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I got 26.16 I want another go....

Which pub on which street... There are many that share the same name :-)

I feel sick just looking at that bottle of md20/20 and thunderbird...

I'll be in the square at 1sh as well.

Not sure how hilly it is but this might give you an indication:

http://www.mapmyride.com/route/gb/london/989125318947260743

There is an elevation button and the results appear at the bottom.

Route wise I was thinking A4 pretty much all the way.

Having not ridden for a month... this is going to kill me.

1. matt_ha
   2.kristian
   

A few weeks past now... so the route was fine :-)

It was a bit hilly in the UK, but there is a flatter route to Dover using the A20 to Folkstone and a further 5miles to Dover. France... erm... only a bit hilly (i think), bit manic getting into Paris one way etc... My advice is not to use google maps like I did. Try and get a proper road atlas of france maybe as well. I printed out maybe 10 pictures of difficult areas to navigate and it worked quite well. Also make sure you pick the right Arc de Triumph unlike my riding parnter did... it was the mini one by the louvre.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2642713&l=64121fdf87&id=510982733

420k + ferry according to google.
How far was it compared to what you expected?

75m to dover and another 175m to paris. Which is what I expected. I think the distance is doable without going that quickly, as long as you rest, eat and drink enough.
The reason it took so long, was that I was a mess... eyes rolling... feeling sick etc etc... Sleep is king, but it does make it a challenge!

How many were riding it?

Two. Support driver would have been ideal, as my rucksack weighed about 10kg... mostly pasta, not really (10kg) but it felt like it at times (can't fit panniers on my bike).

Where did you stop and sleep?

erm... just at the side of the road. During the day under a tree to get out of the blazing sun and at night.. at the road side for 40 mins waking up shivering... before jumping back on the bikes and trudging the last 50miles.

Thinking about riding to Amsterdam for Awakenings..

Strangely, this afternoon i looked at london2dover->calais2amsterdam... 320m Bosh. The soonest i could do it is 10th Oct. I thought about sept 19th but the train back was 170quid (5hrs) compared to 87 in oct....

Oic... Awakenings is the same weekend as the Autumn epic :-) mm... i wonder which sounds more fun.

-Kristian

Are you doing the Autumn Epic, Hippy?

I also rode the Tour of Wessex. My performance was not impressive and neither was the dinner we had on the first night, although the second night was better.

ToW was really cool. Amusingly the first day I bonked so bad... a mile from the finish i had to sit down for 25minutes to eat and drink or i was going pass out or get run over. Second day was better, third was OK. I didn't get a good time but I was pleased that I got just under 20hrs for 320miles.

-Kristian

45,000m of climbing... so what do we do with the spare time?

When I rode Tour of Wessex I ended up having dinner with the 10 riders of Cent Cols. Really nice people... bonkers of course, but nice. One of the guys came in second over three days on ToW... Which was quite impressive.

-Kristian

Yeah 24hrs is easily doable. I've certainly learnt a lot, and I know where we went wrong.

-Kristian

Yeah... I had to. Sleep or puke... even 30 minutes is enough for another few hours of riding. For some reason from Calais onwards was a bitch. Also I think we (I) must have chosen the route that avoided any flat roads... constant hills, not massive ones... just one after another it seemed.

Crap time.. but we made it!

For those that are wondering...

London to Paris in... 29hrs. Done.

Hot, hilly and quite torturous, but great erm... fun.

-Kristian

There looks to be two of us at the moment, Mike and Me! We're booking things tomorrow I think.

2010 repeat... of course, with a wee bit more planning than just "fuck it, let's do it".

-Kristian

so uh, can I do this on fixed?

That's a question only you can answer. Remember it's a 24hr challenge, so I guess timing is everything.

I stuck the route up on london24paris.com

-Kristian

London 2 Oxford

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/9931491

It doesn't show breaks properly... It actually took 6hrs.

erm... my next free saturday is Sept 19th. I plan to ride it even if I fail and have to sleep in a hedge. On the upside, even if we miss the ferry they will just chuck us on the next one 7:45 (quite late I think...).

I've also added a link to archive.org on london24paris.com which points to a blog of the previous owner of the domain whom I've also sent an email to get some tips etc...

-Kristian

There may be a spanner in my spoke...

There is an ironicly named Bank Holiday on the Saturday.. Assumption day.. WTF!

The date for me can't be changed, I'm booked up forever... but there's no reason it can't be done again but with knowledge.

-Kristian

So this is just the seed of an idea... I think it's about 240miles.

The pace will be 16mph+

Depart Saturday 15th London 00:01
Cycle to Dover
Get the Sat 15 Aug 2009 05:55 Sat 15 Aug 2009 08:25 £14.00 Ferry to Calais
Cycle to Paris
Arrive Saturday 15th Paris before 23:59

sleep on the floor
Sunday drink and eat
Get the 21:13 02h21m direct £82.00 Train to Kings Cross

BOSH. Job done.

http://london24paris.com/ :-)

kristian 'geared' davies

Matt_ha and I will be cycling to oxford for the giggles... although as usual I'm geared.

I got drunk last Friday and managed to sleep through Southend... so...

1. (46) Cornelius Blackfoot
   
2. Aleksi
   
3. damo
   
4. horatio
   
5. brett
   
6. tika
   
7. Lucky7
   
8. tilover
   
9. muse140
   
10. mattty
    
11. Sparrow
    
12. bleedinggums?
    
13. hoonz
    
14. Buddha Fingaz
    
15. miss_socks
    
16. hillbilly
    
17. Crispin Glover
    
18. edmundro (possibly +2)
    
19. Broker in
    
20. porter7474 (possibly +1)
    
21. CYOA
    
22. Mr.nice guy
    
23. Kristian
    
24. coppiThat
    
25. Oliver Schick
    
26. Churchy (If I survive Southend!)
    
27. Phi_pp (possibly plus 2)
    
28. huge16 - still not gonna get up Bitchling Deacon
    
29. wools
    
30. AlienMo
    
31. matt_ha
    
32. furious tiles (geared and in lycra chasing the boys)
    33.
    
33. Jackie Chan
    
34. JOHNNY FITZ
    
35. d14vd_h
    
36. Ste5
    

I was going to do Devils Ride this weekend but....

1. (46) Cornelius Blackfoot
   
2. damo
   
3. horatio
   
4. hillbilly(I've never done this ride)
   
5. miss_socks
   
6. tika
   
7. Lucky7
   
8. Hovis Brown
   
9. mattty (i loves me fish n chips)
   
10. joesmooth
    
11. Gustav
    
12. Churchy
    
13. gabes
    
14. yeh731
    
15. Aroogah
    
16. Breeze
    
17. Skully
    
18. MR.NICE GUY
    
19. marcom
    
20. coppiThat
    
21. Oliver Schick
    22.Dilworth
    
22. hoonz
    
23. VeeVee
    
24. Jaygee
    
25. Reginald
    
26. matt_ha
    
27. AlienMo
    
28. wools
    
29. MURR
    
30. huge16
    
31. Stix
    
32. plum
    
33. fluff'n'chips
    
34. Aleksi
    
35. Edmundro
    
36. Kristian
    

My route to last nights drinks!

http://tinyurl.com/dywwro