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difficult if you want to get from somewhere outside of London to a bike ride that starts first thing on a Sunday morning.
An equally important issue here is: why are we staging large events without providing mass transit. Football clubs lay on coaches. My cycling club books out a whole train to travel to some rides. We need to plan better.
Edit, just looked it up and nobody starts at 5am. Could easily start at 8 or 9. Need to know where Johnny's coming from to know if there's a viable train though.
'most well connected' is still not very well connected when it comes to transporting bikes in or out and I suspect particularly difficult if you want to get from somewhere outside of London to a bike ride that starts first thing on a Sunday morning.
You can berate people all you want on the internet about it, but they're still going to drive if the alternative is significantly worse. I know I would (and sometimes do).