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• #102
Only managed about 40 mile fixed in a day. Will probably do the DD on fixed though as my first proper long distance journey. After that I might start thinking of doing a flat 300k or something.
Flattest Possible 300 out of Bethersden is a good one for fixed. It was my first fixed 300. It's not completely flat (it does go up to Frant, and also along the B2082 from Rye to Tenterden) but there are long stretches of flat through Romney Marsh and along the A259 by the coast. It's also easy to get to/from on the train (despite the 2am start).
Mine is either a 621km DIY 600 Audax (Putney, Cambridge, Putney, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Bethersden and then the Flattest Possible 300 Audax) in about 38 hours. Longest time off the bike was only about an hour.
Or a 3-day 750km ride from Putney to North Berwick via Cheshunt, Gamlingay, Bourne, Lincoln, Thorne, Coxwold, Middleton Tyas, Yad Moss, Alston, Canonbie, Langholm, Eskdalemuir, Innerleithen, Dalkeith. Did have about 6 hours sleep each evening though.
In May this year it should be a small ride from Chepstow up to Menai and back (it should be just longer than 621km with the ride to/from the start from the hotel).
In July this year I hope to push it up to 1400km by going from London up to Edinburgh and back. :)
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• #103
Not that far, but biked to the in-laws small holding on one of the islands off the coast of Aalesund (where I live) over Easter.
60 km each way, few toughish climbs, snow topped mountains, quite fjord side roads, fantastic!
Cant really recommend cycling on poor quality roads with a broken finger and a (not quite healed)cracked rib though, but it was worth it ;)
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• #104
Doing the Red Cross London - Brighton in June, that'll be my longest trip yet?
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• #105
258K in and around last year's Dunwich Dynamo.
My arse hurt.
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• #106
Cant really recommend cycling on poor quality roads with a broken finger and a (not quite healed)cracked rib though, but it was worth it ;)
What it is all about really isn't it. Just wanting to go out for a ride whatever.
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• #107
Greenbank wins ;)
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• #108
Greenbank wins ;)
Still trumped by Fixedwheelnut as he's done LEL.
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• #109
I've done the 100 miles and something that is Wimbledon to brighton and back... not as much as lots here, but I'm proud of it.
I think more than that would get very boring... at least that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it! :-)
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• #111
85 miles on one of Cliveo's runs out to Ascot/Windsor after Xmas in sub-zero temperatures trying to keep up with BMMF and hippy. It was fun!
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• #112
190K on Easter Monday Phoenix run, trying to keep up with hippy...
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• #113
150+ miles around swedens lake vlattern in 14hrs..
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• #114
258k - London to Cambridge to Banbury back in October 2007. it gets boring sitting on a bike that long spinning the same gear. don't think i would do it again.
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• #115
the lord clyde se1. epic.
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• #116
i did my winter training rides fixed.
circa 130k on five consecutive sundays in jan and feb 09.
flat though - out in essex.
on one occasion the water in my bottle froze. brrrrr...... roll on summer.
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• #117
'tut shops n' back.
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• #118
I once road the whole length of Clerkenwell Road without having to stop for a rest. That hill is a right bitch.
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• #119
I once road the whole length of Clerkenwell Road without having to stop for a rest. That hill is a right bitch.
Liar!
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• #120
don't believe you
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• #121
ha
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• #122
90 odd miles but need to get better as i am doing le jog in a few months fixed!
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• #123
Around 150 miles, with only a few hours sleep.
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• #124
Liar!
I know, I couldn't believe it either but it really happened.Are you home tonight?
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• #125
I know a guy who did London to Somwhere in S.Africa and back on fixed and brakeless....for charity.
Took him like two months or something, but the dude is fucking nuts, the bike is some crappy (raleigh?) conversion too.
The bridges ride I think, Tower Bridge to Kew, followed by a swift pint only to realise about 3 minutes after arriving, and drinking my pint that we were leaving again off on the bridges lol.