Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an annual event which starts in Cheadle heads out to “The Mills” then down to Bangor on Dee across to Astbury, near Congleton, and finally back to the start. I have ridden it a few times now and it always seems to rise to the challenge of making Audax events uncertain in their […]
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The Biggest One – An SR Tingle
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the uninitiated completing rides of 200, 300 400 and 600km in one Audax year is recognised by being listed in the results as a Super Randonneur or an SR. Last weekend Jim, Syd and I set out to try to claim our places on that list. Along the way a number of other SRs […]
What An Adventure – A Bigger Big One 400
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well were do we start, probably on the Tuesday night before the epic ride. I had renewed my cassette and chain, then went with the Wrinklies on Wed.. I had gear problems and they just went on and on and on..for days.. I convinced myself it was [still] to do with chain length [mistake], and […]
What An Adventure – A Bigger Big One 400
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jim made his own way to Poynton for the 9 o’clock start to this 400k ride. Syd picked me up at 7.30 and off we went on a beautiful morning. On arrival we prepped our bikes, picked up our Brevet cards and with Jim, went for a pre-ride coffee. As we sat in the sun […]
Me and My Shadow or World’s End 200
Reading Time: 3 minutes I believe Syd has been bitten by the challenges, and vituals, that audax provides and I believe he cajoled me into entering my second 200 of the merry month of May only 6 days after the first. I don’t think I was dreaming when he picked me up to drive to the start at Broken […]
20/21 April. The Real Little Big One
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well with Derek doing the light weight route check the week before [sociable start and finish times] it was left to Dennis Hornby, Syd Rimmer and me to do the real thing.. We [and another 35 nutcases] gathered in the municipal car park in Poynton for a 2300hrs start ! An almost still night beckoned […]
A Little Big One
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now the longer days are here an audax man’s thoughts turn to the bigger distances working towards a series of 200k, 300k,400k and eventually a 600k. A number of our members have entered a 300 next weekend and some daft people have to check the route to make sure the instructions are ok and there […]
Chirk 200km [take two]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, another go at the Chirk 200km Audax [it wasn’t cancelled last Sunday ] took place on the 31st March [not weeks later like some events we could mention ! ] So while the club run was regaling the fact that big Al had kept the start to the winter time of 10am [to allow […]
Mam Tor I counted them out but ……..
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday saw the first running of a 200k from Winsford to Mam Tor and beyond. There was a good WVCC turn out, 5 at the start, Josh, Roy, Phil (who had opted for this event as their first 200) and Syd and myself. As we set off towards Macclesfield it was a bit nippy. By […]
A Mere 200
Reading Time: 2 minutes Having decided on Saturday for the helpers’ and organisers’s route check and some iffy weather forecasts it proved a good move to ride Saturday. I met a regular Auk ( jargon for audax rider) Pete Hammond at home for an 8.30 depart. We met Jim W at Hartford Co-op and picked up Syd R shortly after […]
WVCC Audax numbers double
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am pleased to report there has been a 100% increase in wvcc members taking part in 200k events in the last 2 months. The massive increase is due entirely to Jim keeping me company. Yesterday those of us with mettle ( or should that be metal and a screw loose) met at the Hartford […]
Holt 200km- Tour de Cheshire with Derek ...
Reading Time: < 1 minute On the 17th November I completed the Holt Perm 200km Audax in the company of Derek [long distance] Heine. This was my longest ride for over 25 years. A ride out from Hartford, [with an interesting scramble over two crashed cars and a totally blocked road at Whitegate] to Holt, the morning drizzle gave way […]