Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
It must be about every 2 minutes.
It is a dual carriageway start. One wave is released and fills up, whilst the wave on the other side is released, and so on.
RideLondon-Surrey 100 (2017) Anyone?
- Thread starter EltonFrog
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It is a dual carriageway start. One wave is released and fills up, whilst the wave on the other side is released, and so on.
jefmcg
Guru
I took another photo yesterday when I stopped to attend to my bike. I thought the symbolic car being towed might brighten people's day.
Opposite was a house bedecked with police and crime scene tapes, and a PC standing guard. I didn't think much of it, but this morning I found out that it is Coombe Lane's house of horror.
rugby bloke
Veteran
- Location
- Northamptonshire
I'll be leaving home at a similar time ... hardly seems worth going to bed ! What are you planning to do for breakfast ? I was thinking of an instant porridge and some hot water in a flask.
Tin Pot
Guru
I just have an energy bar if I'm up that early for an endurance event. Don't really want a dump stop on the route.
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Take an Imodium as soon as you get up. You then won't need to have a number two for at least 12 hours and that way you can eat whatever you want for breakfast.
jefmcg
Guru
If you mix yoghurt and oatmeal together and leave it overnight it's a tasty treat that posh sandwich shops sell as bircher müsli. Mix in a grated apple, some berries, dried fruit or simply honey or sugar, pack it in a jam jar and steal a plastic spoon from Pret á Manger and it's a portable breakfast. Just toss the jar and spoon when you are finished.
Did most of the route today. Looks like people had the same idea as there was a huge amount of cyclists out and about en route, all seemingly going the same way. I don't think I have ever seen so many cyclists in Richmond Park and on Box Hill, and all roads in between.
Tin Pot
Guru
That's bizarre to me. I'm eating appropriately, taking drugs to prevent bowel movements..?
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
It looks as if we'll be able to reach our main target - which is to get to the start line. It's been touch and go for a bit - I got back from the Fridays tour absolutely shattered and had to dive straight in to long days at work with a very large, complex and rapidly-changing job to get done. Last weekend when we got on the lightweight tandem for the first time in a few weeks after touring on the heavy tandem it felt impossibly twitchy, and I had no confidence at all in my ability to control the bike safely. Coupled with having to change the front tyre because of a bit of a bulge and a flat that meant that what started out as an intention to to a route that could turn into 60 miles became a short 14-mile outing, and I needed to stop several times in the first few miles.
Yesterday, in the drizzle, we took a deliberate decision to put our feet up for the day, and today we've done about 40 miles in two rides. And I feel a lot more comfortable on the bike.
We're in what's probably the second tandem group, Yellow start at 08:56. Our hotel is in West India Quay, so there's even an outside chance we'll be able to get a hotel breakfast before the 4-mile ride to the top of the Olympic Park. After starting, the second target on the day is Hampton Court, at which point (timing allowing) we decide whether we want to push on into the countryside or else cut down to 46 miles and just do the really fun bits - the big, wide closed London roads.
In a few years time, when I've got my fitness back properly, I still want to do the whole 100 miles on a solo bike. Despite two starts on the tandem we've never done more than 96.
Yesterday, in the drizzle, we took a deliberate decision to put our feet up for the day, and today we've done about 40 miles in two rides. And I feel a lot more comfortable on the bike.
We're in what's probably the second tandem group, Yellow start at 08:56. Our hotel is in West India Quay, so there's even an outside chance we'll be able to get a hotel breakfast before the 4-mile ride to the top of the Olympic Park. After starting, the second target on the day is Hampton Court, at which point (timing allowing) we decide whether we want to push on into the countryside or else cut down to 46 miles and just do the really fun bits - the big, wide closed London roads.
In a few years time, when I've got my fitness back properly, I still want to do the whole 100 miles on a solo bike. Despite two starts on the tandem we've never done more than 96.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
This is brilliant. Thank you. My usual breakfast is oats with sultanas and red currants (I grow my own) soaked in milk. Before a ride I would have two boiled eggs as well. I'm traveling from Lancashire so planned to take the oats etc. plus hard boiled eggs. Your suggestion is better.
The other thing I shall do for food is to make a couple of nice filled baps to carry in my pocket. My riding usually includes a cafe stop plus at around 80 miles worth of energy bars and gels I can't face more sugar. I think a couple of decent rolls will be a good psychological boost.
HorTs
Über Member
- Location
- Portsmouth
Does anyone know what the cycle parking is like at ExCel? I need to get from my hotel to ExCel and public transport looks a pain so was going to cycle to collect my registration pack. Also, any Londonites have a view on this route?
Tin Pot
Guru
Theres a lot of closed roads, check the ridelondon site to see if you route will be effected.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
If it's the same as before they have a room set aside for bike parking. The magazine should tell you.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Well, I'm sure there will have been people taking the various grey-area supplements, unneeded extra hits of steroids and possbly far worse for the last few weeks already in preparation for this event, so poo doping seems very likely and relatively minor compared to all that. In fact, I'd say it's about as likely as a few people having caffeine twitches at the start.
Does anyone know when's the first? I've a bit more time this year, so I'm tempted to stick around and cheer the tandems out of Limehouse tunnels. I must get some noisier stuff than clanging a metal pump on the railings - anyone know where's good for football rattles or similar manual noise-makers?
You may want to look up recipes for brose, for more elaborate variations on the idea.
