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RideLondon-Surrey 100 (2014!!!) Anyone?
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No way, that I did not know.
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Ah yes that's it, I couldn't find that just now.
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laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
just been out on some of the roads... eek! i bottled out of box hill, not just because i am unfit, but because i got lost in leatherhead and ended up on the main bypass. i'd been going ok up until then.
oxshott is closed - lots of roadworks on the road through it and they are repairing the surface to allow the race to come through on the day... however, it did enable me to stop at Merci Marcie cafe for an espresso and a bidon refill. lovely little place. more roadworks later and lots of traffic everywhere meant i couldn't get back into it. negotiating the cars in Esher did my legs in and i was in pain, so skipped Coombe Hill. just over 41 miles done, 13mph average and two brief stops.
oxshott is closed - lots of roadworks on the road through it and they are repairing the surface to allow the race to come through on the day... however, it did enable me to stop at Merci Marcie cafe for an espresso and a bidon refill. lovely little place. more roadworks later and lots of traffic everywhere meant i couldn't get back into it. negotiating the cars in Esher did my legs in and i was in pain, so skipped Coombe Hill. just over 41 miles done, 13mph average and two brief stops.
laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
a few riders out today, i bottled out of box hill.
the big problem is the roadworks - leatherhead to esher is no-go as they have dug up the road (it will be fixed in time and then they will dig it up again!), same for Putney Bridge. i lost count of the amount of temporary red lights i had to stop at today... as a consequence the roads are heavy with traffic, so training on the actual roads will be tough.
We rode (mainly) & walked through oxted last weekend - pedestrian access is clear and road between the dug up bits is rideable but inaccessible to cars
laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
there were quite a few works vehicles there today, i suspect as they are busy patching up the road just enough so the race & ride can go through, which made it slightly hard. took to the pavement for some sections and walked the main bit.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
For anyone planning to ride from Central or West London - be aware that Leadenhall Street is closed Eastbound for utility works, so the obvious direct route (Holborn - Cheapside - Cornhill - Leadenhall St - Aldgate - Whitechapel - Mile End Road - Bow) isn't available. It's not one of those piffling little closures you can easily ride against, either - it's a full-on high-barrier narrow-lane-left closure.
Instead of going straight on at Bank junction to go up Cornhill, go half right up King William Street, then first left (Lombard Street), straight over the traffic lights past Boots to Fenchurch Street, which will take you up to Aldgate.
@rvw told me a couple of days ago we'd have to plot our route from Tottenham Court Road. It's already done, I said - the first half is my commute and the rest is just straight on at every junction once you're past Aldgate.
Instead of going straight on at Bank junction to go up Cornhill, go half right up King William Street, then first left (Lombard Street), straight over the traffic lights past Boots to Fenchurch Street, which will take you up to Aldgate.
@rvw told me a couple of days ago we'd have to plot our route from Tottenham Court Road. It's already done, I said - the first half is my commute and the rest is just straight on at every junction once you're past Aldgate.
Notsototalnewbie
Veteran
I took my bike in for a service and to see about getting a bigger cassette and it turns out that the cassette wasn't even a 26, it was a 25...no wonder I was inching my way up Leith Hill. It has a 27 on the back now.
I'm doing a Cyclesurgery sportive as a practice this weekend from Guildford. I've never done a sportive before; I will probably be lanterne rouge but never mind. The email they just sent me warns of 'technical descents'...I'm assuming they mean the usual rubbishy Surrey road surfaces, which I became well familiar with a few weeks back. Because I didn't sign up for an offroad ride...
I'm doing a Cyclesurgery sportive as a practice this weekend from Guildford. I've never done a sportive before; I will probably be lanterne rouge but never mind. The email they just sent me warns of 'technical descents'...I'm assuming they mean the usual rubbishy Surrey road surfaces, which I became well familiar with a few weeks back. Because I didn't sign up for an offroad ride...
w00hoo_kent
One of the 64K
- Location
- Maidstone or Greenwich
That was Saturdays Freecycle. A very different beast. But I'll still have a light lock with me.
w00hoo_kent
One of the 64K
- Location
- Maidstone or Greenwich
Only through your filters, but then you seem to make a habit of presumption so I'm not surprised.
Considering the amount of work involved in getting registered for the event I'm fairly sure nobody is doing it just to steal a second hand £1000 bike. (Not positive, but fairly sure). Once out of the controlled areas it's more of a risk. I'm not sure what the public access is going to be to the hubs, I don't expect it to be full and open, if only because of where most of them are, but it might be.
marcusjb
Senior Member
- Location
- Twickenham
I will probably have a GoPro on the bike. But I have the advantage of a stoker to operate it.
Final test run on the tandem this morning - only our third trip out on the new Co-Motion, so we are still trying to dial in positions. Think we are about there - shame not to have got some good miles in on the bike, but that is life. My wife is finishing her masters, so she's been unavailable really. We're not bothered about getting round in a good time, more in it to have a good time. Looking forward to it all now. Totally different to anything I have ever done before and still a little nervous about being surrounded by twenty thousand solos ridden by people of very mixed ability! But it will all be fun in the end.
Final test run on the tandem this morning - only our third trip out on the new Co-Motion, so we are still trying to dial in positions. Think we are about there - shame not to have got some good miles in on the bike, but that is life. My wife is finishing her masters, so she's been unavailable really. We're not bothered about getting round in a good time, more in it to have a good time. Looking forward to it all now. Totally different to anything I have ever done before and still a little nervous about being surrounded by twenty thousand solos ridden by people of very mixed ability! But it will all be fun in the end.
w00hoo_kent
One of the 64K
- Location
- Maidstone or Greenwich
Only camera I own wouldn't last the distance, so I'm not bothering.
