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Scope London to Paris 24 looking for riders

Charity ride with an edge gives you just 24 hours to cover the 290 miles to the French capital

The London to Paris charity ride is a tried-and-tested formula, it seems like there's one leaving every week. They vary in their approach, but it's about the same amount of riding whichever way you cut it, just shy of 300 miles. That shouldn't really take you more than, what, a day?

Scope's London to Paris 24 is exactly that: 24 hours to do the ride. You start at lunchtime on 14 July in London and you have to be in the shadow of the Eiffel tower exactly a day and 290 miles later. It's a continuous ride, with organised feed stops (including hot meals) every two or three hours along the way; that means riding right through the night and keeping up an average, including stops, of about 12mph. Certainly a challenge, and it's for that reason that the L2P24 tends to attract a clientele towards the serious end of the spectrum.

There's plenty included in your £99 entry fee. The route is signed (with GPS downloads also available) and there's a raft of pace riders, medics, mechanics and such keeping pace with the peloton, as well as a Science in Sport mobile bar (presumably not the booze variety) and event timing. The ferry, a hotel room in Paris, a slap-up celebratory meal and the Eurostar home are also thrown in. Fundraising-wise you have to commit to raise a minimum of £1,200 for Scope, of which £800 has to be sorted out by 1 June. You can ride solo or as a pair in relay style; each rider has to meet the £1,200 fundraising target whether they're riding the whole thing or spending half of it desperately trying to get a few minutes of shut-eye on the accompanying coach...

Sound good? Head over to www.london2paris24.com for more information. There's 300 places, and registration is open.

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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Tony Farrelly | 12 years ago
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What happens on these rides if you don't make your funding target are you expected to make up the difference yourself, do they bin your entry and keep the £99 - which as G-Bitch says does seem pretty good value, or do they let you do it anyway? Often wondered that… maybe I should ask.

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G-bitch | 12 years ago
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That's like a 400km audax with a slightly lower time limit innit?! Certainly a good challenge and nice to see that it's not terribly expensive but with a realistic but healthy fundraising target.

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