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dynamo solution rules btw. so good to be able to use the backlight at night without being worried about getting stranded.

for anyone interested, I'll be riding the prologue, and starting at 8.

I'll hopefully share some load with some quite strong guys I've met this year who are starting at the same time, until yorkshire at least where they will drop me at the first sign of a gradient greater than 10%.

weather forecast looks almost perfect for riding.

RE: Garmin charging, I will be using a hub, but previously have used one of these ,and some re-useable vecro zip ties to fasten it under my stem, to charge a garmin 705. works a treat and has the obvious AA battery advantage.
Black Portable Battery Powered Travel Charger for Apple: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

also have used it to charge my phone before.

not too late to change your mind.... you've still got the spot dont you?

Out. will send you a postcard from Edinburgh.

I'm starting to feel really paranoid about anybody who tried to communicate with me now.
......

on the same subject, hi to alex who I realise now I sort of blew off at the start, having had 3 hours sleep after being out at a DnB gig on Fri night - then being slightly thrown by failing garmin.

I was a bit of a cock I think.

spent the night hoping to spot some familiar faces and doing my best to chase down a friend who left probably 2 hours before me. he arrived at the beach an hour before, but had a nice cup of black tea waiting for me.

thanks to fortune for the following spottos:

• the couple on the tandem with the music and the matching leaopard print onesies. rockin.
  
• chainbreaker, who I met en route and chatted to for a while. nice guy. was a little jealous of his speaker shizzle.
  
• the guy in all black smoking a dart at the bbq/buttie stop about 15 miles from home. CUNT sticker on the wheels. proper too cool for school. I was the wanker in the Jolly/jollj jersey looking at you thinking....."youre a bit too cool".
  
• the guy I raced at the end who had ridden to the start from norwich. carbon everything and roadie to the max, but with 240 in the legs he beasted me over the last 3 miles, despite being a little grey (est 50 ish).
  
• anyone I saw and forgot.
  
  
  

Thanks to skully for apologising profusely re the lack of tea.

Fkn hilarious how many riders with team kit and or mavic wheels with carbon spokes had clearly spent time on the floor. Bark off everywhere!!

Imagine if these guys did tnrc or audax - they'd kill themselves.

That was my plan. Have figured out a non-main road route, Dunwich to Ipswich. Not sure if its any good. Hadn't got as far deciding on what train to get, so .......

Mostly good except for the mile or so of semi-epic cx singletrack.

Opted for the 3.5m detour.

bumpety bump

this is getting real now.

hope you had fun out there team TNRC. what a wonderful night for riding.

that light breeze and warm air........ bet there was a shithot sunset too.

gutted that Pinot is out.

one of my favourite riders from the last 3 years. Really hope it's not the end of his tour career.

A friend and I were 14 and 15. surprised there was a 16 tbh - we left about 15 mins after the start.

Friend had a disaster and lost his phone and wallet after 1st CP. managed to find the phone but the wallet is MIA. Needless to say he packed.

shame as some company would probably have made the difference.
X rated rides are fkn lonely if youre solo.

still cant really get over how unappealing that route was. there was about 20 miles from shaftesbury that were nice, but It felt like a route that should have been started at midnight and ridden through, with quieter traffic levels.

the drivers in the SW really dont like or respect cycles.

bit frustrating to look at the parqour and realise that the route got a lot better after exeter.

but still dont regret packing

Glad to hear Ed is ok

• Skinny - 50:20 (G)
  
• 6pt - 52:31 (G)
  
• 6pt - 53:20 (F - 84")
  
• Brain-Stew - 53.53 (G)
  
• Blue Fleet - 55.39 (G)
  
• BringMeMyFix - 55.55 (F - 78.9")
  
• Erik Jonsson - 56:15 (G)
  
• Bouncy - 56:21 (G)
  
• Jacobjd - 57:02 (F - 90")
  
• Sasmon 57.15 (G)
  
• IAmNotARobot - 58.13 (G)
  
• Bainbridge - 58:58 (G)
  
• joe smiff - 59:21 (G)
  
• FixedCheese - 59:23 (G)
  
• chris0 - 59.26 (G)
  
• T-V - 59.30 (G)
  
• adoubletap - 59.30 (G)
  
• Hovis - 59:38 (G)
  
• Damo - 59:39 (G)
  
• Commie - 59:40 (G)
  
• FixedCheese - 59:42 (F - 74")
  
• toby.d - 1:00:14 (G)
  
• Pharoahsanders - 1:00.15 (G)
  
• dancing james - 1:00:34 (G)
  
• Bouncy - 1:00:54 (F - 72")
  
• william1984 - 1:00:59 (G)
  
• Olly398 - 1:01:00 (G)
  
• TeddyUK 1:01:55 (G)
  
• youramericanlover - 1:02:02 (G)
  
• villa-ru - 1:02:03 (G)
  
