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Ride London 100 (Sun 4th August 2013)
Developed by the Mayor of London, Ride London will be a world-class festival of cycling, starting in August 2013
The Ride London 100 event is on closed roads in London and the Surrey hills - a modified version of the London 2012 Olympic Road Race - and will finish in central London, shortly before the elite riders finish the Ride London Classic event on a similar route
20 000 amateur cyclists are expected to take part in the inaugural Ride London 100. It's expected to be over-subscribed, so at this stage, all you need to do is register (free) to enter the ballot. http://www.ridelondon.co.uk/Events/100.htm
The Ride London 100 event is on closed roads in London and the Surrey hills - a modified version of the London 2012 Olympic Road Race - and will finish in central London, shortly before the elite riders finish the Ride London Classic event on a similar route
20 000 amateur cyclists are expected to take part in the inaugural Ride London 100. It's expected to be over-subscribed, so at this stage, all you need to do is register (free) to enter the ballot. http://www.ridelondon.co.uk/Events/100.htm
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Andrew R
Alistair
Martin
http://regonline.activeeurope.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1124438
Login with your registration details. If it says CANCELLED, you didn't get in.
Mine says CANCELLED
Good excuse for a club ride.
Fingers crossed, and I might get in.
Cheers
Could I suggest we run our own 100 for a 'Club' nominated charity that we all raise funds for and let London stick their 100 where the sun doesn't shine.
Mine said "CONGRATULATIONS! You were unsucessful in the origianl Ballot, but you are one of the lucky 1,000 winners of the Bequest Draw"
Not sure what a Bequest Draw is, but looks like I'm in
Adam
Nice touch to also send a magazine that reminded me on almost every page that I hadn't got a place. Thanks for that !!
In any case, feel free to leave your De Rosa to me!
Event start time from 6-8am.
There is a Travel Lodge in Stratford, just by the Olympic Park.
Flexible room rate (cancel up to midday on day of arrival) still avalable at £51 per room, if anyone is interested.
We ought to have an anti-Ride London ride
I wondered if that might happen and did just as you describe to try and increase my chances of getting in. However, I got a rather ill fitting Ride London shirt and the same magazine that appears to have been so universally unwelcome with my NO!
I think in reality, much as we might all be disappointed, with 3 or 4 people in, perhaps we have got the roughly 1 in 4 we might have expected. I would be very surprised if the ballot was anything other than fair. My gripe is it should have been biased to us :)
Team of 4, must all work at the same company, 25 mile each as a relay. £200 to enter the team.
Fingers crossed i get in this way.
Thinking about it there is huge appeal in absolutely bombing it on the last 25 mile leg while the single riders are trying to finish their 100 mile!
I did say 'nearly guaranteed'. You were especially unlucky and bombed both ballots
This will be the 1st Ride London 100 event and Boris will want our feedback, in order to make it a success in future years. The issue as I see it is that a significant proportion of places appears to have been controlled by third parties (possibly the charities), rather than being randomly distributed in a free ballot.
So far, I know of 16 entries to the ballot, of which only 2 were successful (Nathan and I). 3 (Adam C, Alistair and Adam R) were unsuccessful and became eligible for the Bequest Draw, in which 2 were successful and Pontus failed the ballot but got a place through a charity
It's only a small sample, so I can't put a lot of confidence in the findings, but in the absence of any other info, it would appear that 2/16 x 55000 (the actual number of entries to the ballot) was the number of places that were available to be won in the ballot, ie just shy of 7000. This begs the question of just how many places are changing hands on less democratic and probably more punitive terms.
I'm thinking about writing to the organiser to ask, in the interests of transparency, how many places (out of the 20 000 that they originally advertised) were actually available to be won in the ballot ... and to pass on our desire to keep sporting events clean of manipulation, in terms of making access to them 'fair'
To do this properly, I need to know who entered the ballot, who succeeded and who didn't. So if you haven't already, please post on this thread if you entered the ballot.
Cheers, Pete