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Cool! Audax on country lanes can be easier but are often hillier! You'll almost always get more arranged stops for refreshments and a breather too.
We were working to a time limit (which we missed!) to get home for our daughter so last 20km were a bit stressful! Quote from my other half just now which agrees 100% with your assessment...
"I’d have probably managed the last 20K better if we’d not been on a time limit because we’d have stopped and had coffee. I was also mentally tired because of the concentration required to cycle through folk and negotiating wiggly cycle paths and narrow gates."
On some Audax I just use the Garmin to navigate as there's not much you can do wrong. You need a sheet holder for the more complex rides like this one.
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Did I look after your bike outside the loos on the Greenwich ascent?? We were in the CTC Wantage shirts.
It's a good route for a non-Londoner to see the sights but it's definitely not a quick route. The bit from Greenwich to Tower Bridge following NCN4 is extremely hard work and slow with cobbles, many twists and turns and peds everywhere.
My other half got very tired around Richmond Park and we finished in 6h03m moving time just before 5pm. Most of the stopped time will be for traffic lights as we only had two short breaks for lunch and morning coffee. I did it in 5h27m and finished at 4pm last year.
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Rider who suffered head injuries having fallen descending from Boar's Hill has died. It appears that no other vehicles were involved. This is a fast descent with a sharp bend near the bottom, we use it occasionally on club rides. Thoughts to his family and friends.
Citations from Oxford Mail
Original report of incident with usual comments relating to helmet use...
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Amy's completely barking. Very bizarre. Playing up for the cameras a bit?
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http://24.media.tumblr.com/113c82682b4692a39750a2df2cdd06b5/tumblr_loci40tCAC1qh7487o1_r4_400.gif
There's a ball under 3 of the cups so not much of a trick...
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What's anti? the bar position?
That and Lord Sugar in lycra...
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Stop saying fixie. It's well annoying....
Sorry....
My first girlfriends big sis drove a Talbot hatchback. It came from the factory without a left hand mirror, radio, rear wiper or other useful stuff. It had an engine roughly half the size of the one on my chainsaw. Built like a fucking tank though, passed it's mot without ever needing a penny spent on it.
My Dad got given a Talbot Solara as a company car once. It wasn't the most luxurious car ever made.
I'd be surprised if you get it under 9kg without draping expensive parts all over it that should really be on a much nicer frame. Build it, ride it, enjoy it!
Yep, I doubt it too. I'm not going to spent loads on it. It's just a bit of fun.
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As soon as I discovered you could get Talbot badged frames in France I've kept my eye out for one on ebay.fr since it's my surname. Quite a few 56cm come up but that's a bit small. This one is 57.5cm which is still smaller than my current 80s framed fixie (59.5cm) but it'll have to do!
Arrived in the post from France today. A few cosmetic scuffs but not too bad and the main decals are in decent condition which is the main point :)
Not sure if it's 531 or 501 or something else entirely. Frame says Made in France so I expect the BB etc. will be odd sizes. The frame and fork weigh about 3.7kg and I want to try and keep the fixie build under 9kg if I can but that might be pie in the sky. Progress reports as and when :)
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Are people really that stupid? Shallow end of the gene pool.
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Using search by image on Google (click the camera icon next to the search box on the images tab) it appears to be somewhere in Switzerland.
See http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Switzerland-Mountain-Biking-2012-edition-Part-4.html where it's mentioned about halfway down. It's a hiking trail and bikes are forbidden. I think this might be it http://goo.gl/maps/i0Xgq.
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I'm riding the Kennet Valley 100 this Saturday...
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I cycled Col de la Cayolle last year, absolutely stunning road and much nicer than some of the more famous Cols.
Here's a few favourite roads I've cycled that I have photos of...
B863 - General Wade's Military Road above Loch Ness
Hairpin on Col d'Izoard
A493 near Llangelynin (http://goo.gl/maps/PGyVO)
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Here's my blog of a LEJOG I did in 2009, camping all the way. You might find some useful route info in there.
I found the whole journey brilliant. I particularly liked Cheshire and navigating through the urban areas between Manchester and Liverpool. West and central Scotland is spectacular, SW Scotland was a bit dull, northern Scotland great for isolation and scenery. Cornwall and Devon was hardwork, so difficult to appreciate all the beauty. Some parts of the England/Wales border were great, some a bit dull and hard to find sustenance.
Vague plans to do a JOGLE next year.
John
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Yeah, remember now - there was a WW2 memorial stone at the top. I didn't realise it was Combe Gibbet so I completely failed to notice the existence of the gibbet itself. View from the top (corner of WW2 memorial stone bottom right):
The Gibbet is on the hill to the left as you ascended, looks like a big telegraph pole! The summit of the hill on the right (Walbury Hill) is the highest point in Berkshire and the highest point in the southeast of England.
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As we approached Watership Down I very confidently said "oh, it doesn't look that bad close up, does it?" before turning round a leafy bend and immediately facepalming at the startling col rising before me.
Is Combe Gibbet the one with the 14% gradient that we were descending for what felt like eternity?
bothwell,
9mph fixed descenderCombe Gibbet is the one with the huge view to your left as you descended. It was before Kintbury.
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Here's a bit of fun, a VeloFlow of the ride yesterday from everyone who uploaded their ride to Strava...
http://veloviewer.com/VeloFlow.php?activityId=37409152&segmentId=706175&date=2013-01-13
When the page loads, select All from the Number of rides box and click Load Rides. When it's crunched the rides click one of the play buttons bottom right (1x speed, 2x or 4x). I'm the blue dot.
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Glad those who made it had a good one. The view from Coombe Gibbet is something to behold, and it's a fucker to climb fixed.
Combe Gibbet (Walbury Hill) from the south, the way we did it yesterday, is easier than the northern ascents IMO, one of which we went down. The 100 Climbs entry goes up the road from the north you would have gone down if you'd gone straight on at the top (http://100hillsforgeorge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/hill-no-71-25-coombe-gibbet.html)
Watership Down (White Hill) was easily the hardest hill yesterday IMO.
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Good ride. Nice sunny day and didn't feel too cold. A little ice around Linkenholt but the majority of roads were dry. Bumped into a group from Southampton who were riding fixed. Some rather dodgy group riding at one point saw a youngster nearly take my out my front wheel, I let them get out of my way!
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That BBC report does seem to suggest it could have been a hit and run. There are some bends as you descend where it wouldn't be ideal to meet a car coming up the hill. It's possible the true circumstances of the incident might never be known.