Its so hard to keep pedalling on the flat, just feels like you're always going slowly and then there's the headwinds.....
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Its so hard to keep pedalling on the flat, just feels like you're always going slowly and then there's the headwinds.....
Love the Isle of Wight ride ... be great if we could do something similar again next year
The course is OK with a pack ride. Its the catastrophically organised feed stops.
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
Wouldn’t do us any harm to go Peak District
Get the London boys out of the smog and we might even be able to coax the Welsh over the boarder
Though Isle of Wight has a bit of everything
Get the London boys out of the smog and we might even be able to coax the Welsh over the boarder
Though Isle of Wight has a bit of everything
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
Spartak
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- Location
- Bristolian
We should have a poll to decide best place to meet... 🤔
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
We could use the American electoral college vote system. Using the population of the town you live in to work out how many votes you carry. My vote would be somewhere in the south east, and using a rough calculation my vote is worth 437 votes. good luck everyone! 😄👍
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
That really pissed me off last year (or rather, the last time it ran). Every year previously there'd been loads of water and food available at every pit-stop, even for someone like me who turned up at each stop quite late, so I figured that I'd not bother taking my largest water bottles, thinking it would be easier just to fill them up at the rest stops. After all, I wasn't going for a fast time, so was happy to use every stop off opportunity whereas most riders probably just stop off at one or two. And then that's the year they decide to cock up the supplies and leave everyone screwed over, plus it was on one of the hottest days of the year as well.
If I do ever do ToC again, I'm tempted to enter the full route (assuming it's remaining at 100 miles), but then not do the loop of the flattest bit - cutting the corner at Pondersbridge. It's the dullest bit of the course and always has at least one section of hideous headwinds and I wouldn't really miss it. Without that loop, but including all the other pre-Fens sections (which some of the "official" shorter routes skip parts of), I estimate it would be 75-80 miles total, which is still worth doing.
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Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
I did the ToC “mellow vello” 56 mile ride. I watched the other Cyclechat dudes ride off on the 100 mile route and they still finished before me.
on the plus side, tons of food and drinks at the stops.
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steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Officially I'm down to do the Etape Loch Ness in 2021, but I can't see that going ahead - April is just too early for everything to be back to normal. Maybe if they choose to move it to September/October that might be more realistic. It'll be a shame if I don't make it, because my plans have me going up to Inverness on the sleeper train a few days before and staying there almost a week so that I can do more riding than just the event itself - looks like there's some really good choices of routes up that way.I'll very much doubt doing the TOC. I was hoping for the TDY, but its cancelled again next year. I'll see if I can get enough fitness for a solo mini tour. Assuming there are any Hotels/BB open to stop at
theboxers
TheBoxers on Cycle Sim sw
- Location
- OTC (on the couch)
I got stung at the food stop for the 2nd loop. Almost no water and no food, not even gels. I plodded on but eventually stopped at 93 miles. Just couldn't go on.
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
Horrible horrible winds coupled with cramp in both legs in the middle of nowhere
Towed in by a friendly bridgy
But what a nice pint at the end !
Towed in by a friendly bridgy
But what a nice pint at the end !
