London to Southend map
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London to Southend-on-Sea

by Cyclist Yoni 📏Distance: 34.6 miles  ⏱️ Duration: 3.5 hours 🚴 Difficulty: Intermediate 🚲 Terrain: Mixed 🗺️ GBX file   The lack of a summer cycling trip which involves a day out in Essex brought a small gravel-crazed trio to find a decent day out. Southend-on-Sea, for its easy access and beautiful seaside, was thus selected — not just because of TOWIE... Myself and the two Y's (which actually made it the three Y's) set our coordinates, packed the coffee kit, and set sail to the City of London. Not a bad start — about 10 miles from where we...

Guide - What to Pack for a long ride
Posted in cycling equipment guides Reviews

Guide: I'm a noob cyclist, what to pack for a long ride?

by Cyclist Yoni, rides Brompton, Gravel and MTB One of Cyclondon's most pressing aims is to help newbie cyclists getting comfortable with cycling. Those of you who have just now taken on cycling, may have some questions concerning some longer than usual rides, the most common one would be "What to pack for a long ride". We are meant to be a blog by cyclists for cyclists, and rather than some super-duper gear review which isn't useful to 99% of us, we will try to help you tackle issues as mentioned above.