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A blast through many villages and cakes!
This was my first BBB and very enjoyable. I rode with three friends, foolishly adding a return trip from Bishopston to the start/finish at Long Ashton, so clocking in at 139km total. The route was excellent and it was great to see some villages that had not featured on regular Sunday rides before. A driver kindly pulled aside ahead of us giving us priority on a single track road with 30km total go and told us she had finished earlier and was on her way home! Obviously didn’t spend as much time at the cake stops as us and reinforced the point that the ride was open to all abilities and ages! The GPS route was very clear, organisers were great, friendly and jovial and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the event or do it again. Thanks for a great day!
Another ACB excellent event
From the organisation at the start through a great route and some great cake a simply great event. Very popular and had a similar feeling to Moonrakers and Sunseekers except there was no need for lights…
Pavlova at Hill, banana cake at Doynton
It’s a very enjoyable event but with some challenges:
– cake or pavlova at Hill? (Solution: have both)
– sandwich, soup or cake at Doynton? (Solution: have all three)
– cake or savoury at LA? (Solution: running out of room so just had cake)
Oh, and the cycling was fun too! Well done on keeping the Spirit of Barry going. Thanks to all organisers/volunteers/bakers/participants.
My favourite Audax ride!
This was my introduction to the world of Audaxes. Many years later, it’s my favourite Audax ride. It is a fantastic route along mainly quiet lanes with stunning scenery and some absolutely legendary cake stops. I look forward to Barry’s Bristol Bash each and every year!
Brilliant ride with stunning views
Fantastic catering at the cake stops, cake you wouldn’t believe and fabulous scenery on a well thought out route that almost totally avoids main roads.
Lovely route, spoilt only by poor road surfaces
The route takes some quiet roads south through some beautiful hills. The only issue is that the road surfaces are sometimes bad, or even very bad, and there was still lots of water on some of them despite it not having rained for 2 weeks. The organisation was spot on.
Weather and hills organised by Will
Another cracking route and event organised by Will. Weather was also well managed although I was over dressed. Lots of challenging Wills Hills and new roads to me.
Chasing after the Sorcerer
Well done Will. What an epic event chap. A hard ride but ultimately rewarding.
Many Thanks Si
My First 500Km – took a while to sink in what happened
With only 2x300Km under my belt and only been riding for 3 years I was a bit nervous of tackling this 510Km in middle of winter but I like the cold so though hell sign up give it a go, my motto is always push yourself you’ll be surprised. I chose to start the ride 10Km from where I live near Henlow on route which was just under half way from the start. It was a still cold grey day. It was also my first ride on the new saddle! Madness you should say but the brooks cambium C15 cutout was fab no complaints. Nice easy flat ride to Cambridge and St Ives just as it got dark. Getting very cold it was hovering about 3 deg C glad I had prepared with lots of layers. I took it real easy with no idea if I could ride this distance in one go let alone make the time. Colder and darker it got through familiar roads to Northampton and then the fog hit. With visibility only about 10 meters it was a slow ride through to Tewksbury and a welcome 1hr sleep was taken somewhere in the Cotswolds at a very clean bus stop. At this point I was way behind schedule and headed for Bristol via fast roads for breakfast at Will’s I hoped for 8:30am but arrived somewhere around 10:45am with very tired legs. Leaving Bristol I was thinking no way I can do another 170Km before the time limit so said hell to the pacing and went as hard as I could. Swindon and Oxford passed, Oxford was very pretty with the Christmas lights. A few busy roads here and there but pushed on as fast as I could, legs starting to tire. Finally I arrived where i started and stopped the Garmin wondering did I do it. In summary the Christmas lights were great it, be prepared for a lot of darkness 4pm through to 7am. Doing it at a different start time meant a lot of the scenic parts were pitch black and I hit a lot of busy traffic when I should not have. Lots of garages and stops to refuel on route. But amazing route taking in many counties and scenic townsvillages highly recommended. Took a few days to sink in I’d done 528Km in one go, but now very chuffed and looking back on it thoroughly enjoyed it. And yes I did make it my Brevet card arrived back today, I have 1min 30 seconds to spare! thank god I sprinted the last 3km. LEL next I just got a place = gulp. Oh watch out for the cows they don’t move out the way! thx again Will for organising.
My First Audax
Cracking ride, great route, fantastic organisation, first introduction to Audax, great experience, nice to meet Will. Thanks for the coffee and cake at the end, was pretty spent by then, got me through the ride home to Clevedon. Thanks
