Bespoke style: Hundreds of dapper cyclists don tweed for city ride

18 Apr 2026 • 10:52 PM MYT
The Independent
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Hundreds of cyclists have travelled through London clad in tweed.

A small group of friends started the annual Tweed Run in 2008, and the event has grown with around 800 people riding across the capital in their finest woolly weaves.

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The starting bell rang at 10am on Saturday in Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, east London, with cyclists making their way to the finish line at St Pancras Gardens near King’s Cross, north London.

The 10 to 12-mile (16 to 19km) route includes a tea stop at St George’s Gardens near Russell Square, lunch at Lincoln’s Inn Fields near Holborn, and takes the check-clad peloton along Savile Row, the street famed for clothes tailoring.

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Wardrobe recommendations from the organisers, Bourne & Hollingsworth, included: woollen plus fours, Harris Tweed jackets, cravats, ties, cycling skirts and capes – and a hip flask for refreshments – with prizes awarded to best-dressed man and woman.

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