Audax rides

This looks interesting, a tough day out for anyone, but through some breathtaking scenery;

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_atrK-jBKJKY/TPKGjCFeXiI/AAAAAAAAN5Q/H7nk44_ObgY/s1600/tour%2Bd%2Bd.jpg

Ok. So I was thinking of doing 'Le Tour de Didling'. It has just over 1000m climbing, but it looks like most of it is reasonably spread out and no killer hills.
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/11-751/

Some casual googling indicates that the route might look something like this:
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Anyone interested? Skully? Bill?

I might be. Assuming you'd need to get the train to Haslemere? In which case 6.45 > 7.44 would look like the best bet. Early..!

Haslemere or Liphook. Liphook is slightly shorter and on quiet roads. Depends if late or not...and whether trains stop there regularly.

Will you be half-wheeling me the whole way though?

I was just looking at Liphook wondering if that would be a better bet. The 6.45 also stops there, gets in at 7.50. Enough time?

Yes, of course ;)

I need one of these:

I hope you don't expect me to sit in that thing. Although in 'audax mode' my fixxieskiddah is beginning to look a little like that, proper practical.

oof, I'd only just seen 830, that's a punishingly early start...but that train looks like the only option, and conveniently the only one without any changes.

I should also mention that this thread is full of win, which is partly why I bumped it. For those who haven't read about Greenbank's exploits, go back a couple of pages and do it, it's good reading. Also many useful nuggets of info in here.

grrr, would love to do this. But my knees are still not up to the task ... need to painstakingly build up to even commuting again :(

Have been wondering about dipping my toe into the Audax waters on and off for a couple of years now, and have finally bitten the bullet:

22 May, East Riding 100k: http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/11-8/

I know, 100k, that's baby steps, but it's my first one, and I'm probably doing it fixed.

First ever 200k yesterday - god, its a long way! Was glad I had an 18t cog on the other side of the hub to swap over to for the final blustery 30k.

Congrats on the 200k, Northern Graeme! Which route was that? And if you changed down to an 18t, what was your gearing to start off with?

It was the postponed Whitegate Christmas - Stockport to the Welsh border, onto Shrewsbury-way and back. Fairly flat. Started on 42x16 (69") then was glad I'd had a double-fixed built up over the winter with my grimper 61"-ish gear to bail out onto.

First ever 200k yesterday - god, its a long way! Was glad I had an 18t cog on the other side of the hub to swap over to for the final blustery 30k.

Headwinds the fixedwheel killer, certainly makes the knees ache doesn't it :)

Are there any relatively flat 3-400's close to London that might have GPS routes for them or simple route sheets? I'm tempted to use some audax for testing the TT bike over stuff longer than 200k since there's no 12hrs I can enter.

Are there any relatively flat 3-400's close to London that might have GPS routes for them or simple route sheets? I'm tempted to use some audax for testing the TT bike over stuff longer than 200k since there's no 12hrs I can enter.

My 400 this weekend, 3 spaces due to cancellation, first lap is rolling, second lap is rolling with one steep hill then a flattish finish.

Lap one http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=243300 1496m of climbing

Lap two http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=243301 968m of climbing

400 k ... bonkers. I will never ever ride that far in one go. I mean, i'd need a mahoosive saddlebag for all that booze and cheese n pickle sangers.

That climb data is probably a bit conservative as most the Garmin readings were around 3300m

Four riders on fixedwheel all completed in good time :)

400 k ... bonkers. I will never ever ride that far in one go. I mean, i'd need a mahoosive saddlebag for all that booze and cheese n pickle sangers.

Just buy stuff from shops along the way. Smaller saddlebag required for a small emergency cache though.

Yep

I was being flippant.

I think I couldn't ride 400k. Or if I did, I would fall out of lovely love with cycling.

I'm thinking of entering a 160 in North Lincolshire. I'm not a good climber.

Not all of Lincolnshire is flat.

600k finished. Haven't fallen out of love with cycling. Have fallen out of love with endlesly trawling up Welsh hills into a headwind.

I'm thinking of entering a 160 in North Lincolshire. I'm not a good climber.

I've got the route for the East Riding 100k this Sunday... It doesn't look killer on the terrain front, but the headwind (doesn't seem to matter which way you ride at the moment, it's always into the wind) could be a bit of a problem.

Anyway, as mentioned above points vaguely upthread, will be tackling this as my first ever Audax on Sunday.

Not all of Lincolnshire is flat.

600k finished. Haven't fallen out of love with cycling. Have fallen out of love with endlesly trawling up Welsh hills into a headwind.
B C M ? well done was that your 600 for pbp ?

Kent Invicta 600km 11th/12th June
still time to enter if you want to :)
http://goo.gl/maps/WSvf