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Pendle 600 really is a cracking ride and is highly recommended. It is a hard ride, no doubt, but rewarding with some great views.

There is also the Pennine 1000 rerunning next year. This uses many of the same roads, with the added bonus of a trip up to Scotland as well. Just hope for better weather this year as it was truly awful this year.

I haven't stopped thinking about Rufus and their boys since I was told the terrible news.

Carmen was one of life's true superstars. She will be missed hugely by all who knew her.

I have ridden so little this past few weeks for various reasons. But I managed to get out and ride 90km at a reasonably vigorous pace today.

I decided to take the bike that has the D1 on it and see if it got hot with no load on it. Pleased to say it did not even feel warm at any point.

I am looking forward to giving it a test touring next month, that will be with a SON28, but the pace will be leisurely.

Magnums as your main food group?

Where do I sign up? I am really, really good at eating ice cream.

32/32 on our tandem.

Mainly driven by the Rohloff (I believe there are 36 hole variants out there, but they are rare).

Alpine III spokes from memory.

We are a light team (120kg), and work on travelling reasonably light.

On tap no less.

We have several options for German beer and food here; with the big German school, there is a huge German community in Richmond.

That is an eye-watering figure. I can not imagine it in a single day - about the highest climbing/distance figure I have ever done in the big mountains is 6700m in 190km and that was a hard day.

Amazing and utterly inspiring.

Time to go and do something somewhere where they can deal with the numbers and you have a better chance of not having to stop for hours and walk lots and only get to ride 75% of the course!
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Cool - I will go and check that out. Sounds really good!

Machine gun nests every 5 miles to deal with cocks with no numbers.

Watching in Kingston in the afternoon, I was shocked by how many of them there was and that they were, largely, riding like cocks. By the afternoon, you had all the slower, wobbly, tired riders coming through (and that is not meant to be patronising - they are the people that the ride is about; I couldn't really give a toss about about those who can ride it in a quick time, I am more interested in those for whom the ride is a real step into the unknown). Anyway, mixing it up with those riders were plenty of cocks with no numbers, who probably only joined the ride in Esher, riding crit style and weaving through the riders. Fuck'em.

Mrs. JB's third RideLondon 100 and she is yet to actually get to ride 100 miles. This year was the worst and after the various crashes, she was diverted (via open roads, with no warning to riders that they were now mixing it up with cars!), no hills at all, and about 25 miles cut off the course. She was so pissed off.

Time to go and do something somewhere where they can deal with the numbers and you have a better chance of not having to stop for hours and walk lots and only get to ride 75% of the course!

Rant over.

Handful of places left on both rides, so get your entries in from the Audax website.

Hoping for good weather, I have ridden the routes in horrific conditions over winter as I designed them. So much better in summer!

Worth riding just for the cheese on toast.

Well initial reports on charging - much better than the Luxos! I am using SONDelux hubs and the Luxos could be very temperamental at moderate pace. The D1 was much more stable and just kept on charging. I took a (deliberately) flat 5200mAh battery pack on the 200km today (that battery pack will easily handle my Garmin and phone needs for a 600km weekend) and it was getting towards full after the 200.

I will change my front light at some point to get rid of the Luxos. Shame the £ collapsed as suddenly a new light from Germany is a much more expensive proposition than it was last month.

Build quality on the D1 could be a little neater yes. But it's a good functional piece of kit so far.

I have mine on the head-tube with a releasable cable tie. I want to be able to quickly take it off when I do not need it (to be honest, most of the time). I can ride 600s with a battery pack, so charging only really becomes a concern on longer rides and touring.

I will try it with nothing connected and see how hot it gets.

In October, it will go on a tour of the Balkans with a SON28 - hopefully should keep us electrified despite lower speeds etc.

Boring answer is no.

Because TCR is ranked (i.e. competitive), it clashes with one of the AUK regs on being non-competitive and is therefore not allowed. This was how it was described to me by someone on the board.

Seems daft to me - TCR and the like are about riding your bike a long way, unsupported and seems ideally aligned to Audax.

