PBP Registration website

[Graeme]

the jury is still out on VC167 members, it seems a shame to bracket them all together cos some are actually not that bad.   

You think?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

[bairn again]

the jury is still out on VC167 members, it seems a shame to bracket them all together cos some are actually not that bad.   

You think?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

love you all really.   

[LittleWheelsandBig]

The remaining spaces in the various start times include the special bikes (about 15 x 90hr VS places last night) , so there are somewhat fewer 90hr and 84hr places for solo uprights than I had thought.

For the slow of thinking (which includes me), the lower priority rider on a tandem enters PBP using the pre-qualifying brevet number of their higher priority teammate, rather than using their own.

[grams]

Just posted on PBP Facebook:

“Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que 850 places supplémentaires seront ouvertes pour le PBP2019.
We are pleased to announce that 850 extra slots will be available for PBP 2019.”

Hope for 200ers?

(The extra slots don’t seem to be live on the website yet, so no indication of what exactly they’ve done)

[Ivo]

Just posted on PBP Facebook:

“Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que 850 places supplémentaires seront ouvertes pour le PBP2019.
We are pleased to announce that 850 extra slots will be available for PBP 2019.”

Hope for 200ers?

(The extra slots don’t seem to be live on the website yet, so no indication of what exactly they’ve done)

Probably the easiest would be 2 extra slots of 90 hour starters in the late evening and 1 extra slot of 84 hour riders. Or 3 slots of 90 hour riders.

[SR Steve]

So far it’s about 400 extra 80 hour places and about 60 extra on each of 80 and 84 starts.
80h 629
90h 493
84h 293

[markldn]

Where is Marcusjb with that useful graph? Do I count 1500 places haven been taken by 400s so far?

[SPB]

I think those come from the ACP's "Paris-Brest-Paris Randonneur" Facebook page.  They've posted the previous two graphs about a week after, so if they follow that trend we should get one any day.

[Ajax Bay]

Mark
They must have heard your January rant as far away as Paris!
I think that with the extra places (assuming they are to be released to the wide community and not segregated) with your 200 you are all but assured of being able to pre-register in 3 weeks. But well worth being 'on the button' on 10 March (2300) and also getting your first 200 BRM qualifier done and getting a place on (ie entering) your preferred 400 and 600. Not all those with a 200 will be able to pre-register, I fear, so 'time is of the essence'.
The 1000s took about 1900 places and the 600s took about 2500+. Before the 400s got in there, there were 1940 places (10 Feb 2300GMT). The 400s have taken up about 1045 places so far, dropping availability to just under 900. ACP have now added 520 extra places to the figures which suggest 1313 are currently available (1130 on Sunday 17 Feb). Most of the new places have been added to the 80 hour starts (400 more). Perhaps 300 slots are being reserved for an alternative entry mechanism / domestic consumption.

[markldn]

Mark
They must have heard your January rant as far away as Paris!
I think that with the extra places (assuming they are to be released to the wide community and not segregated) with your 200 you are all but assured of being able to pre-register in 3 weeks. But well worth being 'on the button' on 10 March (2300) and also getting your first 200 BRM qualifier done and getting a place on (ie entering) your preferred 400 and 600. Not all those with a 200 will be able to pre-register, I fear, so 'time is of the essence'.
The 1000s took about 1900 places and the 600s took about 2500+. Before the 400s got in there, there were 1940 places (10 Feb 2300GMT). The 400s have taken up about 1045 places so far, dropping availability to just under 900. ACP have now added 520 extra places to the figures which suggest 1313 are currently available (1130 on Sunday 17 Feb). Most of the new places have been added to the 80 hour starts (400 more). Perhaps 300 slots are being reserved for an alternative entry mechanism / domestic consumption.

Hah! - my rants can be pretty loud (aided by loud american Canadian accent).

Thank you for the analysis and reassurance.  I have done 2 x 200 already with one just yesterday so haven't given up.  I am registered for LWL.  Still umming and ahhing about which 600 but will speed that decision up with this news.  Hoping to have at least two SRs under my belt.  I certainly may need to if there are only 80hr slots left!

I have succeeded in getting Glastonbury tickets every year for my friends and I so I will definitely be prepared at 11pm on the 10th.  Need to revise all your guys' experience with the registration process.
 

[Phil W]

Just got the PBP email and changed start time as new ones have appeared. Now in 17:30 start and places in that group remain. (45 places at moment)

[Ivo]

Just got the PBP email and changed start time as new ones have appeared. Now in 17:30 start and places in that group remain. (45 places at moment)

no email here. What was your original starttime/group?

[D.A.L.E.]

Just got the PBP email and changed start time as new ones have appeared. Now in 17:30 start and places in that group remain. (45 places at moment)

Yeah, I've switched mine too - from 1845 to 1800. Makes it a bit easier to work out how much time I have in hand.

[FifeingEejit]

Been shifted from M to K looks like have until Friday to decide if to stick or twist.

[marcusjb]

Just got the PBP email and changed start time as new ones have appeared. Now in 17:30 start and places in that group remain. (45 places at moment)

Made the same change - think the bulge will be very bulgy so keen to get on with it and push on.

[Diesel]

Yep, also moved to 1730. Think it will help me to start as early as I can

[grams]

I've been moved 30 minutes earlier, but have no email and no option to change. Looks like there are currently free places in every 90 hour slot.

[marcusjb]

In other news, there are nearly 1000 places available for 90h starts now.

384 for 80h
497 for 84h

Hold your nerve 300s and 200s and no-2018-BRMers - it'll be all good in the end.

[bairn again]

thats great news. 

more 90 hr riders for me to catch up on from the back of the field.   

[marcusjb]

I've been moved 30 minutes earlier, but have no email and no option to change. Looks like there are currently free places in every 90 hour slot.

Just go to the registration website and you can make the change - only once though I think.

[Feanor]

I've been moved from 18:30 group K to 18:00 group I.

Fine with me.

[kegere]

Just got the PBP email and changed start time as new ones have appeared. Now in 17:30 start and places in that group remain. (45 places at moment)

Yeah, I've switched mine too - from 1845 to 1800. Makes it a bit easier to work out how much time I have in hand.

I've had exactly the same thought as you, originally 1900 when I checked it had moved to 1830, so like you I've gone for 1800 just to simplify the maths.

[Kangaroocourt]

I've been moved from 18:30 group K to 18:00 group I.

Fine with me.

And me. C'est la vie.

[Chris F.cc]

That was a bit sudden, the phone pinged, I glanced at the email and thought "does that mean what I think it means?"
Yes it did.
Feeling extremely lucky to have spotted it.
Now switched from 18.45 to 17.30, group G.
I was G last time, we started just after those lovely draftable tandems

[StantheMan]

Did the same