Sweet Short Cuts

There are no shortcuts.

My route for asm, avoiding wrong way one ways AND Neal Street (surely that's not a proper cyclists' route, full of peds), would be round the Aldwych a bit after the bridge, left up Kingsway, left at Queen street past the Masons (666 the devil lives there beware!), right on drury lane, left on Holborn and straight on round the back of Centre Point. Peasy.

Enjoy.

adoubletap [quote]|³|MA3K Top of the park and down Upper Brook Street is a good Oxford-avoider for the other side as well.

You cross Park Lane through that animal war memorial I think?

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Yes.

Skullhead .

Neal Street (surely that's not a proper cyclists' route, full of peds)

For commutengers before 9am it's fine but agreed useless any other time.

Gray's Inn to Rosebury Avenue down through Mt Pleasant.

Coming down Shaftesbury Avenue I always do the pavement through Picdadilly Circus and then join the bus lane down Picadilly (rather than Jermyn St)

And I'm very naughty when it comes to footpaths through Hyde Park.

+1 Neal St and Monmouth Street (especially for a quick espresso down the latter)

After about 8.30 the north side of waterloo bridge is usually too snarled up with trucks, buses, full sus mtbs etc to get through quickly...so I've taken to using the underpass, it startes at roughly the point the traffic is backed up to anyway. The downhill bit lets you build up some speed so you can slingshot round the bend, up the slope and onto kingsway. Bit dodgy merging into the traffic again, but just by keeping moving it makes me feel that I've saved loads of time. I reckon its worth it!

Conan [quote]mashton I showed one to Dale the other night on the way back from Westie (grrr) drinks.

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Oh and sprinting into Manchester Square and flowing round it to emerge on the other side is sooooo much fun.

Yeah thats a good one i use from my girlfriends. Fuck riding down Oxford St!
Think this is it= http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1712007[/quote]

That's the one :-)

Skullhead There are no shortcuts.

My route for asm, avoiding wrong way one ways AND Neal Street (surely that's not a proper cyclists' route, full of peds), would be round the Aldwych a bit after the bridge, left up Kingsway, left at Queen street past the Masons (666 the devil lives there beware!), right on drury lane, left on Holborn and straight on round the back of Centre Point. Peasy.

Enjoy.

Only way to make this better is to skitch something through the tunnel under Aldwych - HARDCORE.

I saw an, admitedley pretty fast, dude on an MTB t'other day go down into that tunnel - no way I would do it unless on CM with Ma3k :-)

Ahh, just read the rest of this thread and realise that jonlubi is a nutter.

I may have to try it.... (I'm scared)

On the skitch topic (i.e. not this topic ;-0) I did skitch a routemaster across Hyde Park Corner last night, hangin onto the pole on the rear platform. Got lots of whoops from the passengers, it was great. Another good reason to bring back routemasters.

scott not scot I haven't got a bloody clue what any of you are on about...:)
my routes seem to be a lot more...'scenic'...and seem to involve passing the same things several times over..:(

+1 to that my non-london brother!

senate house, down the disabled ramp, cross the corridor, up disabled ramp. russell square to malet street sorted.

jonny senate house, down the disabled ramp, cross the corridor, up disabled ramp. russell square to malet street sorted.

Lol!

^^ that's coming from south of the river. Over westminster bridge & round parliament square always feels faster to me shrug

seemed like a good place to post this .....

is it safe to leave a bike around westminster pier
got to go there on friday from 1 till late ?

pilky -

thats over the road from the parliamentary estate. Any bikes locked there are removed. same for whitehall.

mashton Ahh, just read the rest of this thread and realise that jonlubi is a nutter.
I may have to try it.... (I'm scared)

It's not that bad! There's even a sort of cycle-lane-sized hard-shoulder-thing on the left of the road so plenty of space for you + traffic. I don't do it every time mind, only when I'm in a HURRY and the traffic is really annoying me.

On the skitch topic (i.e. not this topic ;-0) I did skitch a routemaster across Hyde Park Corner last night, hangin onto the pole on the rear platform. Got lots of whoops from the passengers, it was great. Another good reason to bring back routemasters.

That sounds awesome, I'm off to look for routemasters! Only ever done it up dog kennel hill. That hill is how I start each day, it's a bit of a cnut, but whenever I spy a scaffolding truck or the like (lots of hand holds) I tend to let them catch up with me.

|³|MA3K [quote]jonny senate house, down the disabled ramp, cross the corridor, up disabled ramp. russell square to malet street sorted.

Lol![/quote]I used to do that loads but they moved one ramp from one end of the corridor to the other, so that you had to cycle in one door, ALONG the corridor and out the other door. I just had to laugh that someone quite clever had knobbled that shortcut, havent' done it since.

LOL that I wasn't the only cheeky fucker doing it tho...

justMouse [quote]|³|MA3K [quote]jonny senate house, down the disabled ramp, cross the corridor, up disabled ramp. russell square to malet street sorted.

Lol![/quote]I used to do that loads but they moved one ramp from one end of the corridor to the other, so that you had to cycle in one door, ALONG the corridor and out the other door. I just had to laugh that someone quite clever had knobbled that shortcut, havent' done it since.

LOL that I wasn't the only cheeky fucker doing it tho...[/quote]

mouse, they have moved the ramps back now so they are opposite each other. and anyway, used to be fun going along the corridor to get up the other side

no such thing as short cuts in london anymore, just different ways to go ;)

Is EVERYONE on here really a courier? Wow!

It's "curryer" to you..

Neal Street to avoid the traffic lights

Gmaps

Neal St pure peds.

There are no shortcuts.

My route for asm, avoiding wrong way one ways AND Neal Street (surely that's not a proper cyclists' route, full of peds), would be round the Aldwych a bit after the bridge, left up Kingsway, left at Queen street past the Masons (666 the devil lives there beware!), right on drury lane, left on Holborn and straight on round the back of Centre Point. Peasy.

Enjoy.

Route as above, but why left on Kingsway? Aldwych, then left at Drury Lane and straight up....

Type the name of the website you want into the browser and then hit CTRL & enter - voila! http://www. and .com appear around it.

Oh...not that type of shortcut.

or just press enter and it works it out all on its own

no such thing as short cuts in london anymore, just different ways to go ;)

+1 in South London - just more annoying or slightly less annoying....anyone got any good routes from peckham to vauxhall bridge/lambeth bridge? - it's gonna be my new work route and first rush hour trial was a nightmare using the main road...