Amazingly small!

Am hoping to get it put on a bike and ride a 200km tomorrow.

Edit - is on bike headtube, and lights up the USB battery pack when I spin the wheel by hand. I will give it a go tomorrow.

If there are any test units left, I would be delighted to give it a go. I was about to press the button on one when you announced a new version was coming. Want to sort out charging on the tandem for touring and then look at getting rid of Luxos U lights and replacing them with stuff that doesn't mind a bit of bad weather for Audax.

Let me know!

Just a bit of shameless promotion.

Richmond-upon-Thames Audax events (200km and 110km) on Saturday August 6th

After years of riding Audax events, I am organising my first ones.

The 200km is a run down to Chichester and back, taking in the Surrey Hills and the South Downs.

Not a super-hilly route (2300m of ascent in the day), but there's a few tough climbs along the way (Bedham Hill, Duncton Hill and Barhatch Lane are the ones I personally find the toughest).

Good cafe controls at 52km and 100km, then a shop or pub control at 170km, before reaching the finish at 209km at a great pub in St Margarets for beer and pizza.

The 110km event uses the same first and last 50km of the 200km ride with a joining section across.

Same cafe control at 52km (with the best cheese on toast ever!) before turning back into the Surrey Hills (still includes Barhatch Lane and Combe Lane).

The 200 in particular is filling up nicely, so do not leave it too late before entering.

There's loads more information here:

http://www.marcusjb.com/cogidubnus-200

And entry can be done online at the below (only £5 and a £2 surcharge for non Audax UK members):

http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-369/
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-370/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask and it would be great to see some of you there (and of course it will be a beautiful summer's day!).

I saw Justin at the end. I did not get a chance to talk to him.

When I spoke to him at 100km to go, James was still in the game.

My mind boggles doing that on fixed.

Mille Pennine done.

38 finishers from 90 starters.

It would be a tough ride in perfect conditions. The organiser puts together some very challenging sections with some very tough climbing. But, with some really rough weather, well, the numbers speak for themselves.

There was a fair bit of rain over day 1 and 2 (in particular) - sometimes very heavy. It was generally fairly cool on those first 2 days and then there was the wind. My word, that was some wind. It was a massive help on day 1 as we were more with it on our backs than not, but day 2 and 3, it was not our friend.

Properly amazing. Lots of beautiful scenery. So many 25, 30 and 33% signs.

Pretty sore after that beating.

^ sounds good.

Same price?

Can we pre-order? I was on the cusp of ordering due to some challenges on a recent tour in France (Luxos issues).

(I didn't read beyond titanium case - I was sold by then).

Good stuff and hopefully should just squeak under the 24 days.

Brilliant!

^ not strictly true on the Luxos being the only one, AXA Luxx also does the whole USB charging thing as well.

Luxos does have some issues in heavy rain, particularly the first generation version. I have both generations and have never had issues with my later generation one, but my first generation one has been a little quirky after heavy rain. I have never been left without lights, but have lost charging for a couple of days whilst things dried out.

I am considering a D1/IQ-X setup mind you.

Oof. Heal up soon. Nasty business.

I did a ride.

TL:DR - it was really, really wet; really, really long; really, really hilly (in parts).

http://www.marcusjb.com/blog//finding-where-the-edges-are

Yep - my August rides (filling up very nicely if you're thinking of entering!) are not really being heavily marketed outside of the audax world.

As a first time organiser, I want to keep things relatively small and manageable; I am using commercial controls and have had discussions on numbers with them.

DD uses rather more main roads than my rides. This is not a bad thing and lends itself to a larger field. However, I personally prefer the lanes and less travelled roads, so the rides follow smaller lanes much more.

http://www.marcusjb.com/cogidubnus-200

6:45? Nearly caught you up.

Great to see so many out enjoying the DD yesterday. I followed parts of the route home from chiddingfold ish, on the way from Portsmouth to home, and everyone seemed to be having fun, of sorts.

Shame to have missed out on this great event once again.