Tell us about your weekend ride

Hoefla/Si - sorry, being dim. Blame tiredness.

Fox I had no idea you literally went past my house! If I'd have known there would have been food/ drinks for you.

When you fancy some East Anglia rides please do let me know. We don't have much in the way of audax up here (bar the 400 this year) are you coming along for that?

That's the plan. It does indeed seem less daunting now I've done a 300, although I'm not sure my right knee would agree. You don't rent out rooms do you? ;)

Have you guys done a 200 mile audax already or was that your first long one? (snip) Yours was about 17 hours or so right, how much of that was riding and how much was off bike, approx?

We took 17.5 hours all together, I think about 13 of that was moving. This seems to be about typical from what I've gathered. I'm sure we could have done it faster if I was on gears too.

Also wondered what the most popular saddle is amongst the audax brigade, I'm assuming some kind of Brooks?

Seems to be yes, a B17 seems spot on. I don't think you need a Brooks though, just whatever suits you. Getting it set up right is critical, unforunately mine doesn't seem to be at the moment, so I was hurting a bit by the end, without going into too much detail. I'm not even sure my problems are saddle related though, I'm trying to get to the bottom of them at the moment, if you pardon the pun.