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Looks like entire embankment route will be shut -- signs all along it now (I just got back from a route that overlapped considerably & they've put up the tow away zone signs already). Really unclear how I'm going to be able to cut across as the only other option is through Westminster/the mall! I'm hoping they will at least provide details when we pick up our timing chips etc.

At this point I'm looking at it as a big fun day out celebrating cycling. I know I can do the route 16+ mph solo -- so I will just pootle along in the sub 13 band in which I've been placed & enjoy the day ... assuming I can make it to the start.

nellie72 wrote:

Hi, I am driving up from Brighton and will be (hopefully) be parking at my office in the city before riding out to the olympic park. I am planning on heading straight up the A23, aiming for elephant and castle, over london bridge and then up Bishopsgate. As far as I can tell from the information provided this will all be possible as the route is unaffected by road closures. Anybody know any different to this?

If you download the final instructions PDF from the website (found it easily on a pc but can't navigate to it on the mobile/tablet site for some reason) it tells you which river crossings are closed and when. It seems most are closed.

Edit: http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/A ... ctions.pdf

Seems London Bridge is unaffected.

I just found another set of closure maps. My *street* is closed from 5 am until 7:15 that night. So if I do get out I'm not getting home. This is truly frustrating.

bikergirl17 wrote:

Or I leave at 4 am.

I'm leaving at 4am from Brighton

I'm staying about 1 mile away and will be walking there on the afternoon before, to make sure I know what the fark I'm doing the next morning

I know what you mean. I think a slow 8 mile ride back on the A11 to Stratford is my simplest (nearly said easiest) option. Hopefully, my better half will be at the finish area with a recovery drink or three.

thegreatdivide wrote:

I'm still wondering how the hell I'm going to get back to my hotel next to the Olympic park from the Mall... :-(

+1

With all the road closures im not sure if this will be easy or not?

I have spoken to someone who works for TFL on the RideLondon project and they have passed on the concerns about the lack of communication to people who are cycling to the start. Whether it produces any more info, we'll have to see.

If you look at the road closure information for each borough on the TFL website, which is a bit convoluted to find all the information, as pointed out above, they do restart opening roads pretty much as soon as the Pro riders have gone through each section. So by the time the majority of Ride London 100 competitors get to The Mall, the roads North of Green Park will be open again.

simona75 wrote:

I'm staying near the Olympic park and plan on getting that Thames Clipper they have laid on back to Trinity buoy wharf. Is only 4 miles from there. In the magazine it doesn't say if you can take your bike but I presume you can as its been laid on for cyclists

You can take your bike on the clipper. It says so in the magazine, p27.

"....will carry 50 participants and their bikes......"

thegreatdivide wrote:

I'm still wondering how the hell I'm going to get back to my hotel next to the Olympic park from the Mall... :-(

I have car park booked less than 2 miles from the Mall. Happy to give you a life back, if you don't mind slinging your bike in the back of my Focus estate with mine.

I still have no idea how to get across from the Car Park in Shaftesbury. I assume you'll now have to loop round massively?

No problem, I am starting at 6:31 apparently; but training has not gone how I thought (family commitments and a bought of food poisoning), so I am probably going over 6 hours now. PM if you want to meet up at the end

Brett

^^ me too!