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London's biggest annual cycling event has come to an end, after thousands took to the capital's streets on two wheels over the weekend.

Prudential RideLondon, a three-day festival of cycling, saw amateur and pros alike cycle past some of the capital's most iconic landmarks in several different races and events.

As well as the two amateur races, the festival hosted a handful of professional ones over the three-day period.

The FreeCycle event took place on Saturday, giving cycling fanatics and bicycle novices the chance to whizz around traffic-free central London on an eight-mile route taking in Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and St Paul’s Cathedral.

Familes, groups of friends and individuals were able to take advantage of the traffic-free streets as spectators lined up to show their support.

Another of the weekend’s highlights, the Prudential RideLondon Classique - the richest women’s one-day race in professional cycling - kicked off at 5pm on Saturday, and started and finished on The Mall in St James’s Park.

And sitting firmly at the jolly good fun end of competitive cycling, the Brompton race took place later on Saturday, at 7.15pm, featuring eight laps around St James’ Park, past Buckingham Palace and down The Mall.

Competitors were dressed in city-chic with lycra sportswear absolutely not permitted and started the race with a dash to their Brompton bikes, unfolding them at speed before taking on the circuit.

Road closures were in place until about 7.30pm with disruption around Parliament, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Waterloo Bridge and Holborn.

Sunday saw the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 take place between London and Surrey from 5.45am.

Tracing a track through London and Surrey, the 100-mile route is the London Marathon for cycling.

It starts in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, then follows on closed roads through the south-west of the capital and out to Surrey, before finishing at The Mall.

Also on Sunday, some 150 of the world's best cyclists battled it out in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic - which offers the highest prize money of any one-day race - on a similar route from 1.40pm.

Select roads were closed off along the route.

The cycling festival, which first took place in 2013, was created as a lasting legacy of London’s 2012 Olympic Games.