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From the segments I see on strava this seems (in bursts at least) to have been very fast by usual wednesday standards. I have enjoyed doing these rides for about a year now & have usually found the pace gets controlled by shouts from the back that riders are struggling or of mechanical problems. Eve...

Unlucky Chris, I see on strava you flatted at about half distance. Well done Gary, great performance.

I'm glad this has been brought up, like Laurence I originally assumed this course was K34/10D course. I decided to go out & check the course out this evening, I believe this strava segment http://app.strava.com/segments/4663665 is a close match to the published route. I didn't notice an obvious park...

It certainly looks like a small hole, you could check I suppose with a small pin or similar. If it is a hole I should imagine it was always there & had just been covered over by the paint so I would suprised if it failed catastrophically on route to bike shop but I guess you could contact bike shop ...

Well done all, some real stand out times there from Gary Mac & Gavin Giles.

Well done Chris & all other competitors. Breezy out there this weekend so don't be mislead by the times. What's with this hundred though?

118 miles Keith? Did you take a shortcut on the way back? In all seriousness though good luck to yourself & Ian on your upcoming tour & don't forget to post your progress on the message board when you get the chance.

Paul, Gary Mac has posted his ride on Strava so he seems to have got home o.k.
After yesterday's ride folks don't forget to sign up for the Phil's next epic day out with Kidderminster Killer Audax on August 17th.

Well that was a great day out. 208 miles from leaving home at 5:40 this morning & I've just got in the door. Great weather, great company & special thanks to Phil for all his hard work organising it in advance & keeping such good order on the day.

Dave, there's a Beacon club page on Strava which you can join at http://app.strava.com/clubs/beacon-rcc .Here you can see rides by other Beacon members who are on Strava.

Many thanks to Harry for marshalling & especially to Richard for sacrificing his own ride at last moment to timekeep when he realised we were without. Just out of interest is there a rota for timekeeping & marshalling these club time trials? I guess we'd all rather be riding but maybe some of us who...

Hi Rhys. Feel free to turn up at any of the clubs time trials, that's probably how most of us get started. Calender of when & where can be found at http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/club_races/tt_calendar/index.html You pay your £3 entry fee & sign on before the start so aim to get there about 20 mins bef...

Hi Eddy. By the practice run on 26th I can only think you mean the extended club run of 100 miles. Meets at Black Horse Northfield at 8am for 8.15 depart, full details including proposed route at following post on club runs section of message board http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/message_board/viewtopic...

Many thanks Paul for stepping in to do the timekeeping today.

I can't see this helping with sales of electronic gearing, bad news for Brad but disaster for the marketing people.

Hi Phil, can you add my name to your list? I posted earlier on this thread that I'd like to give this a go. Many thanks, Martin.

I forgot to return my race number at the end of the time trial today. Is it ok to just bring it along to the next club time trial on 20th april?

Weather & fitness permitting I'd like to give this a go, thanks Phil.

I think there's already a thread running on this e-petition in the Cafe Stop section of message board at http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/message_boa ... php?t=5485

Some great times all around this year, congratulations to all - especially to Paddy on the win. The support on the climb really does make you dig that bit deeper than you thought you could. Thanks to all, especially the organisers & helpers.

Thanks to Phil & all who helped organise & staff the audaxes. Thanks also to Keith, Ian & Steve who i rode around with & without who's company i would have lost the will to complete it. What can i say about the route, by far the longest & hardest days cycling i've ever done by a huge margin, thankfu...

I know someone (not local) who has been known to travel onto a mate's 'manor' to steal their KOMs. To be fair, I think that we are all probably guilty of doing that at some point. I think that's part of the fun of strava, take a KOM crown, loose it & then go out to try to take it back. No sense in ...

Don't forget to register that you've completed the challenge Laurence to receive your roundel & get entered in draw for the bike. In memory of the fantastic weather during early part of last week I've decided the only logical place for my roundel is on one of my mudguards!

Well after being unable to complete my first audax attempt on the express audax in february I managed to complete the cotswold journey yesterday. Many thanks to George & all the rest of the organising team. Also special thanks to the guys i rode around with - Alan, Matt, Nic, Ian, Greg & Keith - for...

i've no experience of trying to follow turn by turn directions on garmin edge 500 (i've got edge 605 which can follow either routes as gpx files or courses as tcx files) but there are some good instructions at http://ridewithgps.com/edge_500 they recommend exporting mapped rides as tcx course files....

hi laurence. this is sometimes a problem with inner tubes that have a removable core. i remeber matt regan having exact same problem near end of a club run when he tried to re-inflate his tyre & no matter what he did every time pump valve was unscrewed core came out - he ended up changing tube in po...

ian. may sound silly but make sure when you push usb cable into unit it goes all the way in as far as it can

ian. you say it's not recognizing your gps unit - when you plug it in does your computer recognize it as a connected device? windows should recognize it as an external drive. if not try another usb cable - they may all have same type of connector but they don't all have same wires connected.

hi ian. assuming you've already managed to download & install the communicator plug in you could try making sure you've got windows media player 11 installed & allow the active-X control if the bar at the top of your browser requests it. after i did all this it worked fine if you're still having pro...