Londons Biggest Cycling Event: RideLondon-Essex 100
Channel: Trevor Tendayi
Date: 31/05/2022

This years Ride London 100 was a mixed bag for me. We started off very strong controlling our daisy really well. That was up until Epping Forrest when I rider swerved right without looking over his shoulder, over lapping my team mates front wheel. He took him out and two other Dirty WKND riders, one dislocated his collar bone and the other wrote his bike off. RideLondon100 sent out material for people to read and use in their preparation for this ride. Clearly 70% didn't read or understand the material provided.

Failing that British Cycling offer free training material about how to ride on the road, how to signal and most importantly how to ride in a bunch/group. It was evident most had never ridden in a group, all they did was jump on trains with no intention of ever going on the front to do a pull. In going from train to train they swerved left and right without looking, never offering warnings to riders they approached or passed. They didn't call out potholes and drains. 

After getting my team mate into an ambulances we set off again and started to make great time holding an awesome pace. We were doing a daisy with people pushing in not recognising what were doing and messing up our rhythm, slowing the pace down or serging creating gaps. It was pretty unnerving how people thought it was ok to disrupt a group in Team kit clearly riding together with a clear plan. Riders riding along side our daisy to the front then pushing in but not rotating then blowing up or creating gaps when they couldn't maintain the pace.

This was a real learning curve Ride100 ticked off with some highs and lows but all in all a great day out. A great experience seeing one of my very good friends come second overall with a strong sprint finish in 3:49:55 average speed 41.9kph

Those are some impressive numbers, well done Rob Chapeau!

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