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

Oval to Kennington tube, this is how you do it;

1. Wait for the lights at Oval tube to turn green, there's no point jumping the right turn filter.

2. Roll forward towards the lights 25 metres infront of you - no need to go mad, but try and keep a clear line in front of you

3. Keep it rolling and look over to the right for the lights controlling the traffic that comes in from the right. As soon as these lights change start your sprint.

4. The lights in front of you will change as you go through them, you should be approaching 20mph by now - the cars are starting from stationary so you can pull a huge gap.

5. Check your shoulder, give a hand signal and pull right in time to hit the cycle that runs down the middle.

They key is to time your sprint so that you can pull a big gap on the traffic behind you.

heh thats what I do coming in, got it off to a fine art now, just going back south is a bit of a bitch, actually thinking about it I always get hit by the next set of lights after that. Where the traffic coming from Lambeth North direction comes round.