🚴‍♂️ Today's club ride is a repeat of our cherished "Deal or No Deal" 100-mile adventure from Rotherhithe in SE London to Deal in Kent! This time, we're taking on the challenge with single speed or fixed wheel bikes. 🎉 Don’t forget to check our website for all our upcoming rides! #Cycling

Exciting news for our London Clarion members! 🎉 Get ready for your membership packs, featuring the brand new exclusive ‘sew on’ patch and awesome stickers! They'll be arriving within the next couple of weeks for all new and renewing members. ✨

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

A bunch of us (including the social media team) are taking today off for the general strike. And some of us are continuing to put our shoulders behind getting needed information and resources out there. Your efforts have value! Yours in resistance and resilience, Microcosm

27 Reasons to take up or start cycling again in 2026! www.bikeradar.com/advice/fitne...

Have you seen the new updated London Clarion Cycle Club website? We think you’ll like it! Take a look 👀 www.londonclarion.org.uk

🚴‍♂️✨ Throwback to aviation history! On January 21, 1976, Concorde took to the skies, flying passengers from London Heathrow for nearly 30 years before its retirement in 2003. Today, the London Clarion Cyclists completed an amazing 50-mile ride to Brooklands Museum to see Concorde up close!

In this weeks cycling weekly magazine!

New London Clarion badges for club members coming very soon! It’s not too late to join for 2026.

Great from @londonclarioncc.bsky.social London Clarion Fellowship Is Life "Boots"

This year, we have traded membership cards for a stunning commemorative patch! 🌍✨ Members will get a patch each year, ideal for sewing onto your favourite gear. A big thank you to volunteers like Dave Thorp. Don't miss the incredible 2026 edition!

How well do you know the Clarion? Take our quiz and find out! www.londonclarion.org.uk/quiz

National Clarion Swimming Club 1908 1,000 members J. Halliday (Swinton Sec) Blackburn, Oldham, Shrewsbury, Swinton, Liverpool, Burnley, Newcastle, Huddersfield, Openshaw, Wakefield, Leicester, Preston, and Brighton (estb 1908) North London - Caledonian Rd, Baths London @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Women Cyclists circa 1894-1897 Glass Slide So possible Clarion as few clubs allowed women @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Today’s club ride was a cold but mostly dry 40 mile round trip from Bermondsey to the Look Out cafe at Biggin Hill AirPort. Great to be back on the bike! Lovely to see so many cyclists out and about today.

Clarion meet Chelsea 1921 Clarion Football and Cycling France "Football Not Cannonballs" @fsgtofficiel.bsky.social @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Rutland Boughton (23 January 1878 – 25 January 1960) Composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral Boughton Important London Clarion activist (friend of socialist, Gustav Holts) Clarion Vocal Unions Choirs Fellowship Is Life Montague Blatchford

London Clarion Field Club form Clarion Glee Club (Clarion Choir) November 1896 Miss McDonald First national Clarion Concert Halifax 26th March 1898 Fellowship Is Life @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Oldham Clarion Vocal Union (CVU) Choir established 18th November 1895 The first CVU (Choir) was Keighley ILP Singers, hen Hull Glee Club , then West Salford Clarion Glee Clubs Hardcastle Craggs meet 1 June 1895 organised by Halifax CVU @londonclarioncc.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

Thanks to all the full members of the LCCC who renewed their annual membership from 1st January. If you would like to become a full member to support London Clarion Cycle Club, you can join for just £20 from any date by going to the membership page of the website membermojo.co.uk/london-clarion

Avoid these bike commuting mistakes [from Bike Push @BikePush ] #commuting #cycling #london

First Clarion Scouts section Birmingham 1 July 1894, Manchester 8th July, Liverpool 9th July, Bradford 17th July, Glasgow 5th September, Hull 21 October, Wolverhampton 25th October @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Fellowship Is Life

London Clarion Scouts founded 1906 @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Clarion 1930's Hull diary National Clarion Cycling Club @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

London Clarion Scouts 1907 H.J. Pearce - 47 Deronda Rd, Herne Hill Secretary - N.L Shaw, Elm Villa, Derby Rd, South Woodford Pearce Norwood Socialist Society Clarion cycling Club Clarion Van Secretary - Frederick Hagger Clapham @londonclarioncc.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social

