Dumb question? - difference between audax and sportive

[jimboalee]

I've ridden Sportive on...

Specialized SWorks.


?????

"When in Rome...."

 

[Fran143]

I've ridden Audax on...

Peugeot PX10 531 race bike,
Specialized SWorks,
Peugeot Carbolite with safety handles,
Dawes Giro 500,
Land Rover Tahora 'slicked up' MTB,
Carrera Subway 8,
an old 27 x 1 3/8" 531 tourer I had resprayed,
Apollo County gents City 'gas pipe' bike with a Sturmey
and
BSA 20 shopping bike with a flask of coffee in the back box.

In the regs, it says any type of bike can be used as long as it is solely propelled by muscular effort.

Not the faithful type are you Jimboalee?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Audax, like bike riding with more beards...

 

[PpPete]

Not the faithful type are you Jimboalee?

No - he's just showing off about how many bikes he owns.

 

[jimboalee]

Not the faithful type are you Jimboalee?

"Variety is the spice of life".

Do you think I'm going to keep the same bike for twenty years?

 

[jimboalee]

Audax, like bike riding with more beards...

The women have to wear false beards.

 

[ColinJ]

A sportive is a fully waymarked ride with marshals at dangerous junctions. Your departure is timed, your arrival at the finish is timed; and your elapsed time is usually published on the organiser’s website. There is usually some free food and maybe some promotional givaways.

It's not free because you only get it if you've paid the entry fee for the sportive!

 

[jimboalee]

It's not free because you only get it if you've paid the entry fee for the sportive!

I thought we'd agreed elsewhere that the entry fee covers the cost of short term rental of a piece of timing equipment, people tieing up specially printed direction arrows and the rental of an emergency coach for those who 'Pack'.
Oh, and several paid volunteers to stand at risky junctions and shout 'CLEAR' when a cyclist approaches. And a doctor. A nurse. And a mechanic. And a chopped up 200 litre drum which doubles as a barbeque.

So what the riders can take home with them and flush down the lavvy 36 hours later is FREE...

 

[ColinJ]

I thought we'd agreed elsewhere that the entry fee covers the cost of short term rental of a piece of timing equipment, people tieing up direction arrows and the rental of an emergency coach for those who 'Pack'.
Oh, and several paid volunteers to stand at risky junctions and shout 'CLEAR' when a cyclist approaches.

Yes!

And the food...

 

[jimboalee]

Yes!

And the food...

I've edited...

 

[jimboalee]

OK, we pay for the food... but the nurse is free...

 

[Ian H]

Paris-Brest-Paris: you get a swipe card, motorcycle escort out of the Paris suburbs, times published, hundreds of people lining the streets cheering you on, entire towns given over to feeding and caring for the riders, and the fun (towards the end) of seeing riders so exhausted they can't ride in a straight line. But: you have to pay for your food.

 

[jimboalee]

When the wind's blowing at 20 mph from the SSW, you can Audax 200 km to Hull hardly needing to pedal, but you have to pay for the train fare home.

 

[jimboalee]

With the Audax Midland Mesh, you can ride 1000km from Land's End to Berwick on Tweed.
It can be done in one shot, as a Rando 1000 series of 1 x 100, 3 x 200 and 1 x 300; or as a Brevet 1000 of 10 x 100km.

Each stage costs £3.

Food etc costs extra.

 

[lukesdad]

Highlighted will include plenty of posers on road race bikes, will pretend they are in a race and some will carry on like idiots. Most of these would never last a local 4th cat chipper, let aone a race at a decent level.

Glad you said most!....Rob Hayles and co. would not be happy.