Audax rides

Depends on the organiser. Most will allow them to last forever, or at least until an organiser decides to retire or drop the ride etc.

DIY perm cards (paper or virtual) will last until there is a change of DIY organiser.

Thanks, will drop the organiser an email to check!

ask the individual organiser, most of the time they last forever but remember that some things may happen to make them invalid:-

• organiser changes/retires
  
• validation changes with that route (new roads built which make it under distance, etc)
  
• any info questions in the perm are no longer valid/correct
  
  

Some (very few) organisers are picky about when the cards are used so they may make you buy some more.

Will do, thankfully 5 of them are the same organiser so that makes things fairly straightforward.

Henley Hilly 1oo on the 27th - tempted as 1st audax if no fasy road sections

Just finished my first 600. Bit broken, not enough sleep. A great ride though.
Have now got my Super Randonneur, very happy with that.
Now to sleep some more.

nice one, jaryder, which audax was it?

Congratulations on your SR.

Flatlands 600 from Great Dunmow.
Relentless headwinds on the fens, started fantasizing about hills after while. A beautiful ride all the same though, would do again.

attending the Colchester 100 (km) which takes place this Sunday, it has a route-card, unsure is it fits the definition of an audax though,

Do elaborate.......

whadda ya wanna know - website says it all, no?

simply turn-up at the Bricklayers Arms in Colch, then follow the Dunwich Dynamo style route card (its an unsigned route, and different from last year, which was an enjoyable tour of the Essex countryside)

(7.55am train from London Liverpool Streets get you to the start just about in time; starting location is a two-min. ride from the station)

Not an audax per se but clearly seems to be run in an audax style. Looks like it could be a good event.

@howradmichello

Do you get pints? For an audax you get pints.

Nice one!! 600k is far.

I must be riding the wrong ones...

if you're there, will happily enjoy some pints with you afterwards, :-)

(although actually, planning to enjoy at least a couple in any case, will commit to three if you attend!!)

Should I?
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/14-887/#more

^That is a lot of climbing. Going to do the 100km ride.

It is? Oh yeah, 2900m. But it's over 200k so that's not too crazy.

If you are bored of flattish busy roads I think this will offer the exact opposite, so...yes.

I hear it is a great route, very lane-y and a genuine challenge on the climbing front. I think the hills are a bit beyond me right now

I use the Chiltern 100 and Chiltern Reliability courses for training rides so it should be ok - I know what the lanes are like. It's probably not the right training for the Cali 24hr but as you note I'm over A roads and I quite like the Steamride audax so figure I should give some more of them a chance. Plus, I'm having some scary thoughts about PBP at the moment.

No time for the rides to qualify?

PBP qualifiers have to be done in 2015 don't they?