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Trains and railcard? Youth Hostel Association or Warm Showers for cheap accommodation near the start? Using the Auduax UK site to look at the calendar and signing up for future events hat you can actually get to? DIY or Perm rides? Being London based with no car I’m not sure what the problem is tbh other than a bit of planning and lateral thinking.
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Guards don't make the bike much longer. You can't take the front wheel off and sit it on an angle or something? Obviously the best bet is to ride or train but if you have to drive, remember, everything fits into everything else given enough force.
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So if you don't have a van or big car how do you get your bike to an audax.
Trains or ride. I've never driven to an Audax (although I have had a lift to a few from others). As others have said this often requires going a day early and staying somewhere locally (many a night spent in a Travelodge or Premier Inn). For a 600 I'd often stay the night somewhere afterwards too as I'd never finish early enough to get a train home.
For the MR24 I took my bike in my tiny Citreon Saxo along with all the stuff I needed to do the ride unsupported, plus a workstand. The bike still had mudguards on at that point too, I took them off when getting the bike ready for the ride the night before (and still haven't refitted them 3 years on).
When I did a triathlon in my brother's village I managed to fit my wife, my 7yo daughter, my bike, my daughter's bike (she did the mini-triathlon), myself and a bag load of stuff in said 3 door Citroen Saxo.
Good luck with the ride.
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I can start a hour later so that's something. To be fair I have have enjoyed the audaxes so far and the people have been great (guards have not come up even on one of Tom's audax earlier this year) Transporting my bike with guards though is my problem. I can't really and not every audax is on the doorstep. So this weekend it going to be approx 700km which is fine if I get in early. I probably won't though.
Using the camper is out. Putting the bike inside is slowly damaging the kitchen and all the rear racks I have looked don't hold the bike very securely. I had to zip tie and lock it to the rack. I had a bike nicked off the back of my camper in France so not getting another rear rack that can't secure the bike well.
So if you don't have a van or big car how do you get your bike to an audax. chopping mine in for an estate seems a bit extreme to go for a bike ride since I don't drive much.