Ivo
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No flashing, rear LEDs. In sure YouTube shows otherwise.
That's also a traffic rule in France. It was already in force last time.
No flashing, rear LEDs. In sure YouTube shows otherwise.
PBP website is up: http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/index2.php?lang=en&cat=accueil&page=edito
And they'll accept bar extensions!
Have registered on the PBP site and it now has my 2018 1000km pre qualifying brevet in place. Ready to do the pre registration and pay them some money next week. Wonder what the price will be this time round? Well thanks to our lovely politicians it is going to be more expensive anyway.
I've done the same as @YukonBoy and it has gathered up all my BRMs including the West Highland 1000 last May/June.
£140ish then (thanks @Ivo ) but only a deposit on Monday.
Still fretting over the choice of start slot. As I understand it, the early pre-registerers get first dibs. For me this is either early 90s or early 84s.
90: Great atmosphere for the 'depart'. I'll be away near the front of and going faster than the bulk of the 90s but there should be some decent trains and quite likely I'll catch a useful few of the 80s who take a stop earlier than me. The bulge will always be behind. But it means riding into the night and straight through for 24 hours (probably to Carhaix) before a good sleep. And get away early doors before the bulge arrives.
84: Lots of riders with a suitable pace starting at 5am (graveyard start). Long first day to Tinteniac (say), problem being that I'll have just caught the height of the bulge so getting a decent sleep will need (planning) effort. Quite like the idea of riding to an arranged bed, riding to Brest at dawn and back to same bed on second night (Quedillac?). But I'm not quite fast enough.
Thank you, Ivo. That was/is exactly my assessment having had such fun gaming the LEL start preferences 22 months ago. On the other hand, if I ask for an 84hr start and then prefer to change to 90hr, I'm fast enough to work my way through most of the 90 hr riders in front of me by Fougères and before that, clear of the bulge by Villaines.If you're still doubting on monday, then I'd say first get a 90h slot. You can still change it when there's enough space. The 90 hour start tends to fill up fastest, the 84 hour start slowest.
Thank you, Ivo. That was/is exactly my assessment having had such fun gaming the LEL start preferences 22 months ago. On the other hand, if I ask for an 84hr start and then prefer to change to 90hr, I'm fast enough to work my way through most of the 90 hr riders in front of me by Fougères and before that, clear of the bulge by Villaines.
I said: "if I . . . then prefer to change to 90hr, I'm fast enough to work my way through most of the 90 hr riders in front of me."The 84hr start is dome time after the 90ht starts so I would doubt you'd catch them by around 300-350km.
Thank you.
I said: "if I . . . then prefer to change to 90hr, I'm fast enough to work my way through most of the 90 hr riders in front of me."
That is: if I transfer to a 90hr start later and don't get away till 2000 Sunday (say) I'll work my way though most of the 2000 riders who started 1730-1945.
If I started on Monday morning, I reckon I'll have caught more than half the 90hr riders by Carhaix on the way back, having had a 5 hour sleep stop. In 2011 half the 90hr finishers finished in over 85hr. I guess there's more full valueness during the return leg.
From the 2015 Brochure:
Sunday 16h00 to 17h00 : solo bikes, 80-hour time limit
From 17h30 to 20h00 : solo bikes, 90-hour time limit
Monday 05h00 to 05h15 : wave starts of solo bikes, 84-hour time limit