Possible plans for 2025

Welcome dear reader to my first Sunday blog post. As you might have read, the plan is to commit to more regular blog posts, with Sunday being the day set aside to press publish. 

We arrive at the start of another year and so thoughts turn to possibilities for the year ahead that one can look forward to. (With the weather outside, here in north London looking decidedly chilly, looking forward to better weather springs to mind almost instantly)!

I have a few things that I would like to pencil in and I suppose doing so provides an incentive to actually see them through. I have included a link or two to previous blog posts that are related. 

#1. Night rides to the coast. (Official)

These rides are probably only taking place a handful of times in 2025 but they are lovely. Usually, more than 40 riders starting in London, set off at the stroke of midnight, to traditionally end up at the coast several hour later. Simple idea and for some of you reading this a crazy one, but I do plan to participate in as many as I can. Click here to read my blog post about the night ride to Shoreham-by-Sea

#2.  Night rides to the coast. (Unofficial)

These rides are pretty much as above but with usually just Dr John and occasionally Geoff taking part. On several levels these unofficial rides are even more fun. I hope to do the classic London to Brighton but also end up at Whitstable, Burnham-on-Crouch, Shoreham, Bognor Regis and perhaps more. Click here to read about Dr John and I cycling to Brighton overnight

#3. The Cobble Monster

This ride is not happening in 2025, where participants cycle over lots of London's remaining cobbled streets and ascend many of south London's lung busting hills. I suspect that in early April I will use a route from previous years and cycle it myself. Click here for my 2024 post on the Cobble Monster

#4. Brompton World Championships?

Last year the event was lots of fun, after being absent for five years. Who knows whether it will return this year? If it does, I may well have to attend - being ahem...an world class international athlete! I just hope that if there is a BWC this year, participants get a medal for taking part!! Click here for my write up of the Brompton World Championships 2024

#5. London  

I make no secret of the fact that I love London, its history and architecture. I was born in London and never left. There is so much to see in terms of its history and I would imagine that many of my blog posts will feature the unusual parts London and its history as I anmb about on my Brompton. Click to read a blog post about an aspect of London history

#6. Dunwich Dynamo

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Dynamo. If I participate in the Dynamo this year I think it will number 7. Hopefully I will be able to take part in it again and I will need to try and persuade Geoff to let me tag along! Click here for my 2024 Dunwich Dynamo blog post

Well, there you have it, my provisional list of cycling adventures that I would like to do in 2025. If you have a list too, please let me know what your plans are. 

Until next time, stay safe out there people.