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Second this. Lots of Leicestershire is nice but accessible (fast trains to London from Nuneaton (which is admittedly horrible) or Leicester in about an hour.

Look at Burbage, Earl Shilton, Hinckley, also Harborough as above.

The £18m fines etc will almost certainly be levied at Twitter/X as a high profile head to put on a pike, we've already seen this with the EU Digital Services Act earlier this year.

The porn and gaming industries will also very much be in the line of fire as a priority rather than a bike forum, given their subject matter and safeguarding issues.

As @Psmith says I don't imagine there's going to be a huge lift in terms of compliance, and I'd probably be able to lend a small amount of time to help navigate whatever needs to be done from a compliance POV.

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A cursory look at mumsnet suggests they're staying put...I know they have staff and such, but is it worth an email to them and someone like Piston Heads to understand how they're navigating this?

Willard on an Uncle strap for winter

Japan has quite an ... interesting relationship with KFC in general.

There's an amazing urban legend in Japan that suggests the ghost of Colonel Sanders placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team after fans threw a Colonel Sanders statue into a river in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel

Someone eventually found it at the bottom of the river, prompting another strange moment

On March 8, 2024, KFC Japan held a burial ceremony for the statue

Food House (the sign outside might say something else, but it should show up on Google maps, possibly as Real Beijing) has a great Szechuan menu

Super interesting! Boru from Herne Hill Velodrome was due to cycle across India as part of his RtW trip and I noticed he skipped out quite a big chunk of it for this reason.

I remember researching routes when I first saw the thread referenced above. Lots of them seem to be out and back, along the same road? Assuming due to road quality or some other reason.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44508562

It's totally nuts. It's almost less effort to just ride it legitimately.

@hippy Complicated and half remembered, but I think he was also going for some kind of record, also done in the car.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1964582447011613&id=100083468071872

The Indian audaxers caught out for driving 600km routes at a steady 25kmh to cheat at audaxing never fails to amaze me.

If I was going to set up a nice little VAT fraud business on importing new bikes to sell on, this is exactly how I would do it.

So I wouldn't be surprised if there's a little heightened scrutiny at the border on this kind of thing (Tho I might be assuming too much of our/continental boys in blue)

Resorting to the 'this bundle of shit wrapped in cling film? oh it's just my luggage, definitely not a bike' is definitely a plan B worth trying in those scenarios.

It's easy....ish. Met a few people who'd scratched TPR back in Girona this year, who'd had to get back from places like Jaca where there's no straightforward way of putting a bike on a train.

They'd been told there was no way they were getting on one bus, only for another driver to say if the bikes were wrapped there would be no problem. One guy had basically cling filmed and bin bagged his bike and was finally let on a Spanish bus.

Good article covering the AI boom and AGI pumping by my favorite AI sceptic Brian Merchant

https://ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-generated-business

That's on top of nearly 2+ weeks off work plus however you get to Santiago De Compostela - if you were coming from the UK I don't think that's a direct flight, or it's the long ferry to Bilbao + some overland jazz.

Happy Friday from Manchester

The sound of freewheels is really pissing me off

Consider the cost of trying to make it known that you've opened a small restaurant without many covers on the wrong end of the Cally Road with a PR agency / social media ads etc here in 2024...

Then consider the earned media value and column inches they've generated on probably not much effort. I bet they're full for the next few months.

Mine aren't far off that this year - my (GWR hell) train wasn't til later so not really much advantage of being back early, especially on no sleep.

Nicely done! I think this particular event really benefits from taking it relatively easy.

It was great to luxuriate in the various cups of tea / flapjacks / cakes / plates of baked beans on the way round, smug in the knowledge that the £20 entry is about 100x the value of the nearest sportive.

If you want to finish audaxes faster, the quickest way to shave off elapsed time is probably to minimise stoppage first, then work on upping your average speed second (joining a club wouldn't hurt with that)

Same, insulated brevet jacket with an insulated gilet, down jacket in a drybag for stops... looks clear and above freezing though, I'll take it.

Anyone doing Moonrakers on Friday? Weather looks alright. Looking forward to it, aside from getting my bike on the GWR.

the trick is to not store it in 'packed' mode, I've found. Same with my Rapha wind jacket. It vanishes for months otherwise.

Yes, Martin at arkane is your man.