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Stephane Lombard's track is showing an interesting route to CP3... is he taking a road-free route over the mountains?

Reminding me of when Stephane Ouija (?) shouldered his bike over a mountain ridge and down the other side in one of the early editions

Fiona's tracker appears to be back up

What have I become? I just filled a 30-minute gap between Zoom calls by watching another Zoom call on YouTube and finding it hilarious. FML.

I just did exactly this with my ETH. I'm not in lambo territory, but it's nice that I don't have much of an emotional investment in what happens to the half I have left in there....

I'd recommend the following to give you feels for rides in each compass direction:

1) Take the Bristol to Bath bike path out through the two tunnels then loop back through Radstock > Chew Valley
2) North out into the relative flat lanes around Yate and Wootton under Edge, back down the Severn through Hill / Rockhampton
3) Mendip loop going up Burrington Coomb and Cheddar Gorge
4) Over the bridge into Wales for some Forest of Dean gravel

Happy to share detailed routes if any of that is of interest.

Hive is a great 2-person game with tiles but no board

Yep, the tell-tale sign is when they stop looking you in the eye.

I've properly been corona'd. Being made redundant after being headhunted for the role 9 months ago. They're blaming corona which is convenient but not factually accurate. Tough climate to be jobseeking in. N-n time.

On the website it originally stated "the fastest rider could need around 4 days."

In the handbook that's been lowered to 3 days - perhaps that's a reflection of the Sofiane / no-sleep effect!

Hootie and the Blobfish

Hope the new move down under goes really well mate.

I have fond memories of riding the Grand Slam in a Day ride with you (in 2009?), in particular the stretch racing from Souths to Norths: getting pulled over by the cops in Farringdon, you smooth-talking us both out of it, and then back to racing, and still beating the rest of the group up to the Flask on Highgate Hill. Bright times.

Safe travels x

Thanks for sharing Mikko's post - really good, honest read.

Yeah, the gap between Sofiane and Skinny has held fairly consistently so far today:
09:20 | 61km
11:50 | 63km
13:30 | 67km

Looks like both riders are going to switch to descent at a similar time to one another

Back on it....

Big day of ahead....

First attempt at a prototype snack hammock...

Cheers Scott. That's very cool and close to what I was imagining (without the need for the map pocket).

@cjr that's a good idea with the food pouch. I already have a pair of restrap ones under the aero pads, but am thinking of a solution for the bulky items you tend to pick up mid-ride at petrol stations etc. In my mind its more horizontally mounted with an opening nearest the rider.

@Kurai yeah I think it may require sewing... i dont have the equipment or skills but have a friend who could help if i gave a detailed blueprint. Here's the best pic I have immediately to hand of the space available between the bars.

Actually that's incredibly helpful - I've tried plenty of search terms, but not "elastic netting", and that's thrown up some useful links. Will try and bodge something out of this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CSPDTR6/

I'd like to knock together some sort of "snack hammock" to make use of the space between my aerobars and to have food within easy reach. Anyone aware of anything like this out there?

Oops

I'd have thought 35s will be adequate tbh. But it'll be interesting to hear from those who have actually ridden the route, which I have not.

The Whyte is staying home. I'm going with wide tyres and flat bars plus aeros on an Orange RX9, which I recently picked up in ebay. What about you?

Personally no. Maybe an hour or two at either end of the day, but (a) I'll need the sleep and (b) it's gonna be such an incredible landscape I want to see as much of it as possible.

I'm flying out to Madrid from Bristol. Me and a mate will be driving back up to Madrid for a flight on the Sunday if that is any good for you @hippy - can easily bung another bike in the back.