Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: LittleWheelsandBig on 26 February, 2021, 09:00:03 am
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September 2021 will mark 100 years since the first ever randonneur brevet (BRM now). 77 riders tackled the 200km route to finish in under 16 hours. Our time limits are a little tighter now but the road surface is probably better too. I wonder if I will be able to join the centennial celebration in France this year.
https://www.audax-club-parisien.com/en/2021/01/01/bonne-annee-2021-en/
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Any clue about the route?
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No but the centennial brevet is organised by the ACP and will almost certainly start close to an RER station near the edge of Paris.
The original 200 randonnee started from la Port Maillot in Paris but the suburbs didn’t extend very far and they didn’t have many traffic lights back in 1921. Like most cyclists pre-WW2, they tended to stick to the flatter and faster main roads.
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Oh wow.
Even if getting to the Paris ride proves too difficile, it would be cool to ride a 200 around the same. :thumbsup:
(something to look forward to. Huzzah!)
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The ACP’s brevet will start and finish in Versailles, so quite easy to get to (C19 aside). https://www.audax-club-parisien.com/en/2021/04/18/brm-200-century-anniversary/
It seems that the ACP will be issuing commemorative medals to riders who finish their 200 BRM but also to riders finishing any 200 BRM on 11 September 2021, at least in other countries. From a RUSA organiser, “The SCR season wraps up with another Moss Beach 200k brevet on Saturday, September 11, but this time the route will be used to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Audax Club Parisien "allure libre" brevet format we all enjoy so much. Finishers of this ride will be entitled to get a special commemorative ACP medal. Don't miss this one!”
Are there any UK BRM 200s in the calendar that day? I can only find BPs and BRs in the calendar around that date, not BRMs.
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That's quite something. And good to see the tradition of stamps being more than just stamps is a hundred years old or more.
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That particular brevet card was from 1923, so who knows?
Historical PBP brevet cards look like https://www.randonneurs.bc.ca/pbp/control-booklets.html
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(https://www.audax.org.au/portal/images/2021_BRM_Centennary_medal_small.jpg)
With a special chicken on it :thumbsup:
Perhaps ACP will allow some late added BRM calendar events for UK?
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https://www.audax-club-parisien.com/en/our-organizations/brm-world/#calendar can be filtered for all of UK’s BRMs this year. There is one 200 BRM listed for the UK on 11 September and one 300 BRM.
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neither appearing on audax.uk but an event I've entered does, oh well...
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Other AUK 200s are BRs (AUK homologated) while ACP only recognises BRMs.
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Because of the disruption caused by the pandemic, ACP may accept late scheduled BRMs.
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I guess that a good time to ask the ACP for brevets in September might be in May or June.
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Because of the disruption caused by the pandemic, ACP may accept late scheduled BRMs.
Makes sense :thumbsup: :)
In the meantime, could you clarify what has happened to the two events they currently list?
11/09/2021 United Kingdom 200 Calderdale CTC Chris Crossland chris.crossland@halifaxctc.org.uk
11/09/2021 United Kingdom 300 Kingston Whs Daniel Smith sdrpkwac@gmail.com
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Don't know about the first one but the second has been on the AUK website for a while.
https://audax.uk/event-details?eventId=8725
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There is a second BRM 200 on 11 September https://audax.uk/event-details?eventId=9024 along with BRs and longer BRMs (which likely may not qualify for the commemorative 200 medal).
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Both the Aussies and Yanks are publicising the centenary of BRMs and the special medal for finishing a 200 BRM that day.
https://audax.org.au/feature-ride/celebrate-100-years-of-brm-rides-and-40-years-of-audax-australia/
https://rusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/2021-08-18.pdf
AUK, not so much!
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BRM: The event will now be run under BRM rules (i.e. under the auspices of Audax Club Parisien), to mark the centenary of ACP / Audax as we know it. There MAY be special commemorative medals and brevet cards. The UK ACP rep is currently looking into this (we're a bit behind the curve). Hopefully a nice additional keep-sake. GIVEN THE ONE-OFF NATURE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY (EVEN IF ONLY SYMBOLIC) IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF YOU COULD NOTIFY ME OF ANY DNS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, TO ALLOW OTHERS TO RIDE.
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Which event is that, boab? The Tally-Ho?
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Does anyone know more about that special medal, in particular in acquiring one? (assuming you finish a BRM on 11/11)
I did hear that the national bodies had to tell ACP last year they wanted the special medals (and Randonneurs Netherlands didn't); is there a way to get the medal directly from ACP?
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Reading some of the RUSA stuff on NJ Randonneurs fb page it seems that the organiser has been allocated a certain number (30) of medals for their event from RUSA. If there are more finishers than medals they suggest,
"If we run out of medals at the event, they will be available to other finishers via the RUSA online store. I don't believe there will be any charge for these (definitely not at the event, and probably not via the store)."
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Which event is that, boab? The Tally-Ho?
Yep.
The organiser has also had a few drop outs, SBR facebook had a post, he wants to field a full, erm, field.
