Originally Posted by NOS88
I would think with 27000 riders you could pretty much claim any street in London, or any major city for that matter. Mass start rides are an interesting exercise in defensive riding. Last year the Bicycle Club of Philadelphia held it's Sept. Century ride and the start was a zoo with only several hundred riders. I can't imagine the chaos with such a large number.
Then try to imagine Bike New York. Mass start from lower Manhattan at 8am on a Sunday morning. Don't know how many riders we had, 40,000 at least, and the numbers on the ride vest went into the 60's of thousands.
London to Brighton sounds like fun. That hill looks bigger than anything we had to deal with. Bigger than the Verrazano Bridge.
How do you get back to London?