Annual Events

London to Brighton to London

The London-Brighton-London ride is an annual summer event. The London to Brighton cycling route starts just ahead of the official London-to-Brighton ride. London Dynamo’s event starts by Wandsworth Common before heading due south out of London and down through Sussex.

The road to Brighton is generally flat to rolling with one notable exception – a long climb up and over Ditchling Beacon before a very fast descent down to the coast.

The route back to London is more rolling and finds its way through the eastern side of the Surrey Hills.

Starting point: The Hope, Wandsworth Common

Breakfast stop: The Regency Café, Brighton (85km)

Recent routes

London to Constable Country

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 Dirty Belgie Gravel Loop

The Dirty Belgie Gravel Loop is a clockwise cycling route starting in Richmond Park that crosses Wimbledon Common, before heading uphill to the woods between Chessington and Oxshott.

Tour of the Isle of Wight

The Tour of the Isle of Wight is now a London Dynamo summer tradition. After an early morning ferry from Portsmouth, the route goes anti-clockwise round the island, taking in the chain link ferry at Cowes, the steep climb up to the view point of the Needles and the fast but breezy Military Road.

Frimley Lodge Loop

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.

Effingham Forest Gravel Circuit

This Effingham Forest gravel circuit explores the western end of the Surrey Hills with a steep section up to Netley Heath and Effingham Forest.

Dragonfly Loop

The Dragonfly Loop cycling route heads west to Dinton Pastures Nature Reserve. On the return leg, the route ends up on the same fast return as the Windsor Classic Loop.