Meet the audaxers...

[citoyen]

A few familiar faces in here:
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/audax-stories

(Article in Cyclist about the Moonrakers & Sunseekers 300)

[mr ben]

That's a lovely article.  Very true.

Excuse my ignorance but what does 'Mason-like' mean?  Like, the brand?

[citoyen]

Excuse my ignorance but what does 'Mason-like' mean?  Like, the brand?

Assume it means like freemasons - ie with lots of arcane membership rules and secret initiation rites.

[Wycombewheeler]

Excuse my ignorance but what does 'Mason-like' mean?  Like, the brand?

Assume it means like freemasons - ie with lots of arcane membership rules and secret initiation rites.

seems the most likely meaning, not a comment about only 10% of audaxers riding mason bikes, I expected more.

[mr ben]

Ah that makes more sense.

[John Stonebridge]

I wasn't a fan of the headline - it smacks of Othering (a "get these weirdos" vibe) especially for a publication presumably aimed at cyclists but the article is pretty fair and getting the riders to comment about themselves is a good idea. 

Overall it captures the essence of our humble-yet-badass nature well enough to gain pass marks.   

[Peter]

Not sure why he concentrated mostly on the riders who live on their bikes when captioning the pictures.  He might actually put people off if they think those are the yearly distances they need to be doing.  I bet most audaxers are riding nothing like those distances.

[Lightning Phil]

I think they were all told not to smile, like a passport photo. Dai of course ignoring that instruction.

[Jaded]

A few thousand yard stares.

[sam]

It's a bit American Gothic

[megajoulesexpenditure]

  I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that. Good article but there's not much smiling going on apart from Dai Harris. Maybe there understandably was a bit of trepidation about the return leg of the ride? I thought the saying was more miles more smiles

It's a bit American Gothic

[Wycombewheeler]

I think they were all told not to smile, like a passport photo. Dai of course ignoring that instruction.

I guess when you photograph people at 4am, with 150km behind them, and 150km left to the finish you get photos closer to mugshots than dating profiles.

[hellymedic]

The Thousand Yard Stare has been described elsewhere...

[LiamFitz]

It was definitely the look that Fergus was going for - I think if you look at his website https://www.ferguscoyle.com/ there are some great images of cycling on there.  I've asked him if he'd like to hang out at the Chepstow control on LWL this year.

For the record, my 12k annual distance refers to the distance I was doing in my pomp when I was daily doing a 60km round trip commute and still had all the original parts to my aortic valve and attachments...

However, isn't it great that a cycling mag even mentions audax ...

[MAC]

I've toyed with idea of capturing rider portraits but have decided to concentrate on a landscape with added rider/s photo style. I guess I'm just too shy to approach and pose people.

[LateStarter]

I've toyed with idea of capturing rider portraits but have decided to concentrate on a landscape with added rider/s photo style. I guess I'm just too shy to approach and pose people.

Robert H does a good job here, bit arty, all in the few minutes before the start of a few brevets, reasonably diverse, people & bikes & kit, which one is me?

https://bluebike.photos/#/portraits-of-audax/

[Hot Flatus]

I've toyed with idea of capturing rider portraits but have decided to concentrate on a landscape with added rider/s photo style. I guess I'm just too shy to approach and pose people.

Nothing can beat the photo of PeterM taken on the second visit to the West End Cafe on the Brevet Cymru circa late 2000s.

I'm tempted to go and find it...

[rogerzilla]

My favourite audax photo is the one with about ten of them crammed into a petrol station toilet just for the warmth from the hand dryer.