CycleChat End-to-End Relay

[Muddyfox]

is it time for an announcement in another part of the forum to broaden the audience?

Yes Definately

A link to this thread should be put in all sections of the forum as not all members read the Audax & Sportive section

I was talking about this to my LBS owner today and although he felt it would be unfair to ride as he is'nt a forum member and does'nt really use any cycling forums he did offer to act as a back up vehicle with equiptment on board for spares and repairs etc etc

Im sure many other LBS owners would do the same in the various areas throughout the challenge as it is a great advertising vehicle for them as the local town newspapers are sure to run a story on the world record attempt at local levels ... in my area (Devon) the local authority are very keen to promote anything cycling related and work closely with the likes of BBC radio Devon in achieving this so their is more potential "free" advertising for those that get involved

Simon

 

[peanut]

Lands End to Exbourne Section 1 of CC LEJOG 09

Lands End to St Erth 18m
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=15818

St Erth to Blackwater
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=15822
Blackwater to Indian Queens
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=15823

Indians Queens to Hawks Tor
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=15826

Hawks Tor to Launceston
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=15828

Launceston to Sandford
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=15830


please note this is an extremely difficult section to map . On some sections I traced the route more than 12 times and still didn't manage to get the route on the right roads .
This section will need to be redone later but it is sufficient to indicate approx route and number of riders .

There are 8x sections in Cornwall and East Devon if you add the 2x from previous list. Sandford to Uffculme

total to date

 

[Muddyfox]

Those links all came up as Uffculme to Taunton for me ?

Simon

 

[Muddyfox]

is it time for an announcement in another part of the forum to broaden the audience?

ok Tis done

Simon

 

[peanut]

Those links all came up as Uffculme to Taunton for me ?

Simon

all fixed now.

 

[Garz]

If nobody better is going to offer the warrington to preston/lancs region I could help. My main problem is I might not have a vehicle to use (as in support car).

 

[Wigsie]

If nobody better is going to offer the warrington to preston/lancs region I could help. My main problem is I might not have a vehicle to use (as in support car).

If you want to organise that section you don't necessarily have to have a vehicle yourself... there should be 8 or so riders in your stretch at least as its relatively heavily populated up there. One of them will surely be able to offer some support of sorts or know an LBS.

 

[Garz]

Cool, like you say, theres plenty of people in this region to get involved so I shall await any further participants as im sure im one of the least experienced cyclers in this area, but im willing to give it a go to make sure this gets operational!

 

[Wigsie]

Cool, like you say, theres plenty of people in this region to get involved so I shall await any further participants as im sure im one of the least experienced cyclers in this area, but im willing to give it a go to make sure this gets operational!

Nice one... Don't worry, Like I said to JD, this whole thing is not about experienced cyclists coming in when it suits them and taking charge over beginners, its about everyone on here that wants to get involved getting stuck in. CC'ers coming together and achieving something that has never been done before by a group of people on a forum.

Call on as much experience as you think necessary, try and have fun and don't get as stressed as Peanut.

 

[peanut]

try and have fun and don't get as stressed as Peanut.

yeah you're right Wigsie . no point in getting stressed. I'll leave it all to you. You seem to be managing far better than me.

At least someone has mapped nearly 1/4 of the route for you.

I'm just going to ride my section now, it will be my only contribution.Good luck with the organising

 

[montage]

ugh...a sub forum for this would be really helpful .... trawling through pages and pages to find little bits of info is just annoying

From the bits I have picked up:
1.Wigsie is overseer...
2. The ride is split into X amount of sections, each section with it's own organiser
3. Each section has X (10?) amount of rides, which the organiser of that section ensures there are adequate riders, reserves etc for.
4. Start at LE with a baton, which is carried up to JOG.
5. Time is completely unimportant*
6. butterly bars, tweed jackets and recumbents are all banned.
7. Dates are completely TBC
* - why not have little ""awards"", such as the fastest CCer, the CCer who covers the most distance, CCer who carries out the hardest ride, best dressed CCer, worst Dressed CCer etc etc .... adds a little spice to the whole thing

I'm happy to do what I can to help ....but I have important exams coming up in january so can't take time off college etc to do this.

 

[Garz]

yeah you're right Wigsie . no point in getting stressed. I'll leave it all to you. You seem to be managing far better than me.

At least someone has mapped nearly 1/4 of the route for you.

I'm just going to ride my section now, it will be my only contribution.Good luck with the organising

I hope your joking dry roasted. We need/want people who are enthusiastic about this, I cycle to de-stress!

However if you are serious, and it is getting too much for you then maybe its better to let someone take the reigns now instead of just before the event.

 

[Garz]

OK, I have mapped out a leg and even though it seems a small leg its easy for me to manage. We can elongate the route to accomodate another person, its entirely down to what people we get to cover the sections. So on this leg at this moment in time is room for three riders to do their (almost) 18 miles each.

I regularly ride up the A6 in a couple of my routes so this suits me perfectly. Here is my mapped length of the route, and its not final so can be tweaked however needed.

Gareth

* P.S. Here is the pdf of cracknells route which breaks down the roads so its easy to map to bikehike that I reffered to.

 

[longers]

Can I "do" the next section on from Garz then?

Will need to work out what exactly needs doing but once that's ironed out we'll be fine.

 

[longers]

Has anyone got in touch with Shaun about the seperate sub forum idea yet?

I do see the benefit of it now