Cycle Sportives

They can all be done at your own pace - you nominate an expected finish time.

The Edgeware, Willesden and Quest are the flattest and closest to London so probably easiest in my book since I ride out to them all. I have a vague memory of the Edgeware course changing though so best to check.

just signed up for this.

http://www.riderhq.com/events/kentishkiller2012

just signed up for this.

http://www.riderhq.com/events/kentishkiller2012

I managed to get in through the reserves list for this too.

Have also booked the wiggle ups and downs ride at the end of April. Currently deciding between the evans king of the downs ride or the chiltern 100, which clash. Thinking the latter. Anyone else here doing any of these?

I did the chiltern 100 as my first century last year. Lovely route and well organised.

i have too many rides / commitments planned this year..

fireflies training ride 14 jan - done
HDinJan 21 jan - done
hell of ashdown 26 feb
return to yorkshire dales 19 mar
guiness ride 13 apr
flanders 20-22 apr
oxford T&G 13 may
overbury return to ashdown 18 may
organise school 5k funrun 19 may
chiltern100 27 may
shakespeare ride 23 jun
LFA theatre ride 30 jun
LOCOG duties 27 jul - 09 sept
prosecco ride 5-9 oct

suspect i may be divorced by christmas :(

Anyone here bar Dooks and I doing the kentish Killer next weekend? It had better warm up pretty sharpish or it's not gonna be much fun.

Also slightly concerned that this shite weather and working away from London has meant I've hardly ridden for 3 weeks....

Down for the Kentish Killer though I'm currently laid out with a cold and haven't been on the weekend bike since November. This is going to be horrendous.

I'm in for it....not had many miles in recently so it'll definitely live up to its name as far as I'm concerned!!

I'm in for it....not had many miles in recently so it'll definitely live up to its name as far as I'm concerned!!

Having said that, I've just got my accreditation through for the UCI World Cup comp at the velodrome, so the Killer might go by the board!

Thinking about doing the Edgeware RC reliability ride this Sun. Don't know the territory. Can anyone advise whether it's likely to be doable fixed?

Down for the Kentish Killer though I'm currently laid out with a cold and haven't been on the weekend bike since November. This is going to be horrendous.

Whilst I feel for you, I'm also kinda a little pleased someone is in a worse starting situation than me! What starting time are you in for? I'm I'm the 9.20 slot, gonna get a train from Victoria at 7.40 I think

Didn't get in to the Killer at first, so doing the Rivet reliability ride with a few others instead. Then got offered a reserve place :-(

Anyone else doing the Rivet at Burgess Hill?

London Phoenix Easter Classic is open for entries. Excellent rolling sportive out in Essex, I smashed it last year.

I think some organisers are getting lazy in route selection. A couple of local ones include some sections of nasty A roads as connectors. I think a route that requires you to turn across the start/end of a dual carriageway and then go up the dual carriageway past the scene of a previously fatal cycle incident or which has 8 miles of A road including a bypass is not on.

When you're local you can check for that sort of thing but if you're not you have to trust especially if the routes are posted closer to the day of the event.

Nice weather for the Iain Rennie ride yesterday. I heard (second hand info) that signage was saboutaged/removed overnight, and elsewhere someone suffered a hit-and-run.

I've just been offered a spot on the Dragon Ride in South Wales, looks pretty amazing (and hard!).

Looks like a ride for those of us who don't have thousands of pounds to go to the Alps / training for those of us with thousands of punds and are going to the Alps.

Has anyone done it before?

It's a decent ride - long slow hills which is a nice change from the short sharp south (of London). The starting organisation was a bit of a debacle last year with some riders standing in the queue for over an hour waiting for their slot then getting refused the long route because they arrived at the split too late. Get onto the line early like 7am and you should be ok.

Doing the above-mentioned Phoenix Easter Classic on Monday. Anyone got any clever thoughts about getting out there from London's Famous London? According to TFL bikes aren't welcome on the tube until Leyton. Looks like we'll be rolling out. No trains to Goodmayes either apparently (Bank Holiday innit).

The year I did it, the Rollas met at Smithfields and had an easy pace ride out there. Bar a few wrong turns, it wasn't that far.

Yep, I guess I should just man up and cruise out there.

Cotswold spring classic yesterday - from a field of 760 there were 271 non starters which gives you a clue about the weather. 98 did the 100mile route, 396 the 67 miler.

Wet, wet and somehow a headwind the whole circular course.

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Is that a person behind the sportive photos letters?

I think its rapeseed…

Err... pretty much what it says in the title really! I want to get some good riding in this year, but have no idea where to start. Any ideas chaps?

I've signed on to the below, which all look pretty good to me...

April 28th - Wiggle Ups and Downs (North and South Downs)
May 20th - Pearson 150 (London to Brighton and back)
May 27th - Chiltern Hundred (Chilterns)
June 10th - Dragon Ride (South Wales)

I know the dragon ride is full, the Chiltern and Wiggle ones may be too...