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Speaking as a slower rider I like the sound of this from the Upper Thames website:
As it is always on the Saturday closest to November 5th, the slower riders have traditionally been entertained to firework displays in the latter stages.
Long range forecast is currently for a dry early November. I'm tempted
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@hippy
I think my arms are worse than my legs today - that's what happens when you swap TT bike for over-geared road bike and A roads for lumpy lanes.
The 'Upper Thames' ride was mentioned. Anyone doing this? Bit further away for me - it'd be 75k each way to/from the start, making it ~360k day.
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/14-602/
212km cycling event starting from Cholsey, E of Didcot. Controls at Waterperry and Chipping Norton, plus 4 information controls.
A gently rolling ride through the Chilterns, Cotswolds and the flatter West Oxfordshire plain. Controls are at commercial cafes, and plenty of hot food (included in the entry) at the end. PLEASE ENTER ON-LINE
There is a surcharge for postal entry. If you must use postal entry, no SAE required unless you need hard copy routesheet. Route is broadly to outskirts of Henley, over Chilterns to Waterperry (cafe), past Bicester into Cotswolds to Chipping Norton (cafe), via Brize Norton to Stanford-in-the-Vale, back to Cholsey. Given the time of year some of the roads are likely to be mucky, hence my request (not demand) that mudguards be fitted in order to avoid problems with the controls. Cholsey has a station on the London Paddington-Reading-Oxford line.