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- Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 7804
Re: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
I'm sold. There are a few bucket list audax rides that I'm hoping to factor into the qualification, like the Bryan Chapman 600, so qualification would really be a bonus. The Chapman is good but the route has changed with an organiser change a few years ago. The organiser is now running a 600 from T...
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 7804
Re: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
The key difference with Paris Brest Paris to almost anything else I/we do is the crowds lining the whole 1200km route, kids wanting to high five you after two days if not washing your hands, locals in villages running free food stalls in the middle of the night, being cheered on for the hero you wis...
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 2:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 7804
Re: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
@dyffers and @flyingpig - do you both have qualifying rides from 2022 that will allow you to pre-register? I haven't ridden an audax since London-edinburgh-London in 2007, but am hoping there are some spaces left once registration officially opens in June. Got my first SR qualifier (a 200k) booked ...
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 1:01 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 7804
Re: PBP - anyone planning on entering?
Yes, will be my fourth one.
There's something about it that's different to almost anything else, well worth experiencing if you can be bothered with jumping through the qualifying hoops.
There's something about it that's different to almost anything else, well worth experiencing if you can be bothered with jumping through the qualifying hoops.
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2023 - Plans, rides and things to look forward to
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2203
Re: 2023 - Plans, rides and things to look forward to
Paris Brest Paris in August. Qualifier rides + extras January to June.
Dorset Divide with a couple of mates in July.
Trying to deconflict a 400km audax with the WRT weekend so I can bring my 10tr old on his first multidayer.
Get the Caterham up to Scotland in the summer.
Dorset Divide with a couple of mates in July.
Trying to deconflict a 400km audax with the WRT weekend so I can bring my 10tr old on his first multidayer.
Get the Caterham up to Scotland in the summer.
- Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:59 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Rigid MTB tyre size..?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1057
Re: Rigid MTB tyre size..?
2.2 Ikons. 25mm internal rims. Santa Cruz Highball CC with a carbon fork and Jones bars. I usually call it my "UK gravel bike" as it's much more suited to the mixed muddy conditions you get here than 40mm gravel tyres and drop bars IMO.
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Spikey ice tyres
- Replies: 9
- Views: 551
Re: Spikey ice tyres
Yes these are exactly what you want for roads which may include patchy ice. They are useless in snow, you're better off riding your MTB tyres in powder snow but when does the UK see much of that? The impossible to ride UK days are day 2 after it has snowed then frozen overnight. You need Ice Spikers...
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:31 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: Cheap as chips 700c road rim brake wheels
- Replies: 7
- Views: 391
Re: WTD: Cheap as chips 700c road rim brake wheels
If it's a 27" wheel frame I doubt the rear spacing is 130mm, more likely 126mm for a 7spd or less screw-on freewheel hub. You could spring the steel stays out to 130 wide though which would allow some more modern wheels. I have a pair of 6spd screw-on freewheel zipp carbon tubular rims with at ...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 7:36 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: 20" Disk Brake Front Wheel
- Replies: 2
- Views: 176
Re: WTD: 20" Disk Brake Front Wheel
https://foldingbike.biz/epages/7665e38c-067c-4fa0-9037-afac2266f927.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/7665e38c-067c-4fa0-9037-afac2266f927/Products/DAHJETDISCFRWH20406 Check the OLN spacing of your current wheel. If it's 100mm you want something like the above. If it's 74mm like many 20" wheel fo...
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is there such a thing as a "racefit" Outdry?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 416
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is there such a thing as a "racefit" Outdry?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 416
Is there such a thing as a "racefit" Outdry?
As per title, the zip has gone and lining failing on my lighter weight roadie waterproof and, rather than getting another similar one that will be dead in two years, I wondered whether there is such a thing as a tighter-fitting less flappy Outdry jacket model? My MTB one is great and seemingly indes...
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:46 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Wanted - Rigid Fork for MTB
- Replies: 7
- Views: 446
Re: Wanted - Rigid Fork for MTB
On one carbon 100mm and QR Postage + a tenner which will go on the bear ( PM if any use ) Longshot but if this turns out to be for a 26er and no good for Sean or Alex I'm interested as a way to lighten my son's XS Inbred currently running an On One 420 or 440 (I forget) A-C heavyweight steel fork.
- Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Car Roof box - takes push bike?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1051
Re: Car Roof box - takes push bike?
I was drawn into buying a powerful saloon car a couple of years ago. My bike went into the boot with the rear seats down as long as the front wheel and seatpost were taken out but it was a faff and it never even reached 30mpg even going gentle on the motorway. F knows what it would have done with a ...
- Mon Sep 26, 2022 2:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Flying Easy Jet with gas cannister/CO2/meths in hold bag
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1919
Re: Flying Easy Jet with gas cannister/CO2/meths in hold bag
I've lost a multitool (that I'd carried on a number of other flights) from my carry-on bag at Bristol airport the other week; apparently an allen key or chain splitter is ok but a philips screwdriver is considered a 'weapon' *sigh*.
- Sat Sep 24, 2022 11:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Audax. anyone ride em ?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3458
Re: Audax. anyone ride em ?
Interesting about numb fingers. I'm not fit this year but managed a 600km in May and fingers were fine, just my shoulders that ached a bit because I haven't done much long riding. I'm not sure what the secret is but I've had more angst getting a comfortable saddle setup than feet or hands over the y...
- Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Audax. anyone ride em ?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3458
Re: Audax. anyone ride em ?
Great ride, but mostly (vertical!) road.Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:11 am I believe TINAT is potentially back next year. I think they're trying to gauge potential interest at present before confirming officially.
- Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Riding on Monday?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 5288
Re: Riding on Monday?
Ridden down to the park with the kids at 11am, more people out than I expected, mainly blokes with their children, like me happy to have a free day off but slightly grumpy that means they have to entertain their kids. :wink: I just wanted to be able to say to my grandkids "was I f*** sitting in...
- Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:38 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Audax. anyone ride em ?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3458
Re: Audax. anyone ride em ?
Hundreds of them over the years, love 'em. First 200km in 2006, 600km in 2007 - done 11 years of "Super Randonneur" in the last 15 - and reasonable selection of 1000km+ including two or three Paris-Brest-Paris over the years too. I can't think of a more inclusive cycling niche; I've certai...
- Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:05 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Dunoon Dirt Dash
- Replies: 5
- Views: 650
Re: Dunoon Dirt Dash
I've always avoided it when I've been up there, especially in early spring and autumn, as it had a reputation as a bogfest. I might have a look when I'm back in the next few weeks.
- Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:18 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Dunoon Dirt Dash
- Replies: 5
- Views: 650
Re: Dunoon Dirt Dash
What was the terrain by the Lochan between Goil and Strachur like? Easy push or ridable?
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Campsite reccomendations this bank holiday
- Replies: 12
- Views: 908
Re: Campsite reccomendations this bank holiday
https://www.breweryfarmdorset.com/campsite
About 15 miles from me in the middle or rural Dorset, we have used this one as a meet up with family camping site. Right on the Dorset Gravel Dash route, but train stations are a fair distance.
About 15 miles from me in the middle or rural Dorset, we have used this one as a meet up with family camping site. Right on the Dorset Gravel Dash route, but train stations are a fair distance.
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: SingleSpeed World Championships, Belgium.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1678
Re: SingleSpeed World Championships, Belgium.
I like the idea that it's sold out but they should have tried harder to get your entry.
- Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:07 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Spacious tarp tents vs light tarp tents
- Replies: 7
- Views: 506
Re: Spacious tarp tents vs light tarp tents
I also love my Gatewood but at 6'2" have accepted I always use a bivvy bag round my sleeping bag and rub my feet on the damp inside.
Not much help, sorry.
Not much help, sorry.
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:26 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: My BB200 Black Badge (training) Thread.
- Replies: 126
- Views: 7763
Re: My BB200 Black Badge (training) Thread.
BB200 2021 Strava info.JPG Shaf, look at my moving time for the BB200 2021 compared with yours; I was well inside a Black time overall (and I thought I'd stopped unnecessarily for at least an hour of that, needing the occasional cry having been flat on my back with covid the week before the event)....
- Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tomorrow.
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4972
Re: Tomorrow.
Camping with the family this weekend and only just remembered this...bugger. Looks like my 300 will have to wait another year.