Islington Cycling Club
Islington Cycling Club is a friendly and diverse North London cycling club. Founded in 2013, we have quickly attracted over 900 members. We offer a wide range of rides, including numerous weekly club rides, training rides, club and open events, and cycling trips.
We use an online forum as a virtual clubhouse to organise ourselves as this allows all members to help shape our club. Our focus is road cycling, but there is a strong contingent riding cyclocross, gravel, and track. If there is another kind of cycling you want to try, ask on the forum to see what other members are doing.
Riding with a cycling club can seem daunting at first, so we require all new and prospective members to attend one of our Introductory Rides or Group Skills sessions. These are short club rides in which we look at things such as what to carry with you, how to ride in group formations, and what all those hand signals mean. Then we head off and do an easy-paced ride to practice, followed by a café stop. You can book on to these in the Clipping In section of our club forum.
Islington Cycling Club is affiliated to British Cycling and is a Go-Ride club, so we offer coaching for young people, 8-15 years old. Visit our Youth Riding page for more information.
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Our Rides
Midweek and Training
We have midweek club rides on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. These are a mixture of club runs on set courses, indoor turbo studio sessions and Velopark training sessions.
As well as our 7am Saturday session in The Regent’s Park, which develops speed and group skills, we have a race-specific training ride on Thursdays at the VeloPark, where we can meet and run exercises and drills safely.
Sunday Club Rides
We run several groups of different distances and speeds to suit the riders and conditions on the day. All of these are friendly rides and we regroup at all hills and turn points. Meet at Highbury Fields, for an 8.30am depart. Coffee and cake at a handy café at the end of the ride.
Saturday Rides
Laps of The Regent’s Park, Outer Circle. Meet at the London Zoo entrance, 7am (training ride - fast) and 8am (social pace - not as fast). Coffee stop afterwards.
Plus twice a month we run easy-paced introductory rides and group riding skills sessions for new members.
Events
The 200km route will take you from the heart of London to the rolling countryside of Essex and back via quiet roads and picturesque villages. There are two great rest stops at Great Bardfield (the Knead Café at The Blue Egg) and at Great Dunmow.