Paris Brest Paris (PBP) 2019

Why the struts anyway? Just aesthetics? It's nice to look at anyhow.

if i remember rightly he had an -17 degree stem on that bike!

I failed the bike check due to missing a bar plug and had to buy some bar tape for 18 quid to use a plug to be given the brevet. :/

Got to the desk to collect my brevet card etc and was told they couldn't find it, turned out the guy who signed my bike off wrote the number down wrong!

All good now, in an amazing hotel with a beer!

How frustrating!! Good luck!
Do you have a tracker?

A mate is doing it and apparently it lashed down today and all his spare kit got wet ?

Truss forks have been around for ever. I couldn't possibly say if these are any good, but all steel disc forks are compromised in some way anyway, I don't see why these would be any worse.

It'll be just fine. Hope the rental includes a spare mech hanger!! ( just in case )

That's probably one of the concours des machines bikes? Integration and innovations are kind of a big thing there and a bar and stem made for the purpose, without slipping clamps, is nice at least as an idea.

Squints

Are those the incredibly spendy eewings Ti. cranks?

Oh yeah and silly fork is silly

That was partly what I was thinking of as well.

Mostly its the feeling that they have given an awful lot of their time and attention to some aspects which don't particularly help them to actually do the ride.

Truss forks

Interesting, i hasn't come across them before, didn't realise they were a known thing.

A truss fork won the concours des machines a couple of years ago.

https://www.associationartisansducycle.com/cdm2017

https://track.rtrt.me/e/PBP-2019#/tracker/RNVBY32W this will update from our chip thing

Great. Ride well

Torrential/very heavy rain stopped around 12ish and looks sunny now.

Say safe all.

Check in and bike check were grey, but things are looking up.

Interesting, i hasn't come across them before, didn't realise they were a known thing.

They do work very well, as it allow the builder to use a thinner gauge tubing than you would as the truss design allow it to be both strong and still retain a degree of flex (after all some older bicycle have a lots of rake so it allow it to flex a bit over bump).

That blue bike on the van !!!

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Bon chance to all riders

Bonne chance à tous les coureurs randonneurs!

@DarrenFranks is smashing.

https://dotwatcher.cc/race/paris-brest-paris-2019

Still trucking. Aiming to for ST Nicholas this evening at 488k for a sleep and then push to Brest in the morning.

Atmosphere on the road is amazing, people are coming out in pretty much every town and village to support everyone.

Just having my first beer of the ride, survived to far with a 15 minute power nap last night.

Same builder?

Sounds like he's still going well. 27.3kph average :0