here.

Thank you to all thirty of you who responded to the rides survey.

All your answers have been pored over with great interest by the rides organisers. What you enjoy most is learning new routes, meeting other cyclists and you especially love our marshals, who make you feel safe. There are some great ideas for improvement, such as start points in different parts of the borough and training rides of gradually increasing distance as the season progresses.

The opening rides of the 2023 season will be announced soon so come back to this page to be the first to sign up!  

Cycling schemes in Tower Hamlets are under threat following the election of borough mayor Luftur Rahman. On Saturday 12/11/2022, more than a hundred cyclists, including parents and children of the borough’s schools, left Arnold Circus heading for Chisenhale Road school, where Mayor Rahman has twice sent in contractors in failed bids to remove the School Streets scheme and associated children’s play space. Three of your regular Redbridge Cycling Campaign volunteers went along in exceptionally sunny November weather to support our friends in Tower Hamlets, where we were joined by some of our Redbridge ride regulars.

We completed our 2022 season over the weekend of 29 and 30 October with a bumper edition of two rides in one weekend!

On the family ride on Saturday, we explored some interesting routes to and from Markfield Park in the Lea Valley. The weather was like a summer’s day.

Our last scheduled ride for the year was on Sunday, and 14 of us turned up on a very wet morning. The weather did clear and everyone made it to and from Richmond riverside in west London.

Redbridge Cycling Campaign’s rides co-ordinator Haydn is already working on the 2023 schedule so keep checking the rides page to be the first to sign up, and in the meantime check out some photos and highlights of the 2022 season.

See you next year!