LukeOct 2, 2025

Rode my lightest bike with my lightest and most aero wheels today. Moderate tailwind. It was most excellent but not much quicker than on my Bob Jackson (although that day had more tailwind).

I am not a fast rider but look like I am. An audax organiser once said (a long time ago) he was surprised at how close to a control cutoff I was because I looked like I was going so well when he passed me in his camper van.

https://strava.app.link/hjiOyd1z8Wb

#AerodynamicWheels #LightweightBikes #cycling #BikeTooter #commute #fediversecyclingclub

Show threadLukeOct 2, 2025
(4 minutes quicker but with much less wind - 8.6 km/h from S today, but 25.9 km/h SW for the slower time!)
Show threadLukeOct 2, 2025
One of the most wonderful concepts in cycling is the ‘full value rider’ who completes brevet/audax/rando events in the slowest possible time allowed by the time limit. Riding at precisely 14.3 (or 15) km/h for hours at a time (including stops) is a noble and Sisyphean art. #cycling #BikeTooter #FullValue #audax #brevet #randonneur
Show threadDavid SOct 2, 2025
@wlukewindsor not heard of this although it sounds a bit like a reliability trial? My experience of those back in the 80s was a gentle 12mph target speed, a puncture, another puncture (damn those Michelin Select tyres, did you not read the club newsletter showing them in the top 3 places in the club run puncture league?) and then a bleedin' time trial to meet the target.
Show threadLuke
@Pionir yes - except it’s purely self-imposed (just like trying to ride Brevets at 30km/h average)
Oct 3, 2025 at 5:08amWeb
Show threadLukeOct 3, 2025

@Pionir funnily enough the 400 I was on when I got the funny comment from organiser was originally a 240 mile reliability ride 😬

I did finish that one (first 400 I did, back in 2004 I think), but tried to repeat the event in 2016 and ended up in serious trouble (had to spend the night in a borrowed survival bag during a thunderstorm in a bus shelter after becoming unwell: DNF). 400s are my nemesis.

Show threadDavid SOct 3, 2025

@wlukewindsor 400s are my nemesis too just like 2400s are

(I've never attempted either)