Ultracycling

Thanks Frank. Will do LEL then see how I feel about 4000km :-)

Mark Beaumont has finally set off from Paris on his around the world attempt

Amazing huh. Such a huge feat ahead. I hope he does it.

Japanese Odessey? ~2700km

Wow. That looks amazing. 2018 it is.

5300km ride in the UK in 2018: http://www.bikepack.cc/

Vin Cox and a few other notable names on the roster.

The route around here (east Devon) looks bloody awful, all the busiest, narrowest roads you could choose from. Sod that.

Also don't get the inclusion of the South Down Way. I guess they can claim a bit of gravel then, but the rest appears to be on roads. There's loads of amazing gravel stuff they could have included, but have opted for A-roads. Seems misguided and/or lazy planning to me.

Some of the rhetoric..

For the hardcore, don't take any messing about cyclist.

The shandy drinkers event

When you think of the Lake District you probably imagine boats, Beatrix Potter and picnics.
You need to forget all that stuff, that is for softies

I'm unfortunately a frequenter of a picnic on a boat while reading Beatrix Potter so I'm out, unfortunately.

They missed Aberdeen out...the wussies.

I hate all this stuff, what are they trying to prove, of course it's not going to be an absolute walk in the park, it's 5300km, but no need to put keen people off by writing this bollocks

Pretty fucking neolithic innit

it's both dumb as fuck, and it also makes the "scene" a lot less diverse and a lot more cliquey, which I am so so against

The whole event is dumb as fuck. Think I'll start trolling them on Twitter.

I could've done with that...

It looks nice in the flesh.

I was in Paris taking my missus to a gig. We stayed up and sent him off at 4am on Sat.
Was good fun.

Seen him saying on FB yesterday he found it hard going through Germany not knowing if he was allowed to cycle on the road or not and got pulled over by the police for being on a road he shouldn't be on. All the money and people behind the effort, you think they would of planned that a bit better.

*goes and checks tcr route.

haha, that was one of the reasons I mentioned it, as I know TCR might have this issue in Germany this year, I think Hungary as well if you choose to go that way

I rode through Germany once. Never had an issue, so didn't really consider it, when route planning for tcr. Hard to check really with no street view.

Thanks. you saved me at least 4 banned cycling roads.

They're appealing to people like me. #caveman

Ug!

It's almost impossible to check every road remotely and some will be blocked because of jobsworth coppers and/or other issues and require re-routing anyway.

I don't have time for this shit. Can I skip both countries? :)

Argh, I only just got the parcours loaded into RWGPS. Now I need ~3000k to join the fuckers up. Maybe I should just go and ITT TABR...