Audax rides

Massive congratulations to both of you!

Ironic that she gets through the whole season with minimal drama and then she's been off the bike for weeks now with a back injury after lifting the Sequoia out of the shower having let it dry post-wash.

Hot tip: don't do awkward lifts first thing in the morning.

Massive congratulations to both of you!

Thanks. Will pass it on.

Naturally, huge congratulations on what is a massive time commitment! New logo colour imo.

Hot tip:

don't wash your bike!

@hippy Massive congrats!

I've been saying that for years. She's a cleaning machine though.

Thanks

But I'm still very much picturing Alan grinding out the last of his lumpy 200s today to just pip me at the post :S

I joked (half joked) that if he did beat me from here that I'd go for the overall record next year and destroy all comers in a bid to get my AUK Power Couple joke across.

Wow, 245! That's impressive. Btw, what is the overall record?

Something like 370 I think

Actually looks like it's "only" 324

https://audax.uk/results/annual-awards/individual/

Points scored in brackets, totals setting a new record are shown in red

2020 Not awarded (because of Covid pandemic)
2019 Alan Steele (243.75)
2018 Shaun Hargreaves (235.5)
2017 Ian Ryall (167.25)
2016 Simon Roberts(324.75)
2015 Oliver Iles (211.25)
2014 Martin Malins (201)
2013 William Weir (323)
2012 Louise Rigby (184.25)
2011 Steve Snook (137.5)
2010 Toby Hopper (151.25)
2009 Simon Roberts (132.5)
2008 Marcus Yeo (147.5)
2007 Danial Webb (125.25)
2006 Peter Stevens (88.5)
2005 David Randerson (101)
2004 David Randerson (40.5)
2003 David Randerson (88)
2002 Laurent Chambard (60)
2001 Richard Parrotte (48.75)
2000 Chris Hopkinson (59.75)
1999 Richard Harding (52.25)
1998 David Lewis (52.75)
1997 Sandra Shaw (98.75)
1996 Mark Houlford (87)
1995 Mark Houlford (39.5)
1994 Mark Houlford (49.5)
1993 Chris Hoyle (32.5)
1992 Shawn Shaw (15)
1991 Neil Clarke (26)
1990 Richard Hulls (19)

Simon Roberts did:
Summary: 91@50km, 85@100km, 1@150km, 3@200km

which is > 500 quid worth of DIY brevets!

I just had a look and I'm on 99 rides completed :)

Mine's a much bigger spread of distances than the record year.
46@50km, 24@100km, 6@150km, 14@200km, 3@300km, 1@400km, 1@600km, 2@1000km, 1@1400km

Yeah that's quite something. You should go for it next season...:)

I've got better things to do (hmm, do I?). I only started targeting it half-way through this year because I'd started with the 100AAA goal and then saw I was on the leaderboard and that's like a red flag to a fat bull.

That Shaun Hargreaves does all his riding fixed. Just saying.

I think I spent upwards of £200 on virtual brevet cards this season. £4 a pop to ride around by myself, what am I doing?

I do all my rides drunk. Is that better or worse than fixed?

Apparently he was on the Highland Fling 1000 this year too.

Being drunk can go either way, sometimes it’s better, sometimes it’s worse. Riding fixed is shit all the time. Although, being too drunk is considerably worse than fixed, so who knows.

That route went right past my flat in Edinburgh. I spotted him on his fixed Rourke and got strong audax vibes before I knew who he was.

Could do 9 CX races for that.

Yeah, riding fixed is only better than gears when you've smashed your RD off. :) Then you want to be riding fixed. I don't mind fixed around town but I have no interest in doing long rides fixed. I love zooming downhill without having to think about my frog in a blender legs too much.

Is a RRtY the same fixed or geared? Or if I do it fixed do I get my name on another list?

There’s no additional fixed RRtY. Nothing special about other than impressing about 6 people at most.

Sounds like a good enough reason to me

You could probably impress about 10 people if you did RRtY fixed and all rides had AAA points...