Ultracycling

Then again, not sleeping outside you may as well just tour.

That's what I said. Didn't work. @Cycliste is invoking @skinny as a precedent for not bivying.

Pound to a penny it’s gravy made with Maggi gravy granules, which gets thicker the longer it’s heated.

Has this thread gone back to discussing the make up of @hippy 's gravy again?

PanCeltic route announced https://www.pancelticrace.com/

He bivvied in his first races. You don't get to use hotels unless you're in the top 10. #ultrarules

Everyone loves my gravy.

Is this going to be another event that finds out too late in the day about all the dramas of racing insurance? Wasn't that the issue with road racing in the UK?

Maybe not

"As the organisers, we have to tread a fine line on whether we call these things races, rides, journeys, adventures, tours etc. You see, by billing it as a “race”, we potentially leave ourselves open for future litigation recourse, perhaps more so than if we merely called it a “ride”. Rightly or wrongly, it is one of the facts we have to acknowledge living in the modern world we find ourselves in."

Costs "Race Insurance Liability Cover"

Is @Cycliste racing to win then?

I was thinking of having this as a kinda back up plan. However my best friend is getting married the day before the start in Dorset!! Things seem to be conspiring somewhat.

This actually looks well put together. Clear differences between this and the announcement of Trans Alba in terms of preparation.

Going to be tough to pick a race this year.

Going to be tough to pick a race this year.

Yes. Panceltic first choice for me atm

I like the ferry element, even though I hate ferries.

This also looks fun. Bikepacking LEJOG

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more info? offroad?

Is @Cycliste racing to win then?

Definitely not. @Cycliste does win things from time to time - various club championships, TTs and hillclimbs, the occasional open TT and the Mi-Marmotte sportif, but it's invariably by accident, without really trying, and quite often without realising that she's won at the time. She just doesn't like the idea of bivvying.

I can’t ignore gravy....

Actually was looking for a Japanese odyssey thread.

2000km self-supported bikepacking route from Land's End to John
O'Groats on road, gravel, singletrack, and everything in between. Made
for gravel bikes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpoT2hYlSj0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

thanks.
"Made for gravel bikes" means they're missing out on a load of good singletrack probably. Shame.

Their website is something else:

"Our mission: To rewild ourselves through self-sufficiency.
A hundred thousand years ago, our Stone Age ancestors were as "wild" as the animals they tracked and hunted for food and clothing. Life was intense, often desperate, but undeniably human.
21st-century woman and men are fully domesticated. We eat processed and packaged meals, sleep in climate-controlled houses, and the closest most of us come to an authentic wilderness experience is watching a survival reality show on TV.
The Racing Collective is an attempt to rewild ourselves; a chance to get away from 'organised-fun' and instead ride routes that make us feel alive, free, and wild."

This looks really interesting indeed.

Well very good aim, then they picked UK for that?

Well very good aim, then they picked UK for that?

Post Brexit wilderness.

In a few months we'll be balls deep in Brexit/Stone Age shit we won't need gravel rides for it...

step 1. decide your ethos is "a chance to get away from 'organised-fun'"
step 2. organise a fun event
step 3. ???