Cycle Sportives

ouch, how much climbing?

Well, the rider briefing said there was hardly any climbs of note and there wasn't, was just constant up and down all day, really strength sapping, was on my lowest gear up most of the last climbs and could have done wth a much lower gear for the beacon, some people were pushing their bikes up there.

Was fantastic scenery though and some really fast downhill bits, good day

hippy achieved a highly commendable 19th place out of 124 finishers and I managed a (for a fat old man) respectable 68th place. What with a reasonable tme in the drag sprints, not a bad weekend for me.
hippy, I am only 22 years older than you.

I'm only 22...

Autumn Epic entries open.. very popular.. great fun (if a little damp last time) get in!
http://www.cyclosportives.co.uk/epicHome.htm

Devil Ride, 12th July, another great ride by the same peeps is half full..
http://www.cyclosportives.co.uk/devilHome.htm

hi

in the latest stage of my almost-mid-life crisis I am joining other lycra-wearing-roadies-who-should-know-better for this closed-road jaunt around Perthshire (also raising money for Macmillan, which is nice).

bit of a cost/hassle involved in getting there, but should be good fun, and if I do a good enough time I can convince myself and those dear to me that I deserve a much more expensive bike. or at least a new bottle cage.

ANYWAY, is anyone else here heading up north in May for this? I'm doing it with a couple of mates (on road bikes, in case you were wondering, as we're nowhere near fit enough to do it in one ring).

there's the option of entering as a team of five - got three of us, so I'm thinking a couple more forum members and we do our best impression of slick pro peleton riders. at least for the first mile or two before we go to pieces on the lower slopes of Schiehallion.

Top tip; don't do a sportive whilst signed off sick from work getting your picture posted on the event website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/03/civil-servant-employment-tribunal

Tom posted this elsewhere..

http://www.evanscycles.com/ride-it/king-of-the-downs-super-sportive-17th-may?utm_source=awin&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=awin

Top tip; don't do a sportive whilst signed off sick from work getting your picture posted on the event website.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/03/civil-servant-employment-tribunal

Ha! What a cockhead!
Gets 3 months sick leave and is doing sportives 3 weeks into it.

Ha! What a cockhead!
Gets 3 months sick leave and is doing sportives 3 weeks into it.

Of course, you'd be doing one a couple of hours into it. :)

I'm a contractor so I don't get sick leave.

Tom posted this elsewhere..
http://www.evanscycles.com/ride-it/king-of-the-downs-super-sportive-17th-may?utm_source=awin&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=awin

Looks great but cheeky Evans offering a "fancy" bike for going sub 1:47 up York Hill after 75mi of not so flat riding, kind of a safe bet for them.

Yeah, but you know some psycho climber will enter it and then use his psycho buddy to tow him half way up the hill after having warmed up over that 75mi.. well, I would.

Does look a good ride, I'm on holiday though.

Autumn Epic entries open.. very popular.. great fun (if a little damp last time) get in!
http://www.cyclosportives.co.uk/epicHome.htm

I have just entered this - probably on for sharing travel accomodation (provided I don't jessie out of it come September!)

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Looks great but cheeky Evans offering a "fancy" bike for going sub 1:47 up York Hill after 75mi of not so flat riding, kind of a safe bet for them.

claus - just a week before the Tour of Wessex. Don't even think of it ;o)

Tom posted this elsewhere..

http://www.evanscycles.com/ride-it/king-of-the-downs-super-sportive-17th-may?utm_source=awin&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=awin

Looks like a good one - with that sort of warm-up, I could probably get within 10 seconds of the record, but that's it (if I could deposit some weighty accessories at the start). And anyway I don't need/want a fancy Pinnacle bike, or the hassle of selling it.

£2000 cash, and I might get some training done.

The trouble is, it's £20 to ride roads I already know. I'd much rather do it as a club ride for free, especially with a few Garminites on board, and finish at a pub. We could download the route, and do it at a mutually convenient time for Rollapalosers and assorted hangers-on...

How dare you call me a 'weighty accessory'. Bitch!

As I said elsewhere(tm) That sounds like a good plan. The same weekend works.. we could fake numbers and then I could still get my photo taken and eat their cakes.. right? RIGHT?!

Fake numbers, FTW. Would it be termed as 'sportive raid'? We could start a trend...

Can I have updside-down 13? That or 69.

It was a lovely day. Lovely course. Challenging climbs and fun, safe descents. But something was "off". I didn't feel the love for much of the day.
I also sprayed myself in my own blood after hitting a pot hole, throwing a chain and then refitting it with some kind of new-fangled thumb slicing method I'd not previously used.
Muchos Gracias to cliveo for driving me there and back.
Sunlight, tan, consider yourselves repped!

Silver in 4:23.

claus left me behind early on and got a gold time. Well done!

Cyclosport.org rate Surrey Rumble difficulty as 7 and Burgess Hill Classic as a 6!! I call bollocks!

burgess hill spring classic (114k)
274W normalized power (does a better job of accounting for power spikes)
212W avg power
148 avg HR
3249kJ
474.7 TSS (training stress score)

surrey rumble (125k)
249W normalized power
205W avg
143 avg HR
3147kJ
389.2 TSS

I got bronze.....

....and a screwed up rear mech

Well done, guys.

Hippy hope you're OK dude.

Clive - is the bike ok, easily fixable?

I got bronze.....
....and a screwed up rear mech

You know what you have to do.. :P

Hippy hope you're OK dude.

OK? Dude, I'd need to bleed to death before it registered that something was wrong with my blood/alcohol balance.

Great day to make up for many cold and wet winter rides especially the snowed in Hell of Ashdown. Got reminded of it as some parts of the route overlapped. Got lucky to ride some 30 mi with a very decent group. Good to see hippy and and clive.