Riverside ride in the Lea Valley.

Join us for a riverside ride in the Lea Valley. We will ride the Lea towpath to Stonebridge Lock where there is a lovely lockside café for our lunch and return through Walthamstow Wetlands and Marshes and Hackney Marshes. The whole ride will take in London Fields and Broadway Market, towpaths of Regents Canal and Hertford Union Canal, Victoria Park and Olympic Park, and plenty of River Lea.

It is 18.5 miles and has 2 1/2 hours of cycling, mostly slow on the towpaths. We will have a lunch break at the Stonebridge Lock Waterside Café.

This is a route suitable for road bikes. The canal towpaths are narrow and there will be walkers and other cyclists. If you don't think you can safely ride the towpaths this ride may not be for you.

Please bring a water bottle. You will need to keep hydrated. Also an inner tube. If the valve on your tires is Schrader (short and thick, same as a car tire) you will need a pump too.

The ride uses the Overground to get to the start and back to Croydon. Meet at West Croydon station platform 1 at 10:10 for the 10:18 to Dalston Junction (£3.50 contactless). We will return on the Overground from Shadwell (£2). If joining at Dalston Junction station meet at 11:05 inside the covered station through way beside the ticket hall.

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