Audax rides

She's only got an SS Langster and wants to ride this:
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/17-191/

and the Nycto:
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/18-886/

dafuq?

Kill or cure.

You've created a monster!

I've entered the first one, but I'll be taking some gears. She's obviously made of sterner stuff.

I'll probably be entering the Nyctophobic. Need to do something this year but haven't got time to do a 200 that day as I'm out in the evening with the in-laws and most other weekends are chock full.

May take the fixed too just to give myself something to shout about.

MsGraunch took it up too, and is just much more disciplined than me. She doesn't dawdle at stops like I do

She doesn't have anything with gears (yet). Maybe I should drop the saddle on my Tarmac and give her that? Probably too long for her, not really sure.

Anyone done Greenwich Mean Climb fixed? If so, thoughts? And what gear did you use?

Testing on gears is the sensible thing to do.
I bought my GF a Basso roadbiek that is now wallhanger and never (ever) gets moved.
She loves riding fixed though, so that's a win

She'll be fine with the singlespeed + me yelling at her to climb faster. ;)

I'm usually the one that carries all the food, works okay'ish to keep her on my wheel.

I'd say not fixed friendly imho. I used every gear I had on my geared bike repeatedly. Saw one fixed last year but he dnf'ed. I love riding fixed but freewheeling those downhills was the highlight for me as many of them have no intersections at the bottom.

Plenty of people have ridden GMC fixed and completed it in the last couple of years (not me), I would just be prepared to walk a few climbs, and don't chose too spiny a gear for the descents.

I haven't ridden it, but am going to this year.
I've been riding 62"/65" on AAA rides most of the year and am gonna ride that I think. (Shiny new 42t chainring I'm fitting tomorrow might persuade me to run 62 and 58".)
I am a very much a spinner though I reckon, so if you are okay with walking a few or are a strong climber, higher would be better I guess. Most others seem to be riding much higher than me when I've seen them. (The other guy running fixed was running 69"on TOTH)
I'm gonna use Rowlands RAAAmble as my final decider - see how I feel after that on 65, and go from there.

Saw one fixed last year but he dnf'ed

Might have been me. It's perfectly doable on fixed (64" and 24" for me), I just ran out of inclination about 200km in, and faced with the choice of another hundred hilly km, or 6km downhill on an A road to a station decided I'd get the train, then head to the arrivee and pretend to help serve stew while really drinking beer.

But if I ride it this year I'll have a full set of gears - was only doing it on fixed because I hadn't been arsed to rebuild my geared bike after breaking it earlier in the year.

I have a pass for the GMC \o/

Apparently the route has been tweaked for this year. Maybe they've found a new hill somewhere.

My gear of choice is 34/32.

Signed up for the Tasty Cheddar in a few weeks time.

Bad news coming in from the Flatlands. Sounds like a car ploughed into a group of 3-4 riders at 2:30am, clear visibility at the time, hit and run.

They okay?

Not clear yet

This is the latest info.

https://www.lincs.police.uk/news-campaigns/news/2017/cyclists-seriously-injured-a15-ashby-de-la-launde/

Fuck sake.

£300, 12 month suspended sentence

This looks mad: http://theradavist.com/2017/08/jotunheimen-super-randonnee-johan-bjorklund/#35

Sounds like one to do when the roads are closed just for the LOLs. Where's @Samuli ?

Sounds like one you should do ... I struggled to do more than 80 the other day. Proper Audaxing seems out of reach. Also, there not much of it here in South Australia, I think.