• vunugu - 1:02:50 (F - 79.6")
  
• shinkuu kiss - 1:03:26 (G)
  
• Rod Munch - 1:03:32 (G)
  
• edscoble - 1:03:45 (G)
  
• Wrongcog - 1:03:54 (G)
  
• willski - 1:04:30 (F - 76")
  
• laner-1:04:45 (G)
  
• edscoble - 1:04:50 (SS)
  
• Doutzki - 1:04:59 (F - 75.5")
  
• Sandy_l - 1:05:28 (G)
  
• smiff - 1:06:15 (F - 67")
  
• Sparky - 1:06:19 (G)
  
• Sam - 1:07:06 (G)
  
• Damo - 1:07:06 (F)
  
• dbr - 1:09:36 (G)
  
• Greenbank - 1:09:54 (G)
  
• dst - 1:10:17 (G)
  
• villa-ru - 1:11:04 (F - 68")
  
• Sparky - 1:12:05 (F - 48:18)
  
• amey - 1:16:44 (G)
  
  
  

Clockwise________________

• zanda 00.56.37 (G) - Laps 2 to 4
  
• Skinny 56:51 (G)
  
• Bainbridge 00.57.58 (G) (http://app.strava.com/rides/5978358 Laps 2-4)
  
• Splutter - 00.58.45 (G) http://app.strava.com/rides/25021367
  
• HÏnáta - 00:59:21 (G)
  
• muleboy - 1:00:57
  
• Señor Bear - 1:01:48
  (G)
  
• jimmyjazz - 1:03:00
  
• amey - 1:08:20 (F - 74")
  
• amey - 1:10:09 (G)
  
• webof - 1:13:15
  
  
  

Anti-clockwise

1. Katie-Coo 1.16.00 (G)
   
   

<- Trispok of Regret award for inappropriate wheel choice
<- the FixedCheese Babybel of Speed award for fastest fixed rider
<- the EdScoble Brompton of Insanity award for fastest time on a foldable bike

Packed the Buzzard yesterday. Felt Bad.

In a bout of self-flagellation and anti cool I decided I needed to ride my pretty bike around in a circle for an hour or so.

Laps 2-4.

PS - the coding is harder than the riding FFs

I'm ok, but there wont be any HAC points from my effort.

tbh the route is a bit....... shit.

It seems like a good warm up to the mersey 24. Lots (and lots) of heavily trafficked A-roads. I got near the front of the pack, saw no one for about 6 hours, got run off the road (A30) by trucks 3 times, andon the approach to Exeter started asking questions like "what the fuck am I doing this for??"

It was hot, it was no fun. Worst of all I was starting to question whether I even wanted to ride LEL. That was the final straw, and I packed with about 280 in the legs.

Came home to my pregnant wife, slept in my own bed and watched ventoux today. dont regret it a lick.

No word from Ed though. Hope he's ok.

I asked about - the guys in the crash hit a massive drain/hole at he back of a pack (not called or pointed out), but the descriptions didnt sound like him. Think he might just be lying low.

hope so

Shit. Heard stories about a bad stack near the start.
Someone went down and another rider cartwheeled over the top.

One rider bruised the other had a nasty gash on his arm.

Hope you're ok ed.

Dont hink I'll be able to do thurs. Away for work.

Ed are you on this bloody ride? If so, you must be way off the front.

Ive been from last to first twice and havent seen you.

^ never mind.
See you on LEL I guess.

Broken spoke has scuppered my Buzzard :( Sorry Ed/Zanda, have a great ride,

I think skimping on buying a new set of spokes and using the old ones when I changed rims (different type of rim, similar spoke length needed) has caused them to fail prematurely, that's the second one since I swapped a few months back.

Bah!

what wheel - front or rear?

hmmm.

I'll be hoping for/requiring something more than that, I think.

yeah I think I will just take a sleeping bag liner and find a discreet patch of dry earth and sleep rough.

possibly within the vicinity of some sort of food.

Or I might just get miserable and decide I'd rather it was all over with and ride on through to spite myself.

Those doing the Buzzard (the last 600 of the calendar season !) on Sat, I'll be catching the train that arrives at just past 7 and starting late.

Not sure if I'll have any company or not.
But i've tee'd it up with ian who seems not to have a problem with it.

I'll hammer it into middleofnowhere too

Ooof!
Hope you have the courtesy to give him a reach around.

I'm out. Concert with the sort.
:(

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that mate.

In other news, there's a nice bargain audax frame going on a bin now for a medium to tall person:
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=181171336663

Don't think we'd have missed each other by that much. We had a few pints and jumped on th 2052.

Typically for me rode hard hard and faffed hard.

KT you're a star.
It was VERY hot out there, and there wasnt a lot of shade.

Hope you found someone to ride with.

You fucking moron.

bit hot and bothered today?