Not content to go up Leith Hill once? Try going up and down it eight times from different angles. This is a gruelling ride with little recovery between climbs and nearly 2500m of elevation.
Starting point: Coppernose Café, Hampton Court.
Suggested nutrition & hydration stop: Heartwork Café Bar (43km, 101km)
The Marlow & Henley Loop is a scenic long-distance road cycling route following both sides of the River Thames through Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This anti-clockwise Thames Valley loop links Hampton Court, Windsor, Marlow and Henley-on-Thames, making it one of the classic longer rides west of London.
This London to Cambridge one-way cycling route is fast, fairly flat ride leaving London via the City, through Epping Forest before heading into the stunning countryside of rural Essex and Cambridgeshire.
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 West Wycombe Loop cycling route heads up the Thames Valley towards Marlow where it then makes a beeline to the edge of the Chilterns for a bit of climbing before the long descent back to London via Henley.
The Box Hill Gravel Loop features a moderate long anti-clockwise climb up through the woods to Box Hill.
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.