Do you have a favourite/nightmare place to ride in London?

I'm sorry if this has been dealt with before, just wondering where people enjoy / despise riding in London?

Love: Royal Parks - River
Hate: Vauxhall-X, Green Lanes

hate:peckham
hate:old kent road

hate: southall high street

aidan hate:peckham
hate:old kent road

yep

Hate: The west end
Love: Totteridge

Love:
Upper Richmond Road from Putney to Richmond (when the lights are in your favour it's hella quick!)
Most roads in London very late at night!

**Hate: **
Lambeth Bridge (worst surface ever!)
Norwood Road (on the way to Herne Hill, 2nd worst surface ever!)
Oxford Street

love the canals and the south bank

hate the mile end road and oxford street / new oxford street

love: any road at night

hate: oxford st, big round about at end of vauxhaul bridge

hate, hate, hate: kingsway and theobalds road, possibly two of the worst tarmacked roads in london, just constant bobbling and bouncing, trying not to get bucked off as you hit yet another pothole.

love: roseberry avenue in either direction

love: roseberry avenue as well
hate: aldwych roundabout thing (esp when coming from kingsway!)

love: the mall, royal parks, late night london roads
hate: mable arch, vauxhall a bit of road by Hanover sq its real bumpy

dogsballs love: any road at night
hate: oxford st

That's pretty much my view.

I do love the roads around Putney and Barnes, especially at night when they're deserted.

Same goes for spinning down Holland Park at night, great fun.

It's the potholes and poor surface on Oxford St that I hate, not the pedestrians.

Oh, and I love the road that runs parallel to Piccadilly on the South and gives you a quick cut Westwards along the street with all of the shirt and shoe shops.

The bumpy-as-fnck main drag thru Camberwell/Peckham has to be the worst road in the universe.

Hate - Tollington Park (It's a short road but it's shit and I use it a lot)
Love - everywhere with nice smooth asphalt, early in the morning, on a cool day, with a nice breeze and a coffee waiting at the end.

dicki love the canals and the south bank

hate the mile end road and oxford street / new oxford street

I'm the other way round. I like the West End (avoiding all the traffic and peds keeps me on my toes) and I I don't like the canal towpath. Agree with those who said anywhere at night.

hate oxford street
hate end of Vauxhall bridge
hate old St roundabout

love Hyde park at night
love any big park at night
love night ridding really.

millierider love Hyde park at night

They lock it at night.

But you can always get in via the gates near Hyde Park Corner. The chains are only loosely around the gates and are never locked.

mmmmm think i ment green park or the mall?? any park really : )
i have definately ridden through hyde park at night though

Richmond park at night is awesome! Just gotta watch out for the deer & rodents running into your spokes & have good lights.

Very eirie and usually a good 3 degrees colder.

Good p[lace for a night ride maybe

love: south bank

hate: roundabout at elephant and castle

+1 for hating New Oxford St (Bendy Buses!)
+1 for hating Kingsway / Theobolds Rd (after yesterdays events)
+1 for loving Richmond Park

And the random road that I love: Bernard St - one way, south side of Brunswick centre: good tarmac and perfect gradient where 48x16 seems to spin all on its own.

Norwood Road (on the way to Herne Hill, 2nd worst surface ever!)

yeah agree with that one. and brockwell park isn't much of a shortcut with kids and dogs trying to get run over. the junction at the oval isn't very clever. i like any road where u can go past a long line of cars with one person in each. and playing dodge-the-pedestrian is kinda fun in the west end side streets.

BRM666 The bumpy-as-fnck main drag thru Camberwell/Peckham has to be the worst road in the universe.

Amen to that.

You have to survive the Elephant first, though...

The bumpy-as-fnck main drag thru Camberwell/Peckham has to be the worst road in the universe.

I think the 436 buses hitting it 24 hours a day have just mashed it, so in need of a resurface.

I've been commuting since May or so from Lewisham and coming back down OKR between 4.25-4.45 which was a doddle until the last few weeks when traffic seems to have just ground to a halt with no room to filter any side.