Worst Road in London

The one near the Carpet store you mean?
Gawd, that bitch has caught me too many times.
and i still havent learnt my lesson.

yup that's the one - nigh on invisible

3 worst roads i regularly ride on, all in Hackney:

1. Albion road, closer to Stokey the surface is diabilocal, closer to New. Green theres cars parked everywhere, cars overtaking dangerously and bendys
   
2. Kingsland road near the canal bridge
   
3. Brook road
   
   

Fresh & Wild is generally expensive but selective shopping is the key, believe it or not there are bargains to be had. They sell huge bags of UK produced spinach at v. good prices, and sometime have a 1/2 price sale on organic steaks which taste fantastic. They sell vegan chocolates that taste great too. Organic chocolate cake is absolutely amazing.

Thank you for the spinach pointer. I <3 spinach. Best steaks I've ever had are from the red-face jolly farmer (you'll spot him - he couldn't look more like a red-face jolly farmer if he tried) on Marylebone High Street farmers' market. Worth making the trip for.

Stoke Newington High st is terrible; full of poor people with sour expressions. It's such a relief to turn on to Church st and see the happy smiling Yuppies and their delightful children coming out of Fresh and Wild.

haha....almost filled laptop with honey and lemon...

king henrys walk ...yup..thats shite....

worst piece of road (not the one with the most bumps...) is the bit in rotherhithe tunnel...went through on a sunday morning thinking...hhmmm..I reckon I can do it...(usually go tower) so did the stupid...and...really nice swoop at the start to really get winding...very smooth...and was able to almost hold my breath/low breathe and outrun/overtake cars till about two thirds in....and with that first lung full of black air...eeep...I got onto the ramp on the other side and pumped like death to the top....and then had to stop...my eyes were streaming, lungs were screaming...and I would advise anyone/everyone...never to do it....so, so , so grim....

though at least I know now...cats and curiousity...ahem.

... and now it's like cycling over a baby's bottom.

RLJ is one thing, but cycling over babies is just WRONG...

And I vote for the City-bound part of Tooley St. It's fucked up, in so many ways. The tarmac is rubbish.

Or Wapping High St, which has lovely cobbles. They just don't agree with my bike.

Vicarage Crescent - south side of river in Battersea, that meets Battersea Bridge Road.

Tight corner means buses & wagons have ripped-up the surface - have had x2 flats & dinged a rim on that stretch.

"Hello, McFly....."? Go a different way?

King Henry's walk is terrible and my housemate got jumped by two yoofs who tried to nick his bike on the railway bridge, he managed to fend them off but be careful at night there folks!

Kentish Town High St. Bleedin' dreadfful. Must be traffic light every 10 metres. Its too narow and filled with idiots and potholes. Its almost as bad as Walworth Rd... Which, as youcan imagine is pretty stiff competition as its that charming little hell-hole Camberwell.

King Henry's walk is terrible and my housemate got jumped by two yoofs who tried to nick his bike on the railway bridge, he managed to fend them off but be careful at night there folks!

king henry's offie is the bomb. slightly scary but never less than entertaining.

i reckon the worst bit of road i ride along is the new kings road from 'putney bridge to parsons green' for pot holes and they have just removed the cycle markings from the cycle lane and then repainted them a foot away from the ones they removed !

Kilburn High Road!

+1

South side of the Wands-Way System, heading through from East Hill to West Hill. Great big ridges in the bus lane, badly placed man-hole covers, pot holes, un-guessable bus manoeuvres, jostling wrong-lane drivers. It's a microcosm of the worst of London cycling.
Love it though. Running the gauntlet delivers a guaranteed adrenaline rush to make the blast up West Hill in the outside lane pain-free.

Lyndhurst Way, se15, Peckham area.

This road is known amongst a few devotees as the worst road in London. It's entire length is a patchwork of half-hearted repair, speed-bump, crack and crevice. It is so relentlessly bad, so murderously rough, to travel it's length is to experience some sort of psychological and physical breakdown. I've seen people at the junction with Peckham Road wild eyed, tearful, even hysterical.

And I've seen it in myself.

Heart and headset cracked.

It works like sleep deprivation; you can never relax and just cycle for even two metres before some broken tarmac sends a jolt though the frame. Even the road markings, the yellow lines and the no parkings are made from a concrete paint in heavy relief. In fact, if I closed my eyes and rode across these markings I could read them like Braille.

