Bike Week 2002 in Tower Hamlets

Date

Start Time

Event

Location & Details

Contact

15th, Sat

9.30am
- 11.30am

The Great Beigel Challenge

Island Gardens to the Sundial Centre, Shipton Street.
The Beigel Race returns! A fun race between various modes of transport highlighting the need for integrated transport systems. Let us know if you want to enter, especially if you have a more unusual transport alternative. In the past we have had a horse & cart, the Mayor in his limo, rickshaws and disability mobility buses taking part as well as cyclists and public transport users.
Entry must be pre-booked.
(read about previous editions of the race in East London Cyclist: April 1997, March 1998, June 1999 and August 2000.)

Owen

17th, Mon

7.30pm
- 9.00pm

Rebels & Radicals History Ride

Meet at Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road (opposite Whitechapel tube station).
This is the "classic" history ride put on by the Wheelers as featured in "The Independent". Discover where Ghandi slept and Marx supped...

Gary

18th, Tues

7.30am
- 9.30am

Cycle Count

Aldgate Gyratory
A repeat of our count in January to obtain comparable summer data. Contact us if you can spare half an hour helping out collecting this important information at this nightmare junction.

Alex

19th, Wed

7.30am
- 9.30am

Cyclists Breakfast

Ecology Centre, Mile End Park, north end.
Traditional Bike Week event across London - call in on your way to work for some free breakfast and to meet your fellow Tower Hamlets commuters.

Owen

20th, Thur

7.30pm
- 9.00pm

Pop Music Trivia Tour

Meet at Mile End tube station.
"Let us take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Tower Hamlets", discovering pop music connections you never suspected. Ending in a pub with a juke box. Booking required if you would like a souvenir of the trip (with donation); otherwise just turn up.

Alix

21st, Fri

2.00am

Midsummer Madness Ride

Meet at Beigel Bake, Brick Lane.
Ride to Primrose Hill to watch the sun come up on the longest day. We will first ride to Soho to meet up with cyclists from all over the capital before heading up to Primrose Hill before sunrise at 4.43am.

Owen

22nd, Sat

10.00am

Bridges Ride

Meet at Tower Bridge, south end.
Join Lambeth, Southwark, Westminster cyclists and hopefully many more in ride east across the bridges of central London. This initial fun ride will mark the start of a "bridges campaign" to improve the junctions at either end of most London bridges.

Owen

23rd, Sun

12.00pm
- 4.00pm

Family Cycling Fun Day

Victoria Park (Royal Gate East, Grove Road, near Royal Inn on the Park pub.)
End Bike Week by joining Tower Hamlets cyclists for a picnic lunch. There will be a Dr Bike stand so you can get your bike tuned, an obstacle course to test your bike handling skills, slow bicycle races and lots more. Later in the afternoon you can join in a ride down to Greenwich Park to meet up with Greenwich cyclists at their teatime cycling picnic.

Alex