The North London Hill Training cycling route is a short route starting in Regents Park, and involves some fairly tough climbs such as the long climb up to Hampstead, Swain’s Lane in Highgate and Alexandra Palace Way.
Starting point: Regent’s Park Bar & Kitchen, Regent’s Park, London.
The Devil’s Punchbowl cycling route offers up a longer ride with some of the most spectacular views in the Surrey Hills. The route has two notable climbs: the climb up Chalk Lane and Combe Lane through Effingham Forest and a longer climb up Punchbowl Lane to Hindhead Common and the Devil’s Punchbowl.
The Classic Surrey Hills (Long Version) cycling route is the other classic London Dynamo ride in the area. This one tackles five notable climbs. After the Staple Lane climb the route descends into Shere before climbing again up Peaslake Lane, and then Leith Hill. A fourth significant climb up to Ranmore Common is followed by the usual descent and Box Hill climb.
This long but relatively flat one-way cycling route leaves London via the City, skirting the top of East London and heading straight through Epping Forest and the wider northern Essex countryside, before ultimately reaching the ‘Constable Country’ of Dedham Vale National Landscape and the Stour Estuary at the Suffolk border.
The Frimley Loop cycling route is a slightly longer and hillier alternative heading further south towards and Farnborough. The route steadily climbs up to the village for Mytchett and Frimley Lodge Park.
The Ranmore special is an unusual HITR route – comparatively flat but with the eponymous lump in the middle.
The Hever Loop cycling route is a bit more challenging than the loop via Bough Beech. Instead of going south over Toys Hill and north over Ide Hill, it does the reverse. This allows for the exhilarating Ide Hill descent and, after a Chiddingstone stop and a loop around Hever Castle, climbing the more challenging north side of Toys Hill, and another great descent down Brasted Chart.