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

Why do people hate oxford street.
Its great.

It's great if you like travelling at 5mph, inhaling bus fumes, constantly dodging tourists stepping out looking the wrong. If you have to go near that shithole, wigmore is better. I prefer the faster moving traffic on Euston Rd.

Agreed, Oxford street is only acceptable late at night when the traffic is manageable. It is the slowest road to cycle along that I have ever found, particularly heading East from marble Arch to Oxford Circus. Hell.

What do you like about it Harry?

Love: Isledon Road (between Finsbury Park Station + Argos@Holloway Road)
about 500m of fresh tarmac and f1 like bends.
Hate: anything cobbly

Agreed, Oxford street is only acceptable late at night when the traffic is manageable. It is the slowest road to cycle along that I have ever found, particularly heading East from marble Arch to Oxford Circus. Hell.

What do you like about it Harry?

+1.

Potholes are so frequent and huge that u really need a dirt bike. (or quad bike :P)

kilburn highroad buslane... one word can only describe that road.. "Cunt!"

The tunnel on lower thames street. Got bumped by a lorry down there. I can only Imagine the limehouse link tunnel is even worse. Wouldn't dare.

can't stand Wigmore, the surface is a shocker near the police station. But oxford st is worse.

+1 on Holland Park and hitting all the green lights - well nice

Twice in two days, fantastic!
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I got thru all those lights this morning. Swift.

+1 to Oxford street being shit.
Wigmore Street FTW but dodgy road surfacing.

Agreed, Oxford street is only acceptable late at night when the traffic is manageable. It is the slowest road to cycle along that I have ever found, particularly heading East from marble Arch to Oxford Circus. Hell.

What do you like about it Harry?

Pinball.

Its the most exciting road in London. 20+mph through gaps of about 14" and the constant threat of ped, cops, traffic lights and U-turning cabs. Its well fun :). The insults make it even better. A race down it makes it EVEN better.

:)

Leadenhall on the other hand. Shit surface. And I more or less have to go down it multiple times a day. borough high st must have the worst surface though, but I hardly use it.

hate - water lane in stratford! might as well be cycling in bagdhad!

Hate - Vauxhall Cross, the road east from Vauxhall Cross, i.e. Camberwell New Rd. Bumpy as hell, constant works, bus garage just before camberwell green, bumpy as hell afterwards, just generally terrible. Which is a shame as that's basically my commute. The lorries on the A2 aren't much fun either.

Love - anything late at night.

Hate - Pentonville Road from kings cross to Angel. Crappy surface, long hill, idiot drivers/buses and, lights just before the crest and if you get stuck at the lights at the bottom you have to do the whole hill with no momentum.

also HATE regent street/portland place with a passion, so many pointless light and pedestrian lights you can't jump because of police (especially the lights next to the chinese embassy)

Love - Regents park - I know everyone loves it but...

Strangely I love riding gray's in road to old street in the afternoon if there's not too much traffic about.

Hate - Pentonville Road from kings cross to Angel. Crappy surface, long hill, idiot drivers/buses and, lights just before the crest and if you get stuck at the lights at the bottom you have to do the whole hill with no momentum.

also HATE regent street/portland place with a passion, so many pointless light and pedestrian lights you can't jump because of police (especially the lights next to the chinese embassy)

Love - Regents park - I know everyone loves it but...

Strangely I love riding gray's in road to old street in the afternoon if there's not too much traffic about.

^^ Grays Inn Road runs North/South, do you mean Clerkenwell Road?
Going round the side og HIghbury Fields, nice smooth road and not many cars, same so short

Hate: tooting, the city or anywhere where peds step out without looking. And streatham (although i've not been thought there properly for a while... but seen it recently and didn't look like anything had changed) basically the roads are exactly the right width for cars with not quite enough room for cyclists to get past...

Love: any road that's got a bus lane in... perfect for going past loads of stationary traffic! :-)

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.

I love those sets of lights, heading north, getting the speed right between oval and the next set of ligths to have a bit of momentum and then caning it to the next set of light which change just before you get to them unless you really sprint...

^^ Grays Inn Road runs North/South, do you mean Clerkenwell Road?
Going round the side og HIghbury Fields, nice smooth road and not many cars, same so short

Well yes, I basically meant riding from kings cross to old st roundabout via grays inn and clerkenwell rd :)a

best: cycling cross the Serpentine, 9.28am today

worst: Kuntish Town Road, 7.31pm today

I love: liverpool road, islington. Not much traffic, great road serface, nice and fast.

Hate: Holloway road. Awfull and I still ride down it every morning.

best: cycling cross the Serpentine, 9.28am today

Jesus rides a fix!

Pinball.

Its the most exciting road in London. 20+mph through gaps of about 14" and the constant threat of ped, cops, traffic lights and U-turning cabs. Its well fun :). The insults make it even better. A race down it makes it EVEN better.

:)

Leadenhall on the other hand. Shit surface. And I more or less have to go down it multiple times a day. borough high st must have the worst surface though, but I hardly use it.

14" gaps? where do you find them on Oxford street. The gaps I usually see are closer to 4".

kilburn highroad buslane... one word can only describe that road.. "Cunt!"

Yes! haha.. I hate kilburn high road.. especially if you're heading up towards shoot up hill, when traffics bad it's impossible to carry any speed up there

Post 1 on a subject dear to my heart...

Love: South Carriage Drive, Holland Park, Roseberry Avenue, Ludgate Hill/Fleet Street/Strand (on a Sunday)

Hate: Kensington High Street, Caledonian Road

... x4 to go til I can be fully trusted

Can't be bothered seeing how much it's been posted so far, but I really, really hate Camberwell New Road and Vauxhall one way.

Hate: Oxford Street, Strand, Holborn, Mile End Rd, Essex Road, Borough High St.

Love: Outer Circle, York Way, N&S Carriage Drives in both Hyde and Battersea Parks, Embankment, any of the bridges, Green Park to Knightsbridge via the tunnel.

Hate Oxford Street, Vauxhall X

Love: Hyde Park Corner, Park Lane, Finchely Rd.

Rotherhithe Tunnel must be the worst tunnel ever. Everything goes bless from the start, till you hit 1/3 - fumes are unbearable. Done it once - never again.