London – Edinburgh – London 2013

Posted on 9 December, 2013 by Simon Jones

887 miles in under 5 days

it's in the bag - only 425 miles to goOne dark winter’s night the idea was hatched.  I think a pint or two may have been involved. I said I wanted to ride the National Audax UK 400 at Tiverton and before we knew it five of us had signed up for the longest audax event there is, the London-Edinburgh-London, the LEL.  Were we mad?? 1420km (or 887 miles, and just a bit further than Lands End – John O’Groats) in less than five days.  We were mad! But it turned out that 1100 others were heading for the asylum too.

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Ed’s Mince Pie & Mulled Wine 50

Posted on 1 December, 2013 by Margaret Aldis

1 December, 2013
Starting from Caharrack    Organiser Eddie Angell

This event is the first in the Audax Kernow season, and has become a popular pre-Christmas treat for local cyclists from a wide variety of backgrounds. This year was fully booked in advance as usual, and over 80 riders took to the road in excellent winter riding weather – ice-free, dry and calm.

The scenic route offered enough climbing to keep the riders warm and to enable their full  appreciation of the magnificent refreshments at the mid-point control at Penventon Farm.  Returning via Black Rock, the ride ended with a final fast descent to the arrivée and a chance to socialise and enjoy a warming glass of mulled wine with mince pie and cream.

There is a ride report here. If anyone has any pictures from the event let us know and we’ll add a link.

50km Badge60km Starts 10:00 no
AAA		 Ed’s Mince Pie & Mulled Wine 50
AUK id 13-16
78 riders validated
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Pictures of 2013

Posted on 13 October, 2013 by Margaret Aldis

Pictures of the Mines and Mineral Railways, Celtic Coastal and Canter, and the Golowjy ha Bal 2013 events are available in Chris Rayne’s albums here:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114964167691302212885/albums
If you have any objection to any photograph in which you appear and would like it removed, please contact Chris Rayne (email <sunshine_chris>, a hotmail address) clearly identifying the photograph(s) and it will be deleted.

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Pictures of past events

Posted on 13 October, 2013 by Margaret Aldis

Pictures of some past Audax events from the Falmouth Wheelers’ site:
The Cornish Hundred and Bunny Hop 2013
Ed’s Mince Pie & Mulled Wine 2012
Golowjy ha Bal 2012
Mines and Mineral Railways 2012

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Celtic Coastal – The view from behind

Posted on 12 October, 2013 by BackSeatRider

Leaving Apple Tree Cafe control - view from behind Our ride started early, with about 25K to put in to get to Connor Downs for 9 o’clock. We were pleased with progress after several weeks off the tandem and with the captain still in recovery from LEL, and arrived in good time for once to find the hall buzzing in anticipation of a good ride and a sunny day.

The long hill out of Connor Downs to the A30 crossing is reasonably tandem-friendly and all was going along very cheerily until what would normally be an easy front mech change turned into a nasty snarl up and a fight with a greasy chain. This, luckily, is men’s work – the Butlers stopped to lend a hand and eventually we were back in business and pushing hard to catch the field at the Coombe checkpoint. A bit of faffing here and a couple of poorly coordinated starts saw us off the back again, and we enjoyed most of the rest of the ride in glorious isolation and at a very modest pace. Continue reading →

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