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Nomadski
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Pics please?
RideLondon-Surrey 100 (2016) Anyone?
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Pics please?
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
Isn't it just? I had to take it off, it was bruising my moobs as I walked along wearing it.
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Nomadski
I Like Bikes
- Location
- LBS, Usually
Lovely. They have been lovely every year too, unlike this years Velothon Wales medal.
lazybloke
Considering a new username
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
That's the Dorking Cockerel on the medal, in case you're wondering. Has its own facebook page.
Have seen lots of bad words about chaingangs hurtling past. In the main I thought they gave plenty of warning of their approach and didn't have a problem with them at all. That all changed circa mile 90, where most people were happy to stop briefly when marshalls were letting pedestrians cross the route. But not the chaingangs - two gangs came hurtling, screaming at the peds to MOVE and went right through them at full bore. ******* idiots.
My LS100 experience started bang on time at 7:38.
EDIT - what happened to my careful tabular formatting?
Split Time Of Day Time Diff min/km km/h
EST MILE 17 08:28:19 00:49:10 49:10 01:54 31.85
EST MILE 26 09:16:45 01:37:36 48:26 03:11 18.89
EST MILE 47 12:10:43 04:31:35 02:53:59 05:10 11.64
EST MILE 55 12:40:48 05:01:40 30:05 02:20 25.73
EST MILE 75 14:43:09 07:04:01 02:02:21 04:01 14.96
EST MILE 85 16:06:21 08:27:13 01:23:12 05:05 11.83
FINISH 16:58:14 09:19:06 51:53 02:05 29.02
You can see that miles 17 to 47 were slow (water stops, first puncture, pyrford accident queue).
Then a real mixed bag of other delays caused by food stops, a mechanical issue, and then my SECOND puncture of the year (Grrr!).
I reckon I would have had a respectable time if not for the delays. Can't wait to try it again!
Finished on a total high - buoyed by the fantastic crowds all the way back into London, but especially on The Mall. I won't quickly forget emerging from Admiralty Arch with the spectators banging out a sychronised rhythm on the barriers. Spine-tingling.
Oh, best meal of the day was when I popped into my inlaws at Westcott- they provided a bizarre (but tasty) platter of Yorkshire pudding and Chocolate digestives. Much nicer than the provided energy glues.
(Did any other FNRttC riders feel a bit odd seeing the Wellington Arch in daylight?)
Have seen lots of bad words about chaingangs hurtling past. In the main I thought they gave plenty of warning of their approach and didn't have a problem with them at all. That all changed circa mile 90, where most people were happy to stop briefly when marshalls were letting pedestrians cross the route. But not the chaingangs - two gangs came hurtling, screaming at the peds to MOVE and went right through them at full bore. ******* idiots.
My LS100 experience started bang on time at 7:38.
EDIT - what happened to my careful tabular formatting?
Split Time Of Day Time Diff min/km km/h
EST MILE 17 08:28:19 00:49:10 49:10 01:54 31.85
EST MILE 26 09:16:45 01:37:36 48:26 03:11 18.89
EST MILE 47 12:10:43 04:31:35 02:53:59 05:10 11.64
EST MILE 55 12:40:48 05:01:40 30:05 02:20 25.73
EST MILE 75 14:43:09 07:04:01 02:02:21 04:01 14.96
EST MILE 85 16:06:21 08:27:13 01:23:12 05:05 11.83
FINISH 16:58:14 09:19:06 51:53 02:05 29.02
You can see that miles 17 to 47 were slow (water stops, first puncture, pyrford accident queue).
Then a real mixed bag of other delays caused by food stops, a mechanical issue, and then my SECOND puncture of the year (Grrr!).
I reckon I would have had a respectable time if not for the delays. Can't wait to try it again!
Finished on a total high - buoyed by the fantastic crowds all the way back into London, but especially on The Mall. I won't quickly forget emerging from Admiralty Arch with the spectators banging out a sychronised rhythm on the barriers. Spine-tingling.
Oh, best meal of the day was when I popped into my inlaws at Westcott- they provided a bizarre (but tasty) platter of Yorkshire pudding and Chocolate digestives. Much nicer than the provided energy glues.
(Did any other FNRttC riders feel a bit odd seeing the Wellington Arch in daylight?)
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
- Location
- Suffolk
Anyone know why there's not a strava "ride London" segment, I'm surprised no ones set it up?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Never mind idiots - any rider numbers should be noted, their times hidden from public view and the riders rejected from any further BC-registered sportives, shouldn't they?
oldgreyandslow
Guru
- Location
- Farnborough
If there is it'll be telling you that this is your third attempt at the segment! I uploaded my Garmin to Strava manually in the end, and there are a lot of segments showing my time as my third best, yet I've only ridden them twice!
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
- Location
- Suffolk
Yeah I've never done it before yet I've got that too! No I meant a segment of the whole 100 mile ride so you got a time that way?
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Plenty of people have tried to set one up before - if you do a quick search for segments, there's loads, but they are all "1 attempt by 1 rider" meaning it's only matched the person who created it. I think the Limehouse Link tunnel screws it up - Strava just can't match people up to the same segment when there's such a large chunk essentially missing from the ride.
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jefmcg
Guru
Strava is not so good with match se ing long segments to rides. Eg https://www.strava.com/segments/4997567 only matched the person who created it.
But try creating your own. it will take a few days or even weeks to see other riders on it. Conversely, if people have created segments from Sunday's ride, it probably wouldn't have matched your ride yet.
(or what @steverob said while I was typing this )
But try creating your own. it will take a few days or even weeks to see other riders on it. Conversely, if people have created segments from Sunday's ride, it probably wouldn't have matched your ride yet.
(or what @steverob said while I was typing this )
swansonj
Guru
Does anyone know the logistics of the diversions onto previously unclosed roads?
When they close Leith Hill or Box Hill, they are diverting onto roads -the A25 and A24 - that are already closed for those stretches. But when they diverted from Horsley to Leatherhead they were using a road the A246 they say they had earmarked as a diversion but which was not closed. And when they diverted round Pyreford, they were apparently using a road they had (officially at any rate) not planned on.
Did they wait till marshals had been deployed to close off all the side roads before letting cyclists through, or just rely on force of numbers? (Do they have a flying squad of spare marshals?). What did they do about any parked cars? And, if the A246 was a planned contingency, had they obtained closed-road powers over it in advance just in case? But for the Pyreford diversion, presumably they had no legal power to stop cars and were relying on cars giving way to the inevitable?
When they close Leith Hill or Box Hill, they are diverting onto roads -the A25 and A24 - that are already closed for those stretches. But when they diverted from Horsley to Leatherhead they were using a road the A246 they say they had earmarked as a diversion but which was not closed. And when they diverted round Pyreford, they were apparently using a road they had (officially at any rate) not planned on.
Did they wait till marshals had been deployed to close off all the side roads before letting cyclists through, or just rely on force of numbers? (Do they have a flying squad of spare marshals?). What did they do about any parked cars? And, if the A246 was a planned contingency, had they obtained closed-road powers over it in advance just in case? But for the Pyreford diversion, presumably they had no legal power to stop cars and were relying on cars giving way to the inevitable?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
My understanding from a very brief chat with someone who went on the open road diversion is that they had a police (not marshals) escort front and back making an effective rolling roadblock. The police always have the power to direct traffic so no just-in- case closure powers were necessary. I don't know if there were other groups using that diversion without police.
