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Further and Faster / Re: New bike for Audax from Halfords.
« Last post by Kim on Today at 05:10:38 pm »There is a massive difference between 1-1.5 mile rides and even the shortest Audax ride. Build up slowly, enjoy riding your bike, develop strength and resilience. Don't launch into buying a new bike until you know a bit more about what you want from it.
This.
I'd suggest that, irrespective of how fast you actually go, there's a point at around 2 hours in where it stops being about stamina and more about things like ergonomics, hydration and digestion.
On that basis, I'd suggest that you need to be confident doing >2 hour rides before making informed decisions about bike ergonomics, as most people can ride anything that vaguely fits for an hour or two.
Going faster is another kettle of fish entirely...
(FWIW, I find that riding on tracks like Cyclopark[1] is very different to road riding. Speeds are much higher, even though that bottom corner is a bastard, as you don't have to deal with poor surfaces and motor traffic. The real world has more Scenery[2] too.)
[1] As occasionally visited by the BHPC.
[2] May be a euphemism for 'hills'.