Audax rides

You really did. Genuinely one of the top 5 sausage rolls I've ever had and the quiche was sublime too.

I'm doing my 1st 400 this weekend - Border Nights - https://www.audax.uk/event-details/10703-border_nights

Probably a bit of a long shot considering where it is, but wondered if anybody else is doing it?

long way from Brockwell :)

take pics and look forward to reading a word or two about it once you're suitably recovered. Best of luck!

Haha - indeed, a very long way! Recently moved up to Morpeth to be nearer my partner's family.

Will take some pictures and report back.

300k Hastings DIY done yesterday. 5am start after fuck all sleep (thanks brain) sucked but at least getting out of London was quite nice.

The lanes in Sussex (and a bit of Kent) were absolutely shithouse and I think road bikes in this country are basically pointless now. Maybe I'll try riding the Surly from now on.

Hot tip: if you plan your route to finish at a Crossrail station make sure it's working. Bonus ride across London was uncalled for.

I don't ride as far as you, but I don't ride anything less than 45s now. Bit extreme maybe, but the lanes around here are so bad that it's the only way to keep a bit of comfort.

I see so many people on 23s still I genuinely am impressed they're still going.

Having said that I did a ride around Oxfordshire recently and part of it was along the new HS2 works (which I thought was cancelled?) and there was miles and miles of lovely fresh tarmac, albeit with these very 'european' bridges over the Trainline that just rise out of nowhere and are very windy.

I'm still trying to adjust with the replacement saddle which didn't help but fuck me, it's like I need a kidney belt fitted coz I'm on a motocross course. Bonkers level of shitness. Tory scum underfunding everything plus Tory scum driving 4x4s everywhere.

The bike path from Woolwich into town was pretty neat though. Still fuck all resembling anything that nice in West London. Of course TFL decide to work on all the trains this weekend so that's fucked my plans to go to Watford for another loop on the Surly.

which I thought was cancelled?

Not unless you were in parts of Oxfordshire north of Birmingham. (The cancelled part was the Birmingham to Manchester section).

I see so many people on 23s still I genuinely am impressed they're still going.

I did 13 pavé sections of the Paris-Roubaix route recently on 25s. Never again.

Paris-Roubaix route

Why go all the way to France? You can replicate it almost anywhere with 100km of London.

Actually that reminds me, I need to mark some roads as unpaved in OSM. I'm sure they were sealed when I planned the route to Hastings.

@hippy do you have a GPX for the Pendle 600?

Saw you rode it on YACF but RideWithGPS links all 404.

Of course. Route sheets are for lunatics.

This is Andy Corless, the organiser and dated 2024 so I presume it's for this year's event

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43088300

Perfect, thanks! Not sure why I couldn't find that on RWGPS. Maybe I need another coffee..

I just searched for Pendle with distance over 450km or something. If I couldn't find it, I'd have just sent my version. Everyone needs more coffee. Shit, you just reminded me I have cold brew in the fridge that I haven't touched for 3 days as I've been at conference. COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

This post explains why I have a 32T cassette in a bag with a note about being used on HB300
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16945106/

I wonder why I used a 32T cassette for a hilly ride when I'm normally running an MTB cassette? Maybe it was when the biggest cog started skipping and I couldn't find a replacement.

Anyway, a 32T doesn't really work that well if your RD has a Wolf Tooth fitted. I mean, it works, just the RD sits miles away from this "small" cassette. I might stick a 36T SRAM cassette on that I also dragged out of the same bag of 11s bits. Why? Because SLS1200 looks pretty flat so I probably should run a normal cassette for it and thus test it in advance.

Reading the new arrivee and there's an article about nose breathing. A fair amount about nitric oxide which is general hyperbole, if you want to increase inhaled nitric oxide you can always cycle behind a bus!

Not looking good for 1000mi in Aug so if anyone was thinking of riding Mille Miglia this year, special price for you :)

Anyone else doing the Airborne 200 on the 17th?

Pending doc on 21st, I'm hoping to ride Old Roads and Drove Roads on the 24th. Will probably take the Surly with fat tyres and maybe add some seatpost and bar suspension to reduce impact on the collarbone.

My audax results this season are fucking ridiculous:
200k done, DNS 600k (flooded trains), DNF 600k (flooding/time), DNF 1200k (crash), DNS 1600k (crash recovery)

Anyone have list of nice 200s going out of north london? Tired of riding back through central after a long day out on the south routes

Great escape is a nice one

North London or Herts/Essex ok too? I rode to the start of Horsepower 200 once. There's quite a few events going from Great Dunmow or thereabouts run by ACME I think

Phil Whitehurst's series I did last year all started in Stevenage, all great routes and very accessible by train from King's Cross. The 300 can be shortened to 200.
https://www.audax.uk/event-details/9329-rutland_midnight_express
https://www.audax.uk/event-details/8692-stevenage_start_of_summertime

Ah, yes, we did his Emitremmus ride and he does a 400k called Jelly Legs I think.

Thanks all! I’ll add these to the list. @hippy was thinking more straight north, I’m more central than out east and don’t particularly enjoy the Epping New rd slog.

@ElGonzo did the Jelly Legs 400 this year and enjoyed? it