Clarion Cycling Club Charlie Openshaw "We were in the Clarion Cycling Club together. Off we'd go on our bikes into the country. We'd put up fly posters round about, choose a spot, and hold a meeting. We didn't always get many listening, but by God, we enjoyed it." @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Walter Southgate London Clarion Cycling Club later founder of the Peoples History Museum @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Was this the home of Morris Hall - Clapham 1906 Morris Hall 11a North Street, Clapham Clarion's used as headquarters South London Clarion Cycling Club G. H Ancell @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

"Reds of the midi" French Revolution East Ham Clarion Cycling Club 24th June 1905 Phrygian caps, red shirts Paris Commune Stratford East West Ham SDF ILP @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

The founding of the Clarion Cycling Club May 1895 W H Crisp 45 - Wirtemberg St, Clapham Fred E Green - 20 Peak Hill, Sydenham Established Robert Blatchford @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

W.H. Crisp (Clapham) Fred Green (Sydenham) two key founders of London Clarion Cycling Club 1895 Fellowship Is Life @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

December 1898 - Clarion Cycling Club South London held its 3rd Bohemian concert at the Albion Hotel, Ludgate Circus, last Saturday. Mr. Alexander Thompson (Dangle), C. Denny, the captain. The room was packed to overflowing - officer Applebee, Crisp, Henshall, Paton, @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

London Clarion Cycling Club 130th Anniversary "Fellowship Is Life" @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Sydenham F.E. Green 20 Peak Hill

ALI NEFFATI (1895–1974) was a Tunisian cyclist who was a professional between 1913 and 1930. The youngest rider in the Tour de France of all time. He was also the first Tour cyclist from the African continent @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Clarion

March 1896 Clarion Field Club Lowerison @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

In August 1926, a group of socialist activists led by Eric Macdonald, formed a new club, the Willesden Socialist Cycling Club, @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Clarion Fellowship is Life 1926 General Strike - Acton HQ BWSF British Workers Sports Federation

The London Clarion Cycling Club held its inaugural ride on Saturday 25 May 1895, travelling from Sydenham Station to Farnborough. @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Fellowship Is Life Early Clarion cyclists could be distinguished by red tie, Clarion trumpet badge and return call of "boots - spurs"

"Probably it is the tie that separates the Clarionette from his fellows - a neck tie for the man who sports the bugle badge often wears a scarlet tie to show his principle" Cycling Journal 11 April 1912 Clarion Cycling Club @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Boots - Spurs Fellowship Is Life

130 YEARS STRONG! 🎂 The London Clarion Cycle Club had a record year: • 204 Members (+23 New Recruits!) • 111 Miles (Longest Ride: Dunwich Dynamo) • 36 Organised Rides (incl. 3 in 🇫🇷 & 2 in 🇧🇪) • 32 Mile Strava Art Skull 💀 Join us in 2026! Membership, including 3rd party insurance, is just 39p a week!

A big thanks to Nudge magazine for including London Clarion is your list of top London Cycling Clubs! thenudge.com/london-welln...

British Workers Sports Federation 1924 First Annual Sports Gala Walthamstow 3 May 1924 Clarion George Sinfield BWSF Workers Olympics Dunmow - Essex The Countess of Warwick (Darling Daisy) "Daisy Daisy"

Nelson ILP Clarion House Fellowship Is Life Robert Blatchford Tom Groom Pendle Pennine Way @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

“What rides are coming up?" 🤔 It’s our most asked question! You can now view a full summary of upcoming rides on our website. Our ride leaders have been busy plotting an incredible selection of routes for 2026. Check it out! 🗓️🚴 www.londonclarion.org.uk/copy-of-ride...

The December Edition of the Clarion Cyclist magazine has just been published and can be viewed online for free! issuu.com/londonclario...

Stockport Clarion Cycling Club @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

🚴‍♂️ Exciting rides await with the London Clarion Cycle Club! 🌟 Check out our website to discover our upcoming events for the rest of this year and into 2026. Join us for iconic routes like London to Brighton, London to Deal in Kent, and many more. 🌍🚴‍♀️ www.londonclarion.org.uk/copy-of-ride...

London Clarion Cycle Club E-newsletter 3.12.25 Membership Renewals, New Patches and Reduced Membership fees! eepurl.com/jtD_LQ