Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: Xander on 30 October, 2020, 01:28:15 pm
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On Friday 16 April there will be a BRM1000 in Delft, The Netherlands. It will be 3 loops. Hotels and Campings are on walking distance from the start. It will be a variety of landscapes forrest and heather, dikes and rivers, Sea and dunes. Old and modern Castles. And a homage to cyclist:
- Jan Janssen
- Joop Zoetemelk
- Gerrie Knetemann
- Arie van Vliet
- Wim van Est
- Leontien van Moorsel
- Marianne Vos
- Steven Rooks
- Queen Beatrix
https://administratiekantoorxhensing.nl/fiets-in-beeld/ (https://administratiekantoorxhensing.nl/fiets-in-beeld/)
https://administratiekantoorxhensing.nl/fiets-in-beeld/fiets-in-beeld-english/ (https://administratiekantoorxhensing.nl/fiets-in-beeld/fiets-in-beeld-english/)
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Interested. I was just seeing how to get there and it looks like 20k from Hook of Holland.
There is a night ferry that arrives at 08:00 but it looks like that would be too late if the bunches leave between 06:00 and 08:00.
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Like the look of that, but I'd put the chances of being able to travel by April 2021 without taking 6 weeks of holiday and spending most of it in Quarantine somewhere between Zero and None.
Can't see the route in Detail but the first loop sounds like I've ridden a fair whack of it, certainly most of from Hoek to Bergen-an-zee ish and part of the return may match what I did from Bergen to Delft.
I may have ridden some of the bit in Zeeland
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There is a night ferry that arrives at 08:00 but it looks like that would be too late if the bunches leave between 06:00 and 08:00.
When we have used the ferry previously, we generally plan on getting away from the port by 8:30am. Generally you can be on the road earlier, but not reliably.
In any case, not making getting to the start on time a possibility. Maybe go the previous night, and spend a day sightseeing!
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Interested. I was just seeing how to get there and it looks like 20k from Hook of Holland.
There is a night ferry that arrives at 08:00 but it looks like that would be too late if the bunches leave between 06:00 and 08:00.
I've entered, plan on arriving the day before and camping nearby. ideally finding others to share the cabin cost if overnight crossing(s).
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1000k in mid-April?
Is this Normal for Netherlands??
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1000k in mid-April?
Is this Normal for Netherlands??
It's a lovely time of year to cycle in .NL. It's peak tulip season for starters...
J
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Interested. I was just seeing how to get there and it looks like 20k from Hook of Holland.
There is a night ferry that arrives at 08:00 but it looks like that would be too late if the bunches leave between 06:00 and 08:00.
I've entered, plan on arriving the day before and camping nearby. ideally finding others to share the cabin cost if overnight crossing(s).
You’re keen. I’m really not planning that far ahead yet. I did for this year and it didn’t turn out very well.
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There is a night ferry that arrives at 08:00 but it looks like that would be too late if the bunches leave between 06:00 and 08:00.
When we have used the ferry previously, we generally plan on getting away from the port by 8:30am. Generally you can be on the road earlier, but not reliably.
In any case, not making getting to the start on time a possibility. Maybe go the previous night, and spend a day sightseeing!
Think it took me a bit more than that to get out of Europoort last winter, that was without having to answer any of the arrival questions since I was still EU citizen at the time.
It could be the full set including "show me your hotel bookings for every night or prove you've got x per night in your bank account" by then
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without having to answer any of the arrival questions since I was still EU citizen at the time.
It could be the full set including "show me your hotel bookings for every night or prove you've got x per night in your bank account" by then
No surely that'll never ever happen!
Well, what I mean is: that wasn't written on the side of a bus.....
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Thanks for posting this, looks interesting. At the moment my 2020 RATN entry has been bumped to 2021, but something a little shorter could be more appealing next year...
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1000k in mid-April?
Is this Normal for Netherlands??
In qualifying for PBP the BRM400 was around the same period. It is a good way to build up, where you can ride most / in its entirety in 3 days with daylight. The course is mainly flat.
Cheers,
Xander.
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This is back on for May 2022!
A friend asked if I could cover some maths teaching next term which I agreed to as long as it was OK to miss a few days to ride this.
My plan is day ferry over from Harwich on Thursday, back overnight on Monday.