Ride London 100

Turn up for the later time and you'll be fine, me and the other half did that last year.

Children with cancer

After beasting the L'etape Du Wales Dragon ride thing on my new bike I am now up for another ton ride.

I've been pesting the few charities I have worked with for their spare Ride 100 places.

See you on the start line

Cool, any idea the gaps between the wave colours? I am in wave A for mine, and so is my wife, but 40 mins apart.

Do they release all waves of each colour before they move onto the next wave?

No idea, we crossed the line by accident!

So I've been getting emails left right and centre about kit. Not really keen on anything other than a cap but Evans are doing 3for2. Anyone want to get in with me to order 3 caps and share the love?

There is talk that he first 2 miles might be neutralised, with the timing officially starting 2 miles in.

That sounds bizarre. It is a sportive, not a time trial or a race, and since the road is very wide at the start and the waves are staggered, the first two miles aren't more crowded than the rest of the route.

No stash interest?

A couple of ride reports and posts on the net mentioned this, but more for the previous ridelondons. They may well have got rid of it.

If my wife is able to start in her second wave, it may work (subject to the timings between waves). If it's poor weather, I'm not sure she would like to start the ride with an additional 40 minute wait in the rain, in addition to the time in the holding pen.

This is obviously "not allowed" but if you want to try, then your partner could probably just get in your start pen too.

The security when I've done it has amounted to two bored teenage stewards manning a 10 meter wide entrance so it's hardly a forensic check of your credentials as you walk past them. They generally seemed to just glance and check that you were wearing some kind of number (i.e. not a total blagger turning up for a free ride).

Anyway, this is obviously not allowed.

If we were the same load colour that would easily work, but because of different entry points and bag transfers, its probably going to be difficult.
Going to call Ridelondon and see whether they will tell me the wave release times.

How often do you ride?

They emailed our wave times a few weeks ago.

I got that, but I'm talking about the gap between each wave, to see whether we can get both our start times closer together.
45-50 minutes is a long time to wait at 6:20am

They basically won't give a shit if you turn up late and join a later wave. Getting into a different colour is probably 50:50 but if you're setting off at the same sort of time, you can always just pull over as you reach a wider spot with a good view and regroup

50:50 on the weather

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Anyone else had experience where this has worked(i.e. turning up to a later/different slot than your allocated one)? I'm 2.5 hours ahead of my brother (actually in the first group of the day owing to some time estimation porkies improve my ballot chances!) so would rather do a start time nearer to his..

2.5 hours is long!

It appears that my wife and I are in waves that basically converge before the start point, and our arrival times overlap. Hopefully we should be able to stick together and she can hang back and depart with me.

Some friends had no problem doing that last year, but I don't know if they employed any particular tricks. I suspect not.

I'd discourage any pen changing. It actually causes more problems than you'd imagine and has safety implications.

You should do a European sportive

No

Triathlon then

Been there, sucked at it.

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2mi was deemed the distance necessary for some of the triathletes to have clipped in.