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Ride London Ballot Results
Last year it was possible to find out whether you got a place in the ballot by logging in to your account and seeing if your application had been cancelled or not.
The same link for this year still takes you to the 2013 page.......so....... does anyone have the equivalent link to manage your account for this year? Or know of another way to circumvent waiting for the postman?.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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I understand the theory but the balance doesn't seem to represent the demographic of road cycling from what I have seen local to me. Its seems apparent that women and slightly more mature cyclists seem to have got a priority this time round which I think is wrong - I asked RideLondon that question directly and they refused to answer.
All this does is invite people to lie in the hope it gives them more of a chance in getting a place, which negates the point of a ballot.
Unless Prudential paid for the building, maintenance and upkeep of the roads then used surely they are still public roads, paid for by all of us proles regardless of a temporary restriction on motor vehicles?
I've no idea what other people are doing, I don't really care, but I'd imagine if you turn up unregistered you probably wont be using the timing chips, baggage transfers or mechanical support. I'd also wager that stopping for water and gels would probably cause you more mither than they were worth.
Really? Calling someone a knob is now considered a witty one liner? What a wibbly wobbly world we live in nowadays.
Indeed. How will those delicate flowers at Prudential be able to focus on making money out of investing in Earth raping oil and chemical companies and arms dealers if we don't all bow down and respect their ride.
I know of 11 men and 7 women entered from my club. 4 Men got in and only 1 woman. So I’d say it was a random ballot.
Just reading this makes me laugh.
Anyone who deals with public complaints (and that used to be my job) knows that satisfied customers rarely comment. 99%+ of comments are from people that didn't get what they wanted.
The fundamental issue is that there are way more people wanting to ride than they can deal with. They'll be full up whatever happens. So why on earth would they want to create a headache for themselves by creating a labyrinthine selection process to pick certain people out for special treatment.
What's in it for them?
about riding along with the Ride.
My son and I wanted to watch the proper race at the top of Leith Hill as well as cheer on the Ride London charity event. We cycled out to Forest Green. We asked a cop about going on the road. He said fine. So we joined in for a couple of miles to get to to the top of Leith.
A couple of points.
1 I would not have even dreamed of taking advantage of any water or refreshments provided for the competitors.
2 We were fairly fresh we'd only done 20 or so miles that day and we are experienced cyclists. Zipping up Leith Hill is no big deal for us. My son was 17 and he was tempted to blast it but, bearing in mind we were interlopers, I said we'd just ride it nice and calmly and not get in anyone's way or make any one feel demoralized by having us just shoot by up the hill.
These were not rules imposed on us. We imposed them on ourselves out of respect. Then we stood at the top and cheered them all up and over. Older ladies on shoppingb style bikes and all. All kinds of bikes and all kinds of people.
If you can't respect that then start asking yourself a few questions.
2nd rejection for me too
On the subject of it being a public road, I'm pretty sure there's a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) for the event. This is what allows the roads to be closed. If you contravene a TRO you can get a Penalty Charge Notice and a fine. Although I think the law around this is mainly aimed at motor vehicles the wording mentions 'vehicles' and in the eyes of the law bicycles are vehicles. A TRO cannot block pedestrian access.
The thing that annoys me the most is that last year there were allegedly 20,000 places but the number of people actually taking part were much, much lower (15,833 according to http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/News/Newsroom/2013_Remembered__s1_...). That means 1 in 5 places was not filled, which is scandalous considering how over subscribed the ballot was. When you understand how the places are allocated it seems a bit unfair. First of all only about half the places are actually available through the ballot. The other half are reservered for charities, sponsors, VIPs and corporate partners.
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