Prudential Ride London 2015
Discussion
scubadude said:
MadDad said:
Ah crap, 07:30 start time - that should ensure bags of congestion everytime the road points upwards.......
Firstly 7:30 start means you won't start at 7:30 because last year by 6:30 they where totally out of sequence and just sending each group once it had moved up, the starter on the mic had no idea what order the groups where. Plus there are 100 people stopped 200yards from the start waiting for the mates clogging up the road :-)Secondly, this is 20K people spread over 100miles not 50K spread over 60 like the L2B, there was loads of space- riding through London on 4 lane dual carriageway with 500 others feels like you are on your own :-)
Just give the noobs on shoppers and boris bikes space, this is Not (imo) a sportive, the skill level is much wider, treat it like a fun run- full gas when you can but super careful the rest of the time (esp Richmond)
scubadude said:
MadDad said:
Ah crap, 07:30 start time - that should ensure bags of congestion everytime the road points upwards.......
Firstly 7:30 start means you won't start at 7:30 because last year by 6:30 they where totally out of sequence and just sending each group once it had moved up, the starter on the mic had no idea what order the groups where. Plus there are 100 people stopped 200yards from the start waiting for the mates clogging up the road :-)Secondly, this is 20K people spread over 100miles not 50K spread over 60 like the L2B, there was loads of space- riding through London on 4 lane dual carriageway with 500 others feels like you are on your own :-)
Just give the noobs on shoppers and boris bikes space, this is Not (imo) a sportive, the skill level is much wider, treat it like a fun run- full gas when you can but super careful the rest of the time (esp Richmond)
Looking forward to it, but not looking forward to leaving home at circa 04:30.....
Sage advice! I spent quite a bit of the time in the Velothon on the front of a group with a couple of guys from Kingston Wheelers and a couple of guys from Ajax - between the 5 of us we were doing 3 min turns on the front which worked well - I think at one point there was about 30-40 riders in the group behind us!
Benmac said:
From having done it the last two years one piece of safety advice is to avoid anyone wearing the official kit!
:-) +1Save something in your legs for the last 30miles, there was alot of weary people plodding the last 1/3rd before- great satisfaction to be gained from passing all and sundry at full speed :-)
Its a great event- enjoy. Jealous I didn't get in again.
They tried to manipulate me to pre pay for a NCP car park. I plan to drive and park at Kennington, then cycle to the start for around 5am. Please tell me they are wrong when they repeatedly say:
"By choosing not to use one of the recommended Car Parks or Drop-offs you are at risk that you will get caught out by the extensive road closures, miss your start time and not be able to take part in the ride. Please tick the box to confirm you understand this risk."
"By choosing not to use one of the recommended Car Parks or Drop-offs you are at risk that you will get caught out by the extensive road closures, miss your start time and not be able to take part in the ride. Please tick the box to confirm you understand this risk."
Dizeee said:
They tried to manipulate me to pre pay for a NCP car park. I plan to drive and park at Kennington, then cycle to the start for around 5am. Please tell me they are wrong when they repeatedly say:
"By choosing not to use one of the recommended Car Parks or Drop-offs you are at risk that you will get caught out by the extensive road closures, miss your start time and not be able to take part in the ride. Please tick the box to confirm you understand this risk."
Just have a look at where the road closures are and if you can get from where you want to park to the start without them causing an issue - happy days."By choosing not to use one of the recommended Car Parks or Drop-offs you are at risk that you will get caught out by the extensive road closures, miss your start time and not be able to take part in the ride. Please tick the box to confirm you understand this risk."
They do hype up the difficulties a bit I think to avoid everyone driving to the start etc. same goes for the start times and waves. Both previous years there were loads of people in the wrong ones in order to be with friends. Marshals didn't give a monkeys
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