The group began its journey from Cumbria and ended the journey on Friday at 10 Downing Street.
The riders carried postcards of stories of those affected by welfare cuts, which will be presented to MPs.
The “Ride for Equality and the Common Good” has appealed to the government to “end the the suffering of those who are victims of recent welfare changes”.
One of the riders, Sally Ingham, said: “The Welfare State grew out of a vision 75 years ago to reduce poverty, disease and lack of education and provide care for each of us when ill or unemployed or old. Our welfare system protects all of us against life’s contingencies.
“Despite the debts after World War II we chose to afford it. We believe we can choose to afford it now and we must: the social cost of not affording it is incalculable.
“We should not stand by and watch the most vulnerable suffering, and our most valuable social asset, our welfare system, admired throughout the world, being dismantled. We have a moral responsibility to uphold it.”
In April, the Quakers urged the government to rethink its two-child limit policy for child tax credits.
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