London Ride 100

freebs · February 2013

I've got in! Happy days!! Watch out Wiggo!!!

Freebs.

Gizmodo · February 2013

There are quite a few threads similar to this.

Ride London - Surrey 100
Ride London 100 - Where to stay
Ride London 2013 - BJ's latest masterpiece

freebs · February 2013

Sorry!!!

arran77 · February 2013

Go and sit on the naughty step

Brakeless · February 2013

freebs wrote:

I've got in! Happy days!! Watch out Wiggo!!!

Freebs.

I'm in and I'm doing LEL Sunday to Friday before. It's going to be an interesting week :shock:

Gizmodo · February 2013

freebs wrote:

Sorry!!!

Put some loose change in a charity box today and don't do it again!

freebs · February 2013

....will do. Did I mention .... I got in! Happy days!! Watch out Wiggo!!!

Gazspurs · February 2013

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm yet to receive my accept/deny in the post but will be mighty angry if I haven't got a place & some of the people I've seen have

Gizmodo · February 2013

Gazspurs wrote:

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm yet to receive my accept/deny in the post but will be mighty angry if I haven't got a place & some of the people I've seen have

You can logon to find out if you were successful in the ballot. Press the "Pay Now" button on this page:
http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/P ... Ballot.htm

Gazspurs · February 2013

Right so it appears I am not in although I donated the £48? this is an absolute p*ss take! What they gonna do send me a jersey for an event I'm not involved in?

As previous some of the people I've seen that are in haven't got a hope in hells chance! taking the place of proper cyclists!

Gizmodo · February 2013

Gazspurs wrote:

Right so it appears I am not in although I donated the £48? this is an absolute p*ss take! What they gonna do send me a jersey for an event I'm not involved in?

As previous some of the people I've seen that are in haven't got a hope in hells chance! taking the place of proper cyclists!

What gave you the impression that ticking the box "donate my entry to charity" would guarantee you a place?

This sounds a like sour grapes tbh. Just be proud that you have made a donation to charity. If you still want to ride the event you can sign up to ride for a charity - but that's going to cost you even more money.

chrisaonabike · February 2013

Gazspurs wrote:

Right so it appears I am not in although I donated the £48? this is an absolute p*ss take! What they gonna do send me a jersey for an event I'm not involved in?

Erm, the "donate my entry fee" option had two effects:

- it got you into a bonus ballot, in which you were still not guaranteed to get a place
- the donation of the entry fee would take place only if you failed to get a place in the second ballot.

It's not like "ah we don't really want your entry fee, so we'll guarantee you a place if you choose to donate it to charidee rather than giving it to us".

What part of "donate" didn't you understand? The entry fee is a fee - for entry

- it's only if you're not entering that it becomes available as a donation.

Ah, wait... you were joking, right?

Dess1e · February 2013

Guess I'm riding the LVRC h'cap champs that day then as I also didn't get in. Looking at the comments on here it looks as though most of the spaces were reserved for charities, corporate teams, of politician's jaunts, just like the Olympics themselves.

Have fun to those who did get in via the ballot.

Dave_P1 · February 2013

Gazspurs wrote:

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this :x

Dess1e · February 2013

Dave_P1 wrote:

Gazspurs wrote:

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this :x

Apparently BJ is riding it, has he ever ridden further than Islington to the Southbank / Westminster before?

To be honest I can see it being like the London Brighton is nowdays, where the roads are so busy that as soon as one person has to get off to walk up a "hill" then it causes a chainreaction and pretty soon it's a bottleneck where you have to walk.

NewTTer · February 2013

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.
So thats a space wasted, perhaps I could ebay it lol.

chrisaonabike · February 2013

NewTTer wrote:

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.

There were no 'group' places to apply for, as I recall.

So what would you actually expect them to do?

binsted · February 2013

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

NewTTer wrote:

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.

There were no 'group' places to apply for, as I recall.

So what would you actually expect them to do?

Perhaps have a policy for riders under a certain age being accompanied.

Anonymous · February 2013

NewTTer wrote:

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.
So thats a space wasted, perhaps I could ebay it lol.

Er, how about your son rides and you do not?
You knew the deal when you applied, so why did your son apply if he does not want to ride?

If you got a charity place having to raise £500 (as I have had to) then thats only £250 each.
It's a charity gig at the end of the day. If I had got in on the ballot I would have raised a little for a charity of my choice.
Did you plan on getting 2 free places and giving nothing to charity?
I would say you got a good deal (a lot better than most), and trying to rob someone else's place is low.

Just sell it on ebay and go buy yourself some morals with the big fat profit!

NewTTer · February 2013

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

NewTTer wrote:

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.

There were no 'group' places to apply for, as I recall.

So what would you actually expect them to do?

Emply some common sense unlike the negative clowns above,.

NewTTer · February 2013

Carbonator wrote:

NewTTer wrote:

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.
So thats a space wasted, perhaps I could ebay it lol.

Er, how about your son rides and you do not?
You knew the deal when you applied, so why did your son apply if he does not want to ride?

If you got a charity place having to raise £500 (as I have had to) then thats only £250 each.
It's a charity gig at the end of the day. If I had got in on the ballot I would have raised a little for a charity of my choice.
Did you plan on getting 2 free places and giving nothing to charity?
I would say you got a good deal (a lot better than most), and trying to rob someone else's place is low.

Just sell it on ebay and go buy yourself some morals with the big fat profit!

I donated on both ballot enties already you twat, as it is a charity gig as you quaintly put it!

Anonymous · February 2013

NewTTer wrote:

I donated on both ballot enties already you fool, as it is a charity gig as you quaintly put it!

Er, no you didn't.
Well, you may have pledged to donate both in the original application, but as you got one place, you only donated once.

I do not see how I am a fool for not knowing whether or not you ticked to donate your entry.
Anyway, it has nothing to do with the situation you are in, your options going forward or my comment on your post.

If you are ranting about having to raise £250 each for your places, I hope you can forgive me for ranting about your post, when I (and loads of other people on here) are now having to raise twice that!

Just get a charity place and enjoy the ride. If you are doing it with your son it sounds as though it will be even more special for you.
Double the reason for half the fundraising sounds like a no brainer to me, but maybe I am a fool?

chrisaonabike · February 2013

NewTTer wrote:

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

NewTTer wrote:

I entered both my son and myself. My son got a place and I didnt. So i send a polite email asking what can be done and get nothing but bureaucratic nonsense back, directing me to one of the charity places thst are demanding unrealistic amounts to be raised.

There were no 'group' places to apply for, as I recall.

So what would you actually expect them to do?

Employ some common sense unlike the negative clowns above,.

Well it's well known that not only is common sense not that common, there's no real consensus on what it is, especially when people ranting about common sense often haven't really understood the issues.

So come on, answer the question. Do you mean, give you someone else's place?

That is, deprive someone else that got a place, so that you can ride with your son?

chrisaonabike · February 2013

NewTTer wrote:

I donated on both ballot enties already you fool, as it is a charity gig as you quaintly put it!

This is probably where your misunderstanding comes from.

The 'donating' that you did on your ballot entries got your entries into the additional ballot, which still did not guarantee a place.

And the donation only occurs at all, if you're unsuccessful in both ballots. If you get a place, the entry fee is just that - the entry fee, erm, for entering.

As I said, there were no group entries. No linking of entries. No dependency between entries. No significance of the 'donating' your entry fee, other than a) it buys you entry to the secondary ballot and b) it's donated if you fail.

Caveat form-filler, I'm afraid.

Padeye · February 2013

Gazspurs wrote:

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm yet to receive my accept/deny in the post but will be mighty angry if I haven't got a place & some of the people I've seen have

Whoah! Seriously? Get over yourself!

AdrianStuart · February 2013

Cant believe some of the replies on here.

Pathetic!

Philinmerthyr · February 2013

Gazspurs wrote:

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm yet to receive my accept/deny in the post but will be mighty angry if I haven't got a place & some of the people I've seen have

Not everyone has to look like Bradley Wiggins. For some of us the incentive of training for this ride will be life changing.

I'm riding London 100 for Beating Bowel Cancer (a disease my father recently survived). I started training in October. I was 23 stone. I've lost 2 stone and hope to be around 17 stone by the ride.

In that time I've ridden 1,300 miles and at 21 stone rode 50 miles in 3hr 40 mins one Sunday in January. I'm 46 years old tomorrow but plan to spend my morning off on my birthday on a 25 mile ride.

I'm not fit enough to do the 100 miles tomorrow but I'm sure I'll complete it on 4th Aug while changing my life and raising money for a superb cause.

I'm not sure what makes you more deserving of the place :evil:

chrisaonabike · February 2013

Philinmerthyr wrote:

Not everyone has to look like Bradley Wiggins. For some of us the incentive of training for this ride will be life changing.

I'm riding London 100 for Beating Bowel Cancer (a disease my father recently survived). I started training in October. I was 23 stone. I've lost 2 stone and hope to be around 17 stone by the ride.

In that time I've ridden 1,300 miles and at 21 stone rode 50 miles one Sunday in January. I'm 46 years old tomorrow but plan to spend my morning off on my birthday on a 25 mile ride.

I'm not fit enough to do the 100 miles tomorrow but I'm sure I'll complete it on 4th Aug while changing my life and raising money for a superb cause.

I'm not sure what makes you more deserving of the place :evil:

Well said sir. Well done you for your determination to get your weight down and fitness up. And well done to your Dad for surviving it. A lot of people don't.

Just for the record, I failed to get a place in the ballot, but actually I'm now quite proud to be doing it for Cancer Research UK.

I usually feel quite embarrassed asking people for money, but so far I've mentioned that I'm doing it to quite a few people (and that I will be tapping them up for a few quid), and I've been really heartened by the warmth of people's responses.

thegreatdivide · February 2013

Philinmerthyr wrote:

Gazspurs wrote:

I've got to say looking at a few of the Ride100 re-tweets a few of the people in don't look like they could cycle 10 miles to the local shop let alone 100 in 8 hours.

I'm yet to receive my accept/deny in the post but will be mighty angry if I haven't got a place & some of the people I've seen have

Not everyone has to look like Bradley Wiggins. For some of us the incentive of training for this ride will be life changing.

I'm riding London 100 for Beating Bowel Cancer (a disease my father recently survived). I started training in October. I was 23 stone. I've lost 2 stone and hope to be around 17 stone by the ride.

In that time I've ridden 1,300 miles and at 21 stone rode 50 miles in 3hr 40 mins one Sunday in January. I'm 46 years old tomorrow but plan to spend my morning off on my birthday on a 25 mile ride.

I'm not fit enough to do the 100 miles tomorrow but I'm sure I'll complete it on 4th Aug while changing my life and raising money for a superb cause.

I'm not sure what makes you more deserving of the place :evil:

Chapeau to you sir!

Beatmaker · February 2013

Jeez, where has this modern phenomena of entitlement come from. The organisers clearly want a mix of abilities entering the event. It will be televised and there will be lots of pre event coverage in the media, and a main objective is to raise money for charity. The average cyclist completing the route in a decent time with no real effort doesn't make for a very interesting story, someone who hasn't touched a bike in 15 years attempting the ride in memory of their mum who died of cancer does. I didn't get a place through the ballot, I'm riding for Scope and will no doubt throw a decent amount of sponsorship in myself with my family and friends taking up the slack because it's for a really good cause, not because it's a huge challenge for me. Get over yourselves and try and see the good tha will come out of the event being run the way it is being run.

Anonymous · February 2013

So is there no bottom line Beatmaker?
150 miles? 200 miles? Not ridden a bike on the road ever? Riding a 20" wheeled shopper?

I feel there will be some people who should not really be doing it.
Training, being able to complete the distance in the time allowed and having a suitable bike is a minimum standard imo.
I do not agree with people running the London Marathon with little or no training, and feel this event is even less suitable for such entrants.

My biggest moan is the constant mention of Olympic Legacy and talk of inspiring people.
Is watching people struggling around going to get anyone into cycling? I don't think so.

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