Prudential ride London 2018..advice needed.

[mjr]

• Your best option to do this (ride to the start) is to find accommodation near one of the designated drop offs or car parks. - because they have nice friendly sign posts all the way to the start.
• If you decide to stay just outside of London and drive in, beware - the roads get closed at 6am (check the booklet for actual times) The roads closing is a frikkin nightmare. You think that because you are doing the ride you can actually get to the ride, but you can't.

I would modify these two slightly:

• Your best option to ride to the start is to find accommodation where you can see a reasonably good route that doesn't try to cross the course to near one of the designated drop offs or car parks or CS2 - because they have nice friendly sign posts all the way to the start.
• If you decide to stay just outside of London and drive in, just avoid central and South-West London (basically the whole route) completely and drive into your prebooked car park along the shortest open route from the North Circular. Even then, allow loads of extra time because the remaining open roads will be stuffed.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

It's a lot of hassle but worth it - I should say.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Of course the other PITA is finding your way back to your car and then trying to escape London.

 

[Ibg76]

I'm staying at the best western central London nice easy 4 mile cycle down to the start and the rates are reasonable

 

[Deleted member 35268]

I'm staying at the best western central London nice easy 4 mile cycle down to the start and the rates are reasonable

Do that have soft toilet paper ?