Sunday 7th February 2010 - MTB Ride to the Olympic Park.

Fifteen cyclist joined Bob Starey’s ride to the Olympic Park at Stratford The Clarencourt was represented by Steve Edgar, Dave Elliott, Paul Martin, Paul White, Bob Green, Mick O’Brian, Barry Gregory, Paul and Vicky Kelly and Trevor Hughes. Bob lead this wonderful ride through Beddington Park, West Croydon, Deptford, the London Docks to Bow along bye ways and parks. Seldom did we ride on a road. We crossed the river using the Greenwich foot tunnel. Opened on 4 August 1902, the tunnel replaced an expensive and sometimes unreliable ferry service, and was intended to allow workers living on the south side of the Thames to reach their workplaces in the London docks and shipyards then situated in or near the Isle of Dogs. We passed by the new Olympic football/athletic stadium. There was some 24 miles of riding on the flat with no hills and a gentle descent to London. There was a drink and food stop in Bow before the return journey.



The return journey from London to Cheam was via the Millennium Bridge, Clapham Common and Merton for an afternoon drink. Total ride distance for the day of approximately 45 miles.