RideLondon-Essex 100 (2022) Anyone?

[dickyknees]

I took a punt and booked the Premier Inn again by the Excel Centre looks like a 7.5 mile ride to the Victoria Embankment.

Dependant on start time looks like an early start as the first service on the DLR doesn’t start until 07:00ish on a Sunday.

I wonder where the registration will take place?

 

[mjr]

I wonder where the registration will take place?

The conference centre in Parliament Square would make sense.

So it'll probably be Kensington Olympia.

 

[DaveM77]

Well that’s me needing to rebook my hotel as I booked into the premier inn next to the Olympic park 🙄😏

 

[ianrauk]

Well that’s me needing to rebook my hotel as I booked into the premier inn next to the Olympic park 🙄😏

Its an easy ride to and from the start.

 

[vickster]

Thanks for the link.
Start line and finish are convenient so no complaints from me, but I'm still wondering how they'll get everything onto Tower Bridge and surrounding area. A large part of Green Park used to be taken over for Ride London for finishers to recover in - there's nothing qutie like that at Tower Bridge.
Could maybe cause a capacity issue at the finish. Maybe this means there will be fewer riders than previous years !

You’ve got the big area by the Tower just below the bridge? (I walk by it from tube to office in Wapping, well I did)

 

[dickyknees]

Well that’s me needing to rebook my hotel as I booked into the premier inn next to the Olympic park 🙄😏

Its an easy ride to and from the start.

I looked at getting a closer hotel than the one I booked by the Excel Centre but prices are much higher now of course. It does look like an easy ride to the start. Cycleway 13 and CS3 to get to the Embankment.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I wonder where the registration will take place?

Is this the thing where you have to go in person to pick up your timing chip (and a bag of tat, and have the opportunity to buy other tat)?

I wonder if it might make more sense to send them out in the post as a crowded indoor thingy where you have to queue up may not be entirely sensible at the moment. Although that will add to costs and won't help to drive tat sales.

 

[PaulSB]

Is this the thing where you have to go in person to pick up your timing chip (and a bag of tat, and have the opportunity to buy other tat)?

I wonder if it might make more sense to send them out in the post as a crowded indoor thingy where you have to queue up may not be entirely sensible at the moment. Although that will add to costs and won't help to drive tat sales.

Yes, that's what registration is. When I rode PRL in 2018 we had to take photo ID but the inspection was a cursory glance.

I imagine one of the problems with mailing stuff out is the potential for people to swap places but realistically that would be easy to do after personal collection.

25,000 people trying to access a central London collection point doesn't sound a good plan.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I imagine one of the problems with mailing stuff out is the potential for people to swap places but realistically that would be easy to do after personal collection.

I know people who have ridden PRL on others' numbers in the past, and by all reports it was easy enough to do as you could authorise someone else to pick up your stuff for you. So the original rider didn't even have to turn up. I think - I'm not sure exactly what had to be done.

A group of us did Velo Wales some years ago and a Cardiff-based friend's girfriend picked up all of our numbers for us because none of us could manage to be there at the appointed time.

Still, as I live in London it won't be hard for me to get in if I do have to go in person but it seems a bit pointless.

 

[toffee]

According to the Ride London website they will be posting out the rider packs next year.

 

[Dogtrousers]

According to the Ride London website they will be posting out the rider packs next year.

Thanks

I suppose we could have just gone and read that on the website. But where's the fun in that?

 

[dickyknees]

Found it. Thanks @toffee No cycling show, no tat.

https://www.ridelondon.co.uk/search?q=Pack&type=faq
Search for pack.

We had to arrive in London on the Friday to pick up rider packs on the Saturday.

Might have a rethink now.

 

[toffee]

Thanks

I suppose we could have just gone and read that on the website. But where's the fun in that?

I didn't link to it though, so you had to put some work in to find what they said exactly.

Well till @dickyknees did it for you

 

[cougie uk]

Rejected in the ballot again but my sister in law was lucky for I think the third time in a row.

 

[Chap sur le velo]

I'm one of the lucky ones. Successful in ballot.
Trouble is its our anniversary and I've (deliberately) never "missed" one before.
50\50. Would love to do
It....