{"id":169810,"date":"2026-04-19T01:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:36:34","slug":"bespoke-style-hundreds-of-dapper-cyclists-don-tweed-for-city-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169810\/","title":{"rendered":"Bespoke style: Hundreds of dapper cyclists don tweed for city ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310804.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a tweed cape \" data-title=\"Tweed Run \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310613.jpg\" alt=\"A cyclist at the Tweed Run\" data-title=\"A cyclist at the Tweed Run\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310773.jpg\" alt=\"A cyclist poses for a photo with her dog \" data-title=\"Tweed Run \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310612.jpg\" alt=\"Riders waiting at a junction \" data-title=\"Tweed Run \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Cross, north London.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 to 12-mile (16 to 19km) route includes a tea stop at St George\u2019s Gardens near Russell Square, lunch at Lincoln\u2019s Inn Fields near Holborn, and takes the check-clad peloton along Savile Row, the street famed for clothes tailoring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310516.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclists wearing Union flag blazers riding Penny Farthings\" data-title=\"Cyclists wearing Union flag blazers riding Penny Farthings\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310424.jpg\" alt=\"A Dalmatian enjoys the ride from a trailer\" data-title=\"Tweed Run \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310371.jpg\" alt=\"A woman affixing a race number to a tweed coat \" data-title=\"Tweed Run \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84310396.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a tweed cap with models of tweed cyclists on the side \" data-title=\"Tweed Run \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jeff Moore\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>(Jeff Moore\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Wardrobe recommendations from the organisers, Bourne &amp; Hollingsworth, included: woollen plus fours, Harris Tweed jackets, cravats, ties, cycling skirts and capes \u2013 and a hip flask for refreshments \u2013 with prizes awarded to best-dressed man and woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small group of friends started the annual Tweed Run in 2008, and the event has grown with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-169810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}