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 London to Oxford one-way route heads out west from Kingston, shadowing the Thames, through Twyford and Henley and on into the Chilterns.
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.
The Whiteleaf Loop cycling route intot he Chilterns heads west out of London via Uxbridge to get further into the the western end of the Chillterns National Landscape. A climb up Whiteleaf Hill sets up the long descent home.
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.
This scenic cycling route through the Surrey Hills takes in the climb up through the Shere Woodlands, Holmbury Hill and Leith Hill before the long descent down through Redlands Wood.
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.