RideLondon 2022

RideLondon, the world’s greatest festival of cycling, returns for its eighth edition from Friday 27 May to Sunday 29 May 2022. As a result, extensive road closures will be required in some areas during this period.

Later in April, community access plans will be published for central London, east London and Essex. The plans will provide more detailed information for residents and businesses about how to access your property during the road closures.

News

• 9 May 2022 – Plan ahead for RideLondon 2022
• 13 May 2022 – RideLondon – Get involved 
• 17 May 2022 – RideLondon – Where to watch

Road closures in the Epping Forest district

Some roads, bridges and bus routes across Essex and London will be affected by RideLondon. You can find details of road closures taking place in Epping Forest so you can plan ahead for the 2022 RideLondon weekend.

• Register for RideLondon road closure updates

Saturday 28 May 2022

Temporary road closures of up to 45-minute periods will operate for stages one and two of the professional women’s cycle race – the RideLondon Classique.

Sunday 29 May 2022

More than 100 miles of road closures will be in place throughout the day – significantly impacting some areas of Essex – for the RideLondon-Essex 100, the mass participation ride that will feature up to 25,000 cyclists.

Use the interactive road closure map to see details of the road closures on Sunday 29 May.

Vehicles will be able to cross the RideLondon route via the crossing points outside of the times stated in the pdf below:

• Road closures and vehicle access points Sunday (pdf 3MB)

Event information for Essex

This Event information for Essex leaflet will help you plan your travel around Essex ahead of the event. It includes detailed road closure information for Friday 27 to Sunday 29 May.

RideLondon-Essex 100 – Stay in the loop

The world’s greatest festival of cycling returns on Sunday 29 May 2022, with a new format, new routes and a new partnership with Essex County Council – read all about it here.

RideLondon-Essex – Toolkit for partners and businesses

This toolkit aims to help raise awareness of the RideLondon events, opportunities to get involved and the potential impact of road closures on local businesses.

• RideLondon Essex – Toolkit for partners and businesses (pdf 233KB)

RideLondon – Support for business

Epping Forest district, with partners across Essex and London, will be hosting RideLondon, the world’s greatest cycling festival, on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May. This presents an exciting opportunity to bring lots of people to our district for the first time, to bring in business and to help promote healthier lifestyles. This leaflet gives important information on the event and support.

• RideLondon – EFDC Business Advice (pdf 3MB)

Cycling activities

Bike maintenance workshop

• Friday 13 May 9.30am until midday
• £15 per person
• Adults over 18
• Ongar Fire Station, High St, Ongar CM5 9DT
• Book here

Family led rides

• Sunday 22 May 10am to midday
• £10 ride only per adult and 1 free child
• £3 Additional children
• Book here
• Meet at Green Acre Woodland Park. Kiln Road, North Weald

Women’s Ride

• Friday 20 May 2022 10am to midday
• £5.20 Ride only
• £11.20 Hire and ride
• Book here
• Meet at Fishers Green Overflow Car Park EN9 2EF

• Tuesday 24 May 2022 10am to midday
• £5.20 Ride only
• £11.20 Hire and ride
• Book here
• Meet at Green Acre Woodland Car Park CM16 6AD

Ride London activities

Ride London Pavement Art – Epping

• Saturday 28 May 9am to 3pm & Sunday 29 May 9am to Midday
• Free
• Join us on the pathway outside the Civic Offices, 323 High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ

Ride London Pavement Art – Ongar

• Sunday 29 May 10am to 3pm
• Free
• Find us along Ongar High street

The Women’s Tour

7 June 2022

The Women’s Tour, the UK’s leading international women’s cycling event, will visit Harlow on Tuesday 7 June to help celebrate the town’s 75^th birthday.

Measuring 96.4 kilometres, stage two will both start and finish in the town. Harlow Innovation Park, a new destination for business focusing on all areas of science, technology, research and innovation, will host the stage start.

The route will take riders north east through Hatfield Heath to Great Dunmow for the opening intermediate sprint of the stage, and on through Felsted, High Easter (location of the second intermediate sprint), and Roxwell.

Over 100 of the world’s best riders will return to Harlow via Chipping Ongar and a pair of ŠKODA Queen of the Mountains climbs at Toot Hill and Epping.  The stage will finish along Third Avenue, a short distance away from Harlow town centre.

• Interactive map of route

Road closures