5 years, never got a place, done 3 times for charity and to be honest, i wouldn’t do it again, it is fun to ride around London for last 8 miles on closed roads, but other than that there are just to many people doing it now, struggled to get up hills due to people walking and then on downhills as people ride as a group spanning whole road. Saw a ridiculous number of accidents last year purely through people riding it, who don’t really have very much experience of riding in a group, let alone surrounded by 1000’s of people.
Charities seem to putting up the amount they want you to raise too, started at £400-500, now it is £800-1000.