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Further and Faster / New bike for Audax from Halfords.
« Last post by citoyen on Today at 08:23:04 pm »Apologies for any potential bunkum spouted. I was kind of assuming since the OP was thinking about joining a cycling club & doing Audax, that they had resonable road riding experience to build on.
OP has mentioned their usual rides being no more than 1.5 miles and doing a 4.4 mile ride to Cobham in “under 30 minutes”.
Distance and speed both need a lot of work. And for that, Cyclopark would be fine. But there’s no substitute for getting out on real roads.
I may be underestimating their previous experience of road riding but I only have what has been said in this thread to go on.
I assume the OP must be reasonably confident on roads - Gravesend itself is not very cyclist friendly…
Fortunately, there are some nice lanes once you get out of town. Also some nice hills, which is another thing you don’t get at Cyclopark.
Inner tubes should be very low down their list of priorities.