In addition to the other suggestions, it might be worth trying Transport for London's journey planner.
Use the advanced search option and the deselect all the modes (bus,tube,riverboat,etc) , continue down the page and put a sensibly long time for the time you are prepared to cycle (I put in 100 min - in the past I have put in longer than 2 hours, but I don't think it is prepared to try !)
It then found a route taking 42 mins that involved a long stretch of the Lea Valley cycle path (not something that I had noticed in the thread). It also had 0.7 km of the North Circular and a final 90m of walking your bike (any clues on what that is all about ?) I'm not very familiar with the area so can't comment on its practicality - but it does open up another possibility. The map and route directions it produced seemed quite good for free !
The map also showed something labelled Madame Tussauds around Wadham Lodge sports ground. Any locals to help me out on that one ?
In addition to the other suggestions, it might be worth trying Transport for London's journey planner.
Use the advanced search option and the deselect all the modes (bus,tube,riverboat,etc) , continue down the page and put a sensibly long time for the time you are prepared to cycle (I put in 100 min - in the past I have put in longer than 2 hours, but I don't think it is prepared to try !)
It then found a route taking 42 mins that involved a long stretch of the Lea Valley cycle path (not something that I had noticed in the thread). It also had 0.7 km of the North Circular and a final 90m of walking your bike (any clues on what that is all about ?) I'm not very familiar with the area so can't comment on its practicality - but it does open up another possibility. The map and route directions it produced seemed quite good for free !
I've tried that one. The main drawbacks are its a right pain in that every time you have to go through and tick/unpick all the options to force it into cycling mode and in cycling mode it does not remove the walking mode so you can often find the instruction to get off and walk for a while while it takes you along a pedestrian bit. I've also found its selection of roads is not as good - for example going from Waterloo to Lincoln's Inn Fields it will route you round Aldwych which, while do-able requires your wits and observations skills to be good to work through the multiple crossing over lanes of traffic to be negotiated whereas Cyclemaps takes you across the "cycle marked" bit of pavement onto Wellington St and then across on Gt Queen St - a far more relaxing and not longer journey
for a while while it takes you along a pedestrian bit. I've also found its selection of roads is not as good - for example going from Waterloo to Lincoln's Inn Fields it will route you round Aldwych which, while do-able requires your wits and observations skills to be good to work through the multiple crossing over lanes of traffic to be negotiated whereas Cyclemaps takes you across the "cycle marked" bit of pavement onto Wellington St and then across on Gt Queen St - a far more relaxing and not longer journey
Not any longer in distance, but *much* slower. I did South London to Lincolns Inn Fields daily for several years[1] and by far the fastest route was round the Aldwych and onto Kingsway then right at the traffic lights leading to the top (north side) of Lincoln Inn Fields. The main reason this is so much faster is that the lights are all sequenced so that with a decent head of steam you can get off the bridge, round Aldwych and a fairway up Kingsway before you hit a red (most days).
[1] Now I have a much more pleasant ride, through the Conamara countryside into Galway. The ride home looking at the mountains and Loch Corrib is even better.
