Tell us about your weekend ride

Awesome!! Massive respect to you for such an epic journey particularly solo and fixed. Blakeless mud have been "exciting" at times!!! Thanks for sharing.

hence the 5hr ride home from the TT.

Your screws are more lose than mine. It's clear.

Save your strength for the mains--they give you more bulk, more reliably.

Good call!

#saynocheeseboards

Your screws are more lose than mine. It's clear.

My screwing is just fine.. my mum told me so.

Went out on the "slightly hilly" club run, happily surprised that I just about managed to keep up with a few stronger riders.

http://app.strava.com/activities/57494939

I have this all the time when I was in France, I was so disappointed that there's a severe lack of them in Spain that I slough for a Carrefour just to get those.

Yeah, I was going to bring loads back with me, but couldn't find any in santander :(

Rep for Bothwell and Laner, great tales.

Laner, what happened next? (as if we don't already know...)

I have this all the time when I was in France, I was so disappointed that there's a severe lack of them in Spain that I slough for a Carrefour just to get those.

Ed, here https://www.frenchclick.co.uk/p-4764-haribo-orangina-pik-250g.aspx you can click to get something decent.

Laner, honest question, did you take off your brake so you didn't feel outdone by TM and TP88?

Ha! This bike never had a brake. But I did feel more confident doing it brakless because you guys had done a similar route. It was totally fine until past san sebastian, which shows you guys had more sense than me!

Aren't they known as Haribo Pinballs over here?

Yah, they're awesome.

Bothwell I'm not allowed to rep you again, sorry. Hippy I was happy last weekend because I managed a century in 6 hours, and that didn't include the cake stop. lol.

Laner, which album? This is an important detail. Picaresque is my favourite.

Pifko you have no idea what you have done... I thought you could only get these in French France. Dragolo are my favourite, they are a mixture of the pinball things and gummy bears:

The only thing they could improve is the name, I think they should be called DRAGYOLO.

If that descent past San Sebastian is the same one we went down, it's the one where we got up so much speed a contact lens blew out of my eye despite the fact I was wearing sunglasses (and had my eyes shut for quite a lot of it). I did wonder about that one when you said you were going brakeless.

Well done for getting as far as you did anyway, in some pretty grim conditions from the look of it.

(and had my eyes shut for quite a lot of it).

You were stoker right?!!!

Ha! This bike never had a brake. But I did feel more confident doing it brakless because you guys had done a similar route. It was totally fine until past san sebastian, which shows you guys had more sense than me!

Doing the descent from the camp site in san sebastian 3 times was enough for me.

Would be interested to see what lay down the road, we gave up in SS more because we had been exhausted by the relentless heat and sunshine we had experienced all along the route...

(:

Bothwell I'm not allowed to rep you again, sorry. Hippy I was happy last weekend because I managed a century in 6 hours, and that didn't include the cake stop. lol.

I bet you didn't have a skinsuit and funny lid on though, did you?

This thread is making me sick... 2 weekends ive not been able to get out on the bike.... this weekend coming is mine !

I bet you didn't have a skinsuit and funny lid on though, did you?

Nope. That's it! Two hour plus time difference totally explained away ;)

Amazing ride report from Boffwell. Having recently conquered my mental fear of hills, which I think in part has to come from being physically fitter/stronger I concur with what a good feeling it is.

As for me this weekend, I did the TNRC Ingatestone route. Nothing compared to the epic tales above but a very nice 40 miles of nice, quiet Essex lanes it was. Highly recommended.

I managed to bang out a 40 miles fixed ride on Sunday in under 3 hours and was feeling very pleased with myself until I came into this thread and read the various heroics scattered liberally around. That said I do think it's my longest ever fixed ride and although I was fading at the end due to aggressive drinking the night before, I was pleased with the pace and the bike feel, since it is a recently acquired frame.

A few randomly snapped photos as I road along:

Hey laner, thanks for sharing sounds awesome. I'm looking to do something similair this year and just wondered if it was an expensive trip or not really? Are the campsites cheap?

They vary from €4 to €40 depending on where you are.

For one person one tent in France the price varied from 8 to 15 euro. The cheapest being camping municipal sites. It'd be cheaper still if it was two of you sharing a tent