Audax rides

I've ridden a lot of Dave Morrison's AAA Chiltern rides, looks like he's upgraded his website so now I can't find them but have a poke around https://westlondoncycling.com/

EDIT: Actually, I got them from http://www.westerley.cc/diy-chiltern-aud­axes-rated-aaa/

Here are a few more, not hilly, that I have done from Ealing

I did this one to Brighton on Sunday
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41358764

This is a bit hilly - the southern end of the Chilterns Cycleway
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36935350

Flattish one to Newbury
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/6897109

Based on the Ditchling Devil
https://ridewithgps.com/trips/23889854?privacy_code=gAYSLrFXNBGWJiOd
?privacy_code=gAYSLrFXNBGWJiOd

[See previous post!]

Thanks for all the great info. I'm based in hampton so pretty spoilt for choice and easy to get out. Whenever I make a route I end up on some roads that aren't for road bikes, attempt for a bit, re route. This is resulting in a large increase in punctures. Will probably do a few of the kingston wheelers calender events, so will probably leave those until dated.

I'd look at the various Kingston Wheelers audaxes on their website, plenty of 200km options to use or adapt. Brace of Bramleys, Gentley Bentley, and there's 1-2 others I can't remember the names of.

Ditchling Devil starts in Wimbledon, and is also nice to ride in reverse as I found yesterday.

You might drop the organiser a courtesy email saying you're planning to DIY the route, they're usually happy to offer a few cafe options on the way round as a bonus.

The Cogidubnus is another. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/13932310

I'd already added that link. If you wanna correct me you have to be fast :P

I made a bunch of variations on Dave's routes too, to get more AAA bang for buck. I wouldn't actually recommend any for enjoyable riding :)

Use RWGPS - it shows you surface type and is pretty good at keeping you off "no bike" infra.

Just get some Durano Pluses

I'd already added that link. If you wanna correct me you have to be fast :P

Normally, yes - but on this occasion I was! I had put the Westerley link in the post immediately before your one.

Yes, that's why my post has "EDIT: yada yada". Do keep up, old chap.

Not that I'm taking sides but the links on the westerly.cc link don't work for me. Says they might be private.

It's not important, but I made two posts, one before yours, which I expect you've missed, with always being right and all that, and one after.

Sorry about that. You are right, I can't access them either.
what has most likely happened is that the guy who created them has locked them. He is now West London cycling so he may have links from his new site.

No worries. Thanks for all the other info and I'll check out that fellas other stuff.

I went looking for Dave's link. While looking for it and not finding it on his website I posted it anyway and on the page load saw you'd actually posted his link that I'd used, so I immediately edited my post, with EDIT: to show the Westerley link.

10min later you posted "[See previous post!]"

But I already had, hence the Westerley link being in my post now, ~8min before "[See previous post!]" post.

So you telling me to [See previous post!] was pointless (ie. slow) because mine already contained the updated link.

Ya follow?

There's some stuff over at: https://ridewithgps.com/users/2588838 but just to prove I'm always right I made sure Dave would hide the routes on both his sites for me until such time my point was understood.

If you search for his route names on RWGPS, you can generally find copies of them by other people that have ridden them. I think mine are private though.

has anyone rode the WAWA 2100? thoughts?

https://www.audaxireland.org/events-calendar/gazetteer/600km-events/wild-atlantic-way-audax/

The organiser of our recent End of Summertime 100k. He wrote it up in an Arrivee

We just entered the Mille Miglia for next August (entries opened last night). 1600km of Italy - bit longer but not as lumpy as the ALPI4000.

https://1001migliaitalia.it/itinerario-2024/

It looks good!

Yeah, as much as I dislike their "god take the wheel" overtaking, I do like riding in Italy and in the heat so it should be decent fun.

I've been out of the country for most of November and so tomorrow is my only window for RRTY Ride 8. Planning on Ditchling Devil but the forecast looks a bit ominous. Hopefully there won't be any ice...

We rode that as one of ours a few years ago. Wet and windy as a bastard! I had to talk my missus down from the ledge (no, you're not catching a train home) so to speak.

I just looked, it was Feb 2020

It looks good at the moment: no rain overnight and plenty of wind and sun to dry the roads. And tailwind when it is coldest in the morning gives you the best of it.

The one thing that would make me concerned is clear skies overnight. Forecast says it should be cloudy so above freezing, but if it ends up being clear then it would most likely dip below freezing, so any wet bits from streams / water leaks would freeze.

Sounds like this year's Fast/Wet Times in the High Weald (thanks again @honk haha)

Cheers @frank9755 that's good intel. I usually avoid riding in these conditions but needs must. Came off on black ice in 2017 trying to do the F*stive500 and not keen to repeat the experience...