Audax rides

Whittlesey

I used to have to go to the brick factory there. Fascinating place

Ok, I’m in for this

Anything I need to do aside from turn up to the allotted start time and book a train from York?

I’ll probably be on the single speed

I'll need some details to do the entry. And £4-5 depending on the final size of the team. But I'll check it out and send a DM/tell you at Hills.

Given we will be riding in a group for 360++ km you may want to select whichever one of your 900 bikes that has full length mudguards if there's any hint of rain :-)

Hello,
are there any audax rides closer to London?

3 bike limit... on a TRAIN... #ffs

Yes. Some start in London.

Straight Outta Hackney
London to Brighton
Boat Trip
Steam Ride

Ditching Devil.
The Shark.
Greenwich Mean Time.
Roland's Raaamble.

I'm thinking about our under distance predicament.

Go up to York, then set a control 50km past it? If the winds right, we end up going for 500km. If conditions are terrible, we still have York as a back up plan. 500-20% is conveniently 400km.

I'd definitely back myself to do the 400km in 24hrs solo. I rode Porkers in a little over that, fixed. That has approximately 7million times more climbing too. As a group, we should be able to push more?

@Super_Ted @alialias - thoughts?

As a LFGSS group, we should be able to

spend way more time standing around dealing with mechanicals or drinking cheap lager from warm cans.

Or both.

We'll keep it low. As it stands, we will be about 30km over Google maps walking distance, but that's fine.

In other news - there is a pub called the Cittie of Yorke, in Holborn. Would have been a fantastic place to start, but don't open till 1130. Shame.

Also, because I'm nice, I'm probably going to enter the Flatlands perm on this day.

Number 901 is coming ready made for this caper

Failing that I can always fall back on numbers 654-789 which are all semi suitable but obviously have their own distinct purposes

Yeah, with so little climbing it should be a fairly leisurely ride to hit 400km in 24hr (although it sounds like there'll be a few doing 300km the weekend before, so leisurely is probably a good plan).

Luckily Easter is late this year, so less chance of apocalyptic weather...

Gah, I'm tempted.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/York+Cafe/@51.4649565,-0.1809569,2a,90y,294.63h,124.78t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s_TsCVXGf_NFFepRJ1tyQ9A!2e0!3e13!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D_TsCVXGf_NFFepRJ1tyQ9A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D129%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D283.75366%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x4876058432d644a1:0x32c19bce2152957b!8m2!3d51.4649729!4d-0.1810176

We could add some zigzags to the route? Intend to do them, then if we're struggling for whatever reason we can take the more direct (your original) route

I've been looking for audax rides that start around London and members of this thread informed me of these rides. Where can I get more information about the registration/dates for these-

Straight Outta Hackney
London to Brighton
Boat Trip
Steam Ride
Ditching Devil.
The Shark.
Greenwich Mean Time.
Roland's Raaamble

I've done many audax SR rides but last year I suffered a traffic accident while training for the national road racing championship. I don't want to ride alone till I get used to UK traffic and driving.

Appreciate all the help from fellow cyclists here.

http://www.aukweb.net/events/

It's a bit thin on the ground heading into winter.

@hippy I went through the link but I couldn't find any audax events around London for the next 3 months.

Alternatively, if any long distance cyclists here are planning long rides, starting or ending around London, I'd like to join if possible.

Yeah, most of the Calendar events (the mass start ones that happen on a scheduled day) are scheduled for the warmer months. During winter people tend to have time off or do things like DIYs and Perms, which are typically solo or in small groups. You might be better off looking in the rides and races sub-forum (https://www.lfgss.com/microcosms/508/) for some of the London(ish) rides that are happening (ie. TNRC - https://www.lfgss.com/microcosms/573/), unless you specifically want audax rides?

There are some London-ish rides over winter. South Bucks WW http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/17-681/is usually on in early December. Then the Willy Warmer http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-943/ in January.
Also in January-March you have all the reliability rides (inluding mine http://www.westerley.cc/winter-warmer-2019/ on Sunday 13th!) which are usually very sociable

Just found out that two of our team are the same person. Pretty sure that's not allowed. Whoops.

Lfgss Arrow Team 1 - Long and flat

1) hippy (400km lead out man)
2) j_a_m_e_s (El capitan, route and paperwork)
3) Super_ted (beer carrier 1)
4) alialias (confused northerner)
5) available (if we can get a tandem, that would be great!)

Reserve 1) cjr (doesn't want to carry Hippy's beer) 😀

Lfgss Arrow Team 2 - Shorter but slightly hillier

6) GoatandTricycle (Arrow Team Two captain)
7) inappropriate_bike (hill-finder general and filler of forms)
8) ruserius (is this the fixed-friendly team?)
9) Ecobeard (riding in the direction of home)
10) available

Flat is a literal pain in the arse on long distance fixed/SS. I was yearning for some hills on LEL after 300km of dull flatness up to Thorne.

I know I’m late with my homework.
I’ll try get a look at it today

Lfgss Arrow Team 1 - Long and flat

1) hippy (400km lead out man)
2) j_a_m_e_s (El capitan, route and paperwork)
3) Super_ted (beer carrier 1)
4) alialias (confused northerner)
5) available (if we can get a tandem, that would be great!)

Reserve 1) cjr (doesn't want to carry Hippy's beer) 😀

Lfgss Arrow Team 2 - Shorter but slightly hillier

6) GoatandTricycle (Arrow Team Two captain)
7) inappropriate_bike (hill-finder general and filler of forms)
8) ruserius (is this the fixed-friendly team?)
9) Ecobeard (riding in the direction of home)
10) cgg (relapsing audaxer)

I'd love to but it's the week before the London Marathon, that wouldn't be very clever.