Ride London 100

If enough people kept to their projected finish time, the final sprint up the mall would be a sight to behold, and well worth the spectator ticket price.

Nah, doesn't work - you get the slow riders choking the course up, especially on the hills. Would be an absolute disaster waiting to happen.

I think that this was the first year that the 46 has been run isn't it? I'd agree that a bit more publicity around it would be good, and maybe cutting the numbers on the 100 and pushing slower riders to the 46 would help.

Upping it to a 50 would be a nice touch too, kind of like the Marathon/Half Marathon split.

The biggest problems that I ran into were mostly, I think, due to everyone having bunched up more than at the start, after to the incident at Pyrford.

Also, does anyone know if http://results.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/2016/?pid=tracking was updating as we went along?

I do agree they should push the 46 more, having just done it myself this weekend, I was really surprised at the split off point that i was the only one in the vicinity to turn left for 46, everyone in sight went right.
During the part of the route reserved only for the 46 I saw no more than 5 or 6 cyclists and maybe 30-40 spectators (all probably wondering why the roads were closed for such a thin herd).
Joining back into the pack of 100 returning to London the roads were no-where near at capacity (but were full of people desperately trying to get their Sub 5 hr 100. )

People putting unachievable times just makes it more dangerous though. Inevitably they'll find themselves in a fast pack and then get ragged when they're struggling to hold on.

tbf anyone who was like that had been blown out the back by the time you got to the embankment

Yes, it was.

Thats useful to know if I get a place again. Thanks

There's an app, too. I have a friend who tracks a few of us on it when we do ridelondon.

I looked for an app, but couldn't find it. a link or details would be great :)

Thanks for letting me know :)

Hi! I was the rider on the black Cannondale with the CC Hackney jersey that rode to the start from Vicky Park with you. Looks like you had a good one!

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Bad bullshit

Aha! Sure did, how did you get on?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/boris-bike-ride-to-the-rescue-after-burglary-on-eve-of-charity-event-a3310921.html

"We haven’t had our receipt through from TfL for the bike hire. It
took us three hours, so I guess it will be quite a lot — not as much
as the amount we raised for our charity though.”

Three hours my arse

...for the 46.

Maybe if they were spinning the whole way at 500rpm.

That's still fast on a Boris Bike!

It is possible to get aero (hands on the basket, arms on the bars) on a Boris Bike and spin up to 20mph... but I don't think I'd want to try doing it for 3 hours.

If you change this URL to have your rider number at the end instead of mine, you'll get to see thumbnails of yourself riding the course

http://marathon-photos.com/scripts/event.py?event=Sports%2FCPUK%2F2016%2FPrudential%20RideLondon&match=41590

Ballot for 2017 is open.

I enjoyed it overall. One or two idiots didn't ruin it for me. Will apply again.

Registered for 2017 - I paid but my mate didn't, what have I done wrong?!

You chose to donate to charity. When you do that they take the money and give it to charity regardless of your ballot success.

Yup... In again

Popped in my entry for this year. I'll go for the 46 if I don't get a place.