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The info before the "vedette" info was next to a building with "vedette" written on it in large letters, providing you with a handy example to learn from :-)
I'm normally really bad at info questions (and resort to taking photos for proof) but I thought ORDR had some imaginative and interesting ones compared to the usual variety.
However there were a lot of them! Something like 12 or 14 controls in a 200 is nuts - presumably because the organiser had to bounce the route around a lot to keep it on interesting terrain.
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That's a lot of infos. But, in southern England at least, it's tricky to devise a route that isn't an out and back, because there are so many roads, and bridleways, that can cut the minimum distance as measured by Google maps below what it needs to be. Even if no-one would ride them as they are near-motorways or dirt tracks, they still get counted and lop off a few km here and there.
My club is doing a new 200 for next May and the guy who devised the route had a lot of issues with this. I think he's got it down to about 3 infos, which I thought was just about bearable. -
Ha! And after all that fuss i never even saw the sign...
Need to improve my observation skills too :-)
frank9755
ewanmac
Ha! No.
One of the info controls had a question along the lines of "what is the phone number written on the water container next to the vedette?" I tried googling and all I got was pictures of women in corsets... apparently it's a brand of bodyshaper lingerie. However there was a disappointing lack of corseted women around so apparently they were referring to some kind of military sentry post. Even that didn't help much as there were several buildings nearby, most with phone numbers on. Info controls were as annoying as my mum's annual cryptic easter egg hunt...
Yup, 1st was a flint. Second was the blowout but maybe 25km after the first puncture, everything seemed fine but suddenly I heard rubbing against my mudguard and before I could stop to look "bang". Third was another flint about 2mins later.