RideLondon ballot rules?

Nope, no guaranteed places anywhere. That is unless you are on a test event....lol

The ONLY want to guarantee you place for 2015 was to differ your place from 2014 and not take part.

Ok, that sounds reasonably encouraging then. Without sounding overly mean-spirited, I'd rather have my entry fee back if I'm not doing the event.

That said, am I right in thinking that if you don't get a place but donate the fee to charity, you get a guaranteed place the following year (albeit subject to payment of the fee again)?

You don't pay the fee upfront, at least you had the option not to last year.

I'll be in the ballot, with a recumbent test event happening next year. I'll be there

30000 entrants, wow. I don't think I'll bother entering. The narrow lanes will be grid locked. There is a point where it becomes over subscribed, a victim of its own success/popularity.

I have done it now got the medal

I collated nearly 100 entries from our club. If you are female and won a place, congratulations, you tossed a head. If you are male, you rolled a six! The odds ratio for a place was 3:1 for female to male. But selection is random, after adjusting for gender.

Out of a sample of one male 35+, he got in two years in a row, suspicious.

I would like Ridelondon organisers to issue how many places up for grabs in the ballot.

I have been unsuccessful both years and took up a charity place this year, which quite a lot of charities buy quite a lot of places. I heard another cyclist telling a guy next to him in my starting area he had got in the ballot twice and that starting figure will be over 30,000 next year.

be nice to know if 10,000 of those places are not up for grabs in the ballot though

Although of the 30+ members in my club who entered last years ballot only 10 were female. 9 got entry through the ballot and only 3 males did.

Another club a few miles away had similar results from the 2014 ballot. Does not prove anything but interesting results.