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Having just done France-UK-France (as a motorised tourist) I found it to be relatively easy. The hardest bit to organise is the test and UK paperwork going France-UK. But I do have the EU vaccine pass! I do not know if Bojo's mob have got the equivalence sorted out for UK vaccines going into France (everything seems to have gone a bit quiet, it may be sorted; I will have to check the current french smallprint). It should be noted that in France you now need a vaccine pass to get into restaurants, sports events, festivals etc. Since these all attract tourist money it seems likely that there is a solution out there! If anyone wanted to do a particular french BRM it is probably not impossible (but don't forget the masks!)
I say I found it relatively easy - I was stressed as hell before the trip, not to mention the isolation rules changing in between booking everything and leaving!
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Both the Aussies and Yanks are publicising the centenary of BRMs and the special medal for finishing a 200 BRM that day.
https://audax.org.au/feature-ride/celebrate-100-years-of-brm-rides-and-40-years-of-audax-australia/
https://rusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/2021-08-18.pdf
AUK, not so much!
Unfortunately COVID Delta has got in the way of the Oz editions in a big way.
The 08/Sept Audax Australia 40th Anniversary 600s from Sydney & Melbourne to Albury have been cancelled already along with the week of celebration rides & GT Series in Albury (11-18/Sept) and likely the Canberra-Albury 600 too.
The Centenary of the BRM 200 (11/Sept) in Sydney will almost certainly be cancelled, (Sydney lockdown current since late June has been extended till the end of September). Unless case numbers improve significantly in the next week or two the Centenary rides in Melbourne, Ballarat, Wangaratta (previously starting at Albury) & Canberra are also in doubt. Other States/Regions look ok.
The Great Southern Randonnee (GSR) 1000/1200s in November have also been cancelled. So while trivial compared to other impacts of Delta locally and overseas it nonetheless blows a 3 month hole in many of our plans and preparations, I am currently reduced to trying to do 100km within my current 5km allowed radius, 20x5km circuits of my local (fortunately largish) park make it possible but a bit boring.
https://audax.org.au/covid-update-13-august-2021/
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Does anyone know more about that special medal, in particular in acquiring one? (assuming you finish a BRM on 11/11)
I did hear that the national bodies had to tell ACP last year they wanted the special medals (and Randonneurs Netherlands didn't); is there a way to get the medal directly from ACP?
Not the national bodies but the ACP correspondents. The ACP doesn't have contacts with national bodies but with ACP correspondents.
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In the meantime, could you clarify what has happened to the two events they currently list?
11/09/2021 United Kingdom 200 Calderdale CTC Chris Crossland chris.crossland@halifaxctc.org.uk
This one is on, and will be handing out medals to finishers according to Calderdale CTC FB page
https://audax.uk/event-details?eventId=8853
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I have not seen any "official" announcement but there seems to be a similar "Centenary of the BRM 300" on 11 June 2022, at least the Audax Australia 2021-2022 ride calendar thinks so with a BRM 300 Centenary ride in each of the regions scheduled, time to get some into the UK calendar?
https://www.audax.org.au/portal/rides/calendar
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Everybody rides to skeggy 300k is a one such ride next year
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There was a tweet (https://twitter.com/AudaxUK/status/1441047136020406272) about it, and if you search audax.uk for that date, you'll see four listed currently, not sure if any more will make it before the BRM cutoff at the end of this month.
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I have not seen any "official" announcement but there seems to be a similar "Centenary of the BRM 300" on 11 June 2022, at least the Audax Australia 2021-2022 ride calendar thinks so with a BRM 300 Centenary ride in each of the regions scheduled, time to get some into the UK calendar?
https://www.audax.org.au/portal/rides/calendar
That date matches up with the ACP's history page (https://www.audax-club-parisien.com/en/our-club/history/).
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I have not seen any "official" announcement but there seems to be a similar "Centenary of the BRM 300" on 11 June 2022, at least the Audax Australia 2021-2022 ride calendar thinks so with a BRM 300 Centenary ride in each of the regions scheduled, time to get some into the UK calendar?
https://www.audax.org.au/portal/rides/calendar
There are 6 300 km BRMs currently scheduled for Sat June 11th in Audax UK planner . Audax UK Organisers were asked a few weeks back if they were interested. With the Centenary medals etc. My 300 is staying in July. The date of June 11th clashes with other non audax activities for me.
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Anniversary Brevet from Kharkiv (NE Ukraine):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkccHLsSiZY
[ I've just spotted this guy's videos over on the CUK forum - this was his last post (in December), fingers crossed for more in the future. ]
It is considered that the first official brevet took place on September 11, 1921.
A lot of time has passed since then, bicycles have undergone significant changes, new technologies and special clothing have appeared, but the essence of the randoner movement has remained unchanged. As 100 years ago, desperate people around the world continue to travel ultra-long distances. 200 km is the smallest of them. In addition, there are others. Anyone who successfully completes 200, 300, 400 and 600 km during the season, receives the title of super-randoner.
Speed is not the main thing here, but for the race to be considered officially passed, you need to drive 200 km in 13.5 hours.
Usually not many people are willing to take part in such races, but at this time about 60 people took part in this Anniversary Brevet, which became a record for Kharkiv and probably one of the most popular brevet races across Ukraine. Many of participants took part in such event for the first time ever.
https://www.strava.com/activities/5944093496
https://sites.google.com/site/audaxkharkov/brevety/brevets2021/2021-09-11-brm-200-century-anniversary
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Since I posted the above, his pages have been made "private" on Youtube. Not sure the reason :-/