We are pleased to announce the third edition of The London Classic – taking part this year on Sunday April the 1st.

This year the ride celebrates The Ronde Van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) and true to form we will have live, big screen action of the race for all to enjoy.

Entry open on February the 1st!

26 Sectors of pavé.

7 major climbs or ‘bergs’.

We’ll be open from 0830 so come and collect your route guide from then – we start and finish at The Alma, 95 Church Road London SE19 2TA.

see you this Sunday

We’re almost there – hopefully you are too.  Time to shakedown your steed and tighten rattly bits and pump up those tyres a tad.  If you got a place for 2011 please check your emails as we sent out some extra instructions today (overzealous spambots might have nabbed it, please check).

Lincoln not included.

We are very pleased indeed to announce that thanks to our good friends at Brixton Cycles this very lovely  56cm The Light Blue Trinity fixed / singlespeed frameset will be raffled off on April the 10th.  One lucky London Classicist will be taking this home!  Beautifully crafted from 531 Special Edition tubing and exquisitely finished in rich glossy black with gold lug lining this baby would normally retail for £550.  It also comes with fork, headset, seatpost and Nitto stem but if you need any other bits I’m sure the boys and girls at Brixton Cycles can sort you out.

As this is a very special prize we’ll be running a separate raffle just for this frameset only – tickets will be £1 a go – but don’t worry, all participants in TLC 2011 are automatically entered into our free raffle with a chance or winning any number of excellent prizes.

On-line entry closed, all paper entries now gone from Brixton Cycles…we’re sorry but we are full to bursting point and cannot issue any more places…if you didn’t make it we hope to see you next year:)

Happy New Year! We’ll be back on Sunday April 10th this year.
More information will soon be available on this site.

Photo courtesy of Louise Haywood-Schiefer

Barring a few dribs and drabs from selling the last of the T-shirts the total funds raised for The Evelina Children’s Hospital is £3401.07.  A Massive ‘Chapeau’ to all of you.

There are still some T-shirts to be had mainly in L and XL sizes – email cobblemonster@thelondonclassic.org for more details.

Hats off to the lot of you!

Despite a few glitches we’ve received great feedback from you all.  Thanks to all who took part, we hope to have a full total up by the end of this week on how much money we managed to raise for the Evelina Childrens Hospital – thank you to everyone who donated.

It was good to hear so much enthusiasm for the ride.  If you took any pictures and use Flickr it would be great if you could tag them londonclassic2010 – that way we can see them all in one place.  You can also let us know about your blogs and TLC stories by emailing cobblemonster@thelondonclassic.org.

We have a few T-shirts left, mainly L and XL mens – if you would like one get in touch, we can work something out!

As a round up just some big thanks – namely to:-

All at Brixton Cycles Co-Op – particularly Lincoln, Nhatt and Simon.

The Brixton Cycles Club – Judith, Gareth, Cliff, Carol, Doug, Graham, Scott, Yasu and Gabsy.

doknot for all their help with web / graphic design and general enthusiasm and know how.

Alex and Jimmy at Mule Bar

The Flemish Representation in London for their enthusiasm and generosity.

Ison distribution

Extra UK

Ross, Sam, James and Louise for filming / photgraphy

Works starts now on 2011!

From Michael Barry’s site – team Sky prepare for the fun that is Paris-Roubaix…including the fearsome Arenberg Forest!