Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Is it closed to cars or pedestrians? I would expect that you could walk or cycle slowly over the bridge.
If all else fails take the train from charring Cross to Waterloo East.
RideLondon-Surrey 100 (2016) Anyone?
- Thread starter Nomadski
- Start date
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If all else fails take the train from charring Cross to Waterloo East.
JoeyB
Go on, tilt your head!
- Location
- Fareham, Hampshire
Just checked the river crossing info on the website. Looks like Waterloo bridge is open and the others are restricted / closed. Ill find out on the day in sure lol
jefmcg
Guru
If you're at Charing Cross, you could just walk across Hungerford bridge.
rb58
Enigma
- Location
- Bexley, Kent
Early weather forecasts are looking kind.
rugby bloke
Veteran
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Not too hot and a gentle westerly to push us home. 
Do you see your time on the "timing chip" - or do you just trust that it's working...
This "8 and a half hour" time limit - is this strictly for every rider? I assume that this will only be for the late starters.. Ie If someone were to start at 6.30 and finish it in 10 hours, they would still get credited with a time?
This "8 and a half hour" time limit - is this strictly for every rider? I assume that this will only be for the late starters.. Ie If someone were to start at 6.30 and finish it in 10 hours, they would still get credited with a time?
rugby bloke
Veteran
- Location
- Northamptonshire
The chip is mounted within the rider card, so you won't see it, the times are published on the website after the event. You are correct, the 8.5 hrs time limit only applies to the late starters. If you start earlier than this then its 8.5 + the time difference. The time cut off is only to allow time to clear the track before the big boys start.
jefmcg
Guru
Yep. Also the chip doesn't do the timing, it just identifies you when pass
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Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
rugby bloke
Veteran
- Location
- Northamptonshire
My lad tried this last year - you can download an app which tracks the rider's progress. However he found there some bandwidth issues so it was not very helpful. Resorted to 20th Century tech - me txting to tell him where I was !
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
You can. I remember tracking my friend on the year of the great rains and floods (year before last?). I was in a car at the time coming down the A1 (in the passenger seat, I must add) tracking him on my phone, thinking how incredibly fast technology had moved on over the past few years.
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Yeah, it's run by the same people who run the London Marathon runner tracking app, which works perfectly well as long as less than three people are trying to use it simultaneously!
One issue last year though was that as I passed the first timing mat (about 18 miles) there was a rider who had come down on or very near it and he was being treated by an ambulance, so we were all diverted around it. This meant that no-one passing at that time was recorded as having crossed it and according to my family members who were trying to track me, it completely played havoc with the system as my on-screen bike icon started jumping around all over the place on the map when I recorded a split time at the second check without seemingly having done the first one!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I didn't use an app. It was just a website thingy. It worked ok but due to the route shortening I think the checkpoint names were all wrong, or something like that.