I hate this road so bad. I want to smash it more, to beat it with my fists until they bleed.

I am going to have to move.

When I clicked on this thread I was thinking of Lyndhurst way. I climb up Camberwell Grove to avoid it. There are a lot of bad surfaces in Peckham, but with that one I think they should start again from scratch.

I was up Lyndhurst Road at the weekend, it's the first time I've done it on fixed. I used to be OK with it when I was on a road bike because you could just give a few spins and then freewheel over the speedhumps unweighted. Now I hate it dearly. Changed tactics in the end and routed through Talfourd and Denman.

i reckon the worst bit of road i ride along is the new kings road from 'putney bridge to parsons green' for pot holes and they have just removed the cycle markings from the cycle lane and then repainted them a foot away from the ones they removed !

It's bad, I do this every single day. I have learned the correct line now, but it still jars me outside the shops :)

Also Putney bridge after a rainy week, you get 8+ inch craters, WHAT THE FUCK

Put it this way;

sausage and mash
shepherd pie
fish and chip
english breakfast
toad-in-a-hole

what they all have in common, is that they're pretty simple and not exactly a light meal!

meat and 2 veg
meat and 2 veg
fried sea-meat and fried veg
meat and 2 meat
meat and 2 veg

yeah, english food is awesome

The bus lane on Brixton Road has pretty much crumbled itself in to a gravel trap this week, and Dulwich Road between BWL and the Regent is good if like bunny hopping road craters.

the roads are in a fuckin' awful state right now.

+1 about the road outside the Regent konjin.. Was about to post it myself.

Hadn't been down that way for ages but the snow seems to have cut massive chunks out of it!

The bus lane on Brixton Road has pretty much crumbled itself in to a gravel trap this week, .

I agree and there is a beauty of a crater as you reach Kennington park, I hit it a few weeks back and my front light exploded.

I also vote for the bit outside Waterloo station which is more hole than road at the moment

There's a little piece of road I find proper bad just as you pass Swiss Cottage on Finchley Road, then pass through/over the junction onto a very small stretch of Adelaide Road and back onto Finchley Road. There's chuffing cars coming at you from all angles, it's poorly lit and it feels like you're cycling over a fault line.

Another annoyance is cycling up Pentonville Road, as you're pushed further onto the curbside the buses and trucks weight have caused the road to ripple - a right proper bast*rd.

All of Kingsland Road is pretty shite as well.

Saw a crevice the size of Jordans clevage whilst peeling off the roundabout onto Walworth Road t'other day that nearly made me fill my pants.

Taste in women fail.

meat and 2 veg
meat and 2 veg
fried sea-meat and fried veg
meat and 2 meat
meat and 2 veg

yeah, english food is awesome

grrrrrrrr.

English, welsh, scottish and irish food is not limited to this kind of generalisation, don't be so ignorant. If you want to eat good food here, you have to know how to get it ... the first step would be to make some friends and eat at their houses or their mothers' houses. Or are you from here, and have just never worked out what is good about our cultural heritage and the various strands that have enriched it?

Ever had samphire? wild field mushrooms? dandelion salad? nettle soup? kippers? Broad beans and jersey royals straight from the garden, with ham and parsley sauce? A good stew and dumplings? Garden apples and blackberries just picked from the hedgerow, in a homemade pie? Our undending supply of wonderful wonderful wonderful cheeses (mostly better than any continental cheeses, in my opinion) - Yarg, Gubeen, Wensleydale, Lanark Blue, Ticklemore ... need I go on? Excellent ales brewed all over the place, and great ciders? Really good, slightly sour, wholemeal bread? Crumpets? Marmalade?

British food has excellent representations from countries we once invaded and people we once enslaved, who now have lots to offer us from the end of the Empire days to now, namely from the Indian/pakistan/bangla traditions and from carribean and african cuisines, that have assimilated very well in some ways into our diet especially in cities all over, and here in London we unending variation available from Brazil, Ghana, Vietnam, China, Spain, Columbia, Ethiopia ... you bloody name it, you can eat it here. We have a burgeoning famer's market scene with lots of locally grown fresh produce all over the place, whole foods and fresh produce everywhere you look, often produced with real care for taste and for the envirnement.

If you can't work out what is good about our food, start living and get out of your local fast food joint.

+1 to Skully's BNP